Prime Brokerage & Institutional Trading Services

Zerocap delivers comprehensive prime brokerage services for institutional digital asset clients, combining OTC spot and derivatives trading, custody, and financing within an integrated institutional platform. Services are regulated offerings available exclusively to wholesale clients.

OTC Trading Services

Zerocap's OTC trading desk provides institutional-grade over-the-counter execution for digital assets and fiat currencies, enabling risk pricing and agency execution for block trades across 300+ digital assets.

Asset Coverage: Trade any digital asset including major cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, altcoins, and fiat currency pairs with deep liquidity across 300+ assets.

Settlement: T+0 same-day settlement in major fiat currencies, providing rapid access to funds and efficient capital deployment.

Pricing: Tight, competitive pricing through firm liquidity or algorithmic execution with institutional-grade spreads.

Execution Strategies: Tailored execution algorithms including TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price), VWAP (Volume-Weighted Average Price), and other sophisticated order types designed to minimize market impact for large trades.

Multi-Channel Execution: Execute trades via chat with expert traders, GUI trading portal with live streaming prices, or REST/WebSocket API integration for programmatic access.

Derivatives Trading

Principal dealing across vanilla options, forwards, and structured products, enabling sophisticated hedging, yield enhancement, and risk management strategies.

Vanilla Options: Standard call and put options on major cryptocurrencies for hedging exposure, generating income, or gaining leveraged exposure to digital asset price movements.

Forwards: Forward contracts for future delivery of digital assets at predetermined prices, allowing institutions to lock in rates and manage future cash flow requirements.

Structured Products: Customized structured products combining multiple derivatives to achieve specific risk-return profiles. Recent innovations include Australia's first structured product series on the CoinDesk 20 Index, launched in partnership with CoinDesk Indices.

Use Cases: Hedging digital asset holdings against adverse price movements, yield enhancement through options strategies, structured returns with customized payoff structures, and sophisticated portfolio risk management.

Regulatory Framework: Derivatives services are regulated offerings available exclusively to wholesale clients as defined by Sections 761GA and 708(10) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Zerocap operates as a Corporate Authorised Representative (CAR: 001289130) of AFSL 340799.

Financing & Lending

Institutional lending solutions integrated with trading and custody services:

Asset-Backed Lending: Access liquidity against digital asset holdings without triggering taxable dispositions. Borrow fiat or stablecoins using cryptocurrency collateral.

Margin Financing: Liquidity solutions for trading operations, corporate activities, or operational needs using digital asset treasuries as collateral.

Structured Finance: Customized lending arrangements tailored to institutional requirements, including term loans, revolving facilities, and structured products.

Integrated Custody

Institutional-grade digital asset custody backed by Lloyd's of London insurance, integrated seamlessly with trading and financing services.

MPC Technology: Multi-Party Computation (MPC) wallet technology eliminates single points of failure by distributing cryptographic key material across multiple parties.

Fireblocks Integration: Partnership with Fireblocks provides enterprise-grade wallet infrastructure with institutional security controls. As a founding partner of the Fireblocks Custody Network, Zerocap delivers enhanced connectivity and security.

Lloyd's Insurance: Market-leading insurance policy from Lloyd's of London provides additional protection for custodied assets.

Asset Support: Comprehensive support for all on-chain digital assets including major cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, layer-2 tokens, altcoins, and NFTs.

Strategic Partnerships: Partnership with BitGo (announced April 2025) to deliver secure, real-time trading and custody infrastructure for institutions.

Unified Platform

All prime brokerage services integrate within a single institutional relationship, enabling efficient movement between custody, trading, derivatives, and financing activities without external transfers.

Target Clients

Designed for institutional investors, family offices, exchanges, hedge funds, cryptocurrency-native companies, and qualified wholesale investors requiring integrated trading, custody, and financing services with minimal market impact and institutional-grade infrastructure.