Solutions · Centralised exchange

Launch a regulated crypto exchange in eight weeks - not eighteen months

White-label spot infrastructure with modular KYC/AML-ready workflows, multi-asset markets and a sub-millisecond matching core - for banks, brokerages and Web3 ventures across MENA, APAC, EU and LATAM.

  • Deterministic matching with transparent failover and replay forensics
  • Pluggable IDV, sanctions screening and step-up flows aligned to your policy
  • Deployable in EU, UAE, Singapore, or your own cloud
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Built on infrastructure you trust

FireblocksCustody APIs
SumsubKYC / IDV
ChainalysisBlockchain analytics
NotabeneTravel Rule
CertiKAudit partner
HackenPenetration testing

Powering exchange-grade infrastructure across 12+ jurisdictions - EMEA, APAC, Americas.

Why exchange builds stall

In-House Builds Rarely Fail Quietly

Teams underestimate coupling between compliance workflows, deterministic matching and custody policy. The failure modes are predictable - and expensive.

Calendar drag

Twelve-to-eighteen-month roadmaps burn runway before the first regulated trade clears settlement.

Compliance blind spots

MiCA, VARA and the FATF Travel Rule need product evidence - governance theatre on slides does not pass inspection.

Liquidity & latency risk

Thin books and jittery matching engines destroy credibility on day one; remediation is expensive once customers churn.

Platform modules

What You Deploy

Modular exchange spine: brand, extend and operationalise without re-solving matching or audit logging from scratch.

  • Spot trading engine

    Deterministic matching with transparent failover and replay forensics.

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  • Order book & matching

    Price-time priority, self-trade prevention, configurable market protections.

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  • KYC / AML module

    Pluggable IDV, sanctions screening and step-up flows aligned to your policy.

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  • Multi-sig custody

    Policy withdrawals, HSM-friendly signing, hot/warm/cold segregation.

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  • Admin & risk dashboard

    Limits, surveillance exports, interventions and immutable audit trails.

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  • Liquidity aggregation

    Smart routing with slippage caps and toxicity controls per venue class.

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  • Fiat on / off-ramp

    PSP and banking connectors with reconciliation for ops and finance.

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  • Mobile apps (iOS / Android)

    White-label clients with biometrics and push-ready alert paths.

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  • Reporting & audit logs

    Regulatory extracts, trade recon and SIEM-friendly event streaming.

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Technical specs

Technical Specs Engineers Ask For

Throughput & latency

120k+matching events / sec

  • 120k+ sustained matching events/sec (reference harness)
  • <5 ms median internal latency; colo footprints for regional tuning
  • Deterministic replay for incident and regulatory reconstruction

Markets & APIs

REST + WSplus signed webhooks

  • Limit, market, stop-limit, stop-market, OCO (where enabled)
  • REST + WebSocket; signed webhooks for CRM / warehouse / SOAR
  • Major L1/L2 assets - new integrations scoped in discovery

Security stack

HSMoriented signing paths

  • HSM-oriented signing paths; multi-sig governance for treasury
  • Cold storage segregation; policy-based rebalancing windows
  • Edge WAF, DDoS patterns, secrets rotation, quarterly third-party pen-tests

System topology

Architecture Diagram & System Topology

Traffic enters through the edge tier - WAF, L3-L7 DDoS mitigation and TLS termination - then the API gateway exposes REST and WebSocket interfaces with route-level rate limits and tenant-aware routing. Requests reach the matching core: in-memory, deterministic sequencing with replayable state. A risk and surveillance bus consumes fills, positions and lifecycle events for limits, AML flags and market-integrity rules in near real time.

The custody layer performs HSM-backed policy evaluation and co-ordinated signing; settlement and ledger services post finality and reconcile chain versus books. Reporting and SIEM streams fan out over the event backbone for finance, compliance and ops dashboards. Each tier scales horizontally within published sizing bands. Multi-region deployments run active-active where the workload supports it, with matching isolated from admin and back-office planes so operational access cannot short-circuit trade integrity.

Full system diagram available under MNDA - Request architecture brief

Request pathActive-active capable
  1. Edge tierWAF · L3-L7 DDoS · TLS termination
  2. API gatewayREST · WebSocket · route-level rate limits
  3. Matching coreIn-memory · deterministic sequencing · replayable stateIsolated

Event backbone

Risk & surveillance busLimits · AML flags · integrity
Custody layerHSM policy · co-ordinated signing
Settlement & ledgerFinality · chain vs books recon
Reporting & SIEMFinance · compliance · ops

Trading coverage

Trading Types & Order Matrix

Out-of-the-box coverage is scoped per edition; discovery confirms your instruments, jurisdictions and licensing path.

