Bybit Review

Bybit Review

A crypto exchange guide must provide reviews of all of the exchanges out there, so that you can find the right one for you. This review of Bybit consists of four parts: general info, fees, deposit methods and security.

General Info

Bybit is a crypto exchange from the British Virgin Islands. It is a crypto derivatives exchange, focusing on the trading pairs BTC/USD and ETH/USD. You can trade with as much as 100x leverage on these assets. Bybit’s matching engine is allegedly capable of up to 100,000 TPS (Transactions Per Second) which is incredibly impressive and a great future for anyone interested in leveraged trading. We say “allegedly” as there is no way for us to verify this information, not because we mistrust in any way.

Bybit continuously improves the safety and reliability of the trading platform. As an example, on 12 September 2019, they introduced a new “Spot Price Index” and a “Mark Price System”. Among other things, these features further reduces the risk of someone engaging in market manipulation through the Bybit-platform.

Leveraged Trading

A word of caution might be useful for someone contemplating leveraged trading. Leveraged trading can lead to massive returns but – on the contrary – also to equally massive losses.

For instance, let’s say that you have 10,000 USD on your trading account and bet 100 USD on BTC going long (i.e., increasing in value). You do so with 100x leverage. If BTC then increases in value with 10%, if you had only bet 100 USD, you would have earned 10 USD. As you bet 100 USD with 100x leverage, you have instead earned an additional 1,000 USD (990 USD more than if you had not leveraged your deal). On the other hand, if BTC decreases in value with 10%, you have lost 1,000 USD (990 USD more than if you had not leveraged your deal). So, as you might imagine, there is potential for huge upside but also for huge downside…

Referral Program

Like most other exchanges offering leveraged trading, Bybit also has a referral program. The referral program gives any user who has a referred a customer that has deposited at least 0.02 BTC a reward of USD 10. This is not the most generous referral program we have heard of. But hey, it’s better than nothing!

Bybit Trading View

Different exchanges have different trading views. And there is no “this overview is the best”-view. You should yourself determine which trading view that suits you the best. What the views normally have in common is that they all show the order book or at least part of the order book, a price chart of the chosen cryptocurrency and order history. They normally also have buy and sell-boxes. Before you choose an exchange, try to have a look at the trading view so that you can ascertain that it feels right to you. The below is a picture of the trading view at Bybit:

Bybit Fees

Bybit Trading fees

Every trade occurs between two parties: the maker, whose order exists on the order book prior to the trade, and the taker, who places the order that matches (or “takes”) the maker’s order. We call makers for “makers” as their orders make the liquidity in a market. Takers are the ones who “take” this liquidity by matching makers’ orders with their own.

At Bybit, takers are charged 0.075% per order. This is difficult to compare to the global industry average taker fees for regular centralized exchanges, as the instruments traded at the different exchanges are also different from each other. In any event, 0.075% is a fair fee.

When it comes to the makers, their fee is -0.025%. This essentially means that each maker get paid to trade. To clarify, let’s say that you are the maker in an order where you purchase cryptocurrency for USD 1,000. This means that instead of paying USD 1,000, you will only have to pay USD 997.50. This is a very competitive trait indeed.

Bybit Withdrawal fees

When withdrawing BTC from the Bybit trading platform, you will have to pay 0.0005 BTC. This is 40% lower than the global industry average BTC withdrawal fee (0.0008 BTC) and thus also a very competitive withdrawal fee.

Deposit Methods

Bybit does not accept any deposits of fiat currency. This means that new investors (i.e., investors without any previous crypto holdings) can’t trade here. In order to purchase your first cryptos, you need a so called entry-level exchange, which is an exchange accepting deposits of fiat currency. Bitpanda 

Bybit Security

We run all exchange-websites in Mozilla’s Observatory-test (https://observatory.mozilla.org/). The score in such test is one of many indicators of the exchange’s security. Bybit received a B-score in this test. B is very impressive, particularly in light of most exchanges in our Exchange List only receiveing F-scores.

Nice Work, Bybit!