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October 16, 2026

STS Digital Quarterly Newsletter: The Spot - Q3 2026

The Spot

Q3 2026 · STS Digital Quarterly Newsletter — Building the infrastructure for what comes next.‍

A quarter of momentum

Q3 was a defining quarter for STS Digital.

Across three months, we expanded institutional market infrastructure, deepened strategic partnerships, launched new products, strengthened our risk and collateral capabilities, stepped onto some of the industry's most important stages, and continued building a business designed for where digital asset markets are going next.

From our strategic partnership with Clear Street and the launch of cross-asset portfolio margining, to our Talos integration, USDM1 collateral capability and the launch of our Quantitative Investment Strategies offering and Smart Bitcoin, the quarter was about more than individual announcements. It was about connecting the pieces.

Liquidity. Derivatives. Structured products. Risk. Collateral. Connectivity. Quantitative strategies.

All within an institutional-grade, regulated infrastructure.

We also spent the quarter listening to the market — from The Tie's Out East Summit in the Hamptons, to SALT Wyoming, to SRP USA in Scottsdale — and bringing those conversations back into the business.

In September, the team came together in Austria for a much-needed company offsite. Away from the day-to-day, ideas came together, priorities sharpened and the next phase of STS began to take shape.

And now, we are heading into Q4 energised, focused and powered up.

The quarter kicks off with Korea Blockchain Summit, followed by TOKEN Singapore, SALT London and DAS London — alongside strategic partnerships and new product announcements already in the works.

It's good to have Options.

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‍Q3 at a Glance
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400+
Digital assets
24/7/365
Institutional access
1
QIS platform launched
4
Industry awards in <1 year
3
Major Q3 institutional events
The Quarter's Defining Moves
  • Clear Street partnership: institutional-grade spot, options, structured products and digital asset treasury capabilities brought onto Clear Street's cloud-native platform.
  • Cross-Asset Portfolio Margin: eligible institutional clients can post a single collateral pool and margin spot, options and structured products under one risk measure.
  • Talos integration: institutional clients can access STS Digital options and spot liquidity through existing Talos workflows across 400+ tokens.
  • USDM1: STS Digital began accepting and pledging the on-chain sovereign bonds collateral across derivatives and structured products books.
  • Smart Bitcoin: the inaugural strategy under STS Digital's new Quantitative Investment Strategies offering.
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‍Building the Institutional Stack

Clear Street × STS Digital

The August partnership pairs Clear Street's prime brokerage, clearing and execution infrastructure with STS Digital's regulated principal liquidity and derivatives expertise, giving institutional clients 24/7 access to sophisticated digital asset markets through a single cloud-native platform.

Cross-Asset Portfolio Margin

August brought a major step in capital and risk infrastructure. Eligible clients can post a single collateral pool and have spot, options and structured-product positions assessed in one risk measure.

Talos × STS Digital

STS Digital joined the Talos Provider Network, giving mutual institutional clients direct access to STS options and spot liquidity through existing trading workflows.

USDM1 Collateral

STS Digital announced it would accept and pledge USDM1 across its derivatives and structured-products books, supporting institutional use of on-chain sovereign bond collateral.

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‍New Product: Smart Bitcoin

Rules-based. Systematic. Built for institutional markets.

In September, STS Digital launched its Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) offering with Smart Bitcoin, a volatility-target strategy designed to systematically adjust Bitcoin exposure as market volatility changes.

The strategy is built around a predefined methodology, with rules established in advance for asset selection, rebalancing and risk parameters. There is no discretionary investment judgment within the strategy.

Delivered as a systematic bilateral OTC strategy through STS Digital's regulated infrastructure, Smart Bitcoin brings a rules-based approach to digital-asset exposure within an institutional trading framework.

Smart Bitcoin is the inaugural strategy within STS Digital's QIS offering, sitting alongside the firm's existing structured-products capabilities on the same regulated platform. Further QIS strategies are planned.

As Maxime Seiler, CEO and Co-Founder, put it at launch:

"Not a view on the price, but discipline in how to get exposure."

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‍From the Trading Floor to 24/7 Markets

Dual Currency Investments: From the Trading Floor to Tokenized Stocks That Never Close

Our Q3 editorial focus explored how a familiar private-banking and structured-investment concept is evolving for 24/7 digital markets — from digital assets to tokenised equities.

The piece connects traditional structured products with tokenisation, continuous markets and the changing operating model for institutional investors.

Read the full insight →

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‍Where We Showed Up

Out East Summit | The Tie — July

The Hamptons. STS Digital joined The Tie's institutional gathering for conversations spanning digital asset derivatives, liquidity, market structure and the continued institutionalisation of crypto markets.

SALT Wyoming — August

A major Q3 moment. STS Digital joined the conversation around the future of 24/7 markets and announced its strategic partnership with Clear Street.

SRP USA, Scottsdale — September

Jeremy Dominh represented STS Digital at SRP USA, bringing the conversation around structured digital assets, volatility markets, tokenised structured products and institutional structured exposure to the structured-products community.

Company Offsite, Austria — September

Away from the pace of the market, the STS team came together to take stock, sharpen priorities and turn ideas into action. The result: a more aligned, energised team heading into Q4.

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‍Four Awards. One Year.

Recognition is never the objective — but it is meaningful validation of the work being done across the organisation.

Structured Products Solution

WealthBriefingAsia Awards 2026

Best Derivatives Trading Solution

TradingTech Insight Awards USA 2026

Marketing Innovation — Asia

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WealthBriefing Innovation in Marketing Awards 2026

Digital Asset Provider of the Year

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‍FOW Awards 2026

Q3 closed with STS Digital named Digital Asset Provider of the Year by FOW — the company's fourth industry award in less than one year.

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‍STS Digital in the Media

Q3 saw STS Digital leaders and products featured across leading financial and digital-asset publications.

Explore the full STS Digital newsroom →

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‍Q4: Next Up

The team is energised. The pipeline is full.

Q4 is already in motion.

We kick off with Korea Blockchain Summit, followed by TOKEN Singapore, SALT London and DAS London — bringing STS Digital into conversations with institutional investors, banks, trading firms, asset managers and market infrastructure leaders across Asia, Europe and beyond.

Alongside the events calendar, a number of strategic partnerships and new product announcements are planned, continuing the expansion of STS Digital's institutional offering.

  • More connectivity.
  • More products.
  • More sophisticated risk management.
  • More ways for institutions to access digital asset markets.
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Q3 was about momentum.
Q4 is about acceleration.

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STS Digital

Regulated. Institutional. Options.

Because it's good to have options.

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