TOP 100 COMPANIES

Founded in 2014

CEO: Eric Demuth and Paul Klanschek

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Bitpanda is a centralised crypto exchange offering users access to digital assets. Raising US $ 554m across seven rounds, Bitpanda achieved its highest valuation of over US $ 4bn in 2021, and today has over two million customers. Founded in 2014, the company was first called Coinimal before rebranding to Bitpanda in 2016. Aside from crypto, the exchange offers trading options in precious metals as well as securities. In 2021, Bitpanda partnered with Visa to offer customers a debit card enabling users to pay for online and in-story purchases with cryptocurrency or other assets, all backed by Visa security and fraud prevention.

Crypto and Blockchain

Austria

Founded in 2017

CEO: Changpeng Zhao

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Founded by Changpeng Zhao in 2017, Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange that allows customers to buy, trade and hold over 350 different cryptocurrencies on its platform. Today, the exchange is the world’ s largest in terms of daily trading volume. As of its founding, Binance launched two of its own cryptocurrencies, Binance Coin( BNB) and BinanceUSD( BUSD). Initially starting as an Ethereum token, BNB later moved to Binance’ s proprietary blockchain, Binance Smart Chain( BSC). This later merged with the older Binance Chain, creating the BNB chain. BNB Chain operates a unique“ Proof of Staked Authority” model, a combination of proof of stake and proof of authority.

Crypto and Blockchain

China

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