Funds and trading firms can now execute block trades across spot, perpetuals, futures, spread trades, and structured products under the same unified margin, credit, and risk framework that already governs their Arkis positions, with execution available over voice, chat, and web.
You can use Arkis OTC as another counterparty in your trading workflow: a desk for sourcing liquidity and executing orders across centralized, decentralized, and traditional finance venues. Execution can be adjusted based on client needs, including different levels of market impact, speed, and aggression.
Because Arkis OTC sits inside Arkis, it can also connect execution to the rest of Arkis’s prime brokerage system: credit, margin recognition, collateral, and portfolio-level risk. When appropriate, clients can finance trades through the same relationship, with margin recognized across venues and accounts depending on setup.
The desk supports spot execution across 300+ digital assets and 15+ venues, with block execution designed to reduce market impact. Perpetuals and futures can be traded cross-venue with a portfolio-level margin, with access to capital-efficient credit to finance the margin for opening positions across venues.
Spread trading and basis trades are also supported, including calendar spreads, perp-spot spreads, and cross-venue funding arbitrage as single tickets. Options and structured products are available on request, including vanilla, multi-leg, and exotic structures for yield enhancement, downside protection, and directional expression, quoted in any liquid underlying. Custody is supported through Off-exchange Settlement (OES) or other MPC providers.
The desk is built first for hedge funds and proprietary trading firms running capital-intensive strategies such as funding-rate arbitrage, basis, carry, and delta-neutral yield. It also supports treasuries and asset managers executing large block trades with reduced market impact, as well as venture funds and large token holders executing or hedging large spot and futures block trades.
Arkis OTC is live for institutional counterparties. Standard onboarding takes 5–10 business days and includes KYC / KYB and sanctions screening.
