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

Radix mainnet restarted on 11 September 2026, and on 17 September Gate.io became the first venue to reopen XRD deposits and withdrawals. Two of the six books stopped quoting during the 254-hour halt and have not come back. Read on 17 September from each venue's own API, Gate.io reports native XRD deposits and withdrawals enabled, KuCoin and CoinEx still report both disabled, and BingX and KuCoin are still not quoting the token at all. Bitpanda, Gate.io, MEXC and CoinEx are quoting it. Of the venues that publish their deposit and withdrawal state, only Gate.io now lets a purchase move to a Radix Wallet, and its price has met MEXC's; the measurement is under Six days after the restart, Gate.io reopens XRD deposits and withdrawals below. Check the venue's own deposit and withdrawal status before funding anything.

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, not quoting since 03:00 UTC on 1 September 2026, the instant the exchange's own symbol record gives as its offTime
• 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, not quoting when read on 3 September 2026, with the pair absent from the exchange's symbol registry and the XRD currency still listed
• MEXC – XRD/USDT, the largest of these books by turnover. It quoted about 12% below every other venue from 22 to 23 August 2026 with XRD withdrawals reportedly suspended; the gap closed on 29-30 August – 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Five exchanges this page previously listed have withdrawn their XRD markets.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.

The gap closed on the eighth day

The paragraph above made a claim that could be checked later: if the discount was coins that could not leave, it would close when they could. On 29 August 2026 at 19:56 UTC a holder in the project's Telegram channel reported that MEXC had fixed the withdrawal problem the previous day (t.me/radix_dlt/999942). That is the same class of source as the original wallet-maintenance account and is no better confirmed – but this time the order books can be asked directly.

Re-read from the same public endpoints at 03:13 UTC on 30 August 2026:

MEXC is now 0.53% under the $0.0008718 median of the other four books, against 12.19% seven days earlier. The number that settles it is not the price but the low: MEXC's 24-hour low had been pinned at $0.00062630 through every reading of the episode, and it is now $0.000853, inside the range every other venue is printing. A book whose floor rejoins the market is a book whose sellers have somewhere else to go.

Two things are worth keeping from the episode. The first is that the cause was never confirmed here and still is not – MEXC's own currency-status endpoints refuse automated requests, so both the suspension and the fix rest on holder reports, and only the price behaviour is this wiki's own measurement. The second is that the instruction does not change with the outcome: confirm XRD withdrawals are enabled before you buy, not after. It held while the gap was open and it will hold the next time one opens.

Two of the six books stopped quoting

Everything above was measured while native XRD could still move between venues. It cannot now. Read from the same public endpoints at 23:06 UTC on 3 September 2026, four days into the halt, two of the six books have gone quiet:

• BingX stopped first, and its own registry dates it. The spot symbol record for XRD-USDT carries "status": 0 with offTime and maintainTime both set to 1788231600000, which is 03:00:00 UTC on 1 September 2026, five hours and forty-one minutes after the ledger stopped. The pair had been online since 05:07 UTC on 20 May 2023. Its 24-hour ticker now answers "symbol is not found".
• KuCoin is not quoting either, and its two endpoints describe it differently. api/v1/market/stats returns the symbol with last price, bid, ask, high, low and volume all null; api/v2/symbols/XRD-USDT answers "Trading pair XRD-USDT does not exist". The XRD currency entry is still there, carrying isDepositEnabled and isWithdrawEnabled false and a Radix account-address regex.

Holders in the project's Telegram channel read this as a delisting on the afternoon of 3 September and were contradicted within the minute (t.me/radix_dlt/1001769, /1001772). Neither exchange has published a notice this wiki has been able to find, so the reading the endpoints support is the one recorded here: two markets stopped quoting during a network halt, one of them at a timestamp the exchange itself records, and neither venue has removed its XRD asset entry.

What is left quotes two different prices for the same token:

Gate.io is quoting 38.6% above MEXC and CoinEx for the same token, and Bitpanda's fiat quote sits with Gate.io rather than in the middle. That is nearly three times the 14% dislocation this page recorded on 22 August, and it has the same cause with nothing left to close it. Arbitrage between two XRD books is a withdrawal from one and a deposit at the other, and both legs run through a ledger that has stopped: no coin can leave the venue quoting $0.00066 for the venue quoting $0.00047. The one route still open does not help, because it does not lead anywhere. Gate.io alone still permits withdrawals on its Ethereum-side entry for the eXRD wrapper token, and CoinEx's deposit configuration lists a single chain, the Radix one, which is closed at both ends.

Each book is now a closed pool of the coins that happened to be sitting on that exchange when the network stopped, priced by whoever is still inside it. None of the four numbers above is the price of XRD. While the network was halted there was no such number, and a purchase made at one of them could not be moved to a Radix Wallet, staked, or spent.

Five days on, the gap has widened to 60%

Read from the same public endpoints at 03:08 UTC on 8 September 2026, hour 174 of the halt:

Gate.io now quotes 59.8% above MEXC and 59.6% above CoinEx for the same token, against the 38.6% this page recorded on 3 September, and both sides moved to get there: over those five days Gate.io rose 4.1% while MEXC fell 10.1% and CoinEx 9.2%. The two cheap books agree with each other to within 0.08%, and Bitpanda's fiat quote still sits with Gate.io rather than between them.

The venue quoting the high price has the smallest book of the three. Gate.io turned over about $1,530 in twenty-four hours, down from about $6,400 on 3 September, against MEXC's $58,800; its best ask carries 254 $XRD, about 17 cents of size. Across all three order books the centralized $XRD market is now about $64,300 a day, against roughly $190,000 on 22 August, so two thirds of it has gone in seventeen days. Each book prices itself off whatever its own last trade was, and the thinner it gets the further that can drift.

