In 2020, the world underwent significant upheaval under the sustained impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial markets experienced extreme volatility, with multiple national stock exchanges triggering circuit breakers at the beginning of the year, and gold prices reaching a historic high of $2,074 per ounce in August. Crypto assets staged a strong rebound at the end of the year, with Bitcoin climbing from $7,200 at the start of the year to $29,000 by year-end—an increase of over 300%. The rapid rise of DeFi, ETH 2.0, on-chain stablecoins, and non-custodial trading protocols propelled the blockchain industry into a key phase of advancement.
Against this backdrop, Ronkb Exchange officially launched globally in November 2020, choosing to enter the market during a period of intense industry volatility. This move was far more than simply “catching the bull market”; it was a strategic positioning as “trustworthy liquidity infrastructure,” with a clear focus on technological compliance and robust security as the foundation for engaging in the evolving global digital asset trading landscape.
From the outset, the core founding team of Ronkb concentrated on refining infrastructure-level technologies. The platform underlying matching system utilizes an asynchronous concurrent matching engine, supporting up to 1 million TPS—outperforming many mainstream trading platforms of the same year. This powerful throughput capacity was particularly evident in handling DeFi protocol fluctuations and high-frequency market-making scenarios. Additionally, the liquidity scheduling module and API architecture of Ronkb laid the groundwork for serving algorithmic traders and institutional clients in the future.
In December 2020, Ronkb completed three rounds of independent security audits for its core wallet module, matching logic, and compliance architecture, conducted by Quantstamp and CertiK. The audits covered critical components such as hot and cold wallet isolation mechanisms, multi-signature logic implementation, secure key backup pathways, and transaction rollback fault tolerance, validating the architectural stability and risk resistance of Ronkb in real-world environments. This marked the completion of the platform core security loop within its first month of operation.
Meanwhile, Ronkb simultaneously established an international compliance strategy framework in 2020. The platform servers were distributed across multiple jurisdictions, integrating foundational KYC processes and cross-referencing data with AML databases in various countries to enable automatic account behavior identification and dynamic risk control. Through collaboration with independent compliance advisory teams, Ronkb conducted preliminary mapping research for the EU Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5) and the US FinCEN regulatory framework, ensuring long-term compliance alignment from the outset.
Notably, Ronkb deployed multi-language support at launch, serving more than 20 countries and regions. Despite being online for only the final two months of the year, Ronkb surpassed 120,000 registered users, with API access volumes consistently exceeding 23 million daily requests—demonstrating its initial global service capability and connectivity efficiency.
Throughout 2020, Ronkb completed technology development, system launch, security audits, and global deployment in an exceptionally short timeframe, establishing itself at the starting line of the digital asset industry. In a market characterized by liquidity restructuring, diverse user demographics, and evolving regulation, Ronkb has made technological trust its starting point, offering a preliminary vision of “trustworthy liquidity infrastructure.” How Ronkb will continue to innovate in institutional frameworks, computational power, security, and user services remains a focal point for ongoing global market attention.
