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KuCoin Releases $2B Trust Project Annual Review, Marking Major Milestones in Security, Compliance, Transparency and User Protection

2026/05/15 10:00:00
In April 2025, KuCoin launched its $2B Trust Project as a long-term commitment to strengthening trust across the crypto industry. One year later, KuCoin has released its $2B Trust Project Annual Review, outlining the progress made across security, compliance, transparency, user protection, and global operational resilience.
 

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The review reflects KuCoin’s belief that the next phase of crypto adoption must be supported by stronger, smarter, and more verifiable foundations. Rather than treating trust as a single milestone, the Trust Project is designed as a multi-year framework to reinforce the infrastructure, controls, accountability, and innovation needed for sustainable industry growth.

Building Trust Through Five Core Pillars

Over the past year, the Trust Project has translated KuCoin’s long-term commitment into measurable progress across five core pillars:
 
  • Security Infrastructure
  • Compliance & Governance
  • Verifiable Transparency
  • User Protection
  • Global Infrastructure & Operational Resilience 
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Together, these pillars form an integrated trust framework that connects foundational security and governance with greater transparency, stronger user protection, and long-term operational resilience.
 
Key Milestones From the First Year
 
Among the key milestones highlighted in the annual review, KuCoin strengthened its trust framework across certifications, regulatory progress, institutional protection, transparency, and technical infrastructure.
 
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Strengthening Security and Privacy Standards

KuCoin achieved four leading security and privacy certifications: 
 
  • SOC 2 Type II
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022
  • ISO/IEC 27701:2019
  • CCSS
With these achievements, KuCoin became the first major crypto exchange to hold all four leading security and privacy certifications. These certifications reflect KuCoin’s continued efforts to strengthen information security, privacy management, and operational controls.
 

Advancing Compliance and Regulatory Progress

KuCoin also made important progress in key global markets, including:
 
  • EUROPE: Secured MiCAR license in Austria, enabling compliant services across EEA countries
  • AUSTRALIA: Registered with AUSTRAC as a Digital Currency Exchange
  • TÜRKİYE: Formal license application submitted to the Capital Markets Board (SPK)
These milestones represent KuCoin’s continued commitment to building a more responsible and compliant global operating framework.
 

User Protection as a Platform-Wide Discipline

Over the past year, KuCoin further strengthened this area through both governance and product measures, enhancing capabilities such as end-to-end data controls, risk assessments, data subject rights response, and data breach response readiness.
 
KuCoin continued to improve user protection through practical platform-wide measures, including:
 
  • Safety alerts and security education
  • Passkeys for secure verification
  • “Address Book Only” withdrawals
  • New safety score module
  • Anti-tampering protection added to security verification flows
 
Together, these efforts support the same goal: giving users a safer, more stable, and more predictable experience while strengthening trust across every stage of their interaction with the platform.
 

Improving Transparency and Verifiability

Transparency remains a core part of the Trust Project. During the review period, KuCoin was recognized by CryptoQuant as the PoR Transparency Leader.
 
This recognition was supported by:
 

  • More than 42 consecutive monthly Proof of Reserves reports

  • Merkle Tree User-level verification mechanisms

  • Ongoing third-party validation

  • 100%+ PoR Hacken Third-Party Audit

These efforts help strengthen user confidence by making platform transparency more consistent, accessible, and verifiable.
 

Driving Technical Progress Through Smarter Infrastructure

Beyond certifications and regulatory milestones, the Trust Project also supported deeper technical progress across KuCoin’s platform infrastructure.
Key areas of progress include:
 

  • BitGo OES / custody collaboration

  • Zero-trust access architecture

  • Real-time, multi-dimensional SLA dashboards

  • High-security key management devices

  • Battle-tested operating procedures

  • Ongoing global bug bounty program

  • AI-assisted security operations capabilities

  • Improved incident response efficiency, with stronger average MTTD and MTTR

Together, these advancements have helped reinforce KuCoin’s infrastructure resilience, improve risk detection and response efficiency, and strengthen user protection through a more secure, transparent, and operationally resilient platform.
 

CEO Comment

BC Wong, CEO of KuCoin, said:
“In the next phase of crypto, trust will distinguish platforms that scale from those that merely survive. The $2B Trust Project reflects our belief that security, compliance, and transparency must function as core infrastructure, not as afterthoughts. We are leveraging technologies such as AI to drive systemic improvements across risk management, resilience, and transparency. But technology alone does not build trust — it is sustained by clear standards, strong accountability, and responsible innovation.”
 

Looking Ahead

The $2B Trust Project Annual Review reflects KuCoin’s continued commitment to building a more secure, transparent, and resilient platform for users, institutions, and partners worldwide.
 
As the crypto industry continues to evolve, KuCoin will keep strengthening its trust framework through responsible innovation, verifiable standards, and long-term investment in platform resilience. Through the Trust Project, KuCoin aims not only to reinforce its own foundation, but also to contribute to a stronger standard of trust across the broader crypto ecosystem.