Introduction: A Personal Insight

OTC trading powers some of the largest deals in crypto and private markets, yet the way these trades happen hasn’t evolved. After working with family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and crypto-native companies, I kept running into the same issues: fragmented deal flows, last-minute failures, and too much trust placed in spreadsheets and intermediaries. For a market this big, it felt like the infrastructure was stuck in the past.

That’s what led me to start NexOTC by creating a platform for trustless, high-volume OTC trading where security, privacy and compliance are able to work together. I’ve lived these pain points firsthand, and this is the solution I wish existed when I was helping close these trades.

Why Now?

OTC Growth, Institutional Demand and Compliance are finally converging at the right time to make NexOTC necessary:

• Institutional Shift: TradFi moved from skepticism to participation; ETF adoption sets new inflow records.
  
  

• OTC Trading Volume Surge: 2024 saw OTC crypto volume grow 177% in Q4 alone with 311% YoY stablecoin trading growth.
  
  

• Global Regulation Alignment: MiCA, UAE and Hong Kong frameworks are creating room for compliant and privacy-aware infrastructure.
  
  

• The Rise of Tokenized Markets: RWAs, fund shares, treasuries and private assets are moving on-chain but capital markets still lack the infrastructure for secure and automated settlement.

What We Saw in the Market

OTC and P2P deals today face four critical challenges:

1. No Trust Guarantees: Even with escrows, there's no fallback logic or smart settlement.
   
   

2. High Friction, High Fees: Deals happen manually over chats and spreadsheets with stacked commissions.
   
   

3. Privacy vs. Compliance: KYC is invasive. Data exposure kills deals.
   
   

4. Zero Auditability: No record. No resolution. No course of action when things go wrong.

The Pillars We're Building On

• Trustless OTC Escrow: Smart contracts enforce OTC trade terms with time-based execution, tranche settlement, and multi-asset support.
  
  

• AI Matchmaking Agents: Automatically match counterparties based on trade parameters, volume, jurisdiction, and behavioral patterns. AI/ML functionality will focus on three core areas: Trust Scoring, Matchmaking and Counter-offers.
  
  

• Zero-Knowledge Compliance: Users complete off-chain KYC/KYB and AML screening, enabling trustless compliance without exposing sensitive data during OTC trades.
  
  

• Multi-Layered Privacy: Combines zk-SNARK-shielded transactions, proxy wallets, selective disclosure and multi-signature controls to protect trade details, counterparties and asset flows while allowing optional audit verification.
  
  

• Tranche & Milestone Settlement: Enables large trades to settle over time, linked to deal-specific milestones for control and flexibility.
  
  

• Fee & Commission Structure: Automated, rule-based fee routing supporting platform commissions, introducer deals, and custom tiers.
  
  

• Custom Institutional Desks: Enables institutions to launch their own desks with configurable parameters, routing, wallet control, and post-trade reporting.

Where We're Headed

NexOTC starts by fixing crypto OTC trading but our vision expands into the tokenized future. Whether it's stablecoins, fund shares or tokenized treasuries, our mission is to create a seamless and trustless OTC infrastructure for the next wave of capital markets.

We're building for a World where trades settle privately, compliantly and autonomously, where counterparties trust the protocol, not each other.

Get Involved

There are many ways to get involved! Become an early contributor to the platform, an investor or a partner helping us build the next layer of trustless OTC infrastructure.

Waitlist - https://nexotc.io/waitlist

Investor Deck - https://docsend.com/v/f9y7s/nexotc

Contact (Mail or Schedule a Call) - https://nexotc.io/contact