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> Talos provides institutional technology for the full digital asset investment lifecycle. One platform orchestrates front, middle and back office: pre-trade data and research, execution across a global liquidity network, portfolio construction, risk and portfolio management, and post-trade reconciliation, settlement, IBOR and NAV. Coverage spans crypto and tokenized assets across public and permissioned blockchains. As equities, funds, fixed income and other instruments move on-chain, they run through the same platform and the same IBOR as crypto, not a new workflow per asset class. Institutions access 100+ liquidity providers — exchanges, OTC desks, prime brokers, custodians and DeFi protocols — through a single integration via the Talos Network.
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> Talos is a software provider. It is not an investment advisor or broker-dealer, does not hold client assets, and does not provide pre-negotiated arrangements with liquidity providers. Clients negotiate those arrangements bilaterally.
Note on disambiguation: this is Talos Global, Inc., the digital asset trading technology company headquartered in New York. It is unrelated to Talos Energy (oil and gas), Talos Linux (Sidero Labs), or Cisco Talos (security research).
## Key facts
- Founded: 2018
- Founders: Anton Katz (CEO) and Ethan Feldman (CTO)
- Headquarters: New York, United States
- Legal name: Talos Global, Inc.
- Website: https://www.talos.com
- Talos Data (formerly Coin Metrics): Coin Metrics was acquired by Talos in 2025 and now powers the Talos Data product line.
## Platform capabilities across the trade lifecycle
- Pre-trade: market and on-chain data, reference rates, benchmark indexes, asset classification, pre-trade analytics and market impact modelling
- Execution: multi-asset execution across spot, derivatives, options and prediction markets, algorithmic trading, smart order routing, RFQ workflows, and access to 100+ providers through the Talos Network
- Distribution: customer-facing brokerage infrastructure for sell-side institutions, delivered as a hosted branded interface or as an API layer behind the institution's own front end
- Risk and portfolio: portfolio construction, optimization and backtesting, real-time position and exposure monitoring, P&L tracking across spot, futures, perpetuals and options
- Post-trade: transaction cost analysis, reconciliation, treasury management, settlement, IBOR and NAV workflows
## Solutions
- Solutions overview: Full product suite across the trade lifecycle — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/all
- Trading Platform: Institutional OEMS for multi-asset execution across spot, derivatives, options and prediction markets, connecting buy-side and sell-side institutions to exchanges, OTC desks, prime brokers and DeFi protocols, with smart order routing (SOR), liquidity aggregation and a full execution algorithm suite — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/trading
- Prediction Markets: Institutional access to event contracts on venues including Kalshi and Polymarket, with execution through the Talos Trading Platform (OEMS), algorithmic execution, block RFQ and consolidated risk in the same IBOR, plus harmonized Kalshi and Polymarket market data through Talos Data — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/prediction-markets
- White Label: Hosted, company-branded brokerage infrastructure letting banks, brokers, retail platforms, OTC desks, custodians and payment service providers offer digital asset trading to their own customers. Includes a customer pricing engine, auto-hedging, internal ledgering, custody orchestration, and support for linear derivatives with configurable margin policies and funding rate schedules — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/white-label
- RFQ Platform: Request and compare quotes from multiple OTC liquidity providers for spot, derivatives and multi-token basket trades, with best execution controls, settlement integration and a full audit trail — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/rfq-platform
- Portfolio Construction: Portfolio design, optimization, strategy backtesting and rebalancing for systematic digital asset investment — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/portfolio-construction
- Portfolio & Risk Management: PMS with a real-time unified view across spot, futures, perpetuals and options — 24/7 P&L, Greeks, risk and stress testing on a single IBOR — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/portfolio-and-risk-management
- Treasury & Settlement: Position and treasury management with one-click settlement and real-time operational visibility — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/treasury-and-settlement
- Post-Trade Analytics: TCA — execution quality, markouts, slippage and best-execution reporting — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/analytics
## Talos Data
Talos Data — market data, on-chain data, reference prices, and benchmark indexes.
