Where to actually get information
The counterpart to being careful about influencers is knowing where the reliable material lives. It is duller than a feed, and it is almost always the thing that would have saved someone money: regulators, registers, and the platforms' own channels.
Read this before you follow anything
Impersonation is one of the most effective theft techniques in crypto. Fake "support" accounts, cloned exchange profiles and lookalike handles exist precisely because people search for a company's social account and click the first plausible result. That is why this page links official websites rather than handles: every organisation links its own real accounts from its own site, and going through the front door is the only method that cannot be gamed.
The rule that follows from it: never reach a company through a search result, a DM or a reply. Type the website address yourself, then follow their links out. And no legitimate organisation on this page — none of them, ever — will ask for your seed phrase, your password, or remote access to your device.
Australian official sources
Moneysmart (ASIC)
The government's consumer money guidance, including crypto and finfluencers.
Written for ordinary people rather than industry, with nothing to sell you. The single best starting point if a claim sounds too good.
ASIC
The corporate and financial services regulator — licensing, enforcement, warnings.
Publishes enforcement actions and warning notices, including against unlicensed finfluencers. Also where you check whether a platform holds a licence.
AUSTRAC
Financial intelligence regulator; maintains the register of digital currency exchange providers.
The public register is how you confirm an exchange is legally allowed to serve Australians at all. Any platform missing from it is disqualifying.
Scamwatch (ACCC)
National scam reporting and alerts.
Current scam patterns, and where you report one. Reading recent alerts for ten minutes is better scam training than most paid courses.
Australian Taxation Office
The authority on how crypto is actually taxed here.
Every tax claim you read online is someone's summary of this. When a forum post and the ATO disagree, the ATO is not the one who is wrong.
ReportCyber (ASD’s ACSC)
The national reporting route for cybercrime, including crypto theft and investment fraud.
If money has already gone, this is the report that reaches police, and you want the reference number before you contact your bank or exchange. Recovery is rare — reporting quickly is still the one thing that helps.
The genuine accounts, with their real numbers
Every handle below was confirmed against the organisation's own website, then checked through X's API for its follower count and account age. That gives you a scale to compare against: an account claiming to be one of these with a thousand followers and a three-week history is an impersonator, and this is the table that lets you notice.
Government & regulators
The authorities on rules, registers and scams. Nothing to sell you.
| Organisation | Handle | Followers | On X since |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIC | @asicmedia ✓ | 34k | 2012 |
| Moneysmart (ASIC) | @moneysmartteam ✓ No longer posts on X — use the website | 57k | 2010 |
| Australian Taxation Office | @ato_gov_au ✓ No longer posts on X — use the website | 64k | 2009 |
Exchanges
Where outages, maintenance and withdrawal pauses get announced first.
| Organisation | Handle | Followers | On X since |
|---|---|---|---|
| CoinSpot | @coinspot ✓ | 82k | 2014 |
| CoinJar | @getcoinjar ✓ | 14k | 2013 |
| Independent Reserve | @indepreserve ✓ | 15k | 2013 |
| BTC Markets | @BTCMarkets ✓ | 28k | 2013 |
| Digital Surge | @digitalsurge ✓ | 3k | 2017 |
| Kraken | @krakenfx ✓ | 1.8M | 2013 |
| Coinbase | @coinbase ✓ | 7.1M | 2012 |
| Binance | @binance ✓ | 16.1M | 2017 |
| OKX | @okx ✓ | 5.6M | 2017 |
| Crypto.com | @cryptocom ✓ | 3.0M | 2017 |
| eToro | @eToro ✓ | 354k | 2009 |
| Cointree | @CointreeAus ✓ | 4k | 2014 |
| Coinstash | @Coinstash_AU ✓ | 3k | 2019 |
| Elbaite | @elbaiteau ✓ | 457 | 2017 |
Wallet makers
Firmware updates and security advisories come from here — and only here.
| Organisation | Handle | Followers | On X since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ledger | @Ledger ✓ | 673k | 2014 |
| Trezor | @Trezor ✓ | 243k | 2013 |
| Tangem | @Tangem ✓ | 601k | 2017 |
| BitBox | @BitBoxSwiss ✓ | 30k | 2014 |
| Keystone | @KeystoneWallet ✓ | 64k | 2010 |
| Blockstream (Jade) | @Blockstream ✓ | 212k | 2014 |
| SafePal | @SafePal ✓ | 714k | 2018 |
| MetaMask | @MetaMask ✓ | 1.4M | 2015 |
| Phantom | @phantom ✓ | 952k | 2021 |
| Rabby | @Rabby_io ✓ | 156k | 2018 |
| Exodus | @exodus ✓ | 115k | 2016 |
| Safe | @safe ✓ | 132k | 2007 |
| Trust Wallet | @TrustWallet ✓ | 4.2M | 2017 |
| Zengo | @Zengo ✓ | 42k | 2018 |
Tax software
Product changes and ATO-season guidance from the tools we review.
