Huobi.com is the leading platform in cryptocurrency transactions, which committed in providing professional, secure, trustworthy services for investors around the world.
It gains support and trust from all users since the system has gone live. By the end of February 2014, daily bitcoin transaction amount has exceeded 100,000 while daily turnover was up to 400,000,000 CNY. Daily peak amount and total turnover reached 380,000 and 1,500,000,000 CNY, which forged the historical record in the global bitcoin transactions. At present, Huobi.com is the largest platform of crytocurrency around the world and occupies more than 50% of the bitcoin market share.
Company located in Beijing Zhongguancun High-tech Park. The core members are mainly graduated from China's top-level universities, took positions in E-commerce, internet and financial companies, who have years of experiences in developing and operating network markets. Huobi.com had already been widely recognized and accepted as the most professional cryptocurrency team around China.
Huobi.com is committed in cryptocurrency transactions and relevant applications, based on professional team and strong influence in bitcoin trading, Huobi has successfully financed by ZhenFund (Note: ZhenFund is a seed fund founded in 2006 and focus on seed stage investment which encouraging young people to access innovative entrepreneurship) and Angel investment from well-known speculator Zhikang Dai in the early days of launching.
Timeline:
May 15, 2013--Bought top-level daomains(TLDs) of Huobi.com
June 1, 2013--Established NPD(New Product Development) team
Aug 1, 2013--Launched online paper-trade and first bitcoin paper-trade competition
Sep 1, 2013--Launched online spot-trade platform
Sep 10, 2013--Daily transaction amount reached 1 million CNY
Sep 20, 2013--Announced 0 trading & deposit fee for all huobi users
Oct 19, 2013--Daily transaction amount reached 10 million CNY
Nov 5, 2013--Financed by ZhenFund as well as "Angel investment" from speculator Zhikang Dai
Nov 9, 2013--Daily transaction amount reached 100 million CNY
Nov 19, 2013--Daily transaction amount reached 500 million CNY
Dec 18, 2013--Became world's No.1 bitcoin platform with largest transaction amount
Feb 25, 2014--Daily transaction amount reached 1 billion CNY
Mar 19, 2014--Launched online litecoin transaction
Mar 20, 2014--Daily transaction amount of litecoin reached 100 million CNY
Apr 4, 2014--Financed by Sequoia A round of investment
Apr 9, 2014--Released English version for overseas users
Team:
Leon Li, the CEO as well as the founder of Huobi.com, graduated from Tsinghua University in master degree of automation engineering and served as Oracle staff in the early years. He has organized various internet projects since 2009, such as SNS community, vertical searching, crypto currency and other trading platforms including Renrenzhe.com, the second largest group-buying search-site around China, which was launched in 2010 and widely acknowledged in the years followed.
Ying Song, the CTO, graduated from Peking University in computer science engineering, took positions in Sina, Sohu and other well-known internet enterprises, also served as Technical Director in Neusoft owned xikang.com.
Dylan Du, Co-founder and the CMO, served as Senior Product Manager in Tencent owned Comsenz Inc. Took positions such as Business Executive, Marketing Manager, Operations Supervisor as well as Product Manager in the early years. Focus on community products and marketing.
Frank Hu, the CPO, served as Product Manager in Comsenz Inc. and Product Directer in Neusoft owned xikang.com as well as Co-founder of laipin.com in the early years. Focus on E-commerce operation and user experience improvement.