Founded in 2014, BitFlyer is headquartered in Japan and has the largest Bitcoin transaction volume in Japan.
Bitflyer, which was founded by former Goldman Sachs employees to fill the vacancy in the Japanese bitcoin market after the fall of MtGox, has now received two rounds of funding from investors such as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co., Ltd., a unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, ), Dentsu Digital Holdings, Inc., a venture capital firm owned by Japan's Teikoku Group, and others. Since 2015, the company has introduced many new services, including bitFlyer Lightning, a Bitcoin trading platform designed for professionals, a chainflyer blockchain browser, and more.