The following content is a recap of a recent Live AMA conducted by one of the largest Korean blockchain media Blockchain Today with BigONE Exchange. The AMA shedded light on BigONE’s strategic approach to Korean market as well as its current state in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. The speaker Ian Tian is the CEO at BigONE Exchange.
- Could you briefly introduce BigONE Exchange?
BigONE is a global blockchain digital asset trusteeship and trading platform which deploys 100% reserved funds, helping users pinpoint premium blockchain assets across the globe, providing bank-level security, reliable and convenient blockchain asset trading service. We safeguard the safety of our users’ assets with uncommonly outstanding expertise and security measures to help users manage assets.
BigONE’s core team members come from Yunbi.com, which was the first exchange ever to launch ETH, EOS, QTUM and many other blockchain projects as a precursor that introduced global projects to China. The team has five years experience in managing the digital asset platform as well seasoned expertise in sourcing and grouping digital assets. Throughout the five years period of time, BigONE has created the record of not losing even a single token.
To meet the demand of users, BigONE has hired people from Korea and America, who are responsible for international listing, product launches, customer service, and other operation functions.
After 2 years of development, BigONE now has users across the globe, with Chinese users accounted for 39% British users for 10%, Korean users for 8%, Japanese users for 8%, Turkish users for 8%, Russian users for 7%, American users for 6%, Indian users for 5%, and 9% for other regions.
So far the number registered BigONE users have surpassed 5 million, with the number of daily traders exceeding 20,000 and daily trading volume $500 million, and supporting all of the mainstream tokens. BigONE has cultivated and built a holistic digital asset trading ecosystem, including spot trading, margin trading, contract trading, OTC, and the first ever global decentralized exchange BigDEX; BigONE’s wealth management unit, covering wealth management for all of the mainstream coin, mining wealth management and other wealth management products. Digital asset crowdfunding platform AngelONE aims to facilitate the development of the blockchain projects, catapulting them into a new phase of development.
Last year, we upgraded our platform token ONE to advocate the return of the value of the blockchain by alternating the relationship of the product so that platform token contributors can also become the beneficiary of the platform.
BigONE upholds the spirit of blockchain and firmly believes that blockchain can change the world for the better. We are looking to achieve mutual benefit with the project party with a more open mind.
- Earlier this year, the hottest topic in Korea was the “Law of Special Gold”. I’m sure that you have your own unique insight about the introduction and the implementation of the legislation. Could you share your thoughts with us?
Ever since the “Special Price Law” was passed on March 5, the ever-growing exchanges until the end of last year haven’t been able to find a way around to weather the changes in the market.
In addition to the verification of information safety management system (ISMS) and real-name confirmation of the operation of deposit and withdraw, exchanges now have to work harder on areas such as Anti Money Laundry (AML) of the crypto assets to get a stricter management in order to survive in the Korean Market.
This can be considered as a gradual trend that the market wants to implement into the system, and BigOME firmly upholds such an attitude. As a matter of fact, this isn’t a good news from the perspective of foreign exchanges, because according to their research, it’s not easy to get the real-name deposit and withdrawal account.
Furthermore, we’ve planned stable coins settled in Korean currency, and the reason we haven’t launched it is that we feel like it’s still too early and the opportunity is not mature enough. So now we are just consistently monitoring the Korean market trend. Additionally we are providing various products and services to overcome them.
As a matter of fact, we think that the “Law of Special Gold”, which will be executed next year, will enrich the meaning of crypto assets that are going to be managed in a standardized way. Before the law was passed, every exchange appeared to have problems, big and small. Because there aren’t many exchanges that can pass the criteria of the law.
My years of experience in the industry tell me that some people are taking such big changes as an excuse, or they are making indecent profit from the corundum caused by the changes. Hopefully people can rationally go through the turbulent era before the law is implemented in March next year. That being said, we will keep rooting our exchange in four fundamental principles (Security, Integrity, Quick, Win-win), and showcase our decent demeanors to Korean investors. Please stay tuned.
- The covid-19 is exacting a hefty toll on all kinds of industries, and the cryptocurrency industry is no exception. What’s the state on BigONE?
Owing to the outbreak, the global economy is bearing the brunt of the contraction, and is having a lot of impact on the crypto industry as well. Since the brunt is mostly concentrated in the primary market, It hasn’t cooled off people’s passion for trading because of the following reasons.
