AscendEX, a global crypto trading platform that offers users a wide range of product suites, today announced a strategic partnership with Numbers Protocol, a blockchain network designed to verify the authenticity of digital content and make it transparent. The partnership enabled the integration of AscendEX’s data network into Numbers Protocol’s innovative authentication framework to strengthen AscendEX’s network security, transparency and trust in the platform’s digital content and data applications.
Launched in 2018 by Wall Street investors, AscendEX is a global cryptocurrency exchange that allows retail and institutional clients to easily invest, trade and earn crypto. By offering a wide range of spot, margin and futures trading products, wallet services and staking support across multiple blockchain networks, AscendEX makes it seamless for people to buy, sell, exchange and earn their crypto assets.
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Numbers Protocol – the provenance infrastructure for humans and AI, improving the efficiency of digital and physical asset transactions
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— AscendEX (@AscendEX_) December 9, 2025
AscendEX Enchaining data authentication using Numbers Protocol technology
The partnership emphasizes the importance of data verification and digital provenance. As the crypto market continues to rapidly evolve, so does the sophistication of bad actors looking to exploit vulnerabilities. Fraudsters often exploit weaknesses in decentralized networks, gaps in customer onboarding, and compliance to manipulate cryptocurrency platforms.
Crypto platforms are vulnerable to advanced fraud risks (such as phishing schemes, account takeovers, pump-and-dump schemes using fake customer accounts, identity fraud using AI-generated IDs, money laundering using unverified wallets, and exploitation of KYC gaps during customer onboarding) due to the pseudonymity of blockchain technology. For crypto exchanges, Web3 applications, DeFi platforms and wallets, data verification has become a crucial tool to prevent fraud activities and enable compliance with regulatory standards.
Numbers Protocol has positioned itself as a solution to these problems. Using decentralized technologies and its specialized blockchain network, Numbers Protocol creates immutable records of data/digital content, making them verifiable and traceable across chains.
Through the above partnership, AscendEX leverages Numbers Protocol’s digital provenance framework to securely track the authenticity of data on its trading platform. This groundbreaking approach enables AscendEX to prevent unauthorized movement of data across its platform and prevent data breaches, helping to ensure the legitimacy of digital content throughout its lifecycle on its network. Additionally, through this alliance, AscendEX leverages Numbers Protocol’s verification tools to verify data both with and without C2PA labels to determine the origin and authentication of crypto assets.
Unlock the power of Web3 with data traceability
The partnership with Numbers Protocol allows AscendEX to advance data traceability on its crypto trading network and unlock the full capabilities of DeFi on the platform. This move marks an important step towards creating a more transparent and verifiable DeFi data space. By combining AscendEX’s data trading network with Numbers Protocol’s provenance-centric authenticity framework, the two platforms are redefining the way Web3 developers and users can confidently handle data they know is safe and reliable.