The cryptocurrency industry has entered its 17th year and is gradually maturing; at the same time, CEXs have also reached their own "coming-of-age moment"—a compliance test and a competition for ecological landscapes. On one hand, the trend toward friendlier regulatory policies in the United States is clear, and compliance has become a mandatory topic for CEXs; on the other hand, under the impact of the TradFi wave, building a self-sustaining ecological loop has become the top priority for CEXs in the second half of the competition.

In this "battle of a hundred groups" belonging to CEXs, BitMart, which has been established for 8 years, has gradually forged its own development path through its rigorous security compliance system, global localization layout, and rich product ecosystem. Today, Odaily Planet Daily will take a third-party media perspective to review the eight years of bull and bear markets it has experienced, seeking to explore the true reliance that allows CEXs to thrive.

In turbulent times, true heroes emerge; the changes in bulls and bears showcase the efficacy of compliance

Currently, whether it is the native CEXs sticking to the cryptocurrency market or the diversified CEXs venturing into the TradFi field, compliance is an inevitable hurdle; however, in the past, only a few CEXs understood the necessity and importance of compliance, and BitMart was one of them.

In 2017, BitMart was registered in the United States, and founder Sheldon Xia made a choice that was quite counterintuitive at the time: to proactively connect with the regulatory system and build the platform starting from standardized operations. Its core logic is clear and firm— only by accepting constraints and checks within a strict regulatory framework can the platform’s foundation be solidly built and long-term user trust be earned; this is not "self-imposed shackles," but a certainty for the long-term development of the industry.

At the beginning of 2026, with the approval of the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) completed, BitMart US achieved a comprehensive compliance layout across all 50 states and territories in the United States, becoming one of the few cryptocurrency exchanges that can operate compliantly across the entire U.S.

Since its inception, BitMart has always regarded compliance as a core principle of development and has maintained a steady operational stance throughout multiple bull and bear market cycles in the industry. In these eight years, BitMart has continuously solidified its operational foundation under the framework of compliance and security, gradually building a compliant operational system covering major markets globally. From continuously improving operational standards in different regions to further optimizing compliance operational capabilities through resource integration, BitMart has always aimed for "steady operations" rather than the mere accumulation of licenses. This long-term perspective based on compliance has allowed BitMart to maintain stable growth amid the industry reshuffle and become one of the representatives of stable operations in the industry.

Strengthening security defenses to solidify the survival foundation of CEXs

If compliance is the "lifeline" of a CEX’s continuous operations, then security and risk control are the "bottom line" for its survival. The development of the cryptocurrency industry has always been accompanied by challenges from security risks, with social engineering attacks, system vulnerabilities, and other issues constantly testing the platform’s risk control capabilities. Many leading CEXs, including BitMart, have gradually formed a consensus: the key to preventing security breaches in the platform often lies not in how advanced the technology is but in whether the entire security and risk control system has sufficient defensive depth.

Leveraging eight years of technological accumulation and operational experience, BitMart has built a comprehensive, multi-layered security and risk control system, embedding security concepts into every operational aspect of the platform:

• In asset management, about 99% of user assets are stored in physically isolated cold wallets, with only 1% kept in hot wallets for liquidity management; multi-signature technology ensures that any fund transfer requires multiple authorizations; advanced security protocols like WAF, XDR, CWPP build system-level defenses.
• In terms of underlying technology, in 2024, BitMart officially upgraded its wallet architecture to an MPC multi-party computation architecture, introducing a higher level of security mechanisms in key management.
• In institutional cooperation, BitMart has maintained long-term strategic partnerships with custodians like Copper, Cobo, and Fireblocks. In 2025, it also built a blacklist database of over one million addresses and an AML intelligence database, combining on-chain tracking models to strengthen real-time detection of abnormal fund flows and ensure the normal operation of anti-money laundering mechanisms.
• For user security configurations, BitMart has set strong two-factor authentication (2FA), anti-phishing codes, withdrawal address whitelists, and other security layers as the first line of defense against social engineering attacks.
• In the compliance toolchain, in 2025, BitMart integrated Notabene (Travel Rule compliance), Sumsub (KYC/AML verification), and Signzy (identity verification), covering the entire compliance risk management from user onboarding to fund flow.

"Hackers get smarter, so we get tougher." This statement from BitMart founder Sheldon Xia reflects a comprehensive, continuously following security investment, not just a one-time superficial effort or seemingly useful defensive measures.

BitMart's 8 Years of Ecological Development: From Cryptocurrency Exchange to Comprehensive Digital Asset Trading Platform

If regulatory compliance is the cornerstone of platform development, then the ecological loop built around asset trading is the core engine supporting BitMart to the present day.

