Mina price and where to buy MINA

What is Mina?

Mina Protocol keeps its blockchain at a small, constant size by replacing its history with a recursive zero-knowledge proof, so anyone can verify the chain with little storage. MINA pays fees and is staked by validators.

How to buy Mina, step by step

1. Pick an exchange. MINA is listed on four of the five exchanges we track. Compare fees, funding options and whether it serves your country in our exchange reviews.
2. Create and verify your account. Regulated exchanges ask for identity documents before you can deposit fiat.
3. Fund the account. A bank transfer or a stablecoin deposit usually costs far less than a card payment.
4. Buy MINA. Use the MINA/USDT or MINA/USD market, and check the cheapest venue in the table above first.
5. Decide where to keep it. On the exchange is simplest, but the exchange then holds your coins. MINA runs on its own network; withdraw only to a Mina address.

Where to buy Mina at the best price

The cheapest venue right now is marked in the table above. Add its trading fee before comparing: on MINA the venues disagree by about 0.23 percent on average, so on a small purchase the fee and the funding method usually matter more.

• The price on that venue. Each row shows the gap to our composite.
• The trading fee. Our fee comparison lists spot fees side by side.
• How you fund the account. A bank transfer or stablecoin deposit is usually far cheaper than a card payment, which often costs several percent.

Why the Mina price differs between exchanges

In our minute-by-minute measurement the gap between the highest and lowest venue averaged about 0.23 percent, against about 0.025 percent for Bitcoin. It went above half a percent in about 46 minutes out of every thousand, and reached about 3.3 percent at its widest.

About half of the MINA spot volume we track trades on a single venue. The spread figure at the top of this page is the live measurement; our guide on why crypto prices differ between exchanges explains the mechanism.

What moves the Mina price

The wider crypto market, and in MINA’s case its own news too. In our hourly composite, MINA moved with Bitcoin at a correlation of about 0.25, where 1 would mean identical moves, and its moves were about four times the size of Bitcoin’s.

MINA had one of the weakest links to Bitcoin of any coin we measured, so its own drivers dominate: network news and leverage. The funding rates on this page show whether leveraged traders are paying to be long or short right now.

Pros and cons of Mina

Pros

• A constant-size chain that is easy to verify.
• Staking with validators.

Cons

• It trades on four of the five exchanges we track.
• One of the widest price gaps between exchanges we track, reaching about 3.3 percent at its widest.
• Its hourly moves were about four times Bitcoin’s in our data.

Mina’s highest price

Mina’s all-time high is about $9.09 on volume-weighted data. The chart above shows the last 30 days of our composite, and the MINA to USD converter applies the live price to any amount.