Can someone please share me the best exchange to claim free Ethereum forks? I am used to binance only but rumour has it that when it comes to fork binance takes too much time, sometimes up to a week or two, any other exchange that supports this fork?
Binance does support a possible fork, but does not promise listing of a new coin on the exchange. The fork and listing of ETH PoW is currently supported by exchanges such as Poloniex, Huobi, Gate, Bitmex, OKX and Mexc. This list is not final and it is possible that other exchanges will be added to it before the merger.
I think you are mistaken here, binance has announced that they will support for post merge ethereum fork. Supporting and listing a new coin does not affect them as they are just an intermediary providing services.
Binance is known for supporting all kinds of fork coins during the hard fork of blockchain. They are the most reliable centralized exchange when it comes on handling hard fork because they always support fork for there user conveniency. It’s better for a user that has low knowledge on fork to leave his token on Binance rather than put his money at risk on handling the fork token alone since we don’t know exactly what’s the procedure while Binance has a top rate developer that doing this job for there customers.
I’m not suggesting that leaving tokens on exchange is good. I’m just suggesting that it’s much better rather than make the completely newbie user DIY on this kind of things that might put his asset at risk.
Indeed, binance is the top exchange we have at the moment so it is futile to look for an alternative. In situations like this, I still recommend everyone to keep assets on top exchanges to avoid unnecessary fork problems. Storing assets on a centralized exchange is not recommended, but short-term use should be fine.