Amber Group

Amber Group built its name on a fusion the rest of crypto only caught up to later: it launched in 2017 as Amber AI, an institutional liquidity provider out of Hong Kong, before the current AI wave gave those two letters their cachet. Co-founders Michael Wu and Wayne Huo grew it into one of the larger crypto market makers by volume, quoting across centralized and decentralized venues around the clock.

What sets the group apart is its path to public markets. In March 2025 its institutional wealth arm, Amber Premium, listed on Nasdaq through a reverse merger with iClick Interactive, a rare US listing for an Asia-born crypto house. The private parent still runs the trading and liquidity business, with Amber Labs, a Web3 accelerator, and a custody unit arranged around it.