Galaxy Digital Makes Foray Into Zcash OTC Market
Galaxy Digital, a multi-service merchant bank spearheaded by Wall Street titan Mike Novogratz, now offers OTC trading of Zcash. The startup is willing to make markets across different digital currencies.
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According to the blog post that features the announcement, Galaxy Digital is the perfect example of an old-meets-new financial institution given that it brings ‘world-class experience’ from the traditional market to the burgeoning crypto sector.
OTC trading is one of the four business lines run by Galaxy Digital. The Novogratz-led startup rolled out an OTC sales desk in Q2 2018 in order to buy and sell digital assets on behalf of other institutional investors.
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Galaxy’s Yoshi Nakamura claims that Zcash is a good addition to the basket of tokens that are already available for OTC trading, and they are willing to further expand their token ecosystem.
Zcash has been already added by a slew of other big-name OTC trading platforms, including Circle, which managed to realize a whopping $24 billion worth of OTC trades in 2018 alone. Cumberland and Genesis Trading are also onboard.
Back in October, a report concluded that the OTC market is four times larger than the exchange market ($12 bln and $4 bln respectively). However, it is rather challenging to navigate the realm of OTC brokers.
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