  • Base edition
  • Add-on module
  • Roadmap
  • Not in column
Trading types: included, module, or roadmap
CapabilityIncludedModuleRoadmap
SpotBase editionNot applicableNot applicable
Margin (isolated / cross)Not applicableAdd-on moduleNot applicable
Perpetual futuresNot applicableAdd-on moduleNot applicable
OptionsNot applicableNot applicableRoadmap
OTC blockNot applicableAdd-on moduleNot applicable
P2PNot applicableAdd-on moduleNot applicable
Convert / swapBase editionNot applicableNot applicable
Staking / EarnNot applicableAdd-on moduleNot applicable
Copy tradingNot applicableNot applicableRoadmap
Grid / DCA botsNot applicableAdd-on moduleNot applicable

Note. Derivatives modules require additional licensing review in your jurisdiction.

Execution controls

Order Types & Execution Controls

01

Limit, market, stop-limit, stop-market, OCO, trailing stop, post-only, iceberg

Supported natively on eligible markets; iceberg slices expose only the visible quantity per venue rules.

02

FOK, IOC, GTC time-in-force

Enforced at the matching layer; rejects are explicit with codified reason codes for clients and surveillance.

03

Self-trade prevention modes

Cancel-newest, cancel-oldest, cancel-both and decrement-and-cancel - selectable per symbol class and membership tier.

04

Market protection

Price bands, fat-finger guards, configurable circuit breakers and kill-switches at market and account scope with audit attribution.

05

Fees and overrides

Maker-taker schedules, VIP overrides, structured rebate programmes and sub-account fee inheritance with immutable change history.

Custody

Custody & Wallet Architecture

Hot, warm and cold tiers typically target roughly 2-5%, 10-15% and 80-88% of notional exposure respectively - all bands are configurable against your liquidity and incident-response model. Signing may use MPC clusters or multi-signature contracts; policy is enforced before any HSM-backed instruction.

A policy engine governs destination whitelisting, withdrawal velocity caps, time-locks and dual-control approvals with maker-checker separation. Fireblocks is the primary integration path for institutions that standardise on it; alternative custody and co-signer models are supported where your risk committee requires them. Proof-of-reserves attestation hooks publish customer-liability Merkle roots and verification artefacts on a schedule you define.

Custody topology is configured in discovery - Book a custody review call

Wallet tiersConfigurable bands

Share of notional exposure

Hot2-5%
Warm10-15%
Cold80-88%

Policy engine

  • Destination whitelisting
  • Withdrawal velocity caps
  • Time-locks
  • Dual-control approvals

Signing

MPC clusters or multi-sig

HSM-backed instruction

Proof-of-reserves · Merkle roots published on your schedule

Liquidity

Liquidity & Market-Making

Market makers receive FIX 4.4 and low-latency WebSocket feeds, plus dedicated accounts with isolated rate limits and clearer queue fairness. External venues plug in for aggregation with toxicity controls and stale-quote shedding so internalisation does not inherit toxic flow blindly. An internal cross-engine lets you net B2B flow before it hits the public book.

Listing follows a structured programme: technical integration, risk review and go-live checklist - owners stay on your side of the contract. Day-one displayed depth is a commercial and counterparty discussion, not a checkbox in software; depth targets belong in onboarding, not the licence appendix.

Liquidity playbook shared on call - Talk to a platform engineer

Liquidity flowToxicity controlled
  • Market makersFIX 4.4 · low-latency WebSocket · isolated rate limits
  • External venuesAggregation · toxicity controls · stale-quote shedding
  • Internal cross-engineNets B2B flow before the public book

Public order book

Fair queue · depth set in onboarding

Listing programme

  1. 1Technical integration
  2. 2Risk review
  3. 3Go-live checklist

Tech stack

Tech Stack & Infrastructure

Matching core

Low-latency C++ / Rust; internal state layout and failover specifics under NDA.

  • C++
  • Rust

APIs

REST with OpenAPI 3.1, WebSocket streaming, FIX 4.4 for institutional flow.

  • OpenAPI 3.1
  • WebSocket
  • FIX 4.4

Data

PostgreSQL (OLTP), Kafka (event bus), ClickHouse (analytics), Redis (session and cache).

