Opening a Binance account from scratch

Before you start#

You need an email address or a mobile number you genuinely control, a unique password you have not used anywhere else, and a government-issued identity document for verification. Having these ready means the whole process takes a few minutes rather than several attempts.

One thing to check first: whether the platform is available where you live and what rules apply to you. Availability and product line-ups differ by jurisdiction, so confirm your own position before you enter personal data.

Ignore anyone who offers to open an account for you, to verify it for you, or to sell you a pre-verified account. Those accounts are routinely reclaimed, frozen or used for fraud, and the loss falls on whoever funded them.

Creating the account#

The flow is the same on the website and in the app. Keep the domain visible throughout; registration is one of the moments attackers target most aggressively because it is where personal details are entered.

1. Open binance.com in a browser or launch the official app.
2. Choose the registration option and enter your email address or mobile number.
3. Set a strong, unique password and accept the terms after reading them.
4. Confirm the code sent to your email or phone to prove the contact detail is yours.
5. Complete identity verification, following the on-screen prompts for document type and photos.
6. Enable two-factor authentication, a withdrawal whitelist and an anti-phishing code.
7. Review the security settings page and make sure every option you expect is switched on.

What identity verification involves#

Verification confirms that the person behind the account is who they claim to be. In practice it means submitting a document such as a passport or national identity card, sometimes together with a liveness check where you follow prompts to move or speak.

Photographs are the part people most often get wrong. Use even lighting, avoid glare on the document, keep all four corners visible, and make sure nothing is cropped. Most failures are image quality rather than eligibility.

Verification is run inside the official client. No legitimate agent will ask you to send documents through a chat app, email attachment or file-sharing link, and doing so hands your identity documents to whoever requested them.

Securing the account on day one#

Account security is cheaper to set up than to repair. Start with the second factor: an authenticator app or hardware key rather than SMS. Then add withdrawal address whitelisting so funds can only leave to addresses you have approved in advance.

Set an anti-phishing code so that genuine messages from the platform contain a phrase only you know. That makes imitation emails obvious. Store your recovery codes offline, print them or write them down, and keep them out of cloud notes and chat history.

Finally, decide before you deposit how much you are willing to lose. Crypto assets are volatile, the platform offers leveraged products that can lose money quickly, and no outcome is guaranteed by anyone.

Region, availability and common problems#

Registration can be restricted or unavailable depending on where you are accessing from, and the product set that opens after verification differs from country to country. If a step is blocked for your region, the official help centre explains the applicable rules; we do not publish workarounds.

Common snags are a verification email landing in spam, a code that expires while you are switching apps, photos rejected for glare, and a name mismatch between the document and the account details. Fixing the underlying cause is usually faster than repeating the attempt.

If verification fails repeatedly, contact support through the official help centre rather than replying to any message that arrives unprompted.