KuCoin 5.0 Adds Equity Markets, Unified Margin and AI Assistant Kia

KuCoin rolled out version 5.0 on 9 October: spot, margin and futures now share one Unified Trading Account, an AI assistant called Kia spans the whole app, and four equity-referenced markets (US, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan) launched with up to 30x leverage. The unified account is currently limited to VIP1+ users.

• Unified Trading Account merges spot, margin and futures, limited to VIP1+ users
• Equity-referenced markets for US, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan with up to 30x leverage
• AI assistant Kia spans the app; its daily active users grew 300% in H1 2026
• New color vision mode targets roughly 360 million people with color vision deficiency