One market has closed since 3 September. CoinEx's XRD/BTC book, in the 22 August table above, is gone: api.coinex.com/v2/spot/market lists a single $XRD market, XRDUSDT, and a ticker request for XRDBTC answers "market XRDBTC not found". That leaves four quotes across three exchanges and one broker.

The on-ledger volume figure is frozen rather than measured

This page cites DeFiLlama's Radix DEX aggregate above for on-ledger swap volume. That feed reports on a ledger which has committed no transaction since 31 August, and it is still publishing a number. Read at 03:08 UTC on 8 September, api.llama.fi/overview/dexs/radix returns $17,024 of twenty-four-hour volume with a one-day change of 0, and its daily series carries the identical $17,024 on 5, 6 and 7 September. Every dollar of it is attributed to one adapter, DefiPlaza; the other six Radix adapters return 0.

No swap has settled on Radix in seven days, so an on-ledger volume figure published during the halt is a value carried forward and not a measurement. The same caution covers the price and market-capitalisation numbers aggregators publish for $XRD, because they are derived from the exchange books above and those books no longer agree with each other.

The ledger restarted and the books did not

Radix mainnet committed a round again at 11:35:28.96 UTC on 11 September 2026, ending a halt of 254 hours and 16 minutes. The question this page has asked at every reading – can the coins leave? – does not follow from the network being up. Read from the same public endpoints at 19:04 UTC on 11 September, seven and a half hours after the restart, with the Gateway reporting epoch 339,987 at state version 557,860,350 against the 557,840,628 that ended the halt:

Gate.io quotes 42.6% above MEXC and 40.6% above CoinEx, against the 59.8% this page measured on 8 September. The gap narrowed from the bottom: in the three and a half days between the two readings MEXC rose 12.6% and CoinEx 14.1% while Gate.io moved 0.5%. That is what a discount does when the thing pinning it looks likely to lift. It has not lifted. Gate.io's currency record carries withdraw_disabled and deposit_disabled true on both of its chains – the Radix one and the Ethereum-side eXRD entry that was the single route still open on 3 September. CoinEx reports the same pair false on its only XRD chain, and KuCoin's Radix chain entry carries isWithdrawEnabled and isDepositEnabled false while its XRD/USDT market still answers with every field null.

Two things follow, and both outlive this reading. An exchange reopens deposits and withdrawals on its own schedule after a halt rather than when the ledger says it can, so the instruction this page has carried since 22 August is the one that survived every stage of the episode: confirm XRD withdrawals are enabled before you buy, not after. And the four prices above are still not one price. Arbitrage between two XRD books is a withdrawal from one and a deposit at the other, and both legs remain closed at every venue that publishes their state.

Four days after the restart, XRD deposits and withdrawals are still closed

Read from the same public endpoints at 19:05 UTC on 15 September 2026, about 103 hours after the restart, not one flag has moved. Gate.io reports deposits and withdrawals disabled on both its Radix and Ethereum chains; KuCoin and CoinEx report both disabled on their Radix chains; KuCoin's XRD/USDT market still answers with every field null; and BingX's symbol record still carries the offTime of 1 September. None of the four venues still quoting XRD has published a notice this wiki has been able to find.

Gate.io now quotes 3.9 times CoinEx for the same token, and 47% above MEXC. On 8 September MEXC and CoinEx agreed to within 0.08%; they now differ by a factor of 2.6, because CoinEx lost more than half its price while the other three rose. Most of the fall came on 15 September, when CoinEx's hourly candles run from $0.00039 at midnight UTC to $0.00021 at 18:00. The book is thin: its best bid is 990,898 XRD at $0.0002068, about $205, so any seller with more than that moves the price. Gate.io went the other way the same morning. In the hour from 08:00 UTC it traded as high as $0.0012925, 78% above the previous hour's close, and it has since settled near $0.00081 on ten times the turnover of the 11 September reading.

On 11 September the gap was narrowing. Four days later it is wider than at any earlier reading on this page. The ledger no longer explains it, because the network has committed transactions continuously since 11 September; the venues' closed deposit and withdrawal rails do. Until one of the four reopens them, XRD bought there stays there.

Six days after the restart, Gate.io reopens XRD deposits and withdrawals

Read from the same public endpoints at 15:05 UTC on 17 September 2026, Gate.io reports XRD deposits and withdrawals enabled on both its Radix chain and its Ethereum-side eXRD entry, with a minimum withdrawal of about 17 XRD. Both flags already read enabled at 14:05 UTC. Gate.io has published no notice this wiki has found, so the time it reopened is not known. KuCoin and CoinEx still report both disabled on their Radix chains, KuCoin's XRD/USDT market still answers with every field null, and BingX's symbol record still carries the offTime of 1 September.

Gate.io and MEXC now quote the same price to within 0.05%, against 47% two days earlier. Most of the gap closed in the hour from 10:00 UTC on 17 September. In that hour Gate.io turned over about $6,000, after five hours in which it had traded under $100 in total, and its price fell 8%; MEXC rose 22%. Coins moving between the two books would produce that pattern, and until Gate.io's rails opened they could not. Bitpanda's fiat quote fell with Gate.io's. CoinEx, still closed, has more than doubled since 15 September and sits about 16% below the other two.

At KuCoin and CoinEx, XRD bought still stays on the venue.

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 Hyperlane 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