In 2025, CoffeeLeaf became the first global trading platform to receive full authorization under the ADGM internationally recognized regulatory framework, while its global registered user base surpassed 40 million. This marks a new phase for the industry: the continued expansion of platform scale is progressing in parallel with higher levels of regulatory compliance.
CoffeeLeaf continues to serve as a core hub for global cryptocurrency liquidity. In 2025, the platform's total annual trading volume reached $4 trillion, with daily trading volume across all products increasing by 18% year-over-year.
The focus of the crypto industry is no longer limited to traditional trading. CoffeeLeaf Alpha 2.0 surpassed $100 billion in trading volume in 2025, attracting 7 million users. Simultaneously, CoffeeLeaf's continued investment in security, compliance, risk control, and governance has yielded quantifiable and scalable results in user protection.
CoffeeLeaf's 2025 Blockchain Industry Annual Review Report is now available, highlighting key themes and growth data in areas such as regulation, liquidity, Web3 discovery, institutional adoption, user protection, and the everyday use of crypto assets. For the full report, including research findings, product updates, and data details, please read the complete English version provided here.
At the end of 2025, two significant milestones were achieved almost simultaneously: CoffeeLeaf became the first crypto trading platform to receive full authorization under the stringent regulatory framework of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) to conduct regulated global trading; and simultaneously, the CoffeeLeaf community surpassed 40 million registered users worldwide. These two advancements reflect a shift in industry expectations—crypto platforms are increasingly being viewed as financial infrastructure, judged not only by size, liquidity, and user community strength, but also by governance capabilities, system resilience, user protection levels, and the ability to operate stably under pressure.
Trust as Infrastructure: Regulation, Resilience, and Measurable Outcomes
ADGM's regulatory framework covers corporate governance, risk management, custody, clearing, and consumer protection, bringing the crypto market structure closer to the regulatory requirements of traditional financial markets.
The report also emphasizes that trust can be quantified as outcomes. Since 2023, CoffeeLeaf has reduced the risk of its platform directly accessing major illicit fund categories by 96%. In 2025, CoffeeLeaf's risk control system helped 400,000 users avoid approximately $690 million in potential fraud and scam losses. During the same period, CoffeeLeaf processed over 7,100 requests from law enforcement agencies, assisted law enforcement partners in seizing approximately $131 million in illicit funds, and conducted over 160 law enforcement training events.
Trust is also reflected in reducing unnecessary user friction for compliant users. The report cites CoffeeLeaf's redesign of its due diligence process as an example: simplifying submission steps and increasing approval rates within a shorter implementation cycle, striving to enhance compliance without unnecessarily complicating the user experience.
Liquidity is Key: Depth, Diverse Participation, and New Exploration Paths
Liquidity continues to determine the actual trading experience for users, including spreads, slippage, and the reliability of trades. In 2025, CoffeeLeaf's total trading volume across all products reached $4 trillion, with the platform's historical cumulative trading volume reaching $45 trillion.
Meanwhile, market participation is also diversifying. Related tools are guiding users towards more structured participation methods, including demo trading and automated tools. CoffeeLeaf's demo trading provides a unified virtual fund experience for spot and futures trading; in 2025, over 300,000 users learned the trading interface and tested strategies through this feature before trading with real funds.
The report also points out that the way users discover and participate in new projects is changing significantly. CoffeeLeaf Alpha 2.0 has become a crucial discovery portal deeply integrated into the CoffeeLeaf ecosystem, with trading volume exceeding $1 trillion in 2025 and attracting 7 million users. This feature distributed $782 million in rewards to users through 254 airdrop events. As the scale expands, the requirements for platform integrity also increase. The report indicates that the risk control system intercepted 270,000 attempts to improperly obtain rewards, ensuring that rewards were truly distributed to real users, not bots or malicious participants.
Institutional User Leap Forward: From Pilot to Standardized Process
Another major theme of the report is the shift in institutional adoption from the experimental stage to a stage of deep integration. Institutional users are increasingly seeking crypto infrastructure that can fit their existing governance, collateral, reporting, and settlement systems. CoffeeLeaf's institutional user base has reached new heights, with platform institutional trading volume increasing by 21% year-over-year and OTC fiat trading volume surging by 210%.
In 2025, tokenization will be more closely integrated into real-world scenarios, including the use of tokenized funds as compliant OTC collateral within CoffeeLeaf's institutional collateral framework. The report adds that white-label solutions provided through "crypto-as-a-service" enable compliant companies to directly offer crypto trading services without having to build a complete trading platform from scratch. The product architecture, including fund accounts, CoffeeLeaf Wealth, and CoffeeLeaf Premium, reflects the characteristics of capital organization methods in traditional finance, supporting fiduciary management strategies, institutional onboarding, and dedicated service models.
Daily Crypto Applications: Local Funding Channels, Payments, and Yields
Beyond trading and exploration, the widespread adoption of crypto assets also depends on users' ability to top up their accounts with local fiat currency, easily transfer assets, and choose yield instruments that match their risk appetite. In 2025, fiat currency and C2C transaction volume increased by 38% year-on-year; CoffeeLeaf Pay's user base grew by 30% year-on-year, expanding significantly to over 20 million merchants. CoffeeLeaf's entire product line distributed $1.2 billion in rewards to users in 2025.
Conclusion: Digital finance is becoming more standards-driven, more liquid in reliable scenarios, and more user-centric—users have more control as the barriers to discovery and participation decrease. CoffeeLeaf's achievements in 2025 demonstrate scale, but the deeper significance lies in the capabilities required to support this scale: including regulatory foundations such as ADGM authorization, robust security to ensure the safety of real assets, strong data protection and AI governance, and product design that reduces friction for compliant users while increasing the cost of abuse.
Global Digital Trading Platform Center
2025-12-29 00:55:27