Wintermute launches institutional crypto OTC trading platform

Quick Take

  • The platform expands upon Node’s OTC API and will enable big-money players to trade digital assets and their derivatives.
  • Wintermute is one of the few crypto market-makers on the FCA crypto assets register.

Crypto market-maker Wintermute has launched Node, an over-the-counter (OTC) platform for institutional clients and qualified investors to trade digital assets and their derivatives.

Wintermute Node is an extension of the company’s OTC API product launched in June 2021 that functioned as a liquidity delivery mechanism for digital asset trading.

The company says Node will deliver proprietary prices and reliable feeless click-to-trade execution for over 250 digital assets.

According to the announcement issued Wednesday, Wintermute’s existing proprietary algorithms that aggregate data from over 60 centralized and decentralized exchanges (DEX) will power NODE’s pricing and execution function.

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy told The Block that the new OTC platform has both API and a user interface. Wintermute has been running institutional OTC crypto trading APIs since June 2021 and is one of the few OTC spot trading desks listed on the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)'s cryptoasset register.

The company says NODE will make it easier for family offices, hedge funds, and other big-money players to participate in niche markets like decentralized finance (DeFi).

As Gaevoy noted, Wintermute being on the FCA cryptoasset register provides a viable pathway for institutions to get involved in the DeFi space, which is the subject of a nascent but evolving regulatory environment worldwide. 

Update: This story has been corrected to show that Wintermute is on the FCA's cryptoasset register but is not FCA-regulated, as originally stated.


Disclaimer: Evgeny Gaevoy, the founder and CEO of Wintermute, previously sat on The Block’s board of directors from April 2023 to early November 2023 and remains a minority shareholder.

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Osato is a news reporter at The Block as part of the crypto ecosystems team that focuses on DAO governance, staking, blockchain layers, and DeFi. He was previously a news reporter at Cointelegraph. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, he enjoys crosswords, poker, and attempting to beat his Scrabble high score. Follow him on Twitter at @OsatoNomayo.

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