Binance Sign-Up and ID Verification for Beginners in Taiwan (2026)

If you're in Taiwan, opening a Binance account comes in four stages: create the account, set a password and 2FA, pass KYC with your national ID card, and make your first deposit. The first two are a few screens of setup; the third needs your ID card and a face check; the fourth is turning Taiwan dollars into USDT in your account, either by transferring it in from a Taiwan exchange or by paying on Binance's Buy Crypto page. The invite-code field only appears at the sign-up step.

What you need to register on Binance: phone, email, ID

Spend two minutes getting set up before you actually begin, so you don't get halfway through and have to stop and hunt for something. You don't need much:

• A phone and an email you can receive mail on: at sign-up you pick one of the two as your login, but it's worth adding both, because verification and account recovery use them later.
• Your Taiwan national ID card: you'll need it for KYC identity verification. Both sides get photographed, so have the card itself on hand; a photocopy won't do.
• A camera: the face check needs a front-facing camera, so do this part on your phone.
• A stretch of uninterrupted time: the verification part is best done in one go.

One thing that's easy to overlook: sign up with an email and phone number that are yours for the long term, ones you won't change. A crypto account is tied to your assets, and once a contact method goes dead, getting back in takes far more than resetting a forgotten password. With a school or work email, the verification codes stop reaching you once you graduate or leave and the inbox is closed. Use a private email you fully control.

Do the sign-up on your own phone or computer as well, not at an internet café or on someone else's device. The whole flow involves typing your password and running identity verification, and those are sensitive things to be doing on a machine you can't trust. Pick a stable connection, too; identity verification is the last place you want it to drop.

Readers in Taiwan should know one more thing: since 10 August 2026, Binance has been listed on the warning list of the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, in the column for overseas virtual asset service providers not approved by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC).

What the phone or email sign-up form asks you to fill in

Once you're on the sign-up page, the form asks you for the items below. Which one comes up first depends on the page at the time, so follow the order on your screen:

• How to register: email or phone number, one or the other; the only difference is where your verification codes land. With a phone number, make sure the country code is set to Taiwan. Binance's sign-up help page also lists Google and Apple account sign-up (see the screenshot below).
• Account: the email or phone number you enter becomes the account you log in with later, so an error here means you won't get the verification code.
• Password: how to set it is covered in the "Password and 2FA" section further down.
• Invite / referral code: if this field is collapsed, tap the expand link to make it appear. What to enter and when is in the next section.
• Verification code: the system sends a code to your email or phone; enter it as the screen asks.

A slider or jigsaw puzzle sometimes pops up during sign-up. That's the anti-bot check: drag the piece to the right spot, and don't read it as a problem with your account. If the slider keeps failing, drag it slowly rather than flinging it, or refresh the page and try again.

Once these items are filled in and you've entered the verification code, basic registration is done, though the account isn't verified yet. Next, turn on 2FA, then do KYC.

Where the invite code goes and when to enter it

The invite code goes in the "invite code / referral code" field of the registration form, and it has to be in before you hit submit; take one more look at the field before submitting to check it's filled in. Entering an invite code costs nothing; what it adds to the account is a discount on the trading fees you pay afterwards. The referral programme isn't open to everyone: Hong Kong residents and several other groups are outside it, and the invite-code guide goes through them under does the code give a discount if you live in Hong Kong? For how the fees themselves work, see how Binance fees are calculated.

If you didn't enter one at sign-up, adding it afterwards comes with conditions: an account that's within 30 days of registration and hasn't deposited or traded yet has a chance to add one, and past that point what's left are applications that are harder to qualify for. The conditions for each are in how to use a Binance invite code, in the section "If you forgot to enter it, can you add it later?"

An invite code you see elsewhere may come with a different discount rate. You can copy the invite code on this page first, then open the registration page.

Password and 2FA: cutting corners here will cost you

Account security rests on two things: your password and 2FA. Once crypto has been moved out, there's no bank that can reverse the transaction for you, so this isn't a step to skimp on.

