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Luno (bitcoin company)

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Headquarters
  
Singapore

Website
  
Official website

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Products
  
Bitcoin exchange, Bitcoin wallet service and Bitcoin API.

Luno (formerly BitX) is a Bitcoin company headquartered in Singapore with operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Contents

Luno facilitates Bitcoin storage and transactions such as buying, selling and paying through their Bitcoin wallet services. They also operate exchanges between fiat money and bitcoin.

History

Luno was founded in 2013, completed an SGD $1m (USD $824,000) seed funding round in 2014 and raised USD $4m in Series A funding, led by Naspers, in 2015.

Luno and PayFast facilitated one of the first crypto-currency integrations into a payment processor in the world.

Products

Luno offers a consumer Bitcoin wallet for Bitcoin transactions and storage. They offer exchange services (buying and selling Bitcoin) in 5 countries and an API for developers to build Bitcoin applications.

References

Luno (bitcoin company) Wikipedia