| Organisation | Handle | Followers | On X since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koinly | @koinlyofficial ✓ | 6k | 2023 |
| Summ | @summ_app ✓ | 13k | 2020 |
| Syla | @sylapower | 102 | 2021 |
| CoinLedger | @CoinLedger ✓ | 24k | 2018 |
| CoinTracker | @cointracker ✓ | 60k | 2018 |
| CoinStats | @CoinStats ✓ | 162k | 2019 |
Data sources
Where our market numbers originate, so you can check them yourself.
| Organisation | Handle | Followers | On X since |
|---|---|---|---|
| CoinGecko | @coingecko ✓ | 2.4M | 2014 |
This site
Us, with the commercial disclosure attached.
| Organisation | Handle | Followers | On X since |
|---|---|---|---|
| CryptoList | @CryptoReviewAus | 521 | 2017 |
Handles sourced from each organisation's own website; metrics refreshed quarterly through X's API · last checked 22 Aug 2026. Follower counts move constantly — treat them as a scale, not a precise figure.
Your exchange's own channels
When withdrawals pause, an outage hits or maintenance runs long, the platform's own status and support channels are where it gets announced first — well before any commentary account works out what is happening. Find those channels from the official site below, not from a search.
| Exchange | Head office | AUSTRAC | Our review | Official site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swyftx | Brisbane, QLD | Registered | Read → | swyftx.com |
| CoinSpot | Melbourne, VIC | Registered | Read → | coinspot.com.au |
| Kraken | San Francisco, US | Registered | Read → | kraken.com |
| Coinbase | US (remote-first) | Registered | Read → | coinbase.com/en-au |
| CoinJar | Melbourne, VIC | Registered | Read → | coinjar.com/au |
| Independent Reserve | Sydney, NSW | Registered | Read → | independentreserve.com |
| OKX | Global (AU entity) | Registered | Read → | okx.com/en-au |
| BTC Markets | Melbourne, VIC | Registered | Read → | btcmarkets.net |
| Crypto.com | Singapore | Registered | Read → | crypto.com |
| Digital Surge | Brisbane, QLD | Registered | Read → | digitalsurge.com.au |
| Cointree | Melbourne, VIC | Registered | Read → | cointree.com |
| Coinstash | Brisbane, QLD | Registered | Read → | coinstash.com.au |
| Binance | Global | Registered | Read → | binance.com/en-AU |
| Elbaite | Melbourne, VIC | Registered | Read → | elbaite.com |
| eToro | Israel / eToro AUS (AFSL 491139) | Registered | Read → | etoro.com/en-au |
Official addresses from our verified database · every platform here is AUSTRAC-registered (listing policy) · check licence progress on the AFSL tracker
And us — with the disclosure attached
We post daily AUD market notes as @CryptoReviewAus on X, reachable from the icon in our header so you are never trusting a handle typed from memory. And the same standard we apply to everyone else applies here: this is a commercial site, some links are affiliate links, and how we make money spells out exactly how. Scores are never for sale, which you should verify rather than believe.
How to sanity-check any claim
Heard something specific? The call checker replays what a coin actually did after any date, the scam checker matches an offer against reported patterns, and the screener shows the market cap and volume behind any ticker in seconds. Three checks, no login, no faith required.
FAQ
Why don't you list social media handles directly?
Because a mistyped or outdated handle could send someone to an impersonator, and impersonation is how a great deal of crypto theft actually happens. Every organisation here links its genuine accounts from its own website, so going via the site is both safer and self-updating. It costs one extra click and removes an entire category of risk.
Is following official accounts enough?
For safety and for facts, they are the backbone: registers, warnings and tax rules come from nowhere else. They will not give you market analysis, because that is not their job — and any account that claims to give you certainty about prices is telling you something the regulators deliberately never do.
How do I check an exchange is legitimate?
Confirm it appears on AUSTRAC's register of digital currency exchange providers, check where it is headquartered and therefore which laws apply, and read its regulatory record. Our exchange reviews and the "who runs your exchange" page compile all three, but the register itself is the primary source and takes two minutes.
General information only, not financial advice. Links to official bodies are provided for convenience; always confirm you are on the correct domain before entering any details anywhere.