Compare Coinloan vs YouHodler

If your funds are invested in a Coinloan savings account and you want to withdraw them from the platform you must first make a withdrawal request from the savings account back to to your Coinloan wallet. These withdrawals from savings accounts are not instant. Savings account withdrawals are processed every day at 14:00 UTC. This means you could be waiting up to 24 hours for your withdrawal request to be actioned.

Once funds have been returned to your Coinloan crypto wallet you can then apply for these funds to be withdrawn from the platform altogether. These withdrawals are normally completed swiftly. In our tests they were completed in under an hour.

Fiat withdrawals from Coinloan are processed during business hours only and may take up to 24 hours to be processed. From the time of processing it could take up to 3 further business days for the funds to clear the banking system and arrive in your bank account.

Minimum withdrawal amounts apply, which are around $50 USD for most cryptocurrencies, 10 EUR for SEPA fiat transfers and 5,000 EUR for fiat swift transfers. There is also a maximum daily withdrawal limit of $500k USD for all currencies. You can request for this withdrawal limit to be increased.

In order to be eligible to make withdrawals you need to have completed the platform Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) checks.

The minimum withdrawal amount for cryptocurrencies is 5 USD and for stablecoins is 50 USD. Most crypto withdrawals do not attract fees, but this does vary by currency.

In our experience withdrawals are very fast, and appear to be automatically processed as soon as the request is made.

Many customer reviews mention how smooth the withdrawal process is.

There is no record of YouHodler ever having frozen withdrawals.

On the technical security front, Coinloan employs the usual two factor authentication 2FA approach to account security, which makes accessing an individual account extremely difficult without also being in possession of the 2FA device. In addition to this, Coinloan have employed Blaze to undertake a third party security audit of Coinloan to check for potential vulnerabilities. Blaze were "very impressed with CoinLoan’s initial security standards", and have proposed further enhancements to the security of the platform. Coinloan do appear to be committed to maintaining a high level of technical security on their platform.

Coinloan adopt a conservative, risk adverse strategy to investing funds in order to generate yield. They state that they adopt market neutral investment strategies that do not depend on the overall price trend of the market. Such strategies would include arbitrage and spread trading. Such strategies are good news for depositors as it makes the platform less susceptible to liquidity issues, when a platform can be unable to repay to depositors because too much money is tied up in loans.

Coinloan categorically state that they do not invest in DeFi protocols as they see them as too risky and all loans are fully collateralised. This collateral can be used to repay the loan in the event of a default by the borrower. They also state they avoid futures orders and other financial products that may lead to margin calls or position liquidation.

Some crypto platforms have employed third party auditors to verify their financial reserves. This proof of reserves provides reassurance to the depositors that funds are available if they need to make a withdrawal. Coinloan do not currently provide proof of reserves.

Coinloan have provided further details on their investment strategy in a detailed blog post. The transparency displayed is reassuring.

YouHodler offers two factor authentication on accounts to increase security against unauthorised access.

Fiat deposits are stored with reputable banks and crypto deposits are stored with Ledger Vault and covered by $150m insurance.

YouHodler is unique in its approach to yield generation. Unlike most other platforms, YouHodler does not lend funds outside of the platform. YouHodler does not invest funds into liquidity pools, DeFi protocols or other high-risk strategies. All yield is generated within the YouHodler platform through interest on loans taken out on the platform and fees charged by the platform.

We were unable to find any independent proof of reserves for YouHodler. Such proof would normally be undertaken by an independent accountant and would verify that the platform holds assets of greater value than customer liabilities (deposits). We hope YouHodler will look to introduce this in the future as it provides significant reassurance that the platform holds sufficient funds to repay all customer deposits if required.

YouHodler does provide a page of interesting stats about the platform. These stats include a chart which compares YouHodler's revenue against interest payments. The chart shows that revenue exceeds interest payments, although in some quarters the revenue has only marginally been higher than interest payments. Nonetheless, the chart provides some reassurance over the liquidity of the YouHodler platform.

YouHodler engages external security consultants to audit the security of the YouHodler platform.