Bitget, the preeminent Universal Exchange (UEX) globally, has announced a strategic partnership with Arkis, a prominent institutional digital asset prime brokerage. This collaboration aims to introduce Direct Market Access (DMA) to institutional traders utilizing Arkis’s comprehensive prime brokerage framework. Through this integration, institutions can trade directly on Bitget while leveraging a unified portfolio-based margin model to finance their positions.
This innovative structure allows institutional clients to execute trades through familiar sub-account setups and API workflows while accessing a consolidated portfolio margin that encompasses both Bitget and other supported trading venues. By transitioning from isolated margin requirements to a portfolio-level netting system, trading firms can optimize capital use and lessen balance sheet complications across various strategies.
Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, emphasized the need for institutions to effectively deploy capital without managing fragmented margin across different platforms. The partnership with Arkis aims to provide institutional traders with a practical approach to access Bitget and manage risk at a portfolio level, aligning with the operational realities of professional trading desks.
The collaboration also offers institutional users on Bitget greater flexibility to scale their operations in both spot and derivatives markets. Trades executed through Bitget can now be financed under Arkis’s credit framework, enhancing capital utilization while avoiding the challenges posed by fragmented margining across multiple venues.
Serhii Tyshchenko, CEO of Arkis, highlighted that trading firms demand capital efficiency without compromising on risk management. He noted that enabling DMA to Bitget within Arkis’s unified margin framework allows institutions to manage and finance positions comprehensively across various trading venues, maintaining the necessary controls sought in professional trading contexts.
This partnership is reflective of Bitget’s ongoing commitment to enhancing institutional infrastructure within the larger UEX environment. Recent insights from Messari indicate that institutional participation increasingly leans towards platforms that integrate liquidity, execution, and financing within a single operational framework. The adoption of portfolio-based margin and direct market access is becoming essential for professional capital management.
By combining Bitget’s execution capabilities with Arkis’s prime brokerage services, the partnership aims to streamline the experience for institutional traders operating within complex digital markets, where capital efficiency and operational clarity are key to enhancing performance.
Bitget, serving over 125 million users and offering an extensive array of crypto tokens, tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals, is dedicated to facilitating smarter trading for its users. The exchange is actively driving crypto adoption through partnerships, including collaborations with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Furthermore, Bitget has aligned with UNICEF to extend blockchain education to 1.1 million individuals by 2027, reinforcing its commitment to global impact initiatives.
Arkis, for its part, focuses on providing unified margin, credit, and risk management services tailored for institutional trading firms. By enabling portfolio-level financing and offering integrated risk controls, Arkis effectively aligns with the operational practices of institutional desks, prioritizing efficiency in balance sheets and clarity in operations.
