Flow Traders Ditches The 9-to-5: OTC Liquidity For Tokenized Stocks & Gold Goes 24/7

Flow Traders, a titan in the ETP market-making game, declared on Tuesday that its Digital Asset OTC desk is now open for business 24/7. Institutional degens can now punt on tokenized money-market funds, stocks, and shiny rocks around the clock, finally getting the weekend action they crave while TradFi bros are asleep.

The setup offers its own two-way quotes for shiny tokens like Franklin Templeton's BENJI and Tether's digital gold, XAUT. Permissioned players get instant access via classic FIX connections and other trading portals—no calling a guy who knows a guy required.

“After years of straddling the line between TradFi and digital markets, we’re thrilled to flip the ‘Open’ sign to ‘Always’ for regulated tokenized equities and commodities,” remarked Thomas Spitz, Flow Traders' CEO. Finally, someone gets that markets don't just stop because it's Saturday.

This move directly addresses a classic institutional headache: being unable to manage positions when the real world is closed. The recent Iran-Israel flare-up, which kicked off while traditional desks were powered down, perfectly highlighted the need for risk management tools that don't clock out at 5 PM.

Marc Jansen, co-chief trading officer, noted that this new service lets the big wallets manage exposure beyond market hours, acting as a sidekick to tokenized assets already on venues like Binance, OKX, and Hyperliquid. He added that weekend pricing on these exchanges often shadows the next traditional open, and OTC liquidity provides a cushion for those chunky trades that could otherwise move a thin public book—because nobody likes getting front-run by a bot on a Sunday.

The market for tokenized gold and silver alone has ballooned to roughly $6 billion—a 4x pump since the end of 2024. The broader asset-tokenization circus is estimated to hit $3 trillion by 2026, growing at a spicy 44.25% CAGR and is projected to moon past $18 trillion by 2031. That's a lot of digits to tokenize.

Flow Traders brings to the crypto playground over twenty years of market-making chops, sitting comfortably among the top three global ETP market makers by 2025 volume. Jansen pointed out that the firm's ETF pricing models, fine-tuned for when primary markets are snoozing, can be neatly repurposed for tokenized markets. Old dog, new digital tricks.

The OTC offering will adapt like a crypto-native organism, with asset coverage expanding based on institutional demand, regulatory winds, and exchange integrations. What's available will depend on your jurisdiction and client status, with different Flow Traders entities providing access based on their own regulatory baggage. Not financial advice, just how the compliance cookie crumbles.