Industries · Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets

Exchange, wallet and trading platforms built to survive their first bull run.

Cryptocurrency exchanges, USDT wallets and crypto debit cards, custody and settlement, and algorithmic trading across crypto and forex, delivered by teams that treat key management, reconciliation and compliance as engineering problems rather than paperwork.

Typical engagement
10–20 people
Custody design
MPC + cold storage
Settlement
24/7
Security lead
Embedded
Where the pressure is

The problems that arrive on a CIO's desk in this industry.

Volume arrives without notice

A listing, a market move or a marketing campaign can multiply traffic within an hour. Matching engines, wallets and KYC queues that were sized for a quiet quarter fail together.

Keys, custody and reconciliation

Hot and cold wallet policies, multi-party computation, withdrawal approval flows and on-chain reconciliation decide whether a platform survives its first serious incident.

Compliance is moving fast

Licensing, Travel Rule, stablecoin and marketing rules change by jurisdiction and by year, and the platform has to adapt without stopping.

Fiat rails and cards

USDT on-ramps and off-ramps, card issuing through BIN sponsors, banking partners and payment processors each add settlement, chargeback and reporting obligations.

What we do here

Teams and platforms shaped for the sector.

Team build

Exchange and wallet engineering teams

Backend, blockchain, mobile and web engineers under a Webist PM, SA and Cybersecurity Engineer, building matching, wallets, onboarding and admin consoles to the roadmap.

Exchange

Cryptocurrency exchange platforms

Spot and derivatives matching, order books, market data, listing workflows, fee and referral engines, and admin and risk back offices designed for scale from day one.

Wallets and cards

USDT wallets and crypto debit cards

Custodial and non-custodial wallet apps, stablecoin payments and payouts, card programmes with BIN sponsors and processors, and real-time ledgering between crypto balances and card authorisations.

Algorithmic trading

Crypto and forex trading systems

Market making, arbitrage and execution algorithms across centralised exchanges, DeFi venues and forex liquidity providers, with risk limits, kill switches and audit trails.

Custody and security

Key management and controls

MPC and hardware-backed custody, withdrawal approval policies, address screening, monitoring and incident response designed with the Cybersecurity Engineer in week one.

Data + AI

On-chain and off-chain data

Wallet, transaction, customer and market objects feeding AML monitoring, risk scoring, treasury reporting and AI assistants for support and compliance teams, with approval gates.

Regulatory and technical context

Obligations we design for from week one.

The Solution Architecture phase maps these to the target architecture, the security baseline and the team's KPIs, so compliance is built in rather than audited in.

  • Securities Commission MalaysiaGuidelines on Recognized Markets for digital asset exchanges and the digital asset custodian framework for platforms serving Malaysian users.
  • Labuan FSALabuan Financial Services Authority frameworks for digital asset businesses, including exchanges, custodians and token issuers established in Labuan.
  • Regional licensingMAS Payment Services Act (Singapore), the SFC virtual asset trading platform regime (Hong Kong) and VARA (Dubai) requirements where a platform serves several markets.
  • FATF Travel RuleOriginator and beneficiary information exchange between virtual asset service providers, with sanctions and address screening integrated into deposit and withdrawal flows.
  • AML/CFTAnti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001 (Malaysia) and equivalent regimes: KYC, transaction monitoring, suspicious transaction reporting and record-keeping.
  • Card schemes and PCI DSSVisa and Mastercard programme rules through the issuing partner, PCI DSS for card data, and stablecoin reserve and settlement reporting agreed with banking partners.
A typical team shape

Designed in the roadmap phase, then recruited to it.

Illustrative. Every structure is set in the Solution Architecture phase against your roadmap and budget.

  • LeadershipProject Manager, Solution Architect with exchange or wallet platform experience
  • PlatformDevOps Engineer for 24/7 multi-region operation, DBA, Cybersecurity Engineer with key management focus
  • AssuranceQA / Test Lead for matching, wallet and settlement flows, including chaos and failover drills
  • Engineers4–8 backend and blockchain, 2–3 mobile, 2 web, 1–2 quant or trading systems, 1–2 data
  • WhereLeadership in Kuala Lumpur; engineers on managed cloud desktops across the three talent pools, with a 24/7 on-call rotation
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