KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange’s founding team had been experimenting with the blockchain technology since 2011. The KuCoin exchange platform’s technical architecture was created in 2013. Still, they waited 4 years before launching to ensure a smooth run during use. In September 2017, the KuCoin exchange was officially launched in Seychelles. Currently, the global cryptocurrency exchange, KuCoin, is headquartered in Singapore with over 300 employees in other parts of the country where the KuCoin exchange have offices. The KuCoin’s initial coin offering (ICO) lasted from August 2017 to September 2017, which was used to raise development funds for KuCoin and the token offered during the ICO period was the KuCoin Shares (KCS) token.
KCS, the native token of KuCoin, was first issued as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum chain in 2017 and then migrated to the KuCoin Community Chain (KCC) in 2021. The KuCoin Community Chain (KCC) is a decentralized public chain with EVM compatibility and high performance, built by the fans of KCS and KuCoin’s fan communities. The KCS ecosystem will collaborate with the KuCoin Exchange and the KuCoin Community Chain (KCC) ecosystem to build a payment system that can serve hundreds of millions of users. The important cornerstones of the KCS ecosystem are collaboration with the KuCoin Exchange, the KuCoin Community Chain (KCC), payment, entertainment, finance and all other usage scenarios.
KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange was originally co-founded in 2013 by the following people:
Michael Gan - Former Technical Expert of Ant Financial of Alibaba Group, a Veteran of Financial Solutions, and Senior Partner of Internet Giants like MikeCRM, KF5.COM, etc.
Eric Don - A Senior Internet Researcher, Systems Architect, Internet Industry Star, CTO and Senior Partner of Famous IT Companies including YOULIN.COM, KITEME and REINIOT, etc.
Top Lan - Open Source Community Technical Expert, Manager of Multiple Mainstream Open Source Projects in GitHub, Designer and Deployer of KuCoin Financial Exchange System.
Kent Li - Operations & Maintenance Development Expert, Operations & Maintenance Director, Architects of Multiple Internet Titans, and Stanford University REAP Project Operations & Maintenance Director.
John Lee - President of Jianbang Communication, Project Director of Group-Purchase Magnates, and Managed 30+ Group-Purchase Service Centers Over China with his Special Insight of Consumer Finance.
Jack Zhu - Operations Director of iBOX PAY South-western China, and Manager of a Marketing team with 300+ employees.
Linda Lin - Chairman of Sichuan Qianyuan Investment Co. Ltd., and Executive Vice President of Sichuan Industrial & Financial Development Promotion Association.
