World's Largest Fiat Crypto Platform Liquid.com Announces Completion of Group Restructuring - Seite 2

Customers will continue to experience Liquid as an all in one platform with services for retail customers, pro traders, and institutional clients, with enhanced localization of features, coupled with best in class trading and exchange services for their cryptocurrency trading needs.

About Liquid

Founded in 2014, Liquid Group Inc. and its subsidiaries operate Liquid.com ("Liquid"), a leading global cryptocurrency platform that provides trading, exchange, and next generation financial services powered by blockchain technology. With offices in Japan, Singapore, and Vietnam, Liquid combines a strong network of local partners with extensive team experience in banking and financial products to deliver best in class financial services for its customers.

Today, Liquid is the world's largest crypto-fiat platform by transaction volume, regulated in Japan. Powered by the World Book, which provides customers enhanced price matching and deeper liquidity for various fiat and cryptocurrency pairs, Liquid offers trading services for major cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum against fiat currency pairs in Japanese yen, US, Singapore and Australian dollars, and euro.

As part of the Liquid roadmap, we are developing a range of new features and services including a distributed ledger, which will allow other fintech companies to build their products and services on distributed ledger technology.

In the span of two years:

• September 2017 – We became the first global cryptocurrency exchange to be officially licensed by the Japan Financial Services Agency.
• October 2017 – We became the first licensed global cryptocurrency exchange in Japan to launch a global Initial Coin Offering (ICO), also known as the Qash Token Sale.
• November 2017 – We successfully raised 350,000 ETH (approximately USD105 million) through the sale of 350 million Qash in an oversubscribed ICO, to fund the growth of the Liquid platform.
• September 2018 – Our historical trading platforms, Quoinex and Qryptos, were merged and relaunched as Liquid.
• July 2018 – Our trading platforms exceeded USD50 billion in transaction volume in the past 12 months.
• October 2018 – We are featured in KPMG's Top Fintech 100 list 
• April 2019 – We achieved tech unicorn status in the first close of our Series C fundraising, with a valuation of over $1 billion.

More than just a cryptocurrency exchange, Liquid offers powerful trading features which include: