KuCoin Nominated for Two BeInCrypto Institutional Awards

KuCoin received nominations for Leader in Digital Asset Adoption and Best Trading Infrastructure at the BeInCrypto Institutional 100 Awards 2026. The exchange reports more than 40 million registered users and over 1,000 broker and fintech partners across more than 200 countries and regions.

The company cites payment products including KuCoin Pay and KuCard. KuCoin says it holds AUSTRAC registration in Australia and that KuCoin EU obtained MiCAR-CASP authorization in Austria, enabling regulated crypto-asset services across the European Economic Area.

KuCoin described a shift in its business from a retail trading venue toward serving institutional clients with liquidity and trading infrastructure. The exchange offers an Off-Exchange Settlement framework that lets institutional users trade while keeping assets with external custodians. Live integrations include BitGo’s Go Network and Ceffu’s MirrorX; KuCoin says those links separate custody from execution to reduce prefunding and counterparty exposure.

In 2026 KuCoin launched the Unified Trading Account to combine spot, futures and margin assets into a single capital pool. The company states the account supports shared margin, integrated risk controls and lower-latency order and message handling intended for professional and high-frequency traders. In April 2026 KuCoin made its futures market data available on TradingView so that users can view KuCoin perpetual futures symbols, real-time market data and liquidity signals inside the charting platform.

KuCoin developed the RWA Collateral Mirroring Solution to let institutions use tokenized real-world assets as collateral without moving the underlying assets out of regulated structures. In 2025 KuCoin partnered with DigiFT to support UBS uMINT, a tokenized money market fund, as off-exchange collateral. The program later expanded to include Asseto’s CASH+, a token product linked to a USD money market fund.

KuCoin lists collateral support for BTC, ETH and tokenized RWA assets and a Cash+Crypto-as-a-Service program with nearly 80 partners that provide liquidity across partner ecosystems.

Alison Qin, head of KuCoin Institutional & VIP, described the company’s change in focus as a transformation into “a high-fidelity liquidity engine for over 1,000 brokers and fintech partners.” She said pairing the Unified Trading Account with global data transparency “levels the playing field.”

The BeInCrypto Institutional 100 Awards assess firms building systems to connect brokers, fintechs, institutions and traders with digital asset markets at scale. KuCoin’s dual nomination reflects its focus on both distribution and trading infrastructure.