#CryptoFees101 All exchanges typically earn from your trades in two ways. On the left is the disclosure of Coinbase's fees, which outline the trading fees. The fee consists of two parts: the spread and the order fee (they refer to this as 'Coinbase fee'). Coinbase has generated $1.1 billion in trading revenue with a trading volume of $193 billion, or about 0.57% from each transaction solely in the form of fees.