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No one enjoys paying for things, but we tend not to grumble too much except for when the costs are exorbitant or opaque. You have a meal in an unremarkable restaurant and when the check arrives you’d think you’d been dining at the Ritz; or you purchase concert tickets and wind up paying their face value again in booking costs and other add-ons. It’s the same when it comes to crypto. We expect to pay a little for the services we use, be it a centralized exchange or AMM. But we certainly don’t expect to pay a lot – particularly when those costs are hidden beneath the surface. Isn’t crypto meant to be about transparency after all and keeping everything out in the open? If you’re tired of being left on the hook for hidden fees that get added to your crypto trading bill, it’s probably time you found a better exchange. But before you do so, we should identify precisely what those fees are – and how to go about avoiding them. Spot Trading Fees It’s no secret that there’s a maker or taker fee to be paid every time you execute a CEX trade. But because the fees levied by centralized exchanges vary so greatly, it’s easy to assume that the new exchange you’ve started using will charge you roughly the same as the last. Not necessarily. The difference in baseline fees can be as great as 10x between exchanges. BitMEX, for example, has fees that start from just 0.05% for spot trades, whereas Kraken charges 1% – albeit with exemptions for Kraken+ members swapping less than 10K per month. Nevertheless, trading on a 1% fee level can equate to hundreds of dollars in costs over the course of a year. That’s money that could have been kept…

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