Firstly, The trend of the halving of the mainstream coins gives the market a significant boost. Meanwhile BigONE has introduced an exclusive section that demonstrates the information and the trend of the halving. Besides, BigONE hosted an AMA with Cannan, explaining to users the impact of halving on the market. In recent months, we see an obvious lift in trading volume in spot trading, margin trading, and contract trading.
Secondly, people still vividly remember the huge price drop that took place on March 12. After the plummeting, the price kept increasing, and hadn’t been affected by the negative impact of the global economy. What we are hoping for, as an exchange, is that users trade in a consistent way, and that’s why we exist. Instead of seeing a drop in trading volume, our trading volume actually increased.
The reason that our employee’s productivity hasn’t decreased is that we’ve already become used to working remotely at home, since we did so before. At the moment, all our IT developers are working from home and having meetings in the morning to plan out the work for the rest of the day. In fact, since we are working from home, the time we can spend on working becomes more, which makes some feel more tired. Anyway, we see an increase in productivity on our developers working from home. We’ve finished launching perpetual contracts ahead of schedule, which provides the leverage option of 20 to 100 times. Under the current situation, a perpetual contract is right up the alley to a lot of people. We’ve listed many new digital tokens, especially from Korea. That being said, we are moving forward very quickly in the wake of the pandemic.
- In order to surpass other exchanges, BigONE has to have an edge over them. What’s the edge for BigONE?
BigONE’s main advantage is security. Our team has been in operation in this industry since 2013, so we have a tremendous amount of relevant expertise and experience. Our investor Li Xiao Lai, Richest Bitcoin Billionaire in China, told us that if we are ever looking to open an exchange, the first thing we need to do is to ensure the safety of our users’ assets. We’ve gotten seasoned experience in managing blockchain wallet, and meanwhile we’ve developed a joint venture in Australia, commercializing a wallet management plan called Venezia, which targets business users in the industry. Aside from that, we received a security evaluation report from a China’s prestigious consulting company called Slowmist, showing that we have A rating on 29 security measures. However we’d never claim that we are the safest. We will continue to exert our effort on the issue of security.
Furthermore, BigONE has a comprehensive product line, which include not only spot trading, OTC, but margin trading and perpetual contract, along with wealth management and loan products for mainstream tokens such as BTC, USDT, EOS, ETH, and etc. It’s worth noting that our wealth management products are different from the traditional depositing product that pays interests and our way is that our products combine options trading, introducing and dual currency wealth management products so that users can benefit regardless of whether the price goes up or down. Since options trading requires a deep understanding of knowledge from users, we provide our users a steady return while helping them exercise call or put options. Therefore, product innovation is also one of our advantages.
- As the representatives of your exchange, you must have some unique insights and goals. Could you share with us some goals that you and your team must reach this year?
Firstly, we will innovate more on the product. The option trading and loan wealth management product are two of the examples. Aside from that, we will continue to perfect our margin trading and contract trading so that our users can trade in a fairer way with peace of mind. For example, contract trading requires a great deal of stability for index price and mark price. We deploy a series of risks control measures to ensure that index price and mark price don’t get influenced by factors in the market, and allow the re-check for index price, funding rate, and premium index. Meanwhile, we found that more than 60% of the users trade on mobile phones, so we will perfect the user experience on APP and mobile web, enabling users to use all BigONE’s trading functions from their mobile devices.
Besides, we are actively expanding global markets. So far we have employees working in Singapore, China, Korea, Japan, Russia, USA to source local users and great projects. We have about 50 million registered users and $500 million user stored assets and we are projecting to hit 10 million registered users this year. Korea will be our first entry point and we do have a complete local Korean team who are introducing BigONE to Korean users and meanwhile the team is hosting a lot of offline activities to get back to Korean users.
2020 is going to be the year of derivatives, with less and less new tokens being created. People will focus more on the mainstream tokens, and we’ve already realized that. So, besides searching for more excellent blockchain projects, we will also prepare diverse products for mainstream cryptocurrency, with products such as spot trading, margin trading, options trading, wealth management and loan products and options trading, giving users a more diverse choice of trading. We will launch a series of credit systems and promotions for our VIP users so that more BigONE users can feel the affordability. New users’ digital asset revolution starts at BigONE.
- Last but not the least, what do you want to say to BlockChain Today’s readers?
Hello BlockChain Today readers – Blockchain has developed and weathered for ten years. Now we are on a road, rugged but bright. I really appreciate such a destiny for us to meet in the era. Hopefully in the next ten years or more we will always be there for you every step of the way and embrace the world that is better off because of blockchain.
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