  • PostgreSQL
  • Kafka
  • ClickHouse
  • Redis

Infrastructure

Kubernetes on AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises; Terraform for IaC; multi-AZ active-active patterns where applicable.

  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Terraform

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK; SIEM-ready structured event streaming.

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry
  • ELK

Mobile

Native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) with white-label theming and tenant-configurable feature flags.

  • Swift
  • Kotlin

Security controls

Security Controls (Frameworks, Not Adjectives)

Identity

MFA, WebAuthn where supported, device binding options and user-visible anti-phishing codes on sensitive actions.

Network

WAF, L3-L7 DDoS mitigation, geo-fencing policies and per-route rate limiting with burst controls.

Application

SAST and DAST in CI, dependency and licence scanning and automated secrets rotation with breakage alarms.

Custody

Policy, signing and segregation as described under custody & wallet architecture.

Operational

RBAC with least privilege, just-in-time elevated admin access, immutable audit logs and quarterly third-party penetration testing from firms in the Hacken / CertiK class (scoped and reported per engagement).

Incident

24/7 on-call rotation, documented severity matrix and communications paths, public status surface on Enterprise tier.

Integrations

Integrations & Ecosystem

Vendor choice is yours - we are integration-agnostic, not locked-in.

Custody

3 vendors

  • Fireblocks
  • BitGo
  • Copper

KYC / IDV

3 vendors

  • Sumsub
  • Onfido
  • Jumio

Travel Rule

3 vendors

  • Notabene
  • Sumsub Travel Rule
  • TRP

Analytics

3 vendors

  • Chainalysis
  • Elliptic
  • TRM Labs

Audit

2 vendors

  • CertiK
  • Hacken

Banking / PSP

  • SEPA
  • SWIFT
  • UAE local rails
  • FAST · PayNow class
  • Pix · local acquirers

Region-dependent examples: SEPA (EU), SWIFT (multi-region), UAE local rails, Singapore FAST / PayNow-class stacks, Brazil Pix / local acquirers - final rails confirmed in legal and treasury discovery.

Data warehouse

  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery

Snowflake and BigQuery via signed webhooks and batch exports - schemas documented under NDA.

Performance

Performance Benchmarks (Methodology First)

120k+

Matching events / sec

Sustained, reference harness

<5 ms

P99 internal match

Colocated topology

<1 s

P99 order acknowledgement

From the edge, declared load

99.99%

Uptime SLA

Enterprise · 99.95% on Growth

In our colocated reference harness we sustain 120k+ matching events per second with P99 internal match latency under 5 ms and P99 order acknowledgement from the edge under one second under declared load. Target uptime is 99.95% SLA on Growth and 99.99% on Enterprise, measured against published service credits and exclusion windows. These figures are from a controlled topology - your production numbers depend on instrument count, protections enabled, cross-region layout and integration hop count. Your contract annex records assumptions; we do not extrapolate beyond them.

Build vs buy

Build vs Buy: Decision Framework

Time to first regulated trade

Build in-house: Often 18-36 months from greenfield, excluding licence clock.
Bitronix white-label: Compressed delivery against a fixed module set - calendar still depends on your regulator.

Engineering headcount

Build in-house: Large permanent team across matching, wallet, compliance hooks and SRE.
Bitronix white-label: Core engineering staffed by Bitronix; you retain product, risk and second-line oversight.

Compliance evidence burden

Build in-house: You author every control narrative and test artefact from scratch.
Bitronix white-label: Inherit baselines, maps and pen-test history; you still own filings and regulator dialogue.

Custody integration lead time

Build in-house: Queue at custodians as a first-time builder.
Bitronix white-label: Re-use established integrations and runbooks where your committee accepts them.

Year-1 fully-loaded cost

Build in-house: Payroll, infra, audits and opportunity cost dominate; varies widely.
Bitronix white-label: Licence and services fee structure with predictable module lines - exact totals after scoping.

Exit / portability

Build in-house: You own code - high build cost.
Bitronix white-label: Contractual data export, API compatibility commitments and escrow options for critical components.

We will give you a candid answer on the call - sometimes building is right.

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Scope boundaries

What is not included (Scope Boundaries)

Not included:

Legal counsel and licence applications

We supply evidence packs and diagrams; we do not file on your behalf.

Not included:

Market-making capital and inventory

You arrange balance sheet and counterparty limits.

Not included:

Banking relationships

Intros where permitted, contracts remain yours.

