How to Register on Binance: Get Sign-Up Details Right Before KYC

Before you start, get these ready

The form is short. The costly mistakes are choosing the wrong account type or using a contact method you will soon lose. Check these before you begin:

• An email address or phone number you control long term. Confirm it can receive messages now. Avoid a disposable address, a work mailbox that will vanish when you leave, or a number you no longer own.
• The right account type. Personal and entity accounts follow different routes. Binance says the account type cannot be changed after registration.
• A valid ID, and the country that issued it. You need it on the verification screen that follows sign-up, which asks which country issued the document as a separate question from where you live.
• Your name and date of birth exactly as the ID shows them. Binance asks that the personal information you confirm is consistent with your ID documents, and it cannot be changed once confirmed. Do not invent a preferred spelling or shorten the name.
• A working camera and steady connection. Document and face checks need camera permission. On the website you can also scan a QR code and continue the document step on your phone.

One more thing belongs up front: Binance does not serve every country or region, and in some places local rules restrict or prohibit residents from using offshore exchanges. Before you sign up, check the rules where you actually live and whether Binance serves that region; if it doesn't, don't register. This site does not offer any way around regional restrictions.

Step one: use the official page and choose a route

Enter from Binance's official site and check that the address bar uses binance.com or its official account subdomain. Our sign-up button (the card at the top of this page) passes through our short link kyclane.com/bn/12 and then lands on Binance’s sign-up page at www.binance.com with the code BTC9188 attached; check that the address bar shows binance.com before you type anything. On the website, the quickest start is the box on the homepage: type an email address or phone number and click [Sign Up], or use the Apple and Google icons below it. Binance's help page lists four routes for a personal account: email, phone, Apple/Google, and Telegram. Entity accounts have their own tab and steps.

If you want to use a referral code, note that it appears only at the step after the account is created, not on the sign-up form. Binance says a code brought in by a referral link shows a green tick and “Linked.” Once linked to the account, it cannot be changed. Acceptance and any benefit still depend on the live page, your region, and the offer terms. Anyone creating the account inside the app, without our link, will usually find that box blank and can key in BTC9188 there.

At the step after the account is created, confirm the invite code is filled in and the applicable terms on the official page.

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Step two: get the account type, code, and password right

The website's email-or-phone flow has four checkpoints:

1. Confirm the email address or phone number (it is carried over if you typed it on the homepage), read and accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, then click [Next].
2. Enter the six-digit code within 30 minutes and submit it.
3. Create a password. Binance's published minimum is eight characters, at least one uppercase letter, and at least one number. A unique, longer password is still the sensible choice.
4. After the account is created, check the account type and the referral step that follows. A personal/entity choice cannot be switched after registration, and a referral code cannot be edited once it shows as linked.

If Binance says the email address or number is already in use, try sign-in or account recovery before opening another account. A duplicate registration does not repair the old account and can make the identity trail harder to untangle.

Signing up in the app instead

The app asks for the same things, spread over slightly different screens. Binance's app guide gives this order for email or phone:

1. Open the app and tap [Sign up]. It is there in both Lite and Pro mode.
2. Tap [Create a Binance Account], then choose email, phone, Apple, or Google.
3. Enter the address or number, accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and tap [Next].
4. Type the six-digit code within 30 minutes, then set a password with at least eight characters, one uppercase letter, and one number.
5. Once the account exists, the referral step appears. A code from a referral link is already filled in with a green tick and “Linked”; with no code, tap [Skip].

According to Binance's app guide, tapping [Next] on the referral step takes you straight into identity verification, so have your ID on the table before you open the app. Telegram sign-up in the app follows the same steps as on the website, covered in the next section.

Email, phone, Apple / Google, or Telegram?

