Built for traders who move markets.
Dream Options exists for one reason: to give every trader — from retail beginners to professional funds — access to the infrastructure that was once reserved for Wall Street. We build for performance, transparency, and longevity.
2017
Founded
2M+
Users
$4.2B
Daily Volume
180+
Countries
By the numbers
Built different, from day one.
Dream Options was founded in 2017 by three engineers who had seen, from the inside, how centralised finance operated against retail traders. The founding philosophy was simple: build an exchange where the business model never conflicts with the trader's interest.
We do not run a proprietary trading desk. We do not front-run orders. Every dollar of revenue we earn comes from spread and transaction fees — meaning we succeed exactly when our traders succeed. That alignment has guided every product decision since launch.
Today, Dream Options processes over $4.2B in daily volume across spot, futures, and copy-trading products — with the same matching engine architecture that powered us from day one, scaled to handle 2 million orders per second without sacrificing determinism or fairness.
Registered Users
2M+
Daily Volume
$4.2B
Countries
180+
Trading Pairs
500+
Compliant by design.
- Marshall Islands FSC — Primary Licence
- EU MiCA Transitional Entity
- FinCEN MSB Registration (USA)
- ISO 27001 Certified
- SOC 2 Type II Audited
- Chainalysis KYT Integration
Infrastructure that never sleeps.
Collingwood Innovation Center
Where engineers, quants, and designers collaborate to build the future of finance.
The team behind the platform.
Daniel Kwan
Chief Executive Officer
Previously VP Engineering at Binance and quant trader at Goldman Sachs. Daniel co-founded Dream Options in 2017 with the belief that exchange infrastructure should be auditable and fully trader-aligned.
Sofia Reyes
Chief Operating Officer
Ten years building regulated fintech at Revolut and Kraken. Sofia oversees compliance, licensing, and customer operations across all 180+ markets Dream Options serves.
Adeola Okonkwo
Chief Technology Officer
Former principal engineer at AWS and Jane Street. Adeola architected our matching engine, which processes over 2 million orders per second with deterministic microsecond latency.
What we stand for.
Security First
95% of assets held in cold storage. Every account is protected by hardware 2FA, IP whitelisting, and a fully-funded SAFU reserve that has never been tapped.
Community
Our product roadmap is shaped by the traders who use it. Monthly AMAs, community votes, and a dedicated feedback team ensure we build what traders actually need.
Transparency
Proof-of-reserves published monthly. On-chain audit trails are publicly verifiable. We built the platform to have nothing to hide — so we have nothing to hide.
Innovation
We shipped copy trading before it was mainstream, tokenised equities before our competitors, and are beta-testing AI-assisted risk alerts for all account tiers.
Integrity
No front-running. No proprietary trading desk. Dream Options earns exclusively from spread and transaction fees — we profit only when our traders profit.
Excellence
We obsess over latency, uptime, and fill quality because a single dropped order can define a trader's week. 99.99% uptime is not a marketing number — it is our SLA.
Eight years. Zero compromises.
Dream Options Founded
Three former Goldman and Binance engineers launched Dream Options with 50 spot trading pairs and a founding thesis: professional trading tools should be available to everyone.
Perpetual Futures Go Live
We launched cross-margined perpetual contracts with up to 125× leverage and sub-millisecond order matching — the first exchange outside Asia to do so at this scale.
Copy Trading Launch
Social trading went live with 10,000 traders enrolled on day one. Within 90 days it became the fastest-growing feature in our history, adding 400K new accounts.
Marshall Islands FSC Licence
Received our primary regulatory licence from the Marshall Islands FSC and established a EU entity regulated under MiCA's transitional provisions.
Two Million Users
Dream Options crossed 2 million registered accounts across 180+ countries — a milestone reached without a single major security incident or unplanned outage.
Tokenised TradFi Markets
Added tokenised US equities, ETFs, and commodities — letting crypto traders access Apple, Gold, and the S&P 500 on the same account, 24 hours a day.
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