Not included:

Token listing decisions

Your listing committee approves names, disclosures and market parameters.

Not included:

Marketing and user acquisition

Outside core delivery except where contractually scoped.

Not included:

Customer support staffing

Not included on Starter / Growth; available on Enterprise under a separate statement of work.

Scope clarity saves six weeks of procurement back-and-forth.

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For engineers

For Your Engineering Team

Give architects and platform leads the artefacts they need to champion Bitronix internally.

API documentation

OpenAPI 3.1 specification and Postman collection - shared under NDA after qualification.

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Matching-engine benchmark report

Sample load-harness methodology, hardware assumptions and sustained throughput charts.

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SOC 2 & pen-test evidence

Latest summary plus request form for full reports under MNDA.

Request evidence pack

Compliance

Compliance & Regulatory Coverage

Licence-agnostic infrastructure: your counsel owns filings; we own defensible engineering evidence and control narratives.

Data residency

Deployable in EU, UAE, Singapore, or your own cloud - your data, your jurisdiction. Region pinning and sovereign VPC options are scoped in Enterprise programmes.

  • EU
  • UAE
  • Singapore
  • Your cloud

MiCA / EU

CASP-style evidence packs and disclosure lineage collaborators can review with counsel.

VARA (Dubai)

Operational artefacts tuned to common VARA inspection patterns and travel-rule handoffs.

FinCEN / MSB

AML programme mapping, SAR workflows and recordkeeping integrations to your GRC stack.

FATF Travel Rule

Inter-VASP messaging adapters; documented edge flows for self-hosted wallets.

GDPR

Data minimisation, retention, portability and deletion runbooks per tenant configuration.

SOC 2-aligned controls

Change management, access reviews and logging baselines suitable for attestation paths.

Last reviewed: · cadence monthly

Deployment timeline

Deployment Timeline

Typical programmes run six to ten weeks from signed SOW - custody lead times and licensing gates may extend specific milestones.

Step 1 of 5Week 1

Discovery

Jurisdiction, assets, custody, liquidity posture.

Engagement models

Engagement Models

Anchors below help procurement benchmark scope; final commercials follow discovery when custody and jurisdictional complexity are understood.

Starter

From $8K/mo + $25K setup

White-label SaaS on Bitronix-managed infrastructure.

  • Fastest route to market
  • Shared SLAs
  • Standard venue integrations
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Most popular

Growth

From $18K/mo + setup · typically $150K-$400K Year 1 TCV

White-label core plus bespoke modules - custom risk, OMS hooks, regional rails.

  • Dedicated solution architect
  • Custom reporting & surveillance
  • Designated MM APIs
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Enterprise

Custom - typical engagements $500K-$2M+

Source options, your cloud, dedicated engineering cell, optional 24/7 war rooms.

  • Code escrow / transfer options
  • Private regions & data residency
  • Named on-call roster
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Final pricing scoped after a 30-minute discovery call. Ranges exclude local taxes, custody setup fees and third-party vendor pass-throughs.

Outcomes

Outcomes Teams Measure

Anonymised programmes unless otherwise cleared for public naming. Metrics from internal delivery retrospectives and customer steerco packs.

Abu Dhabi · Regulated fintech · Q3 2025

VARA-aligned spot venue from signed SOW to external depth

Before

14 mo internal estimate

After

9 weeks to production match

Travel-rule handoff to Notabene-class messaging, AED fiat rails and maker incentives without freezing the matching cluster during cutover.

“We stopped burning calendar on core matching and focused compliance evidence instead - that flip alone saved the programme.”

- CTO, Series-B fintech, UAE
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Frankfurt · Banking sandbox · Q2 2025

Single codebase from sandbox to MiCA-ready audit trail

Before

Disconnected spreadsheets & logs

After

One risk console + exportable evidence

Mapped limits, surveillance and GDPR retention into a reviewer-friendly narrative; avoided parallel compliance shadow builds.

“Auditors asked for lineage - we could show decisions, not screenshots.”

- Head of Compliance, EU banking pilot
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São Paulo · Brokerage · Q4 2025

Latency SLO held while onboarding external aggregation

Before

P99 spikes during depth mirroring tests

After

<5 ms P99 internal match (colo reference)

Tuned WAF and matching isolation so toxicity controls could run without starving the CPU budget for retail spikes.

“Our desk finally trusted the book during soccer-match volumes.”

- Head of Trading, LATAM brokerage
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