# Young Platform > Buy Bitcoin, it's easy. Young Platform is an Italian cryptocurrency exchange offering trading, staking, and educational tools for digital assets. It serves both crypto beginners and experienced traders across Europe. Young Platform is an Italian ecosystem that brings together crypto-asset trading, decentralized finance, and traditional financial services under a single company. It operates a simple exchange for beginners, an advanced trading platform with charting tools and conditional orders, and a gamified learning app that rewards users in its own YNG token. The ecosystem is designed to let individuals and businesses manage digital assets and euros from one access point, moving between investing, liquidity, and everyday payments. Users can trade a range of digital assets, earn staking rewards, set up recurring investment plans, and access fee discounts through YNG token based loyalty Clubs. For companies, Young Platform offers treasury diversification into crypto, an OTC desk for large trades, crypto payment acceptance, and e-learning courses on crypto and blockchain for staff and clients. The platform holds regulatory licenses in Italy and France and complies with European MiCA regulation. Its product range spans the core exchange and its professional counterpart, Young Platform Pro, alongside Young Platform Step for gamified learning and rewards, and Young Platform Academy for free educational content on crypto-assets and blockchain. The company is used by retail investors new to crypto, professional traders, and business clients seeking treasury and payment solutions across Europe. - Type: Company - Sector: Finance - Status: Active - Founded: 2018-09-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/young_platform ## Products - [Young Platform](https://thegrid.id/profiles/young_platform): Young Platform is a centralized exchange for buying and selling cryptocurrencies with euros via bank transfer, card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay. It includes recurring purchase automation, staking, Smart Trades for automated order execution, an OTC desk for institutional transactions, and Sub-accounts for business management. A tiered Club loyalty program gates fee discounts and staking bonuses behind YNG token locking. Young Platform Pro, sharing the same account system, adds professional trading with TradingView charting, complex order types, and API access, charging volume-tiered fees cut up to ninety percent for Club members. On Pro the company executes orders as an intermediary rather than as counterparty, with one-to-one custody and two-factor authentication. (Centralised Exchange, Live, Main Product) - [Young Platform Step](https://thegrid.id/profiles/young_platform): Young Platform Step is a mobile application rewarding users with YNG tokens for completing gamified tasks. It integrates with Apple Health and Google Fit for step tracking, which users redeem through quests and competitive rankings with YNG prize pools. The app includes cryptocurrency quizzes on blockchain and market topics, Up/Down price prediction games, and an experience point progression system for leveling up. Earned YNG tokens transfer to the Young Platform exchange for trading or Club membership activation. (Questing Platform, Live) - [Young Platform Academy](https://thegrid.id/profiles/young_platform): Young Platform Academy is a free educational platform offering structured lessons on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, DeFi, trading, and personal finance across beginner to intermediate levels. Content is available in Italian, English, and French. Quiz activities within the Academy connect to the Young Platform Step app, enabling users to earn YNG token rewards for completed lessons. (Education and Training, Live) - [Young Platform Pro](https://thegrid.id/profiles/young_platform): Young Platform Pro is an advanced crypto trading platform for active traders, covering twenty-four markets. It supports limit, stop-limit and complex orders with simultaneous placement and automated risk monitoring, TradingView charting with over eighty technical indicators, and REST and WebSocket API access with IP whitelisting. Fees are volume-tiered, recalculated daily on trailing thirty-day volume, and reduced for Club members. Assets held on the platform are protected by one-to-one custody, two-factor authentication and mobile biometrics. On Pro, the company acts as an intermediary executing client orders under Article 78 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114, not as a counterparty, which sets it apart from the retail exchange. Users sign in with their existing Young Platform credentials. (Centralised Exchange, Live) ## Assets - [Young (YNG)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/young_platform): YNG is the utility token of the Young Platform ecosystem, a crypto exchange and financial services provider. It is locked to join Club membership tiers, unlocking trading fee discounts, staking APY bonuses, cashback on the Young debit card, and bonus tokens through the YNG Boost vesting service. Locking reduces circulating supply as membership grows, and a buyback programme funded by card fees supports the token. 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