What Is LBank?

LBank is a leading global cryptocurrency exchange offering spot and derivatives trading, along with additional features like copy trading and earn solutions. In 2025, their areas of focus are: providing the fastest altcoin listing, being top 1 in meme liquidity, and providing the world’s first Pre-Market Guarantee for pre-market tokens. 

Key Takeaways

• LBank is a top global cryptocurrency exchange, supporting 800+ cryptocurrencies and $3B in daily trading.

• LBank provides users with a robust Futures trading platform augmented with a $100M Futures Risk Protection Fund to protect users against wick events. It also makes it easy for new traders to copy trade experienced traders.

• LBank’s trading keywords for 2025 are: Fastest Altcoin Listings, Top 1 in Meme Liquidity, and Pre-Market Guarantee.

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LBank is a leading global cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2015. It has over 15 million users across more than 210 regions, supporting 800+ cryptocurrencies and over $3 billion in daily trading. It offers services and products ranging from cryptocurrency spot and derivatives trading, staking, pre-market trading, and more.

LBank is recognized as a leading crypto and memecoin trading platform. It was awarded Best CEX at the 2024 Crypto.News Awards. It was also awarded “Best Crypto Exchange for Altcoins and Memes” at Wiki Finance Expo Hong Kong 2024. Crypto media Coingape also recognizes LBank as the top exchange for meme investments. It notes that LBank’s speed at listing memecoins within 48 hours of on-chain minting gives its users a first mover advantage, with several meme coins achieving gains of over 500% since their listing on the platform.

LBank also offers competitive fees; a flat trading fee of 0.1% of traded volume applies to makers and takers on the spot trading platform. A fee of 0.02% of trading volume applies to makers on the futures trading platform, while takers pay 0.06% of the trading volume. There are no reports of fees for normal crypto deposits, however, transaction fees could apply to crypto and fiat withdrawals. 

LBank Core Features

Now, let’s take a look at two of LBank’s core features: Futures and Copy Trading.

Futures

According to LBank, the platform has a daily derivatives trading volume of over $2.4 billion across more than 260 assets, offering users up to 200x leverage. LBank claims to launch Meme futures within three hours, providing its users with the fastest platform to trade newly launched high potential tokens. LBank utilizes cross-exchange index pricing to ensure fair pricing and reduce manipulation, while minimizing liquidation risks.

LBank’s Futures platform provides users with a smooth trading experience, with a high TPS matching engine ensuring zero latency, no delays, and no price jumps. Users also enjoy features like customizable charts, quick orders, stop-loss and take-profit, along with one-click reversal, making it easy for users to conduct lightning-fast trades. 

At time of writing, LBank is running the Futures Dual Leaderboard Battle until 30 April 4PM, where top traders will receive up to 22% of the prize pool. 

Futures Risk Protection Fund

While crypto trading in general is known to be risky due to the extreme volatility of cryptocurrencies, derivative trading is riskier, especially in highly leveraged trades. Traders face the risk of liquidation in instances of rapid price movement in the opposite direction. To better protect traders on the derivatives trading platform, LBank launched a $100 million Futures Protection Fund for futures traders on the exchange, offering full reimbursements and extra rewards to traders affected by a sudden price spike.

The protection fund is applied to wick events. A wick event is a rapid and short-lived change in the value of an asset, where the price plunges within 1 minute and quickly rebounds. Wick events are often attributed to market manipulations and create an unfair market for derivatives traders. LBank will validate the wick event by evaluating the prices across the top five ranked futures trading markets for the pair based on data from crypto aggregators.

The futures protection fund applies to the top 100 futures trading pairs on the platform, including top assets like SOL, ETH, and BTC. Affected traders who experience forced liquidations or stop-loss losses will receive a 120% compensation  in USDT, which will be sent within 48 hours after the incident. The compensation program also includes an additional $10,000 reward allocation, which will be shared between all traders who hold a (futures) position in the affected pair at the time of occurrence. By paying out the compensations in USDT, LBank ensures that the beneficiaries are also protected from market volatility, while enabling them to stay active in the market. 

Copy Trading

LBank also offers copy trading, where users can easily copy Lead traders’ trading strategy. They can choose to copy the Lead trader’s recommended parameters, or set their own parameters based on their personal needs and risk preferences. 

