FTX Exchange is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops a platform for professional trading firms. They strive to build a platform powerful enough for professional trading firms and intuitive enough for first-time users. FTX supports quarterly and perpetual futures for all major cryptocurrencies, leveraged tokens, and OTC. FTX was incubated by Alameda Research, a top cryptocurrency liquidity provider. Because of this FTX has had industry-leading order books from day one. It was co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang, in 2018 with a mission to build the best derivatives exchange and to help move this space toward becoming institutional.