Flow Traders Pours a 24/7 OTC Liquidity Drink for the Tokenized Weekend Warriors

Flow Traders, a heavyweight market maker from the TradFi arena, declared on Tuesday it's bringing its old-school expertise to the new-school party by launching round-the-clock over-the-counter liquidity. Essentially, they’re turning weekends into tokenized happy hours, letting big-money clients trade tokenized money-market funds, stocks, and shiny things like Franklin Templeton’s BENJI and Tether gold (XAUT) while the traditional suits are asleep.

This new service operates on Flow's Digital Asset OTC platform, serving up proprietary two-way pricing directly to permissioned players via FIX connectivity and other standard trading pipes. "We've been hanging out at the awkward intersection of traditional and digital markets for years, and we're thrilled to finally offer 24/7 OTC liquidity for regulated tokenized stuff to our approved friends on our digital platform," CEO Thomas Spitz stated, probably while a crypto market churned somewhere in the background.

Co-Chief Trading Officer Marc Jansen explained to CoinDesk that the service fixes a classic institutional pain point: the sheer panic of not being able to tweak your portfolio on a Saturday. He noted that recent geopolitical drama highlighted how traditional desks peace out for the weekend just as crypto markets are hitting their stride, leaving degens and institutions alike to sweat it out. This OTC lifeline gives whales a way to hedge their bets when the sun goes down, which is becoming crucial as tokenized equities and commodities pop up on venues like Binance, OKX, and Hyperliquid.

Jansen added that their weekend OTC pricing aims to keep things from going completely off the rails, sticking close to where traditional markets will open—a godsend for big block trades where public exchange liquidity is still about as deep as a puddle. The market for tokenized precious metals alone is knocking on the door of $6 billion, having roughly quadrupled since the end of 2024. The broader tokenization playground is now estimated at a cool $3 trillion this year, growing at a blistering 44.25% annually, and could balloon to over $18 trillion by 2031, because why not?

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino gave a nod to Flow's hustle, saying that liquidity providers like them are what keep assets such as XAUT trading smoothly across different venues. With twenty years of market-making scars across ETPs, digital assets, and more—plus a top-three ranking by ETP trading volume in 2025—Jansen noted Flow is perfectly positioned to price things and manage risk when the primary markets have clocked out for a beer.

The OTC offering is expected to grow legs as institutional FOMO, regulatory chess moves, and more exchange integrations roll out. What’s actually available to trade will depend on where you are and who you are, with different Flow entities doling out access based on their specific regulatory blessings.