Oryon
Portfolio indexActive · Series A · 2020
ActiveFinancial rails

Bybit

CategoryCeFi · Exchange
HeadquartersDubai
FoundersBen Zhou
— Overview

Bybit is a top-three global derivatives exchange serving 60M+ retail and institutional users across 190 countries. The venue built its early market share on perpetual futures with market-maker-grade matching latency and by 2026 offers spot, options, copy-trading, and institutional custody as a single platform.

The exchange operates a bespoke risk engine that consistently outperforms industry benchmarks during volatility events — a technical edge that has translated directly into liquidity concentration during every major sell-off since 2022.

In Q4 2025 Bybit completed a $2B institutional custody rollout in partnership with three regulated trust banks, and now processes approximately $12.4B in daily derivatives volume.

— By the numbers
60M+
Users
$12.4B
Daily volume
1,400+
Markets
2018
Founded
— Investment
Round
Series A 2020
Our role
Lead
Check size
$8M
Co-investors
Ribbit Capital · Founders Fund · Coinbase Ventures
Board seat
Haseeb Qureshi
— Our thesis

A next-generation derivatives exchange with market-maker-grade infrastructure. We led the Series A on the conviction that liquidity concentration would migrate to venues built by engineers rather than trading houses.

— Team
BZ

Ben Zhou

CEO & Co-Founder
HL

Helen Liu

COO
MZ

Mazurka Zeng

Head of Derivatives
IT

Igneus Terrenus

Head of Comms
— Timeline
  1. Mar 2018Founded by Ben Zhou in Singapore
  2. Q1 2020Oryon-led Series A
  3. Q3 2023Dubai VARA licence, HQ relocation
  4. Q4 2025Institutional custody rollout
— Latest update

Ranked #2 by global derivatives volume, now serving 60M+ users across 190 countries. Successful institutional custody rollout in Q4.

— In the press

The technical bar Bybit maintains during volatility is quietly rewriting the CeFi playbook.

The Block, Nov 2025

Every serious quantitative fund we speak with now routes flow through Bybit as a matter of course.

Coindesk, Mar 2026