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If you are launching a token, working with a liquidity provider, or part of a crypto community that has little trust in market makers, this is for you: https://lnkd.in/ei7fDuDX The State of Crypto Market Making 2025 pulls back the curtain on how the industry really works, the risks that can destroy value, and how to avoid them. There is a lot of opinion about market makers and very little clear, accurate information. We wanted to fix that. So we commissioned a researcher to speak to founders, VCs and industry experts. They surveyed more than 2,000 crypto community members in 98 countries to understand what the perception of market making really is. The results confirm what many suspect. Seventy per cent of the community think crypto market makers should stand trial for their conduct. Over half say they do not trust them. Founders repeatedly told us about being tied into poor agreements with little transparency or control. The report details how market making works in practice, the deal structures that drive incentives, and the behaviours that can either strengthen or destabilise a market. It covers the difference between good and bad practice and shows where the highest structural risks sit. It is a technical reference, a guide to structuring and managing these relationships, and a clear snapshot of how the wider crypto community views the market making industry in 2025. Read The State of Crypto Market Making 2025 https://lnkd.in/ei7fDuDX

We are pleased to announce the close of our $5 million seed funding round, led by 13books Capital with participation from Faction VC, Veris Ventures, CRIT Ventures, Inc. and a selection of angel investors including Mark Ransford and Rodney Ngone. One year after publicly launching our market data and token market making services, LO:TECH has established itself as a high-growth trading business serving both crypto-native and traditional finance clients. This investment fuels the expansion of our high-frequency trading infrastructure into a broader suite of onchain capital markets services, including agency execution and OTC trading. The raise follows the release of our State of Crypto Market Making 2025 report, which surveyed more than 2,000 participants across 98 countries and highlighted the scale of the trust problem in the industry. Transparency is central to our model. Clients see live order books, spreads, depth, KPIs, and performance data across venues in real time, a clear alternative to opaque and misaligned practices. As capital markets continue their shift onchain, our mission is to set the benchmark for performance and transparency. This funding marks the next step in that trajectory. #fundraise #capitalmarkets

Market making: everyone uses the term, almost no one trusts it. LO:TECH just dropped one of the most honest reports we’ve seen on the subject, and the numbers are telling: 🔹 70% of the crypto community say they’d prosecute market makers if given the chance. 🔹 52% openly admit they don’t trust them. 🔹 Nearly half of token holders believe they’ve had bad outcomes when projects worked with them. It’s not just FUD — years of token dumping, wash trading, and opaque option deals created this trust gap. But here’s the catch: without market makers, most tokens would be untradeable. No liquidity. No price discovery. No real markets. That’s the paradox this report explores: ❌ Dumping, manipulation, empty promises. ✅ Transparent KPIs, real dashboards, aligned incentives. 🔮 Onchain order books, vault based liquidity, and standardised contracts. If you’re a founder about to list a token, or just part of this industry, this is a must read. It doesn’t just map the risks, it gives you the playbook to avoid them.

Congrats to LO:TECH on launching The State of Crypto Market Making 2025 — a comprehensive founder‑friendly report based on input from 2,000+ crypto community members across 98 countries. 🌎 It’s the most transparent look yet at: → How good market making works (and how it doesn’t) → The deal structures that shape incentives — and risk → The KPIs every founder should demand → How best practice is evolving ⚡️ If you're navigating the mechanics and decisions that shape crypto market making, this is your guide: https://lnkd.in/ei7fDuDX Kudos to Tim Meggs, Marcus Horsley, Alex Williams, and the LO:TECH team for shining a light on one of the most misunderstood corners of crypto.

We're very excited to welcome Laurence L. to the LO:TECH team. Having spent his career building businesses both for himself and other fast paced early stage startups, we couldn't be happier to have Laurence be our first BD hire. He'll be ushering in a new stage of growth for LO:TECH, and if you'd like to meet him, he's more than likely being shipped off to a crypto conference near you. #welcomepost #teammemberspotlight

Earlier this month, we hosted a gathering for founders, funders & friends on a sun-drenched Cannes rooftop along with our friends at Stake Capital Group. With a brunch of oysters, lobster and pale rosé, it was a bit different from the breakfast Guinness we're used to during the morning podcast recordings... DM for an invite to the next one at Devconnect 2025 in Buenos Aires! #ethcc #cannes EthCC

So you want to put some orders into the market having used your fancy trading strategy. In traditional finance you'd use FIX, however in crypto its not so simple... #marketdata #cryptotrading #HFT #FIX

Before you can trade, quote, or provide liquidity… you have to know where the market is. Sounds obvious. In crypto, it’s anything but. Every exchange structures market data differently. Some send snapshots. Some send diffs. Some send emojis and wish you luck. One venue literally sends two empty fields in every message and tells you to ignore them (cough... OKX) This isn’t about price discovery. It’s about getting the raw data in the first place. And that turns out to be one of the hardest part of building a market-making system. So we wrote about it: the protocols, the compression, the chaos, and why good liquidity starts with good engineering. Read here 🔽

Before you can make a market, you have to make sense of the data. And in crypto, that’s harder than it sounds. Welcome to Episode 7 of The LOCAL WMC Podcast... and Episode 2 of our "How to Build a Market Maker" series. This one’s about the infrastructure that underpins everything else, and why simply gathering market data in crypto is still a chaotic mess. In TradFi, you get FIX. In crypto, you get: – Undocumented WebSocket feeds – REST APIs that behave differently by the hour – Inconsistent message formats and missing fields – Broken docs, mystery tags, and a complete lack of standardisation This is what makes building institutional trading systems in crypto so challenging... and why every serious market maker and trading firm has to start here. Links to all platforms in the comments below

What if all stablecoins just became… one? Abstracted chains. A meta “USD.” But who controls it , and what’s actually backing it? We’re looking at you, Tether.io 👀 From the latest episode of The Local WMC Podcast - Cannes Special