Finery Markets has released a cluster of product updates and research outputs in its August 2026 digest, covering a faster developer onboarding pathway, a new trading analytics module, and a guide aimed at firms considering launching crypto OTC desks. The company also reported an all-time high in trading volume for the first half of 2026, citing growing institutional use of non-custodial OTC infrastructure.
The updates arrive alongside Finery Markets’ second consecutive appearance on the CNBC and Statista World’s Top Fintech Companies list, in the Digital Assets category.
AI-assisted integration and the developer bottleneck
The most technically substantive update is the release of an AI Integration Repository, which the company says reduces the time required to complete a production-ready integration with its platform by a factor of 18.7. The repository packages structured context, architectural rules and platform constraints in a format designed for AI coding assistants including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Gemini. The stated goal is to allow a developer to issue a single prompt to an AI agent and receive a complete, working integration covering REST, WebSocket and FIX protocols across any programming language.
The 18.7x figure is presented without an independent benchmark or a before-and-after integration time baseline, so it is difficult to contextualise. The underlying idea, packaging platform documentation and schema definitions in a structured way that AI assistants can consume directly, is gaining traction across API-first financial infrastructure providers as developer bandwidth remains a persistent constraint. Reducing time-to-live for a new institutional client is a meaningful commercial lever in OTC markets where the sales cycle is long and switching costs are high.
Analytics dashboard and OTC desk guide
The new analytics module gives both liquidity takers and providers granular visibility into their trading activity. For takers, the module surfaces cumulative volume, trade counts, average order sizes, flow distribution by counterparty and by trading pair, period-over-period benchmarks, and execution direction. For liquidity providers, it adds markup revenue breakdowns by counterparty or trading pair, segmentation between end-client and interdealer flow, and wallet share analysis relative to competing providers. The features are positioned as tools for refining execution and pricing strategy, which is the commercially sensitive layer in OTC markets where spreads and fill quality determine margin.
Finery Markets has also published a practical guide to launching a crypto OTC desk, addressing the build-versus-buy decision and the infrastructure required at each operational layer. The intended audience is brokers, payment providers and prospective desk operators.
Stablecoins as operating infrastructure
The most notable data point in the digest is from Finery Markets’ own proprietary OTC flow. The company says stablecoins represented roughly a quarter of institutional OTC volume in 2023 and reached 81% in H1 2026. The company has published a companion special report, Stablecoins 2035, built with ten firms including Flow Traders, GSR, Keyrock and Mercuryo, that attempts to project what a stablecoin-dominant settlement layer means for institutional market structure over the next decade.
Market context and regulatory read-across
The stablecoin figure, if accurate, reflects a broader structural shift that regulators are now actively engaging. The EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation places significant restrictions on stablecoins used at scale for settlement, particularly for non-euro-denominated coins. In the UK, the FCA and Bank of England have published stablecoin regulatory frameworks that distinguish between payment stablecoins and those used in wholesale markets. Firms using stablecoins as a primary settlement layer at the volumes Finery Markets describes will need to navigate these frameworks carefully as rules move from consultation into enforcement.
Separately, Finery Markets raises a pointed question about tokenised real-world assets: the total tokenised RWA market has passed 65 billion dollars, but around 32.9 billion dollars of that recorded zero token transfers in a single week. The company’s position is that tokenisation without accompanying liquidity infrastructure produces a digital record rather than a tradeable market, a distinction that is increasingly central to institutional and regulatory assessments of the RWA sector.
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