Why this site exists
Most crypto content aimed at New Zealanders falls into two categories: press releases with a headline attached, or global articles with "NZ" pasted into the title. Neither tells you that Coinbase cannot pay out New Zealand dollars, that Binance has no domestic bank rail, or that a crypto ATM in Papatoetoe charges roughly a fifth of your money for the privilege of using cash.
Those are the things that decide what a purchase actually costs a New Zealander, and they are almost never covered. This site exists to cover them.
What we do
We track the platforms that serve New Zealand and what they charge, the regulatory framework and how it changes, Inland Revenue's treatment of cryptoassets, the ATM network and its costs, and the history of what has gone wrong here. We write it in plain language, we cite primary sources where they exist, and we say so where something cannot be verified.
A lot of what circulates about the New Zealand market is simply wrong. The claim that New Zealand banned crypto ATMs is the clearest example — Cabinet agreed in principle to a ban in June 2025 and then reversed in July 2026, but a great many articles still state the ban as fact. Correcting that kind of thing is most of the job.
What we are not
We are not a broker, an exchange, a custodian or a financial adviser. We do not hold client funds, we do not execute trades, and we do not provide personalised advice — that is a regulated activity in New Zealand requiring a licence we do not hold. If you want advice about your own circumstances, use a licensed financial adviser who appears on the Financial Service Providers Register.
We also do not predict prices. Nobody can, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
How the site is funded
Some outbound links may earn us a commission. That is a common model and it creates an obvious conflict, so we manage it explicitly: commercial arrangements never determine rankings, criticism is published regardless of any relationship, and every score is accompanied by the reasoning behind it.
If you think we have got something wrong, tell us. Corrections get published rather than quietly edited. Our editorial policy sets out the standard we hold ourselves to and our methodology explains how ratings are built.
Contact
Write to contact@exchangecrypto.nz with corrections, questions, or a platform you think we have missed. We read everything, and factual corrections take priority over everything else in the queue.