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# What is Coindisco?

Coindisco is a crypto on-ramp and off-ramp aggregator. It connects multiple payment providers and presents their offers in a consistent interface, so users can compare price, payment method, availability, and verification requirements before continuing to provider checkout.

Coindisco supports three core transaction paths:

* **On-ramp:** buy cryptocurrency with fiat currency.
* **Off-ramp:** sell cryptocurrency and receive fiat currency.
* **Indirect purchase:** buy an intermediate asset and swap it on-chain into a token that an on-ramp does not sell directly.

## What Coindisco adds

Provider quotes are not compared by the advertised fee alone. Coindisco also calculates the effective rate against a market reference, exposes it as **True Fee**, and attaches contextual information such as:

* best price;
* best success rate;
* provider used before;
* reusable or simplified KYC;
* active provider discounts.

Availability depends on the transaction direction, country or region, asset, network, fiat currency, payment method, amount, and provider configuration.

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