At comdirect you have been able to bet on Bitcoin and Ethereum for years without owning a wallet. What you do not get is a real coin: the bank puts crypto certificates into your securities account, that is, debt instruments tracking the price. How much this route costs you hangs on a single figure from the price list, the minimum fee of 9.90 euros per order. Anyone investing 100 euros in one go therefore pays 9.90 percent in fees. Anyone investing the same amount through a savings plan currently pays nothing.
We evaluated the product page and the schedule of prices and services on October 4, 2026 and recalculated the costs for order sizes from 50 to 25,000 euros. The result separates two groups of investors very clearly from one another.
Crypto trading at comdirect means a certificate, not a coin
comdirect is a brand of Commerzbank AG. On the product page there is the sentence that explains the whole construction: you are not buying a “‘real' coin (cryptocurrency), but a derivative on that cryptocurrency”. The security tracks the price almost one to one, in both directions.
A crypto certificate, often also called an ETP for exchange traded product, is an exchange-listed bearer debt instrument: ...
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