Finally, it was a real treat for us to bring the wider team out to Cannes for the week. We had developers and engineers discussing the intricacies of market making at beach club side events. Tim Meggs getting a daily morning swim in the med. CTO Marcus hunting out the best Irish

New episode of The LOCAL — recorded live (and slightly sunburnt) in Cannes over a bottle of rosé at EthCC. We sat down with Ilya from Stake Capital Group to talk about the stablecoin land grab, whether Robinhood quietly won, and what happens when AI agents start spending on-chain.

Attention: token teams In tradfi there’s an established framework for how over-the-counter (OTC) trades are structured. Organizations like ISDA publish standardised templates that govern how derivatives contracts are written etc. If some independent crypto body was to similarly

Before you can trade, quote, or provide liquidity… you have to know where the market is. Sounds obvious. In crypto, it’s anything but. So we wrote about it: the protocols, the compression, the chaos, and why good liquidity starts with good engineering.

These are my absolute favourite type of episodes to record for The LO:CAL. Everyone's job has a geek-level that gets rapidly boring for non-practioners, this is my opportunity to scratch that itch!

If, like us, you're still feeling the post-Cannes blues, avoid watching this video from our rooftop event with Stake Capital Group. It might make you long to return to the French Riviera.

Transparency is at the heart of the next-gen market making service we've built at LO:TECH and we're proud to be in the first cohort of firms to support this great initiative from coinwatch Kudos to Matt Jobbe Duval and the team for getting this out of the door. Let's make

We're very excited to welcome Laurence Lewars 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

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So much respect for how Ramon | Kinto ⛩️ 💹🧲, the Kinto team and winder Kinto community have pulled this together from the depths of despair. Bet against them at your peril.

... or avoid this nonsense completely by engaging with a good market maker on a retainer basis I can understand an objection being that token projects are "token rich, cash poor", but think about it: what other services do you pay for as a start up project by issuing an OTC

This is honestly setting the bar for reports going forward. Don't bore me with your school project-looking shit. I now only accept graphic designed, deep-dives with history lessons and art.

Thank you Carl, kind words. We try.

Launching a token? Our friends over at LO:TECH have released The State of Crypto Market Making 2025 to give you all the insights to market making👇

To improve a situation you first have to understand it, and then do something positive that changes things for the better. The crypto community does not like or trust the market makers who operate in the space. LO:TECH wants to improve this situation; both through our own

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A fun conversation. Thanks for having me on Robert Baggs !

The future of all capital markets is onchain. It is inevtiable. At LO:TECH we're building for that future, and we're doing so having been backed by some of the best investors in the space. I couldn't be prouder of our team and what we're building together. This is just the

Proud to back LO:TECH as angel investor. After years in crypto, I've met many market makers. Meeting Tim Meggs was different. His ambition to build a HFT infrastructure to bridge CeFi and DeFi seamlessly with full compliance and transparency stood out. Trust this team to

Congrats to LO:TECH on closing their $5M seed! High integrity in everything they do. Scaled from just a vision to multiple revenue lines and a validated tech stack. LO:TECH will continue rewiring capital markets for the onchain era. This is just the beginning 🫡