CoinGecko Reviews KuCoin at Nine: From Open Access to Digital Asset Infrastructure

• CoinGecko says KuCoin evolved from trading and asset discovery to trusted digital asset infrastructure in 9 years.
• The report suggests that security, transparency, regulatory readiness, and real-world utility will increasingly shape competition among exchanges.
• KuCoin Pay surged in H1 2026, with off-chain payment volume up 300% and orders up 25x.

Trading volume is no longer the sole measure of a crypto exchange’s competitiveness.  As the industry matures, security, transparency, regulatory readiness, and real-world utility are becoming just as important. That is the central finding of a new report from CoinGecko Research, which looks back at KuCoin’s nine years in business and its performance in the first half of 2026.

Published alongside KuCoin’s ninth anniversary, the report traces the platform’s role in advancing the industry’s evolution, from broadening a…

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