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[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Exchange Review
Centralized[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Exchange Rating Analysis
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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.
At the start of 2021, LATOKEN currently offers many features, including the following: the ability to buy and sell cryptocurrency using a credit card, the ability to invest in startups via their IEO market, and the ability to list an IEO. They have signup bonuses for new users as well as a referral program. Their app is available in both the Apple and Android app stores. They have numerous trading pairs listed, although some display little to no trading volume.
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.
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.
A warning from a concerned Reddit user
LAToken's daily trading volume and holdings figures don't match
Twitter thread breaking down LAToken's behavior
LAToken reviews on CryptoCompare
LATOKEN rubbishes KICK ICO’s LATOKEN fraud claim
CyberFM Announces Proactive Delisting From LAToken Exchange
LATOKEN has made many underhanded attempts to get us to stop telling the truth about them. In 2020, they temporarily got our review deranked on Google results by falsely copying our content to an old forum thread, to make it look like we had stolen content. The levels they will sink to in order to silence critics are frankly alarming.
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Team Members
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Exchange Review, Trading Fees, Deposit and Markets
24h Trading Volume
2,043.106 BTC
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Total Trading Pairs
N/A
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Margin Trading
No
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Deposit Fees
No Deposit Fees Applied
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Trading Fees
0.05% for pairs in LA 0.1% for all other pairs.
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Fiat Deposit
No
Accepted Payment Methods
Crypto to Crypto Only
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Native Token
Yes
Native Token Smart Contract
N/A
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Trading Markets
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Stablecoins Trading
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Withdrawals
Daily Withdrawal Limit
1000 USD
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Withdrawal Fees
The withdrawal fee is going to be deducted from the transferred amount. The fee is displayed below the minimum amount.
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Withdrawal Fees Discount
50% trading against LA
Proof of Reserves
N/A
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Overview
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LATOKEN is a blockchain-based platform and protocol that enables the exchange or trade of cryptocurrencies. It also claims to enable tokenization of assets. A LATOKEN exchange review reveals that it has its own native ERC20 token, namely LAToken (LA) token.
LATOKEN claims to encrypt user credentials and private keys using AES-256 – a security standard, algorithm or specification based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). They also encrypt passwords in their database by using Salted SHA-256 (super secure “salted” password hashing via SHA-256 – a cryptographic hash algorithm). This while the bulk of user funds are kept offline in multi-sig wallets or wallets that require multiple or more than one signature - again, according to claims made by the exchange, which are impossible to verify without performing an external security audit (which was never done, as far as we know).
The company behind LATOKEN is LAT Foundation PTE, which is mentioned on their website. The exchange is overseen by CEO Valentin Preobrazhensky, who has little previous entrepreneurial experience in the cryptocurrency world. Such information is available on their website, as well as on other online platforms.
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Exchange KYC and AML
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN AML Policy
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN IEO launchpad
IEO | Start date | End date | Fundraising | |
![]() Green Funding Coin | Apr 02, 2019 | - | Apr 30, 2019 | N/A |
![]() 7Eleven | Mar 28, 2019 | - | Apr 30, 2019 | £20M |
![]() Volum | May 17, 2019 | - | Jun 17, 2019 | n/a |
![]() ClinicAll | Mar 20, 2019 | - | Jul 03, 2019 | $100M |
![]() Tron Game Global | Jun 13, 2019 | - | Jun 14, 2019 | $60M |
![]() MECA Coin | Apr 15, 2019 | - | May 31, 2019 | $5.5M |
![]() SocialRemit | May 01, 2019 | - | May 31, 2019 | $2M |
![]() GStar | Jan 01, 2019 | - | Mar 20, 2019 | $20K |
![]() Zeux | Jun 07, 2019 | - | Jul 05, 2019 | ETH10K |
![]() Monarch | Jun 07, 2019 | - | Jun 30, 2019 | $50M |
![]() Octera | Jun 01, 2019 | - | Aug 31, 2019 | $11M |
![]() Agrolifecoin | May 29, 2019 | - | Aug 23, 2019 | $250M |
![]() AllSesame | May 21, 2019 | - | Jun 15, 2019 | $6M |
![]() Tokenmom | Jan 31, 2019 | - | Jun 07, 2019 | |
![]() CENTEX | Jun 18, 2019 | - | Jul 18, 2019 | 7.7K ETH |
![]() Bitenny | Jul 29, 2019 | - | Aug 19, 2019 | $25M |
![]() iOWN | Apr 01, 2019 | - | Jul 03, 2019 | $3M |
![]() Coinshare | Jun 18, 2019 | - | Jul 31, 2019 | $13.13M USD |
![]() EarthBi | Apr 09, 2019 | - | Jul 26, 2019 | $48M |
![]() Dreamr | Aug 08, 2019 | - | Sep 09, 2019 | $1.175M |
![]() Rapidz | May 14, 2019 | - | Jun 13, 2019 | $450K |
![]() FashionCoin | May 02, 2019 | - | Jun 20, 2019 | $80M |
![]() Coin Island Air | May 25, 2019 | - | Jun 24, 2019 | $7M |
![]() Betmatch | Jul 05, 2019 | - | Aug 05, 2019 | $25M |
![]() Bitway | Jul 01, 2019 | - | Dec 01, 2019 | $21M |
![]() Bither | Jul 08, 2019 | - | Aug 04, 2019 | $28.713M |
![]() MAS COIN | Jun 23, 2019 | - | Sep 24, 2019 | $20M |
![]() Silica neXus | May 25, 2019 | - | Aug 20, 2019 | 50K ETH |
![]() PixelBit | Jun 11, 2019 | - | Aug 31, 2019 | $20M USD |
![]() Zest | Jun 10, 2019 | - | Dec 17, 2019 | |
![]() iProtocol Network | May 16, 2019 | - | Jul 29, 2019 | $40M |
![]() Coinxes | Apr 01, 2019 | - | Sep 30, 2019 | $21.6M |
![]() AIZEUS | Mar 01, 2019 | - | Sep 30, 2019 | $10M |
![]() Creditcoin | Jan 14, 2019 | - | Sep 30, 2019 | $20M |
![]() ROC2 | Mar 01, 2019 | - | Dec 01, 2019 | $55M |
![]() Ubecoin | Apr 12, 2019 | - | Aug 20, 2019 | $30M |
![]() Fr8 Network | Apr 16, 2019 | - | May 22, 2019 | $15M |
![]() Smart Trade Coin | Dec 15, 2018 | - | Oct 15, 2019 | $99M |
![]() DexAge | Jun 22, 2019 | - | Jul 08, 2019 | $24M |
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Exchange Additional Information
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[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Headquarters
Estonia
[SCAM Alert] LATOKEN Establish Date
2017