Huobi Group is a leading global digital asset financial service provider. Upholding the idea of “empower financial services and liberate global wealth” as our mission and “putting users first” as our concept, Huobi Group is committed to offering secure, professional, credible, and quality services.
Since its establishment in 2013, Huobi's accumulative turnover has exceeded $1 trillion and once became the world's largest digital asset exchange with a global share of 50%. Financed by ZhenFund and Sequoia Capital, Huobi Group has invested in more than ten upstream and downstream enterprises. It has established compliance service teams in Singapore, US, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia with its secure and credible trading and asset management services to millions of users in 130+ countries.
- 2013Year
- In September, · Huobi.com, the Bitcoin spot trading platform, is launched;
- In November, · Huobi raised investment from ZhenFund and Angel Investment;
- In December, · Huobi became China's largest digital asset trading platform with a cumulative turnover of over 30 billion RMB;
- In November, · Huobi raised investment from ZhenFund and Angel Investment;
- 2014Year
- In April, · Huobi became the world's largest digital asset trading platform with a cumulative turnover of over 120 billion RMB;
- In April, · raised investment from Sequoia Capital;
- 2015Year
- In April, · Huobi sponsored the "Digital Asset Research Project" at the Internet Finance Laboratory of Wudaokou Finance Institute of Tsinghua University (formerly the Graduate School of the People's Bank of China);
- 2016Year
- In June, · the cumulative turnover reached 1 trillion RMB;
- In July, · Huobi Research published the first easy-to-understand and science-based work "Blockchain: Defining a New Financial and Economic Future";
- In November, · Cumulative turnover of Huobi Group reached 1.7 trillion RMB, accounting for more than 60% of the global bitcoin exchange market;
- In December, · Huobi co-sponsored China's first Fintech Digital Asset Alliance (Shenzhen) and the Fintech Research Institute under the guidance of the Shenzhen Municipal Government;
- In December, · Cumulative turnover of Huobi Group reached 2 trillion RMB;
- In July, · Huobi Research published the first easy-to-understand and science-based work "Blockchain: Defining a New Financial and Economic Future";
- 2017Year
- In July, · Cumulative turnover of Huobi Group reached 4 trillion RMB;
- In October, · Huobi initiated its global strategic layout by establishing Huobi Korea Team and putting it into official operation;
- In November, · Huobi Global was officially launched and started operation with cumulative turnover of the first month exceeding 4.6 billion USD. The Singapore Operation Team was also estalibshed.
- In December, · Huobi completed its business layout in Japan with the Group's cumulative turnover exceeding 850 billlion USD;
- In October, · Huobi initiated its global strategic layout by establishing Huobi Korea Team and putting it into official operation;
- 2018Year
- In January, · Huobi Token was launched;
- In February, · Huobi Autonomous Digital Asset Exchange (HADAX) was launched to support vote for listing;
- In March, · Huobi Korea, Mining Pool, Huobi Global Ecosystem Fund and Huobi Knight Program were launched; Huobi obtained the MSB license and was eligible to launch compliant business in different parts of the US;
- In March, · Huobi signed a cooperation agreement with Chia Tai Group and Finansia Syrus on jointly building an OTC exchange in Thailand;
- In March, · Huobi signed a cooperation agreement with 360 Group on financial technology security service;
- In March, · Huobi signed a cooperation agreement with the Data Science Institute of Imperial College London on the research of digital currency trading data;
- In March, · Huobi signed a cooperation agreement with Blockchain Global on co-building Huobi Australia with strategic investment;
- In April, · Cumulative turnover of the Group exceeded 1 trillion USD;
- In February, · Huobi Autonomous Digital Asset Exchange (HADAX) was launched to support vote for listing;
Team Members
Leon Li
Chairman, Founder&CEOMr. Leon Li graduated from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. He used to work in world’s largest database vendor Oracle. With a keen foresight for the internet industry, he established Huobi in 2013 and led the company into one of the world's leading blockchain asset service providers.
Xianfeng Cheng
CTO Chief Technology OfficerMr.Cheng Xianfeng takes charge of managing Huobi Group's Technical R&D Center. Before joining Huobi, he was the Chief Operating Officer of OneAPM and Technical VP of Jimu. He was also an early promoter of MongoDB and Docker technology in China.
Jiawei Zhu
COO Chief Operating OfficerMr.Zhu Jiawei is in charge of managing the Huobi Operations Center. He worked for Oracle and Capgemini Consulting previously, and has extensive management experience in corporate governance, data analysis and business operation.
Chris Lee
CFO Chief Financial Officer
& Board SecretaryAs the CFO and Board Secretary, Chris takes charge of finance, administration, legal, global business development, M&A, capital market, and corporate governance of Huobi Group. He was the CEO of OKEx, CFO of OKC Group and PAX Global Technology Ltd (0327.HK). Chris has over 15 years' professional experience in corporate governance, strategic planning & execution, global business expansion and capital market in digital payment and fintech.
Shupeng Wu
CSO Chief Security OfficerMr. Shupeng Wu is responsible for the management of security and risk control of Huobi Group and he used to work for DiDi Chuxing, international consulting company, NS Focus, and government agencies with rich experience of the technology research and management in the information security, business security, and risk management.
