Luno

Luno is a leading cryptocurrency exchange and digital asset platform founded in 2013 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Operating across 40+ countries with over 15 million customers worldwide, Luno is on a mission to upgrade the world's financial system through accessible, transparent, and secure crypto infrastructure. The platform is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (DCG), one of the most active investors in the digital currency industry with investments in over 200 companies across 35 countries.

Core Products/Services

Luno offers a comprehensive suite of crypto products and services spanning both retail and institutional markets. For individual users, the platform provides cryptocurrency buying, selling, and staking services across a rigorously-assessed selection of digital assets. For professional traders, Luno provides an advanced exchange with deep liquidity, low fees, and advanced order types. For institutional clients and enterprises, Luno delivers a dedicated institutional-grade platform including OTC trading desk access, institutional crypto custody, subaccount management, and a robust API for programmatic trading and payments integration.

The Luno API is a key B2B product offering REST and WebSocket interfaces, officially supported SDKs in Go, Python, and PHP, and has facilitated over $5 billion in trading volume for enterprise clients. It enables programmatic trading bots, real-time market data via websocket feeds, multi-currency wallet creation, and custom payment integrations.

The Institutional Exchange Platform provides organisations of all sizes with OTC (over-the-counter) trading for large block orders with no slippage, ring-fenced institutional custody through an FSCA-registered nominee company (Luno Custody RF Pty Ltd) with bankruptcy-remote protections, subaccounts for team role management, and 99.9% API uptime with 24/7 engineering support.

Key Strengths

Luno is distinguished by its regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions including the UK, South Africa (FSCA licensed as CAT1 and CAT2 Financial Services Provider), Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Uganda. The platform is the only ISO 27001 certified CASP in South Africa, and its systems are certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, and ISO 22301:2019. Monthly Proof of Reserves is published via Moore Audit, providing institutional-grade transparency. Assets are stored on a 1:1 basis with multi-signature offline cold storage managed in partnership with BitGo Custody and Fireblocks.

Notable Clients/Projects

Luno's institutional client base includes financial institutions such as Discovery Bank, which partnered with Luno to bring digital assets to traditional banking. The institutional platform serves investment holding companies, property investors with trust structures, and capital management firms across Africa and Europe. The API has been extensively used by enterprise clients and has facilitated over $5 billion in trading volume.

Why Choose Luno

For institutional clients and developers, Luno offers a rare combination of regulatory compliance (licensed across 7+ jurisdictions), enterprise-grade security (ISO 27001 certified), deep liquidity with robust ringfenced custody, and developer-friendly infrastructure with high-performance APIs and official SDKs. The platform's long track record since 2013, backing by DCG, and dedicated B2B sales team with ground-level experts in South Africa make it particularly attractive for institutions entering African and emerging market crypto opportunities.