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Crypto exchange financial model, built free.

A three-statement Excel model for a crypto exchange or digital-asset platform, built from your own figures and checked to balance.

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The business

Lets retail and institutional customers buy, sell, stake and hold digital assets, earning trading fees tied to crypto prices and volatility, plus staking commissions, custody fees and interest on stablecoin reserves and customer cash.

See the sampleHow the model works

In short

  • 01

    Three linked statements

    Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, linked in every period.

  • 02

    Valued two ways

    Discounted cash flow and trading multiples, side by side.

  • 03

    Monthly to annual

    Monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annual periods, for up to 30 years.

  • 04

    Checked every period

    A Checks sheet shows the balance sheet balances and the cash reconciles.

The sample

The sample, as Excel draws it.

Built by the same system and checks as yours, on illustrative figures: every sheet as Excel draws it, or live.

Annual · 10 years · Low detail
Crypto exchange sample model.xlsx
The Summary sheet of the sample crypto exchange model

Illustrative figures: the sample describes no real business. The live preview shows values; your model’s Excel file has every formula.

How it works

How the model works for a crypto exchange.

  1. How it earns revenue3 formulas
    Broking and exchange revenue · The business
    Active clients at the end of the periodActive clients at the start of the periodNet growth in active clients a yearshare of the year
    Broking and exchange revenue · The business
    Client tradesClient-years (average clients × years)Trades per active client a year
    Broking and exchange revenue · The business
    BrokerageClient tradesBrokerage per trade
  2. What drives its costs3 formulas
    Operating expenses · The business
    Total FTEsOperations and deliverySales and marketingTechnologyFinance, HR and administration
    Operating expenses · The business
    Total average FTEsOperations and deliverySales and marketingTechnologyFinance, HR and administration
    Operating expenses · The business
    Total staff costsSalariesOn-costsOther costs per FTE
  3. What it invests in3 formulas
    Digital assets held on balance sheet · The business
    Net purchases of digital assets (at the average price)Units boughtUnits soldPrice at the start of the periodPrice at the end of the period
    Digital assets held on balance sheet · The business
    Digital assets at fair valueUnits held at the end of the periodPrice at the end of the period
    Digital assets held on balance sheet · The business
    Fair value movementDigital assets at fair valueDigital assets at the start of the periodNet purchases of digital assets (at the average price)from at the average price
  4. How it is funded3 formulas
    Debt
    RepaymentsScheduled repaymentsPrepayments from an equity raise and the cash sweep
    Debt
    Closing balanceOpening balanceDrawdownsRepayments
    Debt
    Interest expenseOpening balanceAll-in interest rateshare of the year
  5. How profit becomes cash3 formulas
    Working capital
    Trade receivablesRevenuefrom statementsDebtor daysDays in period
    Working capital
    InventoryDirect costs (positive)from statementsInventory daysDays in period
    Working capital
    Trade payablesCash operating costs (positive)from statementsCreditor daysDays in period
What it covers

21 parts, each one tested.

Every part is a tested building block with its own checks: yours is put together from the ones your business needs.

  • Exchange rate (US dollar)Exchange rate by financial year
  • Operating expensesHeadcount build by function
  • Corporate costsFixed cost base indexed to CPI
  • Working capitalFull working capital
  • Income taxCorporate rate with tax losses
  • Corporate fixed assetsStraight-line over remaining life
  • DebtAmortising term loan
  • Equity raisingDistribution reinvestment plan
  • Discounted cash flow valuationDCF on free cash flow to the firm
  • Multiples valuationEV / EBITDA multiple
  • Customers, accounts and acquisition costMarketing budget ÷ CACActive customers or funded accounts of a digital financial service (neobank, BNPL, broker, crypto or wealth app) and the marketing and onboarding cost of winning them.
  • Licence capital and liquidity requirements (non-banks)NTA and liquidity requirementMinimum capital, net tangible assets and liquid funds required of licensed non-bank firms, and the surplus available for dividends.
  • Broking and exchange revenueTrades × fee per tradeBrokerage, exchange, clearing and capital-markets fees driven by traded value, trades and capital raised.
  • Staking, custody and reserve incomeStablecoin reserve incomeCrypto platform income other than trading fees — staking commissions, custody fees, and interest on stablecoin reserves and customer cash.
  • Digital assets held on balance sheetUnits held × price pathBitcoin and other digital assets held as treasury or inventory, and their fair value or impairment movements.
  • Compensation ratio, bonus pools and deferred awardsFixed pay plus a bonus poolFixed pay, variable bonus pools, adviser or producer payouts and deferred awards for revenue-generating financial businesses, where compensation is the largest cost and flexes with revenue.
  • Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
  • Case selectionStackable stress toggles
  • R&D and capitalised developmentGross R&D × capitalisation rate
  • CPI forecastCPI glide path
  • Interest-rate forecastFlat base rate
Key numbers

The numbers it tracks.

  1. 01monthly transacting users
  2. 02trading volume
  3. 03blended take rate (bps)
  4. 04subscription and services revenue
  5. 05assets on platform
  6. 06adjusted EBITDA
Used for

What it is used for.

Also used for
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