Phemex vs Hotcoin

Phemex is built for contracts; Hotcoin also covers earn, bots and launches. It comes down to what you need more often.

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Compared by the numbers

Collected straight from the exchanges. Volume is deliberately left out: venues count it differently, and on some the top of the list is tokenised equities. The last row is our advertisement scanner’s coverage, not the venue’s full currency list, which is wider.

PhemexPhemex HotcoinHotcoin
USDT pairs149362
Futures contracts129—
Networks for USDT——
Cheapest USDT withdrawal——
P2P currencies in our scanner——

In short: the difference

What Phemex is: an exchange with a strong futures side. On the market since 2019, jurisdiction: Samoa.

What Hotcoin is: a venue that doubles as a toolkit. .

What Phemex gives you

Compared with an ecosystem, Phemex leans on its own strengths: A derivatives venue founded by people from bank trading desks. A hundred and fifty spot pairs and a hundred and twenty perpetuals, each with its own funding rate. There is savings, copy trading and trading bots. The book is even and the data is served openly, which makes its prices sound to compare with other venues.

Strong sides: an even book, open data, the funding interval stated per contract.

What Hotcoin gives you

The terminal is strong on contracts, but Hotcoin has its own ground: Hotcoin holds around three hundred and fifty USDT pairs, with noticeable turnover on the leading coins. Its data comes openly and in one response — best quotes and daily volume together — which makes comparison with other venues sound. The derivatives interface stays closed to outside requests, so the exchange does not appear in funding.

Strong sides: 350+ USDT pairs, best quotes served as one list, meaningful turnover on major coins.

What decides it

  • Strengths side by side. Phemex: an even book, open data, the funding interval stated per contract; Hotcoin: 350+ USDT pairs, best quotes served as one list, meaningful turnover on major coins.
  • Which job. Phemex is as an additional venue in cross-exchange routes and funding, while Hotcoin is as an extra side in spot routes.
  • Worth remembering. Phemex: a narrow listing next to the Asian venues. Hotcoin: the futures interface is closed to outside requests, and quote sizes are not published.

Which one fits you

Phemex — as an additional venue in cross-exchange routes and funding.

Hotcoin — as an extra side in spot routes.

What people ask most

Phemex: Does Phemex have its own token? No, it has no exchange token.

Phemex: Does Phemex take part in your spot arbitrage? Yes. It serves the book for every pair as one list, so comparing its prices with other venues is sound.

Phemex: What is the funding interval on Phemex? Eight hours on most contracts, and the exchange states it per contract, so there is no guessing. Our funding section annualises from the real interval.

Hotcoin: How many pairs does Hotcoin have? By our measurements over three hundred and fifty spot pairs against USDT. The figure is live and refreshes with the data.

Hotcoin: Does Hotcoin take part in your arbitrage sections? Yes, in spot arbitrage, in full. The exchange serves best quotes for every pair in one list, so its prices are sound to compare with other venues.

Both at once

Nothing stops you from opening an account on both: it is free, and a pair of venues almost always beats any single one on price. Spot and earn stay on the ecosystem, contracts on the terminal. Moving between them costs pennies on the right network.

Live numbers

Everything in the table above is recomputed together with the rest of the site — pairs, contracts, P2P, networks and the withdrawal fee. Phemex and Hotcoin can be compared on facts rather than promises.

What the numbers say

Neither Phemex nor Hotcoin discloses transfer cost publicly: both name it in the wallet when you withdraw. Listing chains without the price of the transfer tells you nothing, so the row stays empty. Hotcoin gives 2.4× the choice on spot: 362 USDT pairs against 149.

Snapshot from 31 October 2026; on the page the figures refresh on every visit.

Phemex ↗Hotcoin ↗

Frequently asked

Hotcoin or Phemex — which should you pick?
It is the same choice whichever way round you write it. The comparison above is built on what can be measured: fees, pair counts, withdrawal chains and funding routes. Look less at which venue is "better" in general and more at which of those matters to you.

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