BaseFEX:
The chart and the order book is not as good as Deribit and Bybit but seems, like someone said, still acceptable. Wide range of altcoin pairs that I need. What I found I love is, unlike a lot of other exchanges, they dont ask for your email address before you ask questions in the live chat while I dont want to be bombarded with junk emails.
To my surprise, THEY HAVE THE CEO ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS IN THE LIVE CHAT. I mean in the crypto space this is damn impressive considering 60% of the time people wont even know the CEOs name. In sharp contrast to their competition, Jess has been rather forthcoming about where they base - registered in Seychelles and operate mostly from China. They also claimed they havent had any downtimes for two months so let me at least give them the credit that they seem to score high where Bybit and Deribit are lacking.
However, their trading UI has some details that I am not really comfortable with. It seems they are trying to make a more intuitive UI but sometimes the needed intuition does not come naturally. I had to have Jess instructed me on where to set a few things.
I havent deposited yet but I will. I plan to see how things go from there. Seems like a legitimate, hard-working, smaller team who are proud of what they do, and how they do it.
Bitmax and a few others:
I need an American-friendly exchange that offers altcoin pairs and high leverages. So I didnt bother.