Currently, the 6 largest cryptocurrency exchanges are Bybit, Binance, OKX, KuCoin, HTX and Crypto.com.
Top Cryptocurrency Spot Exchanges CoinMarketCap ranks and scores exchanges based on traffic, liquidity, trading volumes, and confidence in the legitimacy of trading volumes reported.
Bybitglobal.com
Spot Trading Volume (24h): $5,075,843,455.88
Total assets: $9,797,178,409.46
Bybit is a cryptocurrency centralized exchange (CEX) that offers a professional platform featuring an ultra-fast matching engine, quality customer service and multilingual community support for crypto traders of all levels. Established in March 2018, Bybit currently serves more than 24 million users and institutions offering access to over 100 assets and contracts across Spot and crypto derivatives like Futures and Options, launchpad projects, earn products, an NFT Marketplace and more. Bybit is a proud partner of Formula One racing team, Oracle Red Bull Racing, esports teams NAVI, Astralis, Alliance, Virtus.pro, Made in Brazil (MIBR), City Esports, and Oracle Red Bull Racing Esports, and association football (soccer) teams Borussia Dortmund and Avispa Fukuoka.
Learn More: https://bybitglobal.com/
Binance.com
Spot Trading Volume (24h): $38,440,230,129.42
Total assets: $104,637,050,814.19
Binance is the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume. The platform has established itself as a trusted member of the crypto space, where users can buy, sell and store their digital assets, as well as access over 350 cryptocurrencies listed and thousands of trading pairs. The Binance ecosystem now comprises of Binance Exchange, Labs, Launchpad, Info, Academy, Research, Trust Wallet, Charity, NFT and more.
Who Are the Binance Founders?
The global company was co-founded in China by Changpeng Zhao and Yi He. A Chinese-Canadian developer and business executive, Changpeng Zhao, who goes by CZ, is the company’s CEO. He studied at McGill University Montreal and had a successful track record as an entrepreneur. His past experiences include Head of Bloomberg Tradebook Futures Research & Development team, founder of Fusion Systems and Head of Technology at Blockchain.com.
Yi He is CMO at Binance and Head at Binance Labs, the company’s venture capital arm. Yi was previously Vice President at a leading mobile video tech company, Yixia Technology, and co-founder of digital asset exchange OKCoin.
Learn More: https://binance.com/
OKX.com
Spot Trading Volume (24h): $4,448,876,441.01
Total assets: $18,059,321,862.22
OKX is a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency centralized exchange (CEX) and wallet platform that serves millions of clients worldwide. The exchange offers basic trading including spot and simple options, and derivatives including margin, futures, perpetual swaps and options. Other products include: trading bots, block trading, OKX Earn (savings, stablecoins, DeFi, staking, ETH 2.0 and more), crypto loans and Jumpstart, the exchange’s launchpad.
OKX wallet claims to be the “portal to Web3,” offering a crypto hot wallet, decentralized exchange (DEX), a NFT marketplace and decentralized applications (DApps). The wallet supports over 30 networks, including major blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, Fantom and more.
OKX also has its own native blockchain — OKX Chain and native token — OKB, which allows builders and projects to deploy DApps and developers to use infrastructure like OKX Oracle and more.
In January 2022, OKEx was rebranded as OKX, with a new branding and roadmap.
Learn More: https://www.okx.com/
KuCoin.com
Spot Trading Volume (24h): $2,589,155,018.64
Total assets: $3,543,464,226.82
KuCoin is a cryptocurrency exchange built with the mission to “facilitate the global free flow of digital value.” It claims to have an emphasis on intuitive design, simple registration process and high level of security. The platform supports futures trading, a built-in P2P exchange, the ability to purchase cryptocurrencies with a credit or debit card, and instant exchange services.
Also known as “people’s exchange”, the platform facilitated 1.2 trillion in lifetime trading volume and supports over 30 million users worldwide. The company claims to offer technology-driven trading products and the KuCoin ecosystem, which encompasses the KuCoin community and is built around the KuCoin token (KCS).
Who Are the KuCoin Founders?
KuCoin was founded in 2017 by Michael, Eric, Top, Kent, John, Jack and Linda. The exchange officially launched in September 2017.
In 2020, when KuCoin is a top-5 exchange in the world, Johnny Lyu stepped in as the CEO. Before joining KuCoin, he worked in the tech, internet and e-commerce industries.
Learn More: https://www.kucoin.com/
HTX.com
Spot Trading Volume (24h): $2,262,733,536.31
Total assets: $4,034,794,558.99
HTX is an international digital asset exchange with a presence in over 100 countries. Founded in China in 2013, the platform works with global clients and provides trading and investment services to users around the world, handling over $4 billion in daily trading volume.
The centralized exchange (CEX) supports initial coin offering (ICO) tokens and offers an extensive list of cryptocurrencies, with over 500 assets and 300 trading pairs listed on the platform. An insurance policy is available for users to protect their assets, and there is also 24/7 access to several channels for contacting the support service.
The ecosystem includes spot trading, margin trading, futures trading, derivatives trading, staking, crypto loans and more. Active traders and investors have the opportunity to enter OTC trading platforms and gain access to custom trading instruments.
Learn More: https://www.htx.com/
Crypto.com
Spot Trading Volume (24h): $1,410,572,858.87
Total assets: $3,309,875,961.61
Crypto.com was initially established in Hong Kong in June 2016, and Crypto.com Exchange was launched 3 years later. Now based in Singapore, the platform has more than 50 million customers in over 90 countries, including Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, Latin America, and some Asian countries.
The company offers its customers the following products: a mobile app, Crypto.com Visa card, a mobile wallet, Crypto.com Earn, Crypto.com Pay, Crypto.com NFT, Crypto.com Credit. The centralized exchange (CEX) offers spot trading, margin trading and derivatives trading. Crypto.com also offers DeFi products like a DeFi wallet and an ecosystem on the Crypto.org chain powered by its native token, Cronos (CRO).
The Singapore-based crypto and payments platform was co-founded by Kris Marszalek, Gary Or, Rafael Melo and Bobby Bao as “Monaco”. In 2018, the project was renamed as Crypto.com. The company is operated by Foris DAX Asia, owned by Foris DAX Markets, Inc.
Kris Marszalek is a serial entrepreneur. Before founding Crypto.com, Marszalek launched Yiyi, a location based service platform, and Beecrazy, an e-commerce company. He also co-founded Starline Polska, a consumer electronics design and manufacturing company.
Learn More: https://crypto.com/exchange/