At time of writing, the highest ROI from a Lead trader is over 4,000%. According to LBank, there are over 151,170 copy trading users, with $200 million in copy-trading capital. Lead traders enjoy benefits like high profit-sharing, platform traffic boosts, and can also utilize lead-trading functions for easy strategy management. They can also choose to share their trades privately and only allow invited users to copy trade. 

Other LBank Products

Beyond its core features, LBank also offers other products for its users.

LBank Launchpad

LBank Launchpad allows eligible users to commit USDT towards a token sale, where their final allocation of the new token is determined by their share of the total committed USDT. There is also a hard cap set per user, and after it is reached, the remaining tokens will be distributed among the remaining users based on their commitment ratio.

According to LBank, some projects listed on its launchpad enjoyed significant growth, like UMM, which grew by 11,226%.

LBank Launchpool

LBank Launchpool enables crypto holders to lock their assets to earn new tokens, unlike LBank Launchpad which involves advance token purchases. To qualify, users will need to meet the participation requirements, which may be completing spot and/or future trades, along with holding a certain amount of supported tokens.

Tokens will be allocated based on the proportion of users’ average daily holdings, although a hard cap of the number of tokens allocated per user may apply.

According to LBank, the CELA launchpool event had 2,574% APY.

Airdrop

In Q1 2025, LBank launched 55 airdrops with a combined value of $19.9 million under its Airdrop program. During the register phase, users can sign up to participate in the airdrop before the position calculation begins. In the position calculation phase, the system will determine each user’s share of the airdrop based on their holdings, and the tokens will be distributed to their spot account after the distribution ends.

LBank Key Trading Features for 2025

LBank announced its three trading keywords for 2025. These keywords reflect the platform’s plans to enhance its service through user-friendly features. These keywords are: Fastest Altcoins Listings, Top 1 in Meme Liquidity, and Pre-Market Guarantee.

Key Trading Feature 1: Fastest Altcoin Listing

LBank aims to list altcoins in the shortest time possible to enable the exchange to capture important markets ahead of other exchanges. This will also give traders on the platform early exposure to emerging tokens, enabling them to enter the market ahead of users of other slower exchanges.

To do so, LBank will adjust its listing structure and system to reduce the time taken to review new tokens and integrate them into its trading platform. According to LBank, some memecoins are listed within an hour of their creation, allowing users to capture memecoin alphas much faster than other centralized exchanges.

The fast altcoin listing program has contributed to the success of notable altcoins like TRUMP (Official), GOAT, FARTCOIN, MUBARAK, and RFC. 

Key Trading Feature 2: Top 1 in Meme Liquidity

To enable seamless trading of memecoins on the platform, LBank also shared that it will be committing to improving the liquidity depth for memecoins on the platform. The volatility that memecoins are known for is partly caused by poor liquidity on platforms where they are traded. 

With improved liquidity, traders on the exchange will be able to trade memecoins with less slippage. This is also part of the exchange’s efforts to grow the adoption of memecoins as a key crypto asset class. Additionally, LBank also launched the second season of its Superiority Quest, a program designed to complement the platform's goals to offer the best liquidity for memecoins. In this season, LBan’s Superiority Quest features a 10,000 USDT prize pool for users who discover meme projects in LBank’s spot section where LBank’s liquidity is not as good as other exchanges. The first user who makes a verified discovery will receive 200 USDT from the prize pool. 

🚀 #LBankHunt Season 2 is LIVE! 🚀
🔍 Spot the liquidity gaps and compete for a massive prize pool!

📢 How to participate:

1️⃣ Quote this tweet + tag @LBank_Exchange
2️⃣ Point out which Memecoin has lower liquidity on LBank compared to another platform, and back it up with your… pic.twitter.com/kZUqMj3Bg8

— LBank.com (@LBank_Exchange) April 8, 2025

Key Trading Feature 3: Pre-Market Guarantee

Pre-markets allow investors to purchase pre-launched tokens before they are officially listed on a trading platform. Trading pre-market assets can offer users significant potential gains; according to LBank, HMSTR had gains of 99x, CATI at 71x, and LAYER at 46x.

The system is an OTC-based trading structure and poses risks such as extreme price fluctuations after the token starts trading. For example, if the tokens' official trading price differs significantly from the price during the pre-market. 

To protect users from this and support the adoption of pre-markets, LBank has launched its Pre-Market Guarantee for selected pre-market tokens. Through the Pre-Market Guarantee, traders on the platform will receive a subsidy of up to 50 USDT if the value of the token drops significantly after it starts trading. Note that specific terms might differ depending on the token.

