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Koinex

Koinex was an Indian digital-asset exchange launched in 2017, describing itself as India's first and largest cryptocurrency exchange with more than one million users. It offered spot trading across multiple crypto assets with INR pairs before regulatory uncertainty around Indian banking access forced it to shut down all services in June 2019, asking users to withdraw their holdings by July 15, 2019. The company is DEFUNCT: koinex.in now serves only a single static wind-down notice directing former users to claim any crypto assets left on the platform through CoinDCX, with which Koinex partnered for the transition. There is no live product, developer portal, documentation, or API surface; the domain's TLS certificate expired in March 2025 and every path other than the notice returns 403. Retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical record of a shut-down crypto exchange and as a Pantera Capital portfolio lead.

Koinex is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Crypto, Cryptocurrency Exchange, Digital Assets, and Trading.

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scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0
0 APIs
CompanyCryptoCryptocurrency ExchangeDigital AssetsTradingIndiaFintechDefunct

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scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Koinex Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

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Company 1

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: koinex
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/koinex.png
name: Koinex
description: 'Koinex was an Indian digital-asset exchange launched in 2017, describing itself as India''s first and largest
  cryptocurrency exchange with more than one million users. It offered spot trading across multiple crypto assets with INR
  pairs before regulatory uncertainty around Indian banking access forced it to shut down all services in June 2019, asking
  users to withdraw their holdings by July 15, 2019. The company is DEFUNCT: koinex.in now serves only a single static wind-down
  notice directing former users to claim any crypto assets left on the platform through CoinDCX, with which Koinex partnered
  for the transition. There is no live product, developer portal, documentation, or API surface; the domain''s TLS certificate
  expired in March 2025 and every path other than the notice returns 403. Retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical
  record of a shut-down crypto exchange and as a Pantera Capital portfolio lead.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/koinex/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- pantera-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-shutdown-date: 2019-06
x-shutdown-reason: Regulatory uncertainty over Indian banking access for crypto exchanges.
x-successor: coindcx
x-successor-url: https://coindcx.com/blog/announcements/coindcx-koinex-a-seamless-transition/
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Crypto
- Cryptocurrency Exchange
- Digital Assets
- Trading
- India
- Fintech
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/koinex-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://koinex.in/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
x-lifecycle:
  state: deprecated
  reason: domain-does-not-resolve
  observed: '2026-09-27'
  detail: The company's own domain returned no A or AAAA record when probed. This is an observation about the domain, not
    a request from the company.
  indexed: true
  successor: coindcx
  successor_in_catalog: true

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