# Talos > Institutional digital assets and crypto trading Talos is a company that provides institutional trading infrastructure for digital assets. It connects banks, hedge funds, and asset managers to exchanges, OTC desks, and custodians through a unified trading platform. Talos is a company that provides institutional trading infrastructure for digital assets. It offers a software platform that connects buy side and sell side institutions to exchanges, over-the-counter desks, prime brokers, and custodians through a single point of access. The platform serves banks, hedge funds, asset managers, and brokers seeking to trade and manage digital asset portfolios. The platform addresses fragmented liquidity and inconsistent market infrastructure across digital asset venues by aggregating connectivity to many providers into one interface. Users can execute trades using algorithmic strategies and smart order routing, monitor portfolios and risk in real time, and settle trades through integrated custodians and prime brokers. Talos supports a full trade lifecycle spanning price discovery, execution, portfolio construction, and settlement, delivered through its own platform and a white label option for firms extending services to their clients. Its offering also includes market data and post-trade analytics tools. It is used by asset managers, ETF issuers, hedge funds, banks, and other institutional participants across the digital asset ecosystem. - 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 Trading Platform is an institutional digital asset trading and portfolio management platform used by asset managers, hedge funds, banks, brokers and OTC desks. It provides trade execution, smart order routing and request-for-quote workflows connecting to exchanges, OTC desks, prime brokers and lenders, alongside portfolio construction, real-time risk monitoring and treasury and settlement operations. A white-label mode built on the same infrastructure lets brokers and financial institutions launch a branded digital asset trading service without building their own systems. The platform also delivers aggregated market data, on-chain analytics and post-trade transaction cost analysis, all accessed through a single unified interface and account via FIX, REST, and WebSocket APIs. 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