First, let’s look at the foundational trading level. In 2025, BitMart completed the third-generation architecture upgrade of its spot and futures systems: the spot system's average matching latency dropped to 2 milliseconds, with an order processing capability of 200,000 orders per second; the futures system's latency decreased to 7 milliseconds, with a processing capacity of 120,000 orders per second, achieving an overall performance improvement of over 10 times. The spot trading volume for the year increased by 58.5% year-on-year, with a monthly growth of 128% in May, ranking first among major exchanges globally; the annual futures trading volume grew by 68%, with a total exceeding 90 trillion USDT;

In terms of asset variety coverage, BitMart's rapid listing strategy has formed a self-reinforcing flywheel: in 2025, 1,193 assets were launched throughout the year, with newly launched assets accounting for nearly 50%, and 93 assets having increases exceeding 1000%, with the top 20 annual gainers being all BitMart's initial projects. For users wishing to capture high-potential assets early, this data suggests that BitMart serves as a faster responding, earlier listing, and broader asset entry point than most similar platforms.

Moreover, the expansion of the product matrix has also been one of BitMart's efforts over the past 8 years. In 2025, riding the wave of PayFi and stablecoins, BitMart successively launched the BitMart Card covering virtual cards, physical cards, premium metal cards, and prepaid cards, serving over 160 countries and regions and supporting the platform's native token BMX as a medium for consumption payments; BitMart Travel provides flight and hotel bookings; P2P business saw an annual trading volume increase of 327.65%, adding nine new fiat markets including Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, and the Philippines; the assets under management (AUM) for wealth management products grew by 468% year-on-year. Furthermore, the booming RWA sector also provides support for BitMart's business growth, as it launched yield-generating stablecoin BMRUSD in conjunction with regulated partners, organically integrating financial products with cryptocurrencies and RWA assets, further lowering the actual threshold for widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies.

From the expansion boundaries of its existing business, it is not difficult to see that BitMart has long been hard to characterize merely as a traditional cryptocurrency exchange; considering its recent moves in the booming AI and on-chain ecology, calling it a "comprehensive digital asset trading platform" may be more appropriate.

In the area of AI, in 2025, BitMart launched effective industry tools like X Insight (tracking over 2000 KOLs and analyzing 10,000 tweets of social sentiment daily), Beacon Trading Assistant (supporting one-click K-line interpretation and price trend forecasting for the top 30 CMC assets), and AI Trading Arena (a visual real-world simulation environment). Recently, in conjunction with the trending AI Agent system OpenClaw, BitMart further launched BitMart Skills, allowing developers to integrate BitMart's trading capability into AI Agents with a single click, truly striving to achieve the goal of "making trading easy for users."

In the on-chain aspect, in March 2026, BitMart launched the BitMart Web3 wallet, enabling users to complete a full range of operations from asset management to on-chain trading within a single platform. It supports market displays and trading for about 1.7 million tokens and has built a DEX aggregator structure with multi-routing and Gas optimization capabilities. As on-chain trading liquidity deepens, the early layout of on-chain entry points represents a second growth curve prepared by BitMart.

Conclusion: 8 Years, 13 Million+ Users, 1700+ Trading Pairs

By the end of 2025, BitMart's global registered users exceeded 13 million, with the platform supporting over 1700 trading pairs, ranking among the top in various data on aggregation platforms like CoinGecko. Additionally, the market value of its platform token BMX has grown from about 35 million dollars at the beginning of last year to over 156 million dollars now, with an annual growth rate of approximately 4.45 times, and the number of active holders has surpassed 500,000.

However, more noteworthy than these numbers are the several key choices BitMart has made over the past eight years: starting in 2017 in the U.S. market with the strictest regulation; completing the MPC wallet architecture upgrade in 2024, proactively raising security standards; achieving full compliance coverage across the U.S. regulatory framework in 2025; and proactively obtaining licenses through the acquisition of WooX in 2026. Each choice may have had more labor-saving alternatives at the time, or shorter shortcuts to achieve goals, but BitMart resolutely chose the more challenging path.

To this day, the cryptocurrency market is no longer one that can win just by being fast. Regulatory frameworks are becoming clearer, institutional funds are rapidly entering, user experience standards are being heightened, and the intensity of industry competition is constantly escalating. In this broader environment, compliance capability and ecological depth are becoming core variables that determine whether an exchange can continue to win user trust, continually demonstrate its own value, and truly have a positive impact on the industry.

In 8 years, through two rounds of bull and bear markets, BitMart has successfully made these two matters its clearest tags through steady and steady progress. Looking back on its development journey, it is clear that BitMart is not the one that runs the fastest in the industry, but it is the one that runs the most stably. In an industry where short-term speculation prevails, BitMart's steady and far-sighted style may seem a bit different, but this may be its winning formula for ultimately prevailing.

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