Our Services

Our Services

Despite the global promise of digital assets, this market is still in a nascent state. Whether buying or selling, new market participants are often surprised by the difficulty of sourcing liquidity. Extreme volatility, fragmented liquidity, geographical restrictions, fake volumes, and various types of inconsistencies across exchanges make it difficult for non-experts to navigate the trading landscape.

GSR - Market Making

Providing liquidity for digital assets leading to lower costs of trading and less volatile markets
GSR - OTC-Trading

Programmatic liquidity sourcing and OTC trading to achieve best price in digital assets for our global counterparts

GSR’s Structured Product Offering (SPOs) is designed to facilitate highly customized risk management solutions for counterparties with exposure to digital assets.

We are constantly innovating within the crypto derivatives space offering unique and custom tailored risk solutions to miners.
Our People

Our People

We are engineers, traders and quants with decades of experience from the traditional world of finance who have been focused on the digital asset economy since 2013.

Our team includes both early adopters of the digital asset space and seasoned professionals that managed global trading and quant businesses at top financial and tech institutions, leveraging our extensive experience in liquidity provision, programmatic execution & OTC trading. We are distributed across strategic geographies, enabling 24/7 coverage across the globe.

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Partner with GSR

We provide bespoke liquidity services and order execution strategies to global counterparties across multiple digital asset classes. Our technology ensures steady liquidity even during volatile market conditions, while also achieving unparalleled pricing.

Liquidity Sourcing

Liquidity Sourcing

We offer access to a deep pool of OTC liquidity built on the relationships we have developed since the company’s inception.

Secure Systems

Secure Systems

We design our systems to run under a high-security infrastructure, while ensuring implementation of the latest security procedures on behalf of our trading counterparts.

Proprietary Technology

Proprietary Technology

GSR’s market-making capabilities and proprietary technology provide support for key players in the marketplace.

Trading Expertise

Trading Expertise

Our front and back offices are staffed with experts in complex trade orders including oversized and specialised orders and are responsive to assets acutely affected by the media and world events.

Exchange Integration

Exchange Integration

We are integrated with over a dozen major digital asset exchanges, ensuring access to liquidity on a global scale.

Tailored Strategies

Tailored Strategies

To design the right strategy for you, our team of relationship managers and market-makers work to understand your requirements, tailor-making a solution that ensures your goals are achieved.

OUR HISTORY

Founded in 2013, GSR is the original leader in algorithmic digital asset trading. We trade a large variety of digital assets 24/7 utilizing our proprietary software suite, capable of satisfying all liquidity needs, from basic execution services to highly complex solutions.

2013

GSR became one of the first market-makers on Ripple’s Consensus Ledger.

2014

Integrated with Bitstamp (EU), Snapswap (US), TokyoJPY (Japan), Paxmoneta (Korea), Rippex (Brazil), Fidor Bank (EU).

2015

Integrated with Bitso (Mexico), Gold Bullion International (US), Gatehub (EU) and further expanded our trading relationships.

2016

Integrated with 6 more digital asset exchanges. Developed statistical exchange arbitrage strategies.

2017

Global footprint. Integrated with 15 digital asset exchanges worldwide including Poloniex, Bittrex and Bithumb. Portfolio of counterparties ranging in market cap from $20MM to $50BN+.

2017

Diversified into Institutional Sales & Trading business. GSR Markets and GSR Consulting are founded to satisfy demand for liquidity services.

2018

The Association for Digital Asset Markets launches. ADAM is the first broad-based organization in the US to seek standards for digital asset markets. GSR is a board member and serves on the Governance Committee.

2018

GSR employs 30+ professionals operating 24/7 on a well diversified mix of market-making and institutional sales & trading businesses with offices in Hong Kong, London, Spain, Switzerland and Thailand.

2019

GSR expands into options trading and structured products, pioneering new tools for risk management, including the Extendable, Accumulator, and Binary Options.

2019

GSR continues to invest in infrastructure to support the future of the derivatives market. In addition to partnering with derivatives exchanges and acting as a key volume driver via programmatic liquidity, GSR continues its growth in OTC options, trading the first Variance Swap on bitcoin in June.