OTC Trading and Block Execution
How institutional OTC desks execute digital asset block trades, from RFQ workflows and pricing to settlement and counterparty controls.
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Digital Asset Market Structure
Market structure determines where liquidity sits, how prices form, and what a desk pays to trade. This category covers venues and dark pools, OTC and RFQ execution, market makers, and the mechanics that connect them, written for participants who already trade size.
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Market Making in Digital Assets
How digital asset market makers provide liquidity on centralized venues: quoting strategies, inventory risk, incentive design, and what issuers should evaluate.
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Market Structure
What Is a Crypto Market Maker? Role, Mechanics, and What to Evaluate
What a crypto market maker does on centralized venues: two-sided quoting, inventory risk, algorithmic strategies, incentive design, and what issuers should evaluate.
Market Structure
What Is OTC Crypto Trading? How Institutions Execute Block Trades
OTC crypto trading explained for institutions: how desks quote and settle block trades, when OTC beats exchanges, and what to ask a desk before trading size.