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Blockchain / Fintech12 months10 engineers

MENA Crypto Exchange

Crypto Exchange & Digital Asset Platform · Retail · Corporate

A regulated cryptocurrency exchange and digital-asset platform purpose-built for the UAE and wider MENA market. The platform serves both individual investors and registered business entities, supporting fiat-to-crypto on-ramps, crypto-to-fiat off-ramps, spot trading, secure custody, and end-to-end compliance — all on a single, low-latency rail. Built from the ground up around regional regulatory requirements, the platform handles thousands of concurrent trading sessions with sub-50ms order matching and supports the full lifecycle of customer onboarding, deposit, trade, and withdrawal.

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<50ms
Order Matching
12
Microservices
50+
Trading Pairs
0
Security Incidents
2
Customer Tiers
AR/EN
Languages, RTL

The Challenge

What We Faced

The client needed a regulated exchange that could simultaneously serve retail customers and corporate treasury clients in one of the world's strictest crypto markets. Existing white-label platforms couldn't combine retail-grade UX, institutional flows, regulator-grade identity verification, on-chain risk screening, and direct AED bank rails into a single coherent system. The platform also had to operate inside the bounds of MENA regulatory expectations — without sacrificing the latency and reliability traders expect from a modern exchange.

Our Solution

How We Solved It

We engineered a microservices-based exchange built around a hardened custody layer, a low-latency matching engine connected to deep institutional liquidity, and a continuous compliance fabric that screens every customer and every transaction in real time. Customers and businesses pass through tiered identity verification before they touch the order book. Fiat AED moves through a regulated UAE banking partner using a virtual-account model, while crypto deposits and withdrawals flow through policy-controlled MPC custody. Every cross-service call is signed, every state change is auditable, and the entire stack is ready for full regulatory inspection.

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RESULTS

Outcomes

Key Results

Independent VAPT by a leading Middle East security firm: zero high-severity findings
Sub-50ms order matching latency under peak load
Tiered onboarding for individual and corporate accounts
Native AED on-ramp and off-ramp via regulated bank rails
Real-time on-chain risk and sanctions screening on every deposit
Document, biometric, and corporate-document KYC pipeline
Institutional MPC custody with policy-based withdrawal controls
Spot trading on 50+ pairs with deep, dedicated liquidity
Twelve-service microservice topology with signed inter-service calls
Automatic on-chain wallet sweeps to a treasury omnibus vault
Bilingual Arabic / English experience with full RTL support
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