# Quidax > Trade crypto safely, quickly, and easily Quidax is a Nigeria-based cryptocurrency exchange where users can buy, sell, and store Bitcoin, QDX, and other digital assets. Quidax is a digital asset company that operates a centralized cryptocurrency exchange focused on African markets. Through its core platform and a dedicated pro trading terminal, individuals and businesses can deposit local currency or stablecoins to trade, swap, withdraw and hold a range of supported cryptocurrencies. The exchange serves individual traders as well as startups, fintechs, and enterprises seeking to move value across borders. Quidax addresses the difficulty and cost of moving money across African markets and beyond by combining an orderbook exchange with over-the-counter services and white-label digital asset infrastructure. It is licensed as a digital assets exchange, giving it a regulated standing among exchanges operating in the region. The platform supports multiple local and international currencies alongside a range of stablecoins, allowing businesses to settle value across several countries. Its offering spans retail trading tools, an OTC desk for large orders, and business-facing products such as payment APIs, a token launchpad, and infrastructure for fintechs to embed stablecoin rails. Quidax also issues QDX, a utility token tied to its ecosystem. It is used by individual traders, remittance and payments businesses, and enterprises across multiple African and international markets. - Type: Company - Sector: Finance - Status: Active - Founded: 2018-01-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/quidax ## Products - [Quidax Exchange](https://thegrid.id/profiles/quidax): Quidax Exchange is a centralised exchange that lets individuals buy, sell, and trade digital assets. It provides fiat deposits, an instant swap feature for quick conversions, and a spot order-book market for placing trades against other users. Users hold funds in custodial wallets managed by the platform, which serves individuals moving stablecoins and crypto in and out of African markets. (Centralised Exchange, Live, Main Product) - [Quidax Launchpad](https://thegrid.id/profiles/quidax): Quidax Launchpad is a launch pad that helps projects list new and existing tokens on the Quidax exchange. It coordinates advisory support and guidance through the listing process for token issuers. The service is aimed at projects seeking exposure to Quidax users and liquidity. (Launch Pad, Live) - [Quidax Qards](https://thegrid.id/profiles/quidax): Quidax Qards is a virtual card product that will let users make cross-border payments for subscriptions, bills, and shopping using converted fiat and crypto balances. It is designed to offer competitive exchange rates when spending internationally. The product is not yet publicly available and remains in a waitlist stage. (Card, In Development) - [QDX Vault](https://thegrid.id/profiles/quidax): QDX Vault is a staking product for holders of the Quidax utility token. It lets users lock their tokens to receive rewards distributed through periodic airdrops and new token allocations. The service provides passive income and early access to newly listed assets on the exchange. (Staking & Validation Services, Live) - [Quidax OTC Desk](https://thegrid.id/profiles/quidax): Quidax OTC Desk is an over-the-counter trading service for large-volume cryptocurrency transactions above a set threshold. It negotiates prices privately and settles trades directly to wallets or local currency bank accounts, avoiding public order-book exposure. The service also covers institutional and VIP clients seeking customised trading, liquidity, and settlement arrangements for bulk orders. (OTC, Live) - [Quidax Earn](https://thegrid.id/profiles/quidax): Quidax Earn is a savings and yield product that lets users earn interest on deposited stablecoin balances through flexible and fixed staking plans. Users select a plan and deposit a minimum amount to begin accruing a stated annual yield without actively managing a strategy. The product serves individual users seeking passive returns on idle stablecoin holdings. (Savings & Yield, Live) - [Quidax API](https://thegrid.id/profiles/quidax): Quidax API is a developer tooling product that lets businesses build crypto-powered features, including stablecoin payments and fiat-to-crypto connectivity, into their own applications. It provides programmatic access for building exchanges, fintech products, digital wallets, or neobanks that need to connect dollar-pegged tokens with local currencies. Businesses integrate the API to embed deposit, withdrawal, and payment functionality without operating their own exchange infrastructure. (Developer Tooling, Live) - [Quidax Ramp](https://thegrid.id/profiles/quidax): Quidax Ramp is an on/off ramp infrastructure product that lets businesses convert local currencies to stablecoins and crypto and back within seconds. It provides embeddable, low-code checkout interfaces alongside a white-label API for exchanges, wallets, and remittance apps to launch local payment flows. The product bundles automated compliance, including identity verification and fraud detection, so integrating businesses can accept multiple local payment methods without building their own conversion infrastructure. (On/Off Ramp, Live) - [Basqet](https://thegrid.id/profiles/quidax): Basqet is a merchant payment gateway that lets businesses accept digital asset and cryptocurrency payments at checkout. It handles payment acceptance and settlement for merchants integrating cryptocurrency as a payment method. The product is aimed at businesses seeking to offer crypto payment acceptance to their customers. (Merchant Payment Gateway, Live) ## Assets - [Quidax Token (QDX)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/quidax): QDX is the utility token of Quidax Exchange. It is used to unlock trading fee discounts, higher savings and staking interest rates, and access to exclusive platform features, with staking through the QDX Vault providing airdrops of newly listed tokens. A deflationary mechanism routes periodic token buybacks to an unspendable address, reducing circulating supply over time. (Utility) ## Links - [Blog](https://blog.quidax.com) - [Documentation](https://docs.quidax.com) - [Main](https://www.quidax.io) - [Telegram](https://t.me/OfficialQuidaxCommunity) - [Telegram](https://t.me/QDXToken) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/QuidaxGlobal) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/QuidaxGlobal) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/quidaxglobal) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/QDX_Token) - [Twitter / X](https://twitter.com/QuidaxSupport) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/quidax) - [Telegram](https://t.me/QuidaxGlobalAnnouncements) - [Telegram](https://t.me/QuidaxGlobalAnnouncements) ## Legal This data is provided under two licensing models. Model 1 - open data. The open data core is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) — a copyleft/share-alike license allowing free use, modification, and sharing for any purpose. Attribution is required: include "Powered by The Grid" linking to https://thegrid.id wherever the data is used. 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