I’m planning to develop a crypto exchange platform and want to explore how n8n can help automate workflows like user onboarding, trading execution, and transaction monitoring.
What tools and APIs should I use?
How do I handle real-time data and scalability?
Any examples of similar workflows or architectures?
Would love to hear insights from developers who’ve worked on crypto exchange systems!
Seems like you probably need an embed license for n8n with this usecase. So make sure you have that stuff figured out first before spending time on development. 
Scaling is possible and you can go as far as you want with that so that shouldn’t be an issue.
hi @tarunnagar
If I were building this, I’d treat n8n as the orchestration layer, not as the exchange engine itself. Things like onboarding, KYC handoffs, notifications, transaction reviews, internal ops, and reconciliation are where I think n8n fits well. I would not use it for the matching engine, order book, or anything that depends on very low latency or strict execution timing.
So the main design question for me would be where to draw that boundary. If n8n is handling orchestration and operational workflows around the platform, that makes sense. If it is expected to behave like the exchange engine itself, I think that would be the wrong fit.