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RampAtlas answers one question: where you can buy a given cryptocurrency from where you live, and what it will cost.
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- RampAtlas answers where a given cryptocurrency can be bought from a given country or US state, and what that purchase costs.
- Every programmatic page opens with a direct answer paragraph, then the date the underlying records were last verified, then the tables.
- A page whose underlying records have gone 120 days without a check is dropped from the search index rather than left to age quietly.
- A figure RampAtlas does not have is named as absent and never rendered as a zero.
- Nothing on RampAtlas is investment advice, and affiliate relationships never move a ranking.
In this post
RampAtlas answers one question: where you can buy a given cryptocurrency from where you live, and what it will cost.
That sentence is the whole brief. Plenty of sites will tell you what a coin is worth this afternoon. Far fewer will tell you whether an exchange will open an account for a resident of your country or your US state, whether it lists the coin you actually want, and what the purchase costs once the trading fee, the spread and the deposit fee are added up. That information exists, scattered across hundreds of support pages, and it ages quietly. We collect it, check it against a primary source, date it, and publish it as tables.
Three entities, and the pages between them
Everything here descends from an exchange, an asset, and a jurisdiction: a venue that will sell you crypto, the coin, and a country or US state. The pages worth reading are the joins between those three. Which exchanges will sell Bitcoin to someone in Texas, which venues serve Germany at all, which coins a given venue lists where you are.
The join that matters most is Where to buy, where an asset and a place produce a ranked table of the exchanges that will actually sell it to you there. Every other section feeds that page or explains it. A centralized venue is where ordinary money becomes crypto, so the on-ramp question and the availability question are one question, and kyc rules are part of the answer.
What is published today
The directory covers 150 coins, 50 exchanges and 70 jurisdictions. Alongside it sit 40 measured chains, 45 guides and 401 glossary terms.
| Section | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Where to buy | Which exchanges sell a coin where you live, ranked, with an all-in cost |
| Exchanges | Where a venue operates, what it lists, and what it charges |
| Fees | What the same purchase costs across every venue with a full fee schedule |
| Coins | What a coin is, its market snapshot, and where it trades |
| Chains | Throughput, block time, fees and value locked, measured rather than quoted |
| Jurisdictions | The legal picture where you live, and which venues serve it |
| Compare | Two exchanges or two coins on the same measurements |
| Unlocks | When new supply of a token reaches the market, and how much |
| Staking yield | Which exchanges offer staking, where, and on what published terms |
| Liquidity | Spreads, depth and slippage measured on each venue's own book |
| Tax | Whether a jurisdiction changes its treatment of a gain after a holding period |
| Buyability | Every tracked coin graded A to E on verified availability |
| Guides | The mechanics, written out once, for anyone who wants the background |
| Glossary | A definition for every term the rest of the site uses |
| Change log | A dated feed of what moved, per exchange, coin and jurisdiction |
How to read a page
Every programmatic page opens the same way. A heading, then a paragraph that answers the question directly, then a bar showing when the underlying records were last verified, then the tables. If you read nothing but the first paragraph you should still leave with the answer.
The verification date is the load-bearing part. Availability changes when a venue opens a region, a regulator acts, or an asset is delisted, so a claim with no date attached is not a fact. Records are re-checked on a schedule, and a page whose records have passed 120 days without a check stops being indexed rather than sitting in search results on old data. Stale rows are dropped before a ranked table is built, so a ranking never quietly carries a row we no longer stand behind.
Where we do not have a figure, the page says so. A missing cost estimate reads as pending rather than as zero, a chain we could not read reads as not measured rather than as no throughput, and a coin with no verified exchange where you live is graded on that absence rather than handed an invented number. Our methodology sets out every rule, including how exchanges are scored.
What the site deliberately does not do
There are no accounts and no email capture. The watchlist and the location picker live in your browser, not in a profile. There are no price predictions and no editorial picks: a curated list is a ranking over verified data with its criterion printed on the page, so a result you dislike shows you the rule that produced it.
Some exchange links are affiliate links, disclosed on every page carrying one. They do not affect scores, rankings, or which venues appear, and an exchange cannot pay to be listed, moved, or removed. When something changes it is logged rather than edited away, which is what Change log is for.
Frequently asked questions
How often is the data re-checked?
Availability records are re-verified at least once per quarter, and immediately when an exchange announces a change to the regions it serves, when a regulator issues guidance or an enforcement action, or when a reader reports an error.
Beyond that, 120 days is a hard limit rather than a target. Once a record passes it, the rows it feeds are demoted out of ranked tables and the pages depending on it stop being indexed.
Do affiliate links change the rankings?
No. Rankings are computed from the data using published weights: cost, availability, asset selection, trust and security, and usability. Affiliate status is not one of those inputs, and an exchange that pays us nothing outranks one that does whenever the data says so.
What happens when there is not enough data to answer?
The page says it cannot answer yet. A buy page with fewer than two verified available listings prints no ranked table at all, because two is the point at which a ranking means anything, and it stays out of the index until the record fills in.
The same rule runs through the site. A hub that cannot yet support its own comparison is served but not indexed, and the gap is named rather than padded out.