Founder of CoinConnect — Pakistan's dedicated crypto regulatory and market-entry consultancy — and the operator international exchanges work with to launch in Pakistan.
Malik Abbas is a Karachi-based crypto market-entry operator and the founder of CoinConnect. His focus is singular: getting international cryptocurrency exchanges correctly licensed and successfully operational in Pakistan, across both the regulatory and on-ground sides of entry.
Malik built his career inside the exchange industry, not adjacent to it. He held business development and country-level operating roles at CoinEx and BingX — two major international exchanges — where he ran on-the-ground operations across Pakistan, the Philippines, and Bangladesh. That work spanned partnerships, KOL networks, community growth, and live market operations in three distinct South Asian and Southeast Asian markets.
He then founded CoinConnect to package that operating experience into a service for exchanges entering Pakistan — pairing his market-operations background with deep command of the country's new regulatory framework. CoinConnect's engagements include work with Bybit.
For clarity: CoinEx and BingX are part of Malik's professional employment history. Bybit is a CoinConnect engagement. These are distinct relationships, kept distinct.
Across his exchange roles, Malik built and managed a KOL network of 225+ creators spanning Pakistan, the Philippines, and Bangladesh, organised 25+ on-ground events drawing 5,000+ attendees, and trained thousands of people on crypto and influencer marketing. He has been featured on K21 News and maintains working relationships across multiple international exchanges.
Through CoinConnect, Malik advises international exchanges across the full entry stack:
PVARA licensing strategy (NOC vs Sandbox routes), fit-and-proper preparation, and mapping an exchange's product to the right authorisation path. Malik tracks Pakistan's virtual assets framework — the Virtual Assets Act and PVARA's evolving guidance — at primary source.
SECP incorporation, AML/CFT program design, and FMU goAML registration — the corporate and compliance foundation an exchange needs to operate.
KOL and community activation, offline events across major Pakistani cities, and localised communications — the on-ground execution that turns a licence into users.
Most consultants offer one layer — a lawyer who knows the regulation, or a marketer who knows the audience. Malik's distinction is that he has actually run exchange operations in this market and pairs that with regulatory command. For an exchange weighing how to enter Pakistan — and, often, who should lead its operations there — that combination of operator experience plus regulatory fluency is exactly the profile a country-level mandate calls for.
CoinConnect is Pakistan's dedicated crypto regulatory and market-entry consultancy, headquartered in Karachi and founded by Malik Abbas. It provides end-to-end entry for international crypto exchanges — PVARA licensing, SECP incorporation, AML/CFT compliance, and go-to-market execution — under one roof.