IG hasscrapped trading commissions on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana for its UKclients, leaving customers to pay only a 0.07% external exchange fee charged bythe broker's liquidity partner. TheLondon-listed firm (LSE: IGG)said the change took effect today (Monday) and applies to the three coins itsees traded most often on its platform.A Price War Comes to The UKCryptoThe movepushes IG deeper into a fee fight that has reshaped retail investing over thepast few years. The brokeralready offers commission-free dealing in stocks, ETFs and funds across ISAs,SIPPs and general investment accounts, and it began offering spot crypto to UK andIrish retail clients in June 2025 through a partnership with Uphold, which handles pricing and custody.Pricing onthe rest of IG's crypto menu has not moved. The company said buying or sellingany other token still carries a 1.49% fee, the flat rate it has charged sincethe spot service went live.IG UK andIreland Managing Director Michael Healy framed the cut as part of a broaderlow-cost build-out, arguing that buyers should not have to trade away safetyfor savings. "Investors shouldn't have to choose between value and trustwhen buying crypto," he said.What IG's Comparison TableLeaves OutTo make itscase, IG published a table comparing the cost of buying £100 of Bitcoin acrossrival platforms. Source:IG GroupBy its ownreckoning, an IG client would pay 7 pence, against £1.49 at Revolut, £1 at eToro and between £1.80 and £2.30 at Bitstamp oncevolatility surcharges are added. Binance came closest, at 10 pence or more, thecompany said.Thosefigures come from IG and have not been independently verified. The table alsoexcludes the subscription tiers that several of those platforms offer, whichcan cut per-trade costs for active users, and it measures a one-off purchaserather than the full cost of holding or moving the asset.Rivals Crowd Into the SameTradeIG is farfrom alone in chasing crypto-curious retail money. eToro, which counts digitalassets as a meaningful slice of its commission income, has long folded cryptointo its zero-commission equity pitch. Revolut hired Coinbase's risk chief in May2026 to drive a global crypto push and has been building out its own standalone dealing app.Thepressure is also coming from inside IG's own group. IG Europe is expanding crypto across the EUthrough a tie-up with MiCA-licensed Bitpanda, while the parent firm plans to launch acrypto offering in Singapore, Australia and the UAE in the second half of 2026after buying the exchange IndependentReserve. US banksare circling too, with SoFi recently becoming the first to offer retail cryptotrading under new rules.A Small Book Behind theBig ClaimFor all thepricing noise, IG's crypto business is still tiny. The company reported just £0.3 million in spotcrypto revenue between June and August 2025 and about 9,700 monthly activetraders, most ofthem in the US through its tastytrade arm. Only around500 active crypto traders were based in the UK and Ireland over that stretch,according to the filing.There isalso a catch. IG holds a cryptoasset registration with the Financial ConductAuthority, but the crypto services themselves fall outside the UK's main safetynets. Money deposited for crypto trading is not covered by the FinancialServices Compensation Scheme or the Financial Ombudsman Service, and theactivity is not protected by the FCA's consumer rules.IG hassteadily widened the service since launch, adding token swaps, new coins andthe ability to transfer crypto into client accounts. This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.