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Est. 2021 · San Francisco

Building the future
of digital finance.

NexChain is an institutional-grade crypto exchange built for traders who demand speed, security, and clarity — without compromise.

By the numbers

$2.4T
Total Volume Traded
Since launch in 2021
4.2M
Registered Users
Across 180+ countries
99.98%
Uptime SLA
12 global PoPs
<1ms
Order Execution
Co-located matching engine

Mission & vision

Mission

Open markets for everyone

We believe financial sovereignty is a right, not a privilege. NexChain removes the barriers between individuals and global digital asset markets — giving anyone, anywhere, access to the same tools previously reserved for institutions.

Vision

The trust layer for crypto

In an industry defined by noise and opacity, we're building the most transparent, secure, and dependable exchange on the planet. Every product decision runs through a single filter: does this earn — and keep — the trust of our users?

Approach

Infrastructure first, products second

Great trading experiences are built on great infrastructure. Before shipping a single chart, we spent 18 months engineering a matching engine, custody system, and risk framework that could handle any market condition. That foundation is why NexChain has never experienced an unplanned outage, a security breach, or a settlement failure.


What we stand for

🔐

Security above all

98% of assets in air-gapped cold storage, multi-sig authorization, HSM key management, and real-time anomaly detection. Security is not a feature — it's the foundation.

Speed without shortcuts

Sub-millisecond execution is non-negotiable, but never at the cost of accuracy or safety. We run at the edge of physics while maintaining full auditability of every trade.

🔭

Radical transparency

Real-time proof-of-reserves, open-source risk models, and public incident reports. We believe the market works best when information flows freely.

🤝

User alignment

We don't trade against our users, front-run orders, or profit from liquidations. Our revenue model is simple: we succeed only when our users succeed.

🌍

Global by design

Multi-lingual support, local payment rails, and regulatory compliance across 60+ jurisdictions. NexChain is built for the world, not just one market.

🔬

Research-driven

Every major product ships with academic review of our models. We publish our research, contribute to open standards, and believe good ideas improve when shared.


Leadership team

AK
Aiko Kuroda
Co-founder & CEO
Former quant at Citadel, built HFT infrastructure at 21Shares. Oxford mathematics. Has executed over $400B in notional volume over her career.
MR
Marcus Reid
Co-founder & CTO
Systems engineer who built Coinbase's custody stack and Anchorage's matching engine. MIT CSAIL. Holds 14 patents in distributed ledger architecture.
SN
Selin Nalci
Chief Risk Officer
Led risk at BitMEX and FTX (departed pre-collapse). Helped design the Basel IV framework for digital assets. Wharton MBA, Boğaziçi physics.
JP
James Park
VP of Engineering
Ex-Google infra, Stripe payments. Built systems serving 300M+ daily active users. Leads a 140-person engineering org across 4 continents.
LB
Léa Blanchard
General Counsel
Crypto regulatory specialist. Advised on MiCA framework design, SEC rulemaking, and licensing in 40+ jurisdictions. Sciences Po, Columbia Law.
RM
Rohan Mehta
Head of Product
Led product at Robinhood Crypto and Binance.US. Obsessed with reducing time-to-trade. IIT Bombay, Stanford HCI. Ships fast, ships right.

Our story

Q1 2021
Founded in San Francisco
Aiko and Marcus leave their jobs with a thesis: crypto needs an exchange built by engineers, not by MBAs chasing volume.
Q4 2021
$24M Seed round closes
Backed by a16z crypto, Paradigm, and Sequoia Capital. The matching engine reaches 200k TPS in benchmarks.
Q2 2022
Beta launch with 50 assets
Invitation-only beta. First 10,000 users process $2B in the first month without a single incident.
Q4 2022
Public launch · 500k users
Open registration. Amid market turmoil, NexChain's proof-of-reserves system becomes the industry benchmark for transparency.
Q2 2023
Series B — $120M raised
Expansion into Europe and Southeast Asia. EU MiCA license granted on first application — a first for a US-based exchange.
Q1 2024
AI trade signals shipped
NexChain Intelligence launches: on-chain data, sentiment analysis, and order-flow signals surfaced in real-time for every user.
Q3 2024
DeFi integration suite
Cross-chain bridge supporting 20+ networks. Earn up to 18.5% APY through 50+ curated DeFi protocols, directly from the dashboard.
2025 → now
4.2M users · $2.4T traded
Serving traders in 180+ countries. Series C in progress. Institutional prime brokerage and options market coming in 2026.

Backed by

Andreessen Horowitz
Lead · Series A & B
Paradigm
Seed & Series A
Sequoia Capital
Seed & Series B
Pantera Capital
Series B
Khosla Ventures
Series B

In the press

Forbes

NexChain is the most technically sophisticated exchange we've ever audited

An independent security firm's annual report gave NexChain a perfect score across all 140 audit criteria — the first exchange to achieve this.

March 2025
The Block

How NexChain built a proof-of-reserves system that became the industry standard

When FTX collapsed, NexChain published real-time reserve data within 4 hours. That decision turned a crisis into a trust-building moment.

November 2024
CoinDesk

NexChain's DeFi suite removes the last reason to use a DEX for serious traders

By combining CEX speed with DeFi yields, NexChain has created something genuinely new: a unified trading and yield layer for any asset.

September 2024

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