Liquid

BASIC INFORMATION

Founded in 2014, Liquid is one of the world's largest cryptocurrency-fiat exchange platforms serving millions of customers worldwide.

The Liquid exchange is a cryptocurrency buying and selling platform featuring the most popular assets including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, etc. The site offers pairs with fiat funds such as EUR, USD, SGD, HKD, AUD, JPY, PHP. It offers a standard web terminal for trading TradingView, and there is a mobile version. Spot and margin trading and trading of permanent contracts are available to users. Leverage is provided for margin x25, for permanent trading x100. As for passive income, there is an affiliate program with payments of 30% of partners' trading commissions and cryptocurrency staking without blocking funds on the account. There is a help center and training courses academy for novice traders.

REGULATORY INFORMATION:

In Japan when we were licensee #2 of Virtual Currency Exchange (VCE) licenses issued by the Japan Financial Services Authority (JFSA) in September of 2017.

CySEC, MiFID

There is no licence data.

TRADING

Funding Your Liquid Account

Before you engage in a Trade you must transfer a sufficient amount of Funds to your Liquid Account to fund such Trade and all applicable fees.

You are required to maintain in your Liquid Account a sufficient balance of the applicable Funds to satisfy any open Orders, maintenance margin (as described in the Trading Rules), and applicable fees (“Minimum Required Balance”). If you have an insufficient amount of Funds in your Liquid Account to fulfill an Order, Quoine may cancel the entire Order or may fulfill an Order partially to the extent it can be covered by the Funds in your Liquid Account (after deducting any fees payable to Quoine in connection with the Trade).

Orders

The Services provide you with various methods for entering an Order, which are described in further detail in the Trading Rules and on the Site. When you enter an Order you authorize Quoine to execute a Trade for all or a portion of the quantity of Digital Assets or Derivative Product specified in your Order in accordance with such order.

Detailed terms and conditions relevant to trading activities are described in the Trading Rules.

Leveraged Trading

You may be eligible for margin trading and trading of Derivative Products (collectively referred to as “leveraged trading”) through the Services. Terms and conditions relevant to leveraged trading are described in the Trading Rules.

Leverage is available for margin and perpetual contracts. It has many crypto-crypto and crypto-fiat pairs, and all major deposit/withdrawal options, including MC/Visa cards.

Trade Bitcoin CFDs with up to 100x leverage.

1:25 (margin), 1:100 (perpetual contracts)

DEPOSIT METHOD

External Bank Accounts

Before you transfer Fiat Currency to or from your Liquid Account, you will be required to designate via the Services one or more External Bank Accounts and undergo Screening Procedures. External Bank Accounts must be in your name and not the name of a third party. Quoine may limit the number of External Bank Accounts that you may designate to be associated with your Liquid Account.

Processing Time

The amount of time required to process a transfer of Fiat Currency to or from your Liquid Account may depend on Screening Procedures, the performance of third parties responsible for maintaining the applicable External Bank Account and other factors. Quoine makes no guarantee as to when transferred Fiat Currency will become available in your Liquid Account or your External Bank Account, as applicable.

Deposits

Subject to the availability of the Services and any other limitations described in these Terms, you may initiate a transfer of Fiat Currency from a verified External Bank Account to your Liquid Account at any time. Minimum Deposit is 1$.

Withdrawals

Subject to the availability of the Services and any other limitations described in these Terms, you may initiate a transfer of Fiat Currency from your Liquid Account to a verified External Bank Account at any time. Quoine will deduct any fees applicable to such transfers that are charged by Quoine or by Quoines third-party service providers from such transferred amounts.

DIGITAL ASSET STORAGE, DEPOSITS, AND WITHDRAWALS

External Addresses

Before you transfer Digital Assets to or from your Liquid Account, you may be required to designate via the Services one or more external Digital Asset Addresses from or to which you intend to transfer Digital Assets (each, an “External Address”). Quoine may require you to provide information on each External Address and/or verify that you control each External Address as part of its Screening Procedures before you are permitted to transfer Digital Assets between the applicable External Address and your Liquid Account.

Using multi-party computing we are able to offer fast round-the-clock withdrawals while maintaining our rigorous security standards.

TRADING PLATFORM AND TRADING SOFTWARE

The current API version is 2. Please include the following header in the request to get correct API behaviors:

Header Value X-Quoine-API-Version 2.

Trading Platform(s): MT4, iPhone/iPad,Other (cTrader)

TRADING TIME

The bespoke trading platform is open and usable 24/7, however different markets will open and close at different times, so there can sometimes be a knock-on effect when trading certain instruments over the weekend, for example. Liquid is a Proprietary platform.