GSR Markets

To serve as Crypto’s Capital Markets Partner, helping founders and institutions scale confidently in digital assets.

GSR operates as crypto's capital markets partner, providing institutional-grade market making, liquidity, and OTC trading to token issuers, exchanges, and financial institutions. Founded in 2013, the company now employs over 200 people across 5 countries and provides billions of dollars in daily liquidity to cryptocurrency protocols and exchanges worldwide. The firm bridges traditional finance with digital assets, working with over 30 cryptocurrency exchanges and serving everyone from crypto-native builders to institutions exploring the space for the first time. Beyond core trading, GSR runs a venture arm investing in early-stage Web3 startups and offers advisory services for token design and treasury management.

Products

Market making and OTC trading form GSR's core business, providing deep liquidity across spot and derivatives markets. The company offers custom cryptocurrency options and structured derivatives for risk management and yield generation. GSR One serves as their unified platform, centralizing market-making analytics, treasury services, and trading workflows with real-time insights. Following the Autonomous and Architech acquisitions, GSR launched Digital Asset Advisory to support tokenized organizations from formation through scale. The firm also manages investment products including the GSR Crypto Core3 ETF and various hedge fund strategies.

Funding

GSR operated as a bootstrapped, founder-owned firm for over a decade before securing its first external funding in May 2024. SC Ventures, Standard Chartered's fintech investment arm, led a $150 million strategic round that valued the company at over $1 billion. The firm has also grown through acquisitions, purchasing crypto advisory firms Autonomous and Architech for $57 million in March 2024 to build an integrated capital markets platform. GSR's venture arm has made numerous investments in the digital asset ecosystem.

Recent news

In June 2026, GSR received approval from the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to proceed with a broker-dealer acquisition, marking a major regulatory milestone in its expansion into the regulated U.S. securities market.

Technology

Trading systems are built primarily in Rust, focusing on low-latency execution with IPC/shared-memory architectures and zero-copy design principles. The infrastructure connects to over 60 global trading venues and decentralized exchanges, handling real-time data processing for limit-order books and market microstructure pricing. Engineers build analytics tools, optimization workflows, and automation for strategy deployment and monitoring. The platform supports market-making, proprietary trading, and OTC operations, with additional enterprise tools using Oracle and React for data management and frontend applications.

Benefits

Competitive salary comes with two discretionary bonus payments per year. Healthcare, dental, vision, and retirement planning are provided, along with 30 days of holiday. Free lunches are available when working in the office, and the company hosts regular town halls, team lunches, and drinks for team building. GSR runs a Corporate and Social Responsibility program with charity fundraising matching and paid volunteer days. The culture emphasizes collaboration and transparency, built on integrity, innovation, and performance principles in what they describe as a meritocracy.