How to set your password

The baseline is a password you haven't used on any other site. If some forum leaks your password, attackers try the same combination everywhere else, which is known as credential stuffing. A password manager can generate a long random one, and it doesn't matter that you can't remember it, since the manager stores it for you.

Turn on two-factor authentication (2FA)

With 2FA on, knowing your password isn't enough to log in; a second key is needed as well. Binance supports a few kinds:

Method	Security	Who it's for
Authenticator app (e.g. Google Authenticator)	High, recommended	Everyone, especially anyone holding more
Binance's own Authenticator	High	People used to the Binance app
SMS verification code	Medium, can be intercepted	As a backup, not recommended as your only one

Set up at least one authenticator app. During setup it shows you a backup key (a string of characters or a QR code). Write the key down and keep it somewhere safe: if your phone is lost or replaced, the key is what restores your 2FA, and without it you're locked out until you've gone through a separate process to reset the authenticator. A slip of paper in a drawer is enough to avoid that. Binance's help centre has step-by-step guides for each verification and security setting, which you can follow as you go; the US agency CISA also has a plain-language explainer on multi-factor authentication if you want the principle behind it.

SMS codes come last in the table because a SIM-swap attack can intercept them: if someone talks your carrier into moving your number to their SIM, your codes go to them. For an account holding a fair amount, SMS shouldn't be the only line of defence. An authenticator app generates its codes on your phone, so they don't travel over the mobile network.

For an extra layer, ask your carrier to put a port-out or SIM-replacement PIN on your number, so that a request to move the number has to come with that PIN, which makes a SIM swap harder to pull off. And one rule to keep: Binance staff won't ask you for your 2FA code. Anyone who wants you to read out or paste a code, whether they claim to be support or offer to "help you fix an issue," is running a scam, so hang up. The same rule holds for every account tied to money.

Once the second key is on, a leaked password alone won't get anyone into your account.

Passing Binance KYC with a Taiwan ID card

KYC stands for "Know Your Customer": the platform confirming that you're a real person and that you are who you say you are. It's a compliance requirement regulators place on exchanges, not Binance making things difficult. Which documents are accepted is whatever the verification page lists at the time; readers in Taiwan generally get their national ID card ready.

The steps run roughly like this: choose your country or region (Taiwan), choose the document type (ID card), photograph the front, photograph the back, then do a face check, looking at the camera and following the on-screen prompts. It sounds simple, but a poor photo or a detail that doesn't match can get the application rejected, so the fine points are below.

How to photograph your ID card

• Plenty of light, no glare: shoot under white light and keep away from a window behind the card or a ceiling lamp pointing straight down, because a single streak of glare can make the card unreadable.
• All four corners in frame: the whole card, edges and corners included, has to be in the shot, with nothing cut off.
• No laminate glare, no card sleeve: take the card out and lay it flat on a dark surface for the best result.
• Legible text: get the focus right, because the system can't read blurred text.

The face check

This part confirms the person on the document is really you. Find a spot with even light, face the camera straight on, take off any hat, mask, or sunglasses, and just follow the on-screen prompts. If it keeps failing, move somewhere with even light and a plain background and try again.

One more detail: the name and date of birth you typed in by hand have to match your ID card exactly. One character off, or a wrong birth date, and the comparison fails and the application is rejected, however good the photos are. Before you submit, go back over the personal details you entered; it saves you a rejection you can't explain.

KYC rejections have a troubleshooting guide of their own, covering a document that won't pass after several tries, a name that doesn't match, address problems and how long the review takes: Stuck on Binance KYC? Common ID verification problems, sorted. If this is the stage you're stuck at, go straight there.