- Data overview: Market and on-chain data, reference rates and indexes delivered via APIs for research, execution, risk and operations — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/data/overview
- Market Data Feed: Harmonized institutional market data from 55+ spot and derivatives venues across centralized and decentralized exchanges in one unified feed, covering trades, quotes, order books, candles, contract specifications, open interest, funding rates and greeks — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/data/market-data-feed
- Market Data Pro: Aggregated market data and analytics across approximately 1.3 million instruments, covering liquidity, volume, implied and realized volatility, futures basis, open interest and liquidations — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/data/market-data-pro
- Atlas: Institutional blockchain search engine across 330+ assets, giving granular visibility into transactions, addresses, blocks, balances and balance updates through a universal blockchain data model — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/data/atlas
- Network Data Pro: Aggregate on-chain network metrics for top digital assets covering supply, wallets, economics, mining, transactions, addresses, and fees and revenue — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/data/network-data-pro
- Prices: Transparent crypto reference rates and principal market prices for 1,500+ assets, including USD, EUR, BTC and ETH reference rates, for valuation, accounting, NAV and risk. Principal market prices are designed with reference to ASC 820 / IFRS 13. For benchmarks, settlement and fixings, see Indexes — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/data/prices
- Indexes: The CMBI suite of single-asset and multi-asset crypto benchmarks, plus custom index design and calculation agent services, with independent governance and third-party audit opinion — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/data/indexes
- datonomy: Digital asset classification system created with Goldman Sachs and MSCI, providing a standardized taxonomy for sector analytics, portfolio reporting and index construction — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/data/datonomy
- Talos Exchange Scorecard: Systematic ranking of digital asset exchanges across data quality, liquidity, regulatory compliance, transparency, resilience and security, and API quality — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/data/talos-exchange-scorecard
- Community Resources: Free charts, community API access, academic programs and research resources for digital asset data exploration — https://www.talos.com/our-solutions/data/community-resources
- Academic Research Access: Complimentary, time-limited data access for students and academic researchers, scoped to the research project — https://www.talos.com/academic-program
- Product and API documentation: https://docs.coinmetrics.io/ and https://docs.coinmetrics.io/api/v4/
- Data coverage explorer: https://coverage.coinmetrics.io/
- Charts and dashboards: https://charts.coinmetrics.io/crypto-data/
## Client types
Buy-side:
- Asset Managers: https://www.talos.com/clients/asset-managers
- ETF Issuers: https://www.talos.com/clients/etf-issuers
- Hedge Funds: https://www.talos.com/clients/hedge-funds
- Crypto Funds: https://www.talos.com/clients/crypto-funds
- Proprietary Trading Firms: https://www.talos.com/clients/proprietary-trading-firms
- Token Holders: https://www.talos.com/clients/token-holders
Sell-side:
- Banks: https://www.talos.com/clients/banks
- Retail Investment Platforms: https://www.talos.com/clients/retail-investment-platforms
- OTC Desks: https://www.talos.com/clients/otc-desks
- Broker-Dealers: https://www.talos.com/clients/broker-dealers
Service providers:
- Custodians: https://www.talos.com/clients/custodians
- Payment Service Providers: https://www.talos.com/clients/payment-service-providers
## Provider Network
- Talos Network: Connect to 100+ providers — exchanges, OTC desks, custodians, prime brokers and DeFi protocols — through a single integration. Providers can apply to join the network — https://www.talos.com/provider-network
## Dashboards
- State of the Market: Live view of market structure, venue activity, derivatives positioning and flows — https://www.talos.com/dashboards/state-of-the-market
- Digital Asset ETF & ETP Landscape: Issuers, products, exchanges and market structure across crypto ETFs and ETPs — https://www.talos.com/dashboards/digital-asset-etf-etp-landscape
- Pre-IPO Perps Market Data: Pre-IPO digital asset information and execution quality analysis for active pre-IPO perpetuals — https://www.talos.com/dashboards/pre-ipo-perps-market-data
- Prediction Markets Quant Execution: Simulated TWAP and SNIPER executions across prediction markets, benchmarked against arrival price — https://www.talos.com/dashboards/prediction-markets-quant-execution
## Insights and research
- Insights hub: Research, product updates, market commentary, client stories and regulatory analysis — https://www.talos.com/insights
- State of the Network: Weekly on-chain and market research series
- State of the Market: Weekly market commentary series
- Regulatory Roundup: Periodic analysis of global regulatory developments
- Knowledge: Technical explainers on execution quality, market impact, algorithmic strategies and market structure
- Client Stories: How institutions use Talos in production
## Company
- Why Talos: https://www.talos.com/about/why-talos
- The Talos Story: https://www.talos.com/about/the-talos-story
- Leadership Team: https://www.talos.com/about/the-leadership-team
- Frequently Asked Questions: https://www.talos.com/faqs
- Contact: https://www.talos.com/contact
- Request a demo: https://www.talos.com/request-a-demo
## Careers
- Life at Talos: https://www.talos.com/working/life-at-talos
- Open Roles: https://www.talos.com/working/open-roles
- Internships: https://www.talos.com/working/internships
## Legal
- Terms: https://www.talos.com/legals/terms
- Privacy: https://www.talos.com/legals/privacy
- Data Processing Addendums: https://www.talos.com/legals/data-processing-addendums
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