Cryptocurrency markets are evolving rapidly amid constant innovation, shifting regulations and a dynamic macroeconomic landscape. These conditions create a need for robust, modern technology that enables high-performance operations, seamless compliance and strategic agility.
Nasdaq's technology solutions are purpose-built for the cryptocurrency and digital asset ecosystem—meant to provide exchanges, marketplaces, banks, brokers and custodians with the technology foundation to trade, monitor, scale, manage risk and seize new revenue opportunities. Our technology helps firms meet the needs of changing risk management components, ensuring your firm can scale as you add on new asset classes.
From matching engines and clearing platforms to surveillance tools and compliance intelligence, we help empower financial institutions across the full lifecycle of digital assets.
Building Efficient, Modern and More Secure Crypto Marketplaces
Exchanges & Marketplaces
Crypto Trading Platform and Surveillance Software for Exchanges
Nasdaq's technology helps both traditional and crypto-native market operators scale confidently, innovate boldly and seize growth opportunities with speed and precision.
Our multi-asset trading and clearing technology empowers your firm to handle high-volume, real-time operations while upholding market integrity. And with our advanced surveillance tools tailored for crypto markets, you can prioritize investor protection, regulatory compliance and operational resilience.
Powering High-Performance, Resilient and Fair Crypto Markets
Partnering with Nasdaq allows us to leverage their proven expertise to effectively detect, monitor, and mitigate market abuse risks, enhance operational efficiency, and provide a more secure and stable trading environment for our clients.
Nasdaq's clearing technology has allowed us to deliver a resilient and scalable infrastructure which is cloud native and meets the high standards demanded of financial market infrastructures in traditional markets.
This intense focus has allowed us to provide an unparalleled level of service to our clients, and our technology is what underpins it all.
Case Study
Discover how Nasdaq’s trading and matching engine
empowers Bitstamp and their clients with reliable and scalable digital asset exchange infrastructure.
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Case Study
How Bitstamp is Leveraging Nasdaq Technology
Discover how Nasdaq’s trading and matching engine empowers Bitstamp and their clients with reliable and scalable digital asset exchange infrastructure.
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Why Leading Crypto Exchanges
Choose Nasdaq:
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High performance, multi-asset trading
Leverage tried and trusted trading technology across traditional and digital assets to execute thousands of transactions per second with ultra-low latency.
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Global scalability
Proven infrastructure that seamlessly handles millions of users and billions in trading volume, while offering robust surveillance across asset classes as your exchange grows.
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Comprehensive clearing and risk management
Seamlessly adapt to evolving regulations across traditional and decentralized financial markets with real-time, multi-asset clearing, risk management and settlement capabilities.
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Built-in compliance
Industry-leading crypto market surveillance technology detects suspicious activity and ensures regulatory compliance across all jurisdictions.
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Protect market participants
Keep markets safe, uphold regulatory standards and maintain compliance with industry leading surveillance technology, to more effectively protect and attract investors.
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Seamless pathway to new revenue streams
Modern, AI-enabled technology infrastructure to capitalize on new revenue opportunities in digital asset markets while supporting market integrity.
Scalable Technology, Purpose Built for Crypto Markets
Banks and Brokers
Innovative, Surveillance Solutions for Crypto Market Participants
With Nasdaq financial technology, crypto market participants can benefit from modern, industry leading surveillance solutions, ensuring compliance with evolving regulatory requirements and enabling a safe, fair and transparent trading environment.
Your surveillance strategy should enable your firm to grow confidently while prioritizing investor protection, regulatory compliance, and market integrity. Nasdaq Trade Surveillance for Crypto Trading merges innovative technology with a deep understanding of what it takes to ensure high-integrity marketplaces and transparent trading activity— all while offering the comprehensive coverage necessary to support a safe and secure crypto ecosystem.
Why Leading Crypto Market Participants
Choose Nasdaq:
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Streamline compliance
Navigate an evolving regulatory landscape with ease thanks to industry-leading market surveillance technology that detects.
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Manage reputational risk
Market manipulation is not just a financial risk, it’s also reputational. Protect your brand and build trust with the leading crypto market surveillance technology.
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The market data advantage
Effective surveillance requires more than pattern recognition. With Nasdaq you benefit from a comprehensive data foundation, integrating market data from 200+ venues globally, enabling you to see the complete picture.
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Comprehensive coverage and expertise
With comprehensive coverage across 30 crypto markets, designed by Nasdaq experts in market manipulation, you can minimize false positives and ensure risks do not split through the cracks.
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Scalability and growth
Scale with surveillance solutions that can grow in lock step with your business—across markets, jurisdictions and even into non-crypto asset classes.
Institutionalizing Crypto Markets: Webinar Series
Episode 1
Navigating Regulatory Landscapes: The Importance of Market Integrity in Crypto and Digital Asset Markets
In this webinar, Tony Sio, Head of Regulatory Strategy and Innovation, Nasdaq was joined by Caroline D. Pham, Acting Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), for a discussion into how evolving regulatory frameworks are shaping the future of cryptocurrency and digital asset markets.
Episode 2
Changing Market Models for Digital Asset Trading: Institutionalizing Crypto with Modernized Infrastructure
Discover insights from industry leaders across Nasdaq, the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), and RULEMATCH on an overview of how market models are evolving in digital asset trading, relevant for both market operators and participants.
Episode 3
Tokenized Collateral: How Collateral Management Fuels Institutionalization in Crypto Markets
Institutional adoption of digital assets trading is accelerating—and tokenized collateral is at the heart of this transformation. Discover actionable strategies and frameworks from industry experts at Nasdaq, ISDA and HQLAx on how you can optimize collateral management for institutional crypto trading.
