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KIYOTAKA

KIYOTAKA

Crypto Trading Terminal Design
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Role
Lead Designer
Year
2026
Industry
Crypto Trading
Platform
Web App
Status
Live
01Context

Trade the Future, Today

Kiyotaka is a crypto trading terminal built to stand on par with the best tools in the market. Its promise is simple and ambitious: why choose when you can have everything? Advanced charting, a trader-grade scripting language, and a community layer, all in one place.

The redesign set out to make a professional-grade terminal feel coherent and fast: dense enough for serious traders, legible enough to read at a glance, and quick enough to never get between a trader and a decision.

Redesigned terminal: candles, order flow and order-book heatmap in one workspace.
Redesigned terminal: candles, order flow and order-book heatmap in one workspace.
02Problem

Too Many Windows

Serious crypto trading rarely happens in one place. Traders assemble a stack: a charting tool here, a data feed there, a scripting sandbox, and a forum for ideas. Every switch costs attention, and the numbers rarely line up across them.

The instruments themselves are demanding. Order flow, order-book depth and liquidation data run to millions of points, and most tools stutter or simplify exactly when precision matters. Liquidity is split across exchanges too, so any single venue tells only part of the story.

For a professional terminal, three things are non-negotiable: performance under load, density that stays legible, and one unified picture of the market. That framed every decision in the redesign.

The usual trading stack: charts, data, scripts and chat spread across separate tools.
The usual trading stack: charts, data, scripts and chat spread across separate tools.
03Approach

Have Everything

Consolidation is the thesis. Each fracture in the usual trading stack maps to a deliberate capability inside the terminal.

Scattered Tools

Charts in one app, data in another, scripts in a third, discussion somewhere else.

One Terminal

Charting, market data, scripting and community in a single workspace.

Laggy Under Load

Heavy datasets stutter, and detail drops out the moment it matters most.

Zero-Lag Engine

A proprietary core renders millions of data points in real time.

One Venue at a Time

A partial read on liquidity, fragmented across exchanges.

Aggregated Data

Order flow and order-book depth pooled across every exchange.

Solo Analysis

Strategy and insight locked inside private, individual setups.

Shared Discovery

kHub turns analysis into a collaborative, comparable practice.

04Architecture

Symbol, Chart, Script

Three systems carry the terminal, each doing one job well and drawing on the same underlying data.

Symbol

Thousands of symbols to choose from, crypto and beyond, spanning every major exchange and chartable side by side.

Chart Engine

A high-performance charting core that renders millions of data points with zero lag, unifying candles, order flow and order-book heatmaps.

kScript

A scripting language built for traders, with access to raw order-book data, multi-symbol inputs and live computation across thousands of assets.

Symbol picker: thousands of markets across every exchange.
Symbol picker: thousands of markets across every exchange.
Chart Engine: order flow and heatmap over live candles.
Chart Engine: order flow and heatmap over live candles.
kScript: the in-terminal strategy editor.
kScript: the in-terminal strategy editor.
05Data

Reading the Market

Beneath the pillars sits a deep, real-time data layer, the signals professional traders actually watch, rendered without the lag that usually comes with them.

Order Flow
Real-time buying and selling pressure, visualized.
Order-Book Heatmap
Aggregated liquidity at SD, HD and 4K resolution.
Open Interest
Total open contracts, including CME data.
Cumulative Volume Delta
Net buy versus sell volume over time.
Liquidations
Forced exits tracked as they print.
Multichart
Many symbols and layouts on a single screen.
Order-book heatmap: aggregated liquidity rendered at up to 4K resolution.
Order-book heatmap: aggregated liquidity rendered at up to 4K resolution.
06Visual System

A Theme for Every Trader

The terminal is dark by default and tuned for hours of focus without fatigue. But traders work in different light, on different setups, so it ships with a full set of built-in themes, from the signature Kiyotaka lime to Percept, Classic, Sourgum, Carbon and Quartz, each with its own take on bullish and bearish colour.

Type is treated as data: monospaced numerics keep prices, sizes and deltas aligned and scannable, and colour is reserved for meaning, buys and sells, warnings and fills, rather than decoration.

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Kiyotaka

Lime on near-black

BG
Up
Down
Ag

Typeface

Inter

a precise, screen-native sans

07Showcase

The Terminal in Full

One coherent environment across charting, scripting and community.

The Kiyotaka chart terminal
The chart terminal: candles, order flow and order-book heatmap in one view.
kScript: writing a custom indicator against live data.
kScript: writing a custom indicator against live data.
Terminal on mobile: charts and signals on the go.
Terminal on mobile: charts and signals on the go.