How to Buy $XRD

$XRD is the native currency of the Radix protocol and is used to pay transaction fees and to stake to validators. You can acquire XRD three ways: on a centralized exchange, through a cross-chain swap or fiat on-ramp, or by bridging assets onto the Radix Network and swapping on a native decentralized exchange. The lists below cover each route.

Centralized exchanges

The XRD spot markets below were each re-confirmed live on 22 August 2026 by querying the venue's own public market API, not by loading its web page – a listing page can 404 while the market is open, and a market can close while the page still loads:

• BingX – XRD/USDT
• Bitpanda – EU-regulated brokerage rather than an order book; XRD is quoted in EUR, USD, GBP, CHF and eight other fiat currencies and can be bought by card or bank transfer
• CoinEx – XRD/USDT and XRD/BTC
• Gate.io – XRD/USDT
• KuCoin – XRD/USDT
• MEXC – XRD/USDT, the largest of these books by turnover, and still quoting about 12% below every other venue on 23 August 2026, a day and a half after the gap opened, with XRD withdrawals reportedly suspended — see How much liquidity is actually there below

Venues that no longer trade XRD

Five exchanges this page previously listed have withdrawn their XRD markets. Each was confirmed from the exchange's own API rather than from a broken link:

• AscendEX – the spot page and the api/pro/v1/ticker endpoint both return 404.
• Bitfinex – XRD appears in neither the exchange's traded-pair list nor its currency map. Radix's own token page still links a Bitfinex XRD/USD book that does not exist.
• Bitget – the ticker endpoint answers with error 40309, "The symbol has been removed".
• BitMart – "symbol is invalid"; XRD is absent from the spot symbol list.
• Bybit – "Not supported symbols"; there is no XRD spot instrument.

Separately, the XRDUSDT contract on BitMEX was a perpetual future rather than a spot market, and it settled on 30 June 2025.

Checking a listing yourself

No published index of XRD venues is currently complete. The official Radix token page still links all five of the delisted exchanges above, and CoinGecko's XRD ticker table, which is refreshed from exchange APIs, omits both BingX and MEXC despite their markets being live. The reliable check before you send funds anywhere is the exchange's own market endpoint: a withdrawn listing answers with an explicit removal or invalid-symbol error, where a dead web page only fails to load.

How much liquidity is actually there

A listing is not a market. Each venue above was read through its own public ticker and order-book endpoint on 22 August 2026 at 23:06 UTC. Twenty-four-hour turnover is converted to US dollars at the quote asset, and the spread is the gap between the best bid and the best ask at the moment of reading, as a percentage of the mid price.

Five things follow from that table, and the first one is the reason to read it before sending money anywhere.

• One venue was quoting a different price for the same token. MEXC last traded at $0.00075970 against $0.000885 to $0.000893 on every other book — roughly 14% below the median of the other five — and its 24-hour low of $0.00062630 is 28% under the lowest low any other venue printed. That is not a price. Arbitrage closes a gap of that size in minutes on a book carrying $84,000 a day, so a discount that persists is the signature of coins that cannot leave. Radix holders in the project's Telegram channel spent that evening attributing it to a MEXC wallet-maintenance window that had blocked XRD withdrawals for about two days (t.me/radix_dlt/999111, /999122). This wiki has not confirmed that from MEXC — the exchange's own currency-status endpoints refuse automated requests — so treat the cause as unverified and the measurement as the fact. The practical instruction is the same either way: confirm XRD withdrawals are enabled before you buy, not after. A token you cannot move to your Radix Wallet is not a token you can stake, spend or use.
• The whole centralized XRD spot market is about $190,000 a day. That is the sum of all six books, up from roughly $150,000 nine days earlier. MEXC and BingX together are 80% of it — 44% and 36%. But if MEXC's coins were fenced in on the day of reading, the market actually available to a buyer who intends to withdraw was nearer $106,000, of which BingX alone is 65%. Concentration this high means the venue you pick is most of your execution.
• The spread is a moment, not a venue. This page carried the same six books read on 13 August 2026, and the two readings disagree almost everywhere. Gate.io then quoted the tightest spread of the six at 0.24% and now quotes 0.81%; BingX went the other way on 13 August (5.55% to 0.38%) and has since widened to 0.81%; KuCoin has halved, 1.91% to 0.90%. Nothing about the venues changed in between. Read any single row here as one moment, and do not pick a venue on a spread someone read on another day.
• A tight spread is not depth. BingX quotes 0.81% — joint-tightest of the six, and the second-largest book — on 289.9 XRD at the best ask, about 26 cents of size. Gate.io's identical spread sits on 15,232 XRD, about $13.60. A quote tells you the price of the first few dollars and nothing about the price of the next few hundred, which is the number that decides what a purchase costs.
• The on-ledger side is a real fraction of the market. DeFiLlama's Radix DEX aggregate reported $26,295 of on-ledger swap volume over the 24 hours to 22 August 2026, and $191,805 over the preceding seven days, across seven Radix adapters. Against roughly $190,000 a day through the centralized books that is about one on-ledger dollar for every seven centralized — and against the $106,000 that was actually withdrawable, nearer one in four.

