Best crypto exchanges in Italy

• 19 crypto exchanges with a verified licence serve residents of Italy: 19 serve under an EU passport.
• Top pick by Coinish Score: Coinbase (80/100, Editor Rating 4.1/5).
• Lowest order-book trading fee: 0.09% (Revolut).
• No minimum deposit: Trade Republic.

Ranked by Coinish Score: half the Editor Rating for the entity that serves residents of Italy, half Market Signal. Brokers without enough verified data for a rating are placed by Market Signal and labelled; brokers with neither are listed last. How we rate

Of the 19 crypto exchanges on this list, 5 serve Italy under a MiCA authorisation from FMA (Austria) (Bybit, KuCoin, Bitpanda and 2 more), 4 serve Italy under a MiCA authorisation from MFSA in Malta (Crypto.com, Gate, OKX and 1 more), 2 serve Italy under a MiCA authorisation from CSSF in Luxembourg (Coinbase and Bitstamp) and 2 serve Italy under a MiCA authorisation from CySEC in Cyprus (Revolut and eToro); 6 more are authorised by CBI, Bank of Lithuania, AFM, BaFin, CNMV and Bank of Latvia.

Base-tier spot taker fees on the order-book exchanges here run from 0.09% (Revolut) to 1.2% (Gemini). Apps without an order book charge a per-trade fee instead: eToro 1%, Paybis 1.49% and 21bitcoin 1.49%.

• Search the company name on the CONSOB register (consob.it); for a firm licensed elsewhere, on its home regulator's register too (FMA (Austria), MFSA and CSSF for most of this list).
• Check which company your contract is with. Coinbase, for example, onboards residents of Italy through Coinbase Luxembourg S.A. (CSSF, MiCA CASP · LEI 984500F14CA4571AAC11), and the name on the account-opening documents should match the list.
• Confirm the exchange is an authorised CASP on ESMA's interim MiCA register, and that Italy is among the member states it has notified.

Yes, with a licensed provider. Since the MiCA transitional period ended on 1 July 2026, crypto platforms serving EU residents need MiCA authorisation as a crypto-asset service provider (CASP) in an EU member state.

Sources: esma.europa.eu, esma.europa.eu

By Coinish Score, Coinbase (80/100, Editor Rating 4.1/5), through Coinbase Luxembourg S.A. (CSSF, MiCA CASP · LEI 984500F14CA4571AAC11). Revolut (77) and Crypto.com (77) follow. The score rates the company that would serve you in Italy, so the same brand can rank differently in another country.

Italy's MiCA transition ended on 30 June 2026. Until then, exchanges on the OAM's register of crypto operators could keep serving Italian clients only if they had applied for MiCA authorisation, in Italy or another member state, by 30 December 2025. Now only firms authorised as CASPs under MiCA, or already-supervised intermediaries that notified their crypto services, can offer them. Firms without authorisation in any EU country have to wind down and let clients move or sell their holdings.

Nine firms held Italian authorisation when the transition ended, and none of the 19 exchanges here is among them. They all serve Italy under the European passport, using a MiCA authorisation from another member state that is valid across the EU.

Sources: consob.it (1), consob.it (2)

Yes. A crypto-asset service provider authorised under MiCA in one member state can serve residents of the others once its home regulator has notified them. All 19 on this list reach Italy that way, most from Austria (5), Malta (4) and Luxembourg (2).

The home regulator supervises the exchange, and ESMA keeps the central register of authorised CASPs, so you can check any of them there.

Sources: esma.europa.eu, esma.europa.eu

Crypto held with an exchange is not covered by investor compensation schemes, so the exchange's own safeguards (segregated client assets, cold storage, proof of reserves) matter more than for a broker account.

Source: eiopa.europa.eu

Gains on crypto-assets realised from 1 January 2026 are taxed at 33%, up from 26%, with no tax-free threshold. Crypto held through an intermediary that applies stamp duty also costs 0.2% of its value a year. Where no intermediary applies it, Italian residents pay a tax on the value of their crypto instead, and report the holdings in quadro RW. Crypto losses that exceed gains carry forward against gains of the next four years, provided you report them in the return for the year they arose.

Coinish isn't a tax adviser: check your own situation with the tax authority or an accountant.

Sources: agenziaentrate.gov.it (1), agenziaentrate.gov.it (2), infoprecompilata.agenziaentrate.gov.it