Coinone (코인원) — Korean KRW spot CEX / NH NongHyup Bank real-name account overview

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This entry sits under exchanges index. Read it against Korea's 5 major CEX regimes compared — Upbit / Bithumb / Coinone / Korbit / GOPAX for the Korea peer / regulatory context, Upbit / Bithumb for peer comparisons, and global CEX top 10 comparison for the broader system / market boundary.

Founded 2014-08 · Korean KRW spot CEX · NH 농협은행 real-name account · KoFIU-filed operator

1. Corporation / Shareholders

• Trade name: 주식회사 코인원 (Coinone Inc.)

• Founded: 2014-08

• Head office location: 서울특별시 영등포구 (Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul)

• Founder: 차명훈 (Daniel Lim, Cha Myung-hoon) — known as one of the 1 leading figures of Korea’s early crypto industry (Coinone co-founder / CEO)

• Major shareholders:

  • 차명훈 founder’s stake at the core
  • 데일리금융그룹 (Daily Financial Group, early investor) → later shifts in shareholding ratio
  • 이상준 and other Korean IT / financial investors
  • reports of investment consideration by the 카카오뱅크 side (2018–2019) and other histories of exploring multiple strategic capital relationships
  • detailed shareholder composition partially disclosed due to non-listed status

2. Registration / License status (Korean system)

• 가상자산사업자 (VASP) registration: registered with FIU (2021-09 Korea’s 1 -th registration class)
• ISMS / ISMS-P certification: holds KISA ISMS-P
• 실명확인 입출금 계정 (real-name account): contracted with NH 농협은행 (NH NongHyup Bank)
  • Bithumb also uses real-name accounts at the same bank; verify each contract’s current status in official notices
  • for the detailed system see Korea's 5 major CEX regimes compared — Upbit / Bithumb / Coinone / Korbit / GOPAX

3. Supported currencies

• KRW spot market (legal as one of Korea’s 5 major CEXes, 1 )
• The number of listed assets and market composition change; verify them in the current official market list
• Verify each token’s listing status in official notices
• Listing review: DAXA common criteria + Coinone’s own criteria

4. Scope of business

• Spot trading (centered on KRW pairs)
• Derivatives / margin trading: not offered under Korean VASP regulation
• Staking: limited service (Cross: historical provision of staking / lending-related products, scaled back under regulatory constraints)
• Fiat deposits: only via the NH 농협은행 real-name account
• Coinone Pro: UI / API for professional traders
• Cross overseas remittance: an overseas remittance service mediated by crypto (partial rollout)

5. Market share / Trading volume

Market share, 24-hour volume, and rankings vary by timestamp and methodology, so this static entry does not freeze them. Comparisons should use the same provider, measurement time, and market definition; verify geographic eligibility and KYC in the current official terms.

6. History / Major incidents

Source: The entire table is based on Coinone’s official history and KoFIU’s virtual-asset service provider filing status, checked on 2026-07-29.

7. Strategic developments

• Independent management: unlike Upbit (Kakao-affiliated / Hana Financial / Hanwha, etc.) / Korbit (SK Square) / GOPAX (partial Binance involvement), it continues founder-led independent management. This means both the advantage of independence and the limit of capital-raising capacity at the same time
• NH 농협은행 relationship: with the situation of sharing the same bank with Bithumb, the negotiation over AML/CFT responsibility-sharing on the NH 농협은행 side remains an ongoing issue
• DAXA participation: standardizing listing criteria within DAXA together with Upbit / Bithumb / Korbit / GOPAX. Played a leading role in the governance rebuild after the 2022 listing-bribery case
• 2024 User Protection Act response: contributing to the user-protection fund, strengthening surveillance of unfair trading, rebuilding internal controls
• Listed assets: verify current listings, including Korean-project tokens, in the official market list and notices
• Cross remittance service: an overseas remittance service mediated by crypto, adapting to regulatory-environment changes

8. Positioning within the industry

Evaluate Coinone’s industry position by combining KoFIU filing status, the current official market scope, and trading volumes captured at the same timestamp. Do not infer a permanent rank from historical share figures; see korea-cex-five-pillars-comparison for the regulatory comparison.

Related

• cex-upbit-korea — Korean peer comparison

• cex-bithumb-korea — Korean peer comparison (most important cross-link, same NH 농협은행 bank)

• cex-korbit-korea — Korean peer comparison

• cex-gopax-korea — Korean peer comparison

• korea-cex-five-pillars-comparison — Korea 5 major CEX system comparison

• global-cex-top10-comparison — Global CEX top 10

• global-vasp-regulatory-comparison-matrix — Global VASP regulatory comparison

• INDEX — Exchange domain index

Sources

• 公開情報整理 (Coinone 공식 IR / 회사 소개 페이지, coinone.co.kr)
• 公開情報整理 (FSC / FIU 가상자산사업자 등록 公開リスト)
• 公開情報整理 (KISA ISMS-P 인증 발표)
• 公開情報整理 (NH 농협은행 실명확인 입출금 계정 보도)
• 公開情報整理 (DAXA 자율규제 협의체 발표)
• 公開情報整理 (Coinone 경영진 검찰 기소 2022 보도, 코인데스크 코리아 / 한겨레 / 매일경제 / Korea Herald)
• 公開情報整理 (2022 韓国 CEX 上장 청탁 사건 검찰 수사 결과 발표)
• 公開情報整理 (가상자산이용자보호법 2024-07 시행 관련 보도)