# Talos

> Institutional digital assets and crypto trading

Talos helps institutions trade digital assets by providing unified access to exchanges, OTC desks, and prime brokers through advanced execution technology.

Talos helps financial institutions access digital asset markets through integrated trading and portfolio management technology. With it, users can execute trades across multiple venues, access algorithmic trading tools, and manage portfolios with real-time risk monitoring. Talos streamlines institutional digital asset operations through a single platform. The company acquired Coin Metrics in 2025.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2018-10-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/talos

## Products

- [Trading Platform](https://thegrid.id/profiles/talos): Talos Platform implements institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure providing end-to-end investment lifecycle coverage through unified technology connecting to 6multiple venues including exchanges, OTC desks, prime brokers, and DeFi protocols. The integrated system delivers trading and execution management, portfolio management and risk monitoring, data analytics with transaction cost analysis, treasury and settlement operations, lending marketplace access, and white-label deployment capabilities through FIX, REST, and WebSocket APIs. (Trading Terminal, Live, Main Product)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.talos.com)
- [Whitepaper](https://go.talos.com/whitepaper_institutional-onboarding-guide-to-digital-assets.html)
- [Blog](https://www.talos.com/insights)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.talos.com/legals/terms)
- [Privacy policy](https://www.talos.com/legals/privacy)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/talos-trading)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/talostrading)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@talostrading)

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