Checking this yourself: every figure above comes from an endpoint anyone can call – api.mexc.com/api/v3/ticker/24hr, open-api.bingx.com/openApi/spot/v1/ticker/24hr, api.kucoin.com/api/v1/market/stats, api.coinex.com/v2/spot/ticker, api.gateio.ws/api/v4/spot/tickers and the matching /depth endpoints for order-book size, plus api.llama.fi/overview/dexs/radix for the on-ledger total and, for the Bitpanda fiat quotes, api.bitpanda.com/v1/ticker. Aggregator sites re-publish these with a lag and, as noted above, with gaps.

Thirty-six hours later, the gap is still open

The reading above was taken at 23:06 UTC on 22 August 2026, and a dislocation that size is normally arbitraged away by morning. It was not. Re-read from the same public endpoints at 11:11 UTC on 23 August 2026, MEXC last traded at $0.00078410 against a median of $0.00089295 across the other four order books — BingX $0.00089390, CoinEx $0.00089471, KuCoin $0.00089200, Gate.io $0.00089120. That is a 12.19% discount, and the venue's 24-hour low is unchanged at $0.00062630.

Two things moved and one did not. MEXC's top-of-book spread more than halved, from 2.72% to 1.14% — that is what a book does when quoting resumes — and its 24-hour turnover eased from about $83,900 to $81,088, against $94,491 across the other five markets combined. The price did not converge. An intermediate reading a few hours earlier put the discount at 9.1%, so it is moving within a band rather than closing.

A gap that survives a day and a half on a book turning over $80,000 is the clearest evidence available that the coins on it cannot leave, without anyone having to confirm why. The cause remains unverified here — MEXC's currency-status endpoints refuse automated requests, and the wallet-maintenance account is still only what holders reported in the project's Telegram channel. The instruction does not depend on the cause: confirm XRD withdrawals are enabled before you buy, not after. A discount you cannot withdraw is not a discount.

Cross-chain swaps & fiat on-ramps

If you already hold another cryptocurrency, or want to buy with a card, these services convert directly into XRD:

• RocketX – cross-chain swap from assets on other networks into XRD
• Switchere – fiat (card/bank) on-ramp

On-ledger: bridge & swap on a native DEX

Do not use Instabridge. Until 2026 this page routed readers through Instabridge, the regulated Ethereum-to-Radix bridge. The service is closed and its instabridge.io domain has been re-registered by an unrelated party: as of 1 August 2026 it returns HTTP 301 to an online-gambling landing page, and the destination of that redirect has already changed at least once since 30 July 2026. Treat any link to that domain, including the one still carried on Radix's own token page, as hostile.

Live routes for getting assets onto the Radix Network:

• Withdraw from a centralized exchange. Sending XRD from one of the venues above straight to your Radix Wallet address is the shortest path and involves no bridge at all — provided the venue is letting XRD out. Check the withdrawal status of XRD on the exchange before you buy; a venue with its wallet closed will still happily sell you the token, and on 22 August 2026 the largest XRD book was doing exactly that at a 14% discount.
• Hyperlane Nexus – the warp route Radix names for swapping the Ethereum-side eXRD wrapper 1:1 for native XRD.
• Astrolescent – cross-chain swap that delivers XRD to a Radix account from assets held on other networks.

Once you hold assets on Radix, swap them on a Radix-native decentralized exchange:

• Ociswap – AMM and concentrated-liquidity DEX
• CaviarNine – order-book and concentrated-liquidity DEX
• DeFiPlaza – single-pool DEX
• Astrolescent – swap aggregator that routes across pools for the best price