Withdrawal whitelist and anti-phishing code: set these before depositing

KYC has passed, but don't rush off to buy coins yet. Lock the doors before you move in, and switch on these security settings first:

• Confirm 2FA is enabled: if you skipped it at sign-up, go into the account security settings now and add an authenticator app.
• Set up the withdrawal whitelist: this takes two steps. First save the withdrawal addresses you use to your address book, then switch the withdrawal whitelist on; only once it's on are withdrawals limited to the addresses on the list. Saving addresses to the address book without switching the whitelist on doesn't restrict where withdrawals can go, so go back to the settings page afterwards and check that the whitelist shows as enabled. The more you hold, the stronger the case for turning it on.
• Turn on the anti-phishing code: set a short phrase only you know. Once it's set, don't click anything in an email that claims to be from Binance but doesn't carry that phrase; open the official app and check your account there.
• Check the email and phone number linked to the account: confirm they're both yours and both correct.
• Look over your login-device history: if there's a device you don't recognise, log it out and change your password.

You won't notice these settings day to day; they matter when something goes wrong, and any one of them can be what limits the damage. The withdrawal whitelist deserves the most attention: once it's switched on, it settles in advance where money can be sent, restricting withdrawals to the addresses you've put on the list yourself.

For more on the scam and account-security side, see our rundown of common scam tactics.

An overview of funding methods: how the money gets in

With the security settings on, the next thing is to put money in. The example below is turning Taiwan dollars into the stablecoin USDT, and there are two ways to do it:

Method	How it's credited	How to read the cost
Transferring USDT in from a Taiwan exchange	Credited once the on-chain transfer arrives	The withdrawal fee charged by the exchange you send from
Paying on Binance's Buy Crypto page	Credited once the payment succeeds	Check the total cost shown on the confirmation page before you order

A transfer from a local exchange adds an on-chain withdrawal, and both sides have to be set to the same chain. A purchase on the Buy Crypto page is credited once the payment succeeds, and which payment methods are on offer only shows after you log in. As of October 2026, the TWD section of Binance P2P (C2C) has no ads. The steps for each route, and where to look up the costs, are covered separately in how to fund Binance from Taiwan.

One more reminder: if someone approaches you privately with "don't trade on the platform, add me on LINE and we'll swap cheaper between ourselves," they want you outside the platform's protection, so turn it down. Taiwan's National Police Agency collects the common investment-scam scripts on its 165 anti-fraud site, which is worth a few minutes of reading.

Verification code not arriving, invite-code field missing: sign-up snags

Read through the situations below once. When you know what's going on, you can sort them out yourself:

Not receiving the verification code

For email, check the spam folder first; for phone, confirm the country code is right and the signal's fine. Wait a minute or two before tapping resend, and don't tap it over and over: the code may just be delayed.

Can't find the invite-code field

If the field is collapsed, tap "invite code / referral code" to expand it. If you still can't find it, or only realise after signing up that you left it empty, the invite-code guide covers whether a code can still be added.

KYC keeps getting rejected

Check the photo first: glare, blur, cut-off corners, not enough light. Retake it using the photo tips in the earlier section and resubmit; if it still doesn't pass, contact support.

The review takes a long time

The status on Binance's identity verification page tells you where your review stands. If there's still no result after the time the page indicates, contact support through Binance's help centre. After submitting, wait it out, and don't submit again just because the wait is getting to you.

An email says "unusual activity on your account, verify now"

Don't click any link in the email. Open the official app yourself or type the URL in by hand to check your account status. The anti-phishing code you set earlier is what you check against: if the email doesn't carry the phrase you set, that's one more reason not to click, and what the official app shows for your account is what counts.

What you can do next

With the account open and the deposit done, you're at the starting line. Don't rush into large positions; get comfortable with placing a first order before anything else. The steps are in buying USDT / BTC on Binance for the first time, from the trading screen to a filled order.

Two other things are worth understanding early. Fees affect your long-term cost, and how fees are calculated explains them; if you want to hold your assets yourself and explore Web3, look into the Binance Web3 Wallet. Neither is urgent, and getting used to the spot account first is the sensible order.

A final reminder: crypto prices swing hard, and you could lose your entire capital. Make your first deposit a small amount you can fully afford to lose, and only consider adding more once you know the flow.