# Pionex > Leading trading bot platform in the world Pionex is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange that lets users trade spot and futures markets through built-in automated trading bots. Pionex is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange, classified as a digital asset trading platform, that embeds automated trading bots directly into its spot and futures markets. It is designed for traders who want algorithmic strategies such as grid trading, dollar-cost averaging, and arbitrage without needing to monitor markets manually. The platform serves both newcomers seeking hands-off exposure to crypto markets and active traders looking for tools to manage risk and execution. The exchange addresses the practical difficulty of running trading strategies continuously by offering a suite of preset and customizable bots that execute trades according to rules chosen by the user. Alongside spot and futures trading, it offers yield-generating products such as staking, savings, and dual investment, as well as access to tokenized versions of stocks and precious metals. It operates in a regulated capacity in some jurisdictions and publishes reserve attestations to support transparency around custodied assets. Its product scope centers on the trading bot suite alongside manual spot and futures trading, complemented by a card and payment offering that lets users spend crypto balances, and services for converting between fiat and digital assets. The platform is used by retail investors, algorithmic traders, and developers who connect through its trading API, spanning markets across a range of supported digital assets. - Type: Company - Sector: Finance - Status: Active - Founded: 2019-01-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/pionex ## Products - [Pionex](https://thegrid.id/profiles/pionex): Pionex is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange integrating automated trading bot strategies, including Grid, Futures Grid, DCA, Infinity Grid, Leveraged Grid, and Signal Bot, that execute in the cloud. The platform provides spot trading, USDT-M and COIN-M perpetual futures, earn products including staking, savings, dual investment, and spot-futures arbitrage, tokenized real-world assets including stock and precious metals tokens, and fiat-to-crypto on-ramp services via card and bank transfer. (Centralised Exchange, Live, Main Product) - [Pionex Card](https://thegrid.id/profiles/pionex): Pionex Card is a crypto payment card available in personal and corporate variants, enabling cryptocurrency spending at point-of-sale merchants through automatic conversion at transaction time. The card links to a Pionex exchange account balance, earns hourly yield on held funds, provides instant cashback, and carries no opening or annual fees. Visa and Mastercard network variants support global merchant acceptance. (Card, Live) - [Pionex AI Kit](https://thegrid.id/profiles/pionex): Pionex AI Kit is an AI agent infrastructure providing MCP (Model Context Protocol), Skills, and CLI components for connecting AI coding agents to Pionex. The MCP layer exposes Pionex trading and account capabilities to AI agents, Skills provide packaged instruction sets enabling agents to execute trading operations, and the CLI offers command-line execution of Pionex API functions. The kit integrates with AI platforms including Cursor, Claude, Windsurf, and VSCode. (MCP, Live) ## Links - [Main](https://www.pionex.com) - [Blog](https://www.pionex.com/blog) - [Documentation](https://www.pionex.com/docs) - [Terms of Service](https://www.pionex.com/blog/pionex-terms-of-service) - [Privacy policy](https://www.pionex.com/blog/privacy-policy-2) - [Telegram](https://t.me/pionexen) - [Telegram](https://t.me/pionexapi) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Pionex) - [YouTube](https://youtube.com/@UCyrwYO_v1sFnZnEYk-NWYMw) - [Facebook](https://facebook.com/pionexglobal) - [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/pionexglobal) - [GitHub](https://github.com/pionex-official) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/pionex) - [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/F5x4kD2XYB) ## Legal This data is provided under two licensing models. Model 1 - open data. 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