Gate.io was founded in 2013 by Lin Han. The platform is operated by Gate Technology Incorporated. This year, April 17, Gate.io managed to raise raised $64,000,000 as an initial coin offering (ICO), and according to exchange CMO Mrs. Marie Tatibouet on April 8, 2019, it raised an undisclosed amount of capital from 5 BLOCKS CAPITAL.
GDAC is the centralized Korean exchange offering trading pairs against BTC, KRW (Korean Won) and GT, native token of the platform.
GOPAX exchange was incorporated by Streami, Inc. under the laws of the Republic of Korea. GOPAX stands for Global Online Professional Asset eXchange.
Hotbit is one of the youngest exchanges opened in early 2018. The exchange does not work with fiat currencies. Hotbit has also adopted some advanced technologies such as GSLB, distributed server clusters, and storage. It goes with a high-speed memory-based trading engine all backed up in multiple machines, cold storage locations, and hot wallets with offline private keys.
Huobi is a cryptocurrency exchange founded in China in 2013. Currently, Huobi is based in Singapore because this country has friendlier cryptocurrency regulations. The company is registered in Seychelles. Before leaving China due to a cryptocurrency ban, the exchange was responsible for 90% of Bitcoin trading volume in this country. Now Huobi is an international platform with offices located in Singapore, Hong Kong, the United States, Japan, and Korea. In China, the company provides blockchain consulting services. Huobi has sub-exchanges: Huobi Korea, Huobi US, etc. Huobi Global is the biggest Huobi exchange. In November 2019 Huobi Global had to shut down all the accounts belonging to the US customers due to strict cryptocurrency regulations of the USA.
Kraken was founded back in 2011 but was officially opened two years later. It is one of the oldest active cryptocurrency exchanges. Kraken provides efficient trading opportunities in numerous Fiat currencies. It is currently holding the world leadership in terms of Bitcoin to Euro trading volumes. The exchange supports both crypto and Fiat deposits as well as withdrawals.
KuCoin is a relatively new exchange that started to operate in the mid-2017. The team behind the project is claimed to be experienced in the blockchain research since 2013. KuCoin has more than a hundred coins listed as well as about 400 active Markets.
Livecoin was founded in 2013 in London. This exchange works with dollars, euros and roubles. It has more than 100 available coins to trade. Additionaly, the trading fee is not so high, it could be less than 0.02 for high-volume traders.
Livecoin's volume is quite high and it represents more than $30.500.000.
Luno is the second-largest cryptocurrency exchanger in Indonesia. Headquartered in Singapore, Luno has spread to various countries. Become a trusted and decentralized exchanger, because it provides trading transactions for cryptocurrencies such as BTC, ETH, LTC, and other Altcoins. Visit Luno to see the cryptocurrency.
MBAex Southeast-Asia’s cryptocurrency exchange covers USDT and MDP markets. At the same time, it works as a forex brokerage system. MBAex Online Pte Limited is established in accordance with the laws of Cyprus.
OKX was launched in 2017 in Belize by OKEX Technology Company Limited. It was announced in 2018, that the platform was going to open headquarters in Malta, in order to have an opportunity to provide service for users in over 100 countries.
Omni wallet is an open-source web wallet for the Omni Layer. It means the wallet that supports Bitcoin and Omni Protocol assets such as Omni Tokens.
The website of this exchange is currently off. The platform was established in 2017 and is known for its social media bounty campaign.
Poloniex launched in 2014. It is based in the United States. It was recently acquired by Circle, a large Goldman-Sachs backed company. The exchange faced a hacker attack soon after opening which caused a higher level of security provided later. It requires a user’s physical address, postal address, date of birth, id, and phone number.
StealthEX is an instant cryptocurrency exchange service that provides anonymous and limitless swaps. It supports more than 1000 cryptocurrencies to exchange, among them are the most popular such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, EOS, and others. The StealthEX service is intended especially for anonymous exchanges, it is free from sign up. Your personal data and funds are not disclosed on StealthEX. The service performs instant swaps that means that the customers do not store their deposits on StealthEX.
Trade Satoshi exchange was closed with a prior notice published in February, 2020. A 10 days’ period was given to customers to withdraw their funds till March 1, 2020.
Trade.io (currently (TIOmarkets) is a centralized trading platform. In October, 2019, the Trade.io exchange suspended its operation and rebranded in TIOmarkets to be able to provide more markets, such as forex, shares, indexes, metals and cryptos.
Trezor is an offline device used to store crypto private keys. Trezor is one of the top secure hardware wallets and works on Windows 8+, macOS, Android, and Linux. It is connected to a USB port of your computer via cable.
UpBit is based in South Korea. It was founded in 2017 by Korean developer KakaoTalk. The exchange is very user-friendly and provides a high level of security. UpBit supports the trade of about 195 cryptocurrencies, some of which are quite rare, and 330 market trading pairs.
WazirX is an Indian-based centralized cryptocurrency exchange providing crypto-to-crypto pairs (BTC, USDT), as well as fiat trading opportunities (INR, the Indian Rupee). Among the developments of the company, there is a WazirX P2P engine for fast fiat-to-crypto conversion. The WazirX trading platform is compatible with Android, iOS, Mobile Web, Windows, macOS. The referral program works within the platform. U.S. customers are not allowed. KYC checks are applied to customers. Customer service is available through email and Telegram channels.