[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Exchange Review

WARNING - THIS IS A SCAM EXCHANGE

They are promoting scam IEOs.

They are promoting IEOs promising growth of 100% to 500%.

They are cheating and lying to founders and employees.

They are misleading founders to think they will have successful IEOs while it never happens.

They will not disclose who are the shareholders or directors of the company.

We urge you to stay away from LATOKEN and not entrust them with any of your funds!

LATOKEN is a cryptocurrency exchange aimed at those who prefer a very wide range of coins to trade from, and boasts low fees among seemingly attractive features. It was launched in 2017 and in October of that year completed its ICO, raising $19.6M in Ether by selling its LA token. To this day, LATOKEN have not provided concrete evidence or documentation that presents viable token economics which justify the value of the token and its title of "utility token", although they are constantly trying to convince users that it is one.

LATOKEN's User Experience is average. No KYC is required to start trading (a bonus for some and concern for others) and the website quality is fair. Customer support are quick to reply and answer your question. The platform's performance is average at best: many outlets claim LATOKEN is reporting fake volume numbers which are coordinated by the exchange itself to boost its rankings. If true, it must mean that the representation of the platform's performance is questionable - The trade matching engine might appear to withstand a heavy load, but if and when "real" volume comes along we have no way of determining if the infrastructure upon which the exchange is built is capable of handling such situations without hiccups.

Features on LATOKEN are lacking; While there is a wide range of coins to trade, the vast majority of them are illiquid, and if the volume-faking reports are to be believed, then these pairs might even have no liquidity at all. The exchange offers no other trading options other than spot trading and no mobile app, and its only real extra feature is the ability to purchase crypto with a credit card.

The LATOKEN team is large and most are based in Moscow. However, we have received personal testimonies from former LATOKEN employees detailing the sad reality of working at the company: Daily scrutiny from higher ranking employees, a mafia-like behavior by top executives and unheard of business practices endorsed by the company. After cross-examining these type of reports from many different sources, we are sad to report that we believe the human factor at LATOKEN is unworthy of doing business with.

LATOKEN manages to create a considerable social media presence, providing promotions to encourage trading, listing new coins frequently and maintaining several communication channels.

Finally, our Trust in LATOKEN's ability to safeguard user funds is extremely low. While they were never hacked, LATOKEN's regulatory status is quite unclear: it is incorporated in Singapore, where crypto laws could be seen as a bit "loose". They do keep some user funds in cold storage, although they don't mention how much. Additionally, there seems to be a significant amount of users who report that the exchange is making it hard for them to withdraw their money, with the withdrawal system either not working or withholding user funds altogether, and no real help offered or given by the customer support team. We do believe something in the "let-users-withdraw-their-own-money" workflow is broken or at least not functioning as well as it should, and it also might even be a deliberate attempt by the exchange to take money out of users’ pockets.

Finally, we have directly received reports from projects who worked with LATOKEN alongside internal employee testimonies which describe the terrible state of affairs inside the company, the way they deliberately try to scam money out of projects and into their own pockets and so for us - LATOKEN is currently best avoided.

Examples:

First hand testimony by a person that LATOKEN scammed for over $18K.

Trustpilot - A trust rating aggregator, on which 61% of LATOKEN reviews are negative, while the positive ones have been suggested to be orchestrated or funded by the exchange team.

Bitcointalk - One of many threads on the forum site with multiple accounts of users accusing the exchange of being a scam, stealing tokens from them, etc.