Security First
Cold storage, multi-signature quorums and quarterly attestations. Trust is earned one audited quarter at a time.
The exchange built on trust & time
Meridian started in 2021 with a simple thesis: digital-asset markets deserve exchange infrastructure that is boringly safe, brutally fast and built to outlast hype cycles.
Our Story
From two engineers to a $8B market
Meridian began in a Berlin kitchen in 2021, when two trading-infrastructure engineers grew tired of exchanges that treated uptime as a suggestion. They wanted custody so cold it made accountants shiver, and a matching engine that never flinched.
Today Meridian serves 4.2 million traders across 140 countries, clears over $8 billion in daily volume and holds the industry's most transparent reserve attestations. The kitchen table became a boardroom, but the obsession never left.
- Regulated entities in three jurisdictions
- Quarterly proof-of-reserve audits since 2022
- Zero security breaches in operating history
Our Values
What we refuse to compromise
Four principles govern every decision we make — from how we hold funds to how we write a single line of code.
Radical Transparency
Reserves on-chain, fees public, status page honest. If we can't explain it plainly, we don't ship it.
Long-Term Thinking
We measure success in decades of uptime, not a quarter of trading volume. Boring is a feature.
Customer Obsession
A human support desk, a plain-language status page and fees that reward our most loyal traders.
Milestones
How we got here
PHASE 01
2021 · Founded
Two engineers, one kitchen table and a matching engine prototype that traded 10,000 orders a second.
PHASE 02
2022 · Public Launch
Live with 40 pairs, SOC 2 custody and the first quarterly reserve attestation.
PHASE 03
2024 · 1M Traders
Crossed one million verified accounts and launched native staking.
PHASE 04
2026 · Token & Beyond
MER token launch, institutional rails and the self-custody app.