No route is universally best. Choose the one you expect to control well after the registration day:

• Email or phone is the direct route. Use a contact point you own long term and can receive a code on now. The trade-offs between the two are in email or phone for Binance sign-up; if you have settled on email, the registration-email decision guide helps you pick the mailbox.
• Apple / Google opens a pop-up on the website where you sign in to that account and accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy with [Confirm]. Back on Binance's page, you accept them once more and click [Next]. Keep recovery access to the Apple or Google account, because it is now part of how you get in.
• Telegram is not a one-click substitute for contact verification. You click [Continue with Telegram], then [Connect], log in to Telegram, and tap [Confirm] on the notification it sends. Binance then asks whether to create a new account or link an existing one. A new account still needs an email address or phone number and the code sent to it, and you can add the referral code at that last step.

If you are torn, we lean toward plain email or phone for a first account, so getting back in does not hinge on another company's login.

When the sign-up form will not let you through

Each of these has its own page on this site. Find yours before you try again:

• “This email or phone number is already registered.” It may be an older account of yours, or not yours at all. Try sign-in or recovery first, then read the four cases and how each is handled.
• You typed the email wrong. What to do depends on whether the account was actually created: fixing a wrong sign-up email by case.
• The six-digit code never arrives. Check the address or country code, then spam and message filtering, before working through the official order for missing codes.
• The slider or puzzle check keeps failing. See what helps with the slider check and what to avoid.
• You are under 18. See the age rule and the supervised route for minors.
• Binance is not offered where you live. Do not register under another region. What happens when people do has its own page; for choosing the right country, see country and residence choices.
• You want a second account. The options Binance lists are in the last answer on this page. Opening one in a relative's name is not a workaround.

Two checks to make after sign-up

Confirm the recovery route. Sign in once and check that the email address or phone number on the account is yours and still reachable. If you used Apple, Google, or Telegram, make sure the linked account's own recovery options work too.

Enable at least one form of two-factor authentication. Binance explicitly recommends at least one 2FA method. The choices shown may vary by account and region; follow the live Security page and save the recovery method it provides.

This page stops where KYC begins. For authenticator, passkey, and device-change decisions, use the Binance 2FA and passkey guide.

What the verification screen asks for next

Binance puts crypto deposits and trades behind the Verified level for every new user. On the website you reach it through [Account] → [Identification] → [Get Verified]; in the app it is [Verify Now] on the homepage, and the app's registration flow takes you there right after the referral step.

The screen asks four things, in this order:

1. Residence, issuing country, document type. These are separate choices. Enter where you actually live and the country that issued the document; the screen then offers the passport, ID card, or driver's licence options for your country.
2. The document. Upload the front and back of an ID card, or, on the website, scan the QR code to continue on your phone. Whether manual upload is offered depends on the country.
3. A liveness check. Binance asks for enough light, no hat, glasses, or filter, and your whole face clearly visible and centred, eyes open.
4. Your personal details. This is where the name and date of birth from the checklist above get locked in: Binance warns they cannot be changed once confirmed. Entering your name exactly as the ID shows it goes through the awkward cases, such as surname order and the machine-readable line.

Binance's verification FAQ says submitted documents are usually reviewed within 48 hours and that some cases take longer. Limits after approval appear on the Identification page and differ by region, so no figures are quoted here.

The rest of that screen has its own pages: the full KYC walkthrough, face checks that keep failing, proof of address, and a review that stays pending. If a first deposit comes after approval, the first deposit and purchase guide covers matching the asset, network, and address.

Five mistakes that create rework

1. Treating “account created” as “KYC complete.” They are consecutive but separate stages.
2. Picking a convenient residence to make approval look easier. Answer with where you actually live. Changing it later is its own process, which country and residence choices walks through.
3. Choosing personal or entity now and planning to switch later. The account type cannot be changed after registration.
4. Assuming a referral code guarantees a benefit or can be swapped after linking. A linked code cannot be changed; adding a skipped one is limited to accounts under 30 days old with no deposits or trades; only the live page and local terms establish any benefit.
5. Opening duplicates or outsourcing KYC. Neither fixes the original account, and both add identity and account-control risk.

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