Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures becomes first external shareholder in GSR after strategic investment, deepening tokenization ties and accelerating institutional crypto market infrastructure buildout

Standard Chartered’s innovation and venture arm SC Ventures has made a strategic equity investment in crypto trading and market-making firm GSR, becoming GSR’s first external strategic shareholder since the company was founded in 2013. The deal values GSR at over $1 billion, according to reporting based on people familiar with the transaction, and formalizes an existing collaboration between the two firms across digital asset liquidity, tokenization and structured products. Both sides present the move as a way to accelerate the buildout of institutional-grade digital asset market infrastructure and to support the growing role of tokenized assets in global finance. GSR is a long-standing crypto capital markets firm that provides liquidity provision, market making and derivatives/structured products to exchanges, protocols and institutions. SC Ventures, which Standard Chartered uses to invest in and build new digital and fintech businesses, has been active in the digital assets space through initiatives such as digital asset custody and tokenization platforms. By taking an equity stake in GSR, SC Ventures deepens Standard Chartered’s exposure to the crypto trading and liquidity layer, aiming to bridge traditional finance and digital asset markets via institutional products and tokenization infrastructure. The partnership is positioned to support scalable, regulated trading and liquidity solutions that large financial institutions increasingly require as they explore blockchain-based assets and on-chain financial instruments. "entities":["Standard Chartered","SC Ventures","GSR","Standard Chartered Bank","Bloomberg","Business Insider","FinanceWire"]}

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