Poloniex was founded in January 2014 as a global cryptocurrency exchange. It provides spot trading, futures trading, staking, and various services to users in nearly 100 countries and regions with various languages available. In 2022, Poloniex launched a brand new trading system to provide global retail and professional users with higher speed, as well as better stability and usability.

AscendEX (formerly BitMax) is a leading global digital asset financial platform founded by a group of Wall Street quantitative trading veterans in 2018, building on core value of “Efficiency, Resilience and Transparency.” Driven by its continuous innovative product development and early-mover advantage in strategic alignment with the leading projects from DeFi ecosystem, AscendEX offers trading services across over 200 trading pairs across cash, margin, and futures products, in particular margin trading of over 50 tokens in cross-asset collateral mode and futures trading in both cross-asset and isolated margin modes.