EtherFlyer

EtherFlyer Review

What is EtherFlyer?

EtherFlyer is a decentralized exchange (DEX) registered in Samoa. It is the only exchange in our Exchange List from that country. EtherFlyer has actually been around for some time, at least from the time prior to the big crypto-boom in December 2017. Its launch date was in October 2017.

Trading Volume

On the date of last updating this review (20 September 2021), the exchange was marked as untracked listing on Coinmarketcap and there was no information on the daily trading volumes. Even Coingecko had no information on the trading volumes or the number of coins and token pairs listed on this exchange. This is a big red flag for this platform and we urge any prospective user of this platform to proceed with caution.

US-investors

EtherFlyer does not list USA as a “prohibited country” or anything similar. So our belief is that US-investors may trade at this exchange. In any event, US-investors should always do themselves the favour of forming their own opinion on any issues arising from their residency or citizenship.

General Information on DEXs

DEXs are becoming increasingly more popular, mostly due to the following factors:

• They do not require a third party to store your funds, instead, you are always directly in control of your coins and you transact directly with whoever wants to buy or sell your coins.
• They normally do not require you to give out personal info. This makes it possible to create an account and right away be able to start trading.
• Their servers spread out across the globe leading to a lower risk of server downtime.
• They are essentially immune to hacker attacks.

However, DEXs normally have an order book with lower liquidity than their centralized counterparts and if you lose your password, it is probably lost forever.

Miscellaneous

EtherFlyer also proudly states that there are no KYC-requirements here, there are a lot of supported cryptos, and the trading engine is fast. Trading engine can process more than 1 million orders per second when its performing at its highest level. This is very impressive.

EtherFlyer Trading View

Different exchanges have different trading views. And there is no “this overview is the best”-view. You should yourself determine which trading view that suits you the best. What the views normally have in common is that they all show the order book or at least part of the order book, a price chart of the chosen crypto and order history. They normally also have buy and sell-boxes. Before you choose an exchange, try to have a look at the trading view so that you can see that it feels right to you. This is the trading view at EtherFlyer:

Mobile Support

EtherFlyer is also available as an application in your phone. This can be helpful for any investors interested in trading when “on the go”. Research shows that a vast majority of all crypto trades are executed through desktops. But, if you’re a mobile-kind-of-person, the EtherFlyer app might make you happy!

EtherFlyer Fees

EtherFlyer Trading fees

Trading fees are naturally very important. Every time you place an order, the exchange charges you a trading fee. The trading fee is normally a percentage of the value of the trade order. At this exchange, they don’t divide between takers and makers. Each party to a deal pay the same fee: 0.30% of the order value.

0.30% is a fair bit above the current industry average. Industry average has for a long time been 0.25%, but we are currently seeing a shift towards lower fees. Many exchanges now charge e.g. 0.10% or 0.15% instead. Etherflyer's fees were prevoiously 0.20%, but they changed it during Q1 2021 to 0.30%. This is a quite remarkable move, seeing how exchanges are acting with respect to fees in general (i.e., lowering their fees). 

EtherFlyer Withdrawal fees

EtherFlyer does not support trading in BTC, so they naturally don’t have a BTC-withdrawal fee that we can compare against other exchanges’ BTC-withdrawal fees. Their ETH-withdraw fee, however, is 0.005 ETH. This should be compared with other exchanges’ ETH-withdrawal fees in our Exchange List, such as EtherDelta (charging only 0.0007 ETH per ETH-withdrawal), Kyber Network (charging only network fees, 0.004782 ETH per ETH-withdrawal) and Bilaxy (charging 0.01 ETH per ETH-withdrawal).

In comparison with the above exchanges, EtherFlyer’s withdrawal fees are perfectly fine.

Deposit Methods

This exchange does not accept any other deposit method than cryptos, so new crypto investors are restricted from trading here. If you are a new crypto investor and you wish to start trading at this exchange, you will have to purchase cryptos from another exchange first and then – as a second step – deposit them here. Don’t worry though, you can find a so called “entry-level exchange” simply by using our Exchange Finder tool.

EtherFlyer Security

The servers of DEXs are normally spread out. This is different from centralized exchanges that normally have their servers more concentrated. This spread-out of servers leads to a lower risk of server downtime and also means that DEXs are virtually immune to attacks. This is because if you take out one of the servers, it has little to no impact on the full network of servers. However, if you manage to get into a server at a centralized exchange, you can do a lot more harm.

Also, if you make a trade at a DEX, the exchange itself never touches your assets. Accordingly, even if a hacker would somehow be able to hack the exchange (in spite of the above), the hacker can not access your assets. If you make a trade at a centralized exchange, however, you normally hold assets at that exchange until you withdraw them to your private wallet. A centralized exchange can therefore be hacked and your funds held at such exchange can be stolen. This is not the case with respect to decentralized exchanges.