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Martin Call
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Why WaaS Is Becoming Standard for Fast Crypto Exchanges

Security is the non-negotiable survival metric for CEXs in 2025. Yet, along with protection, users demand speed: instant BTC$BTC deposits, seamless withdrawals, frictionless transfers. Unfortunately, meeting both demands is where most platforms break.

πŸ‘€ I saw this firsthand while consulting for an emerging exchange. Their fully in-house setup gave them control, but the infrastructure kept getting heavier, slower, and more expensive to maintain.

To fix this, we rebuilt the most sensitive layers via https://institutional.whitebit.com/crypto-wallets-for-business?utm_source=coinmarketcap&utm_medium=WaaS_B&utm_campaign=post integration from WhiteBIT.

The setup took just a few weeks, but the impact was immediate:

βœ… Deposit speeds nearly doubled: slow internal nodes were replaced with high-availability infrastructure, removing wait-time friction for traders.

βœ… Internal system load dropped: critical layers (custody, wallet operations, AML checks) moved to institutional-grade infrastructure - freeing the engineering team to focus on product growth.

WaaS delivers both execution speed and reliability to modern exchanges by taking over the most failure-prone parts of infrastructure, while giving teams room to focus on product, not firefighting.

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