Coinstash review (2026)

Coinstash, founded in Brisbane in 2017, competes on sheer breadth: over 1,000 listed assets, the largest range of any Australian exchange by a factor of two. If a token exists beyond the top-500 and you want AUD access without touching offshore platforms or DEXs, Coinstash is usually the only local door.

That breadth comes with the trade-offs you would expect. The 0.85% flat fee is at the top of the local range, liquidity in long-tail assets is thin (mind the spread on small caps), and the company is smaller than the household names. It is a specialist tool: superb for coverage, ordinary for cost.

A flat 0.85% is the sticker price, and on small-cap tokens the effective spread can add materially more — thin books cost money everywhere, and 1,000 listings guarantee some thin books. On majors you are simply paying above the odds versus Digital Surge or market-order CoinSpot. PayID deposits and AUD withdrawals are free.

For context, the AU instant-buy average across our 13 tracked platforms is 0.76%. Worked example excludes network fees for on-chain withdrawals; estimates come from our verified fee data. See the full fee comparison or model your own trade in the profit calculator.

Coinstash is AUSTRAC-registered, Brisbane-based, and has no incident on our record. Listing 1,000+ assets means custody complexity across many chains, which is inherent risk surface — the platform’s job is managing it, yours is not treating a long-tail token venue as long-term cold storage.

Every incident and regulatory action we track for Coinstash, with primary sources — updated automatically from our fact database.