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Enigma Securities

Can a regulated, institutionally-connected OTC crypto liquidity desk become the full-service digital asset trading and settlement infrastructure of choice for global institutional clients?

Founded2017
HQLondon, United Kingdom
FoundersAvi Bouhadana, Rudy Perez
IndustryFintech / Crypto
The story

Founded in 2017 as the cryptocurrency arm of Makor Group — an FCA-regulated institutional brokerage — Enigma Securities was built to bring institutional-grade OTC trading to digital assets. The company evolved from a hardware-wallet-dependent settlement operation into a technology-first liquidity provider by adopting Fireblocks, enabling a 270x increase in quarterly trading volume. More recently, Enigma has pushed into on-chain yield and tokenized real-world assets, bridging traditional institutional finance flows with DeFi infrastructure via partnerships like OpenTrade.

Last 12 months
2024-01
2025-08
Product timeline
2017
Enigma Securities Limited founded in London as the digital asset arm of Makor Group (FCA-regulated brokerage), to service the growing digital-assets market.· pivot
2021
Adopted Fireblocks for institutional-grade custody and settlement infrastructure, scaling quarterly trading volume from $30M to $8B.· banking
2024
Launched access to on-chain yield products backed by U.S. Treasury Bills in partnership with OpenTrade (Circle-backed), enabling institutional clients to invest USDC/EURC holdings in real-world asset yield products.· banking
2025
Signed Letter of Adherence with Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index US ETF as a regulated OTC counterparty for crypto-asset trading.· banking
Regulated entities
Cryptoasset Registration / FCA Registered
UK FCA
Enigma Securities Limited
The stack
Crypto
OpenTradeFireblocksFireblocks
Accounting gap: none