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Related Cryptocurrency Insights
Quiz
MiCA Readiness Quiz
The EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) introduces a new era of oversight and operational requirements for crypto market participants.
Whether you’re exploring the landscape, building toward compliance or optimizing for what’s next, this short diagnostic will help you assess your current surveillance capabilities, key risks to monitor based on your activity, and where you are in your compliance journey.
Guide
Discover the Future of Crypto Regulation
As long as financial markets have existed, manipulative behaviors have been present. While crypto markets continue to evolve, it is important that organizations take a proactive approach to building integrity and trust in the space.
The Nasdaq Cryptocurrency Regulation Guide offers a detailed look at the new policies shaping the digital currency market. Stay equipped with the knowledge to navigate the complex regulatory environment.
Solution
Nasdaq Crypto Surveillance
Merging innovative technology with a deep understanding of what it takes to ensure high-integrity marketplaces and transparent trading activity. Available for exchanges, regulators and trading participants alike, Nasdaq’s crypto-forward surveillance strategy is helping to bring transparency and trust into the ecosystem.
Factsheet
Nasdaq Eqlipse Trading
Today’s market conditions, evolving regulatory landscape and dynamic macro backdrop require that exchanges can pivot in real time with reliable infrastructure capable of adapting to the ebbs and flows of the markets while also allowing for differentiation to compete on a global scale. Markets using Nasdaq Eqlipse Trading can derive a more value-driven approach to trading platform operations while improving the efficiency, transparency and integrity of capital markets, locally and globally.
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Factsheet
Nasdaq Eqlipse Trading Factsheet
Today’s market conditions, evolving regulatory landscape and dynamic macro backdrop require that exchanges can pivot in real time with reliable infrastructure capable of adapting to the ebbs and flows of the markets while also allowing for differentiation to compete on a global scale. Markets using Nasdaq Eqlipse Trading can derive a more value-driven approach to trading platform operations while improving the efficiency, transparency and integrity of capital markets, locally and globally.
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Factsheet
Nasdaq Eqlipse Clearing
As crypto markets undergo rapid institutionalization—where evolving regulations, market reforms, and technological innovation introduce both complexity and opportunity—the firms that will lead are those that prioritize robust risk management while supporting their members and meeting rising demand for institutional‑grade cleared products and enhanced services. Discover how Nasdaq Eqlipse Clearing can empower your firm to modernize clearing operations, strengthen its risk framework, and capture growth in an increasingly sophisticated digital asset ecosystem.
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Factsheet
Nasdaq Eqlipse Clearing
Discover how Nasdaq Eqlipse Clearing can empower your firm to modernize clearing operations, strengthen its risk framework, and capture growth in an increasingly sophisticated digital asset ecosystem.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS)
Crypto Market Technology Frequently Asked Questions
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Regulators around the world share the common challenge of ensuring that their constituents are protected from the risks of cryptocurrency investing. As regulation evolves, the onus is on crypto exchange operators and participants alike to ensure they are meeting local and regional regulatory obligations. Nasdaq’s purpose-built surveillance solutions for crypto markets can enable your firm to grow confidently while prioritizing investor protection, regulatory compliance, and market integrity.
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Currently, 130+ marketplaces around the world leverage Nasdaq’s technology. Nasdaq’s trading, clearing and surveillance technology can support multiple types of market models including traditional capital markets operators, as well as new marketplaces such as cryptocurrency, real estate, carbon credits and more.
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Nasdaq Eqlipse Trading provides cryptocurrency markets with a functionality-rich trading solution. Our cryptocurrency exchange software is robust and scalable, shortening time-to-market and inspiring confidence that your exchange can support high volume trading. Nasdaq's clearing technology offers high-velocity, real-time clearing, risk management and settlement capabilities, ensuring safe, efficient and reliable operations in cryptocurrency markets. Our industry-leading surveillance technology can detect and investigate potential financial crime or market manipulation, fostering trust and stability in cryptocurrency markets and managing reputational risk—which can be potentially volatile and are often unregulated.
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Nasdaq's comprehensive trading, clearing and surveillance services empower cryptocurrency market operators to support high-volume trading and enable real-time clearing and risk management to safeguard against market manipulation and reputational damage.
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Nasdaq offers trading, clearing and surveillance solutions for cryptocurrency exchanges and are experienced at working with cryptocurrency exchanges all over the world. With Nasdaq’s proven solutions, cryptocurrency exchanges can build scalable, resilient, and trusted markets based on globally recognized technology and infrastructure. Ten crypto marketplaces are currently leveraging powered by Nasdaq’s marketplace market infrastructure technology, and 50+ cryptocurrency exchanges are utilizing Nasdaq Market Trade Surveillance.
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Nasdaq's comprehensive trading, clearing and surveillance services empower cryptocurrency market operators to support high volume trading and enable real-time clearing and risk management to safeguard against market manipulation and reputational damage. Our platforms are designed to perform mission-critical trading and clearing operations with the highest standards of security and availability through the most demanding market conditions. With the ability to process over 1 billion transactions per day with ultra-low latency, Nasdaq’s trading technology is designed to remain resilient for while powering high-volume and 24/7 trading, high transaction volumes, and multi-asset transactions. Our solutions can protect your firm from reputational damage associated with market manipulation by aggressively monitoring for anomalous trading patterns, streamlining processes involved in monitoring and freeing up analysts for critical investigations.