IG Expands UK Crypto Platform to 100+ Digital Assets
IG has expanded its UK crypto platform to more than 100 digital assets. The company said on May 13 that UK clients can now trade more than 50 additional cryptocurrencies. My take: this is not just another exchange tacking on a few coins and calling it innovation. IG is a London based trading platform with FCA cryptoasset registration, so the move lands differently in the UK market. Traders are not only chasing offshore leverage anymore. They want regulated access. Familiar accounts help. So does a list that runs beyond BTC and ETH.
The expansion follows IG’s Financial Conduct Authority cryptoasset registration in October 2025. IG said the registration allowed it to broaden its crypto product for UK clients. The company added more than 50 cryptocurrencies, lifting the UK list above 100 assets. It also added crypto swaps, improved charting tools, and plans to support wallet transfers. Before this, customers could buy crypto with fiat. Now they can swap one cryptocurrency for another. Small change? Not really. Moving from BTC to ETH, or from a large token into something riskier, starts to feel like a normal trading action instead of a separate crypto errand.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs in 2024 showed how quickly crypto can move into traditional financial channels. BTC traded near $46,000 around the Jan. 10, 2024 approval window, then climbed above $73,000 in March 2024. The price move got most of the attention. Fair enough. But the plumbing mattered more. ETFs put Bitcoin inside brokerage and wealth platforms that investors already knew how to use. IG’s May 13 rollout points in a similar direction for UK traders. Why does this matter? Because crypto gets a lot easier to trade when a known financial brand puts it inside an account people already check.
IG’s list of more than 100 tokens gives traders a wider market than BTC and ETH. More assets means more dispersion. More rotation. More ways to get it wrong, too. IG added line and candlestick charts, technical indicators, and annotations, which matter when traders are watching fast moving pairs. Those tools help with entries and relative strength. They also help traders spot when liquidity is leaving the majors for smaller digital assets. Counter to the usual advice, a longer token list is not automatically better. IG can give users access. It cannot make every token liquid, durable, or worth owning.
IG’s FCA registration gives the rollout its market weight. The company secured FCA cryptoasset registration in October 2025, then expanded the product. That order matters. In the U.S., Coinbase, ticker COIN, became a public market proxy for regulated exchange exposure after its 2021 direct listing, while BTC and ETH remained the main institutional focus. The UK setup is different, yes. But the fight is familiar: regulated firms want users who are interested in crypto but do not want to leave the financial platforms they already use. That is the competitive angle here.
IG says the larger crypto list came after it secured FCA cryptoasset registration. IG stated: “After securing its FCA cryptoasset registration in October 2025, IG has added more than 50 cryptocurrencies to its offering, increasing the total number available to more than 100.” I’ll be honest: the important part is not just the token count. It is the way IG ties product expansion to regulatory permission. For crypto investors, that link can affect where retail money goes, especially when markets get volatile and people suddenly care about custody, transfers, and whether they trust the platform holding their assets.
The planned wallet transfer feature could be the more interesting part of the rollout. IG said it will add crypto transfers in and out in the coming weeks, so customers can move external holdings onto the IG platform. That would let them manage outside crypto holdings in the same account they use for other products, including contracts for difference and spread bets. This is where the product starts to feel different. If users can bring BTC, ETH, or other holdings into a multi product trading account, crypto stops feeling like a separate app balance. It starts behaving like part of the wider portfolio.
The wider crypto menu also matters if macro conditions turn friendlier for risk assets. IG’s announcement is not about the Fed. But crypto liquidity has reacted sharply to the cost of capital before. BTC fell during the 2022 rate hike cycle, then recovered as traders priced in easier financial conditions through 2023 and 2024. A UK platform adding more than 50 assets on May 13 does not move inflation or rates. Of course it doesn’t. Is that overreading the rollout? Maybe, if viewed alone. But it gives risk seeking traders more to trade when liquidity improves, and platforms with deeper crypto lists may catch more of that flow.
Mat Perkins, product director at IG, framed the expansion as part of a push to build a more complete and trusted crypto investing experience for UK clients. The word “trusted” is doing a lot of work. After exchange failures, legal fights, and messy wallet experiences, regulated platforms keep returning to that pitch. I think they are right to do it. For active traders, “complete” means swaps and charting in one place, with transfers coming next. For investors, it means fewer awkward jumps between holding, moving, checking, and trading digital assets.
What this means
IG’s May 13 expansion moves regulated UK crypto access closer to a full trading setup. This is no longer basic buy and hold. IG is building a larger crypto shelf inside a familiar trading platform, and the effect reaches beyond BTC and ETH. More than 100 tokens are now available through IG’s UK crypto product. Most guides would frame that as a simple access story. That’s only half right. I would watch whether this kind of access brings in more retail participation when BTC tests big levels such as $70,000, or when ETH liquidity improves around staking, ETF, and network upgrade stories.
The next thing to watch is IG’s wallet transfer rollout. Transfer support should show whether customers want a real crypto account or just a cleaner way to get price exposure. Watch the policy layer too. Traders should track FCA cryptoasset policy updates, CME BTC and ETH futures positioning, and the Federal Open Market Committee decision on June 17, 2026. Rate expectations still shape risk appetite. If BTC breaks or fails near a level like $70,000 while regulated UK platforms keep expanding access, the market will get a better read on whether this is real adoption flow or just a bigger menu.