LBank’s Meme Ecosystem

Now, let’s take a closer look at LBank’s meme ecosystem. 

Memecoins are a recognized asset class in the crypto space. They are regarded as a community-driven value system and an engaging and fun class of crypto assets, with a low barrier to entry as new entrants don’t require extensive blockchain knowledge to take part.

In the past two years, memecoins have become a mainstay in the crypto space. According to data from CoinGecko, memecoins control a cumulative market cap of over $40 billion at the time of writing. As a leader in the crypto trading sector, LBank has contributed to the growth of memecoins through several programs, including:

Strategic Partnerships With GMGN Collaboration

In 2024, LBank also announced its partnership with GMGN.ai. GMGN.ai is a data analytics and trading tool platform. The platform features a memecoin data dashboard that presents real-time information on memecoins. It also features trading tools that enable investors to analyze and trade newly launched memecoins on the Solana blockchain. 

The partnership with GMGN allows LBank to gain a broader view of the memecoin market, adjust to market demands, stay competitive with other exchanges, and easily discover innovative memecoins to list on its trading platform. 

Donation Leadership With Slerf and DEXX

Crowd-funded memecoin project, Slerf, suffered a mishap when its developer accidentally burned over $10 million worth of presale tokens. The presale program was invested in by over 25,000 participants, and the accidental burn left presale participants at risk of losing their investments. 

Responding to this incident, LBank partnered with the Slerf Team to pursue a compensation plan for presale participants. LBank was one of the first donors to the compensation program, leading a sector-wide approach to reimbursing Slerf investors. The donation campaign raised over $500,000 within 12 hours of launch, and on March 22, 2024, LBank and Slerf finished the first round of refunds with 3,800 SOL. By June 14, 2024, the donation wallet had received over 40,000 SOL. The donated funds were used to refund 97% of the impacted private sale participants. LBank’s role in the donation campaign further demonstrated its commitment to growing the memecoin sector.

In a similar move, LBank also led a $15 million donation program to compensate victims of the DEXX platform exploitation. DEXX, an on-chain crypto trading terminal, suffers a security breach on November 16, 2024, leading to significant losses for users. Alongside six other notable crypto projects, including MEXC Ventures, HashKey Capital, SevenX Ventures, and Mask Network, LBank announced the donation campaign on February 8, 2025. 

Towards this goal, LBank and MEXC Ventures established the Meme Prosperity Committee. The committee will oversee the distribution process and provide updates on the DEXX reimbursement program. On February 18, 2025, reports show that over 3,000 affected wallets had been successfully compensated, and DEXX is operational again.

Memecoin Market Reports

In December 2024, LBank published two market reports on memecoins. The first report, titled "Top 10 Trending Memecoins of 2024," was released by LBank Labs in collaboration with MetaEra and Bee Network. It discussed the memecoin trend and how it affects the general crypto market. It also discussed top memecoins, like GOAT and APU, and the Slerf incident. 

The second report was released on December 12, 2024, again,  in collaboration with MetaEra and Bee Network. The report titled "2024 Memecoins Report: From Controversial Narrative to a $100B Market" discussed the memecoin market highlights and the competition between crypto exchanges over greater control of the memecoin market. The market reports are part of  LBank’s efforts to gain a strong presence in the memecoin market.  

Final Thoughts

LBank aims to make crypto and crypto investment opportunities available to as many people as possible. With its three keywords for 2025 – Fastest Altcoin Listing, Top 1 in Meme Liquidity, and Pre-Market Guarantee – LBank is tackling some of the common pain points around centralized exchanges, especially around capitalizing on new and rising tokens. As the exchange evolves to meet users’ demands while remaining regulatory compliant, LBank is positioned to maintain its place as a leading cryptocurrency exchange, with key trading features like a robust futures trading platform and copy trading. Along with additional features like its Launchpad, Launchpool, and staking program, it provides users with a one-stop destination for investing in crypto.

However, when investing in cryptocurrencies, always do your own research and recognize that cryptocurrencies (especially memecoins) are subject to price volatility and price swings. Never invest more than you can afford to lose.

This article is only for informational purposes and should not be taken as financial advice. Any cryptocurrencies mentioned in this article are only for illustrative purposes.