Compare Crypto.com vs Nexo

Withdrawals on Crypto.com are completely automatic and run 24 hours per day. This means that withdrawals are generally very efficicent and in our tests withdrawals were completed in under an hour.

Withdrawals do attract fees, which are generally speaking around $10 USD.

Crypto.com allows you to whitelist external wallet addresses, meaning that funds can only be withdrawn to these addresses. There is also a feature to lock new whitelisted addresses for 24 hours, so that they do not become active until 24 hours after they were setup.

Nexo does not use separate savings wallets, so all crypto deposits immediately start earning interest. This means that when you need to make a withdrawl there is no need first transfer funds our of your savings account before then withdrawing them from the platform. This can be a significant time saving compared to other platforms.

In our tests, withdrawls from the Nexo platform were very smooth. The process is automated, so a withdrawl request is processed by Nexo within minutes of you making it. The total withdrawl time then just depends on the network speed. Typically most withdrawls in our tests were completed in well under an hour.

Nexo has never frozen withdrawls on any of its currencies and it claims to hold sufficient liquid funds at any point in time to handle anticpiated requests.

Withdrawls attract no fees for your first few withdrawls. This means that Nexo will pay the network transaction fee on your behalf. After the first couple of free withdrawls every month you will then have to start paying this fee. Nexo does not charge any additional withdrawl fees on top of the network fee. Your number of free withdrawls increases with your Nexo loyalty level.

All key activites on the Crypto.com are secured by multi-factor authentication including face ID and 2 factor authentication codes. In addition Crypto.com has passed multiple security audits including ISO 22301:2019, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and PCIDSS v3.2.1 Level 1 compliance. The app has achieved the highest security rating for both NIST Cybersecurity and Privacy Frameworks. Finally Crypto.com contracts with third party security firms such as Kudelski Security to stress test their systems.

Crypto.com claims that 100% of user crypto deposits are held offline in cold storage wallets. These wallets are secured by cold storage custodian Ledger Vault. Crypto.com also hold $750M of insurance against loss of these assets.

All fiat deposits are held in Metropolitan Commercial Bank and are covered by FDIC insurance up to $250k USD.

Crypto.com is a substantial and complex business with activity in almost every aspect of Crypto. They have hugely ambitious plans and an experienced team behind them. How all of Crypto.com's various activities and subsidiaries connect together financially is not clear and the extent to which failure in one part of the business could have implications in other areas is also a concern. The method that Crypto.com uses to generate yield on their earn product is not clear, and so we can not be certain of the level of risk they are taking to generate customer returns. We can take some reassurance from Crypto.com's commitment to holding 100% of user deposits in cold storage.

We were not able to find any proof of reserves for Crypto.com. Proof of reserves are normally carried out by an external third party and provide assurance that the company has enough assets to pay out all customer liabilities (deposits) if required.

Nexo has contracted with Armanino, a top 20 US accounting firm, to independently audit Nexo's assets and customer liabilities and to verify that these assets are greater than the liabilities. This verification can be checked live on Armanino's website.

Nexo has £775m of insurance on custodial assets, spread across a number of custodians including BitGo, Ledger Vault, Bakkt and others.

Nexo claims to insist on overcollateralisation on all loans that it makes, even to the biggest borrowers. This means that Nexo should always hold assets great then a borrower's debt, so the debt could be paid off in full by using the collateral at any time.

Nexo has contracted with Armanino, a top 20 US accounting firm, to independently audit Nexo's assets and customer liabilities and to verify that these assets are greater than the liabilities. This verification can be checked live on Armanino's website.

Nexo has £775m of insurance on custodial assets, spread across a number of custodians including BitGo, Ledger Vault, Bakkt and others.

Nexo claims to insist on overcollateralisation on all loans that it makes, even to the biggest borrowers. This means that Nexo should always hold assets great then a borrower's debt, so the debt could be paid off in full by using the collateral at any time.

Nexo states that its investment strategy is market neutral, i.e. it is not speculating on the potential increase in certain assets. Overall Nexo appears to have one of the most prudent financial risk management strategies out there and they have an impecable track record having never suffered any hack or ever frozen withdrawls. There does however always remain some risk with any crypto based business, such as a severe lack of liquidity in the markets of the loan collateral held.