What is multi-dealer pricing for crypto derivatives?

Sending the same trade specification to several counterparties at once and executing with the best all-in price. It replaces the single-dealer relationship, where the dealer knows it is the only quote, with a documented competition on every roll.

How many dealers should quote a crypto options trade?

At least three with executed documentation and available credit. Fewer and the competition is thin; many more and information about the trade starts to leak into the market before execution.

Does Gammon Capital execute trades or take a share of the spread?

No. Gammon is a non-discretionary advisor, paid by the client, not the spread. The client executes in its own name, holds custody, and owns its counterparty relationships.

What makes ISDA and CSA terms issuer-grade?

Terms negotiated for a public company rather than accepted from a dealer's fund template: eligible collateral that includes what the issuer actually holds, threshold and minimum transfer amounts sized to its liquidity, termination events that do not trigger on routine corporate actions, and dispute mechanics with a clear valuation process.

Strategic Treasury Network

A network of issuers, not a network of vendors.

Public-company digital-asset treasuries, hedge funds, family offices, and compute operators share more structural exposures than the dealer community would prefer to make obvious. The Strategic Treasury Network is the layer we build around our clients to convert that shared exposure into shared advantage: multi-dealer pricing on bitcoin, crypto, and compute derivatives, better access to capital, and deeper liquidity than any single issuer can negotiate alone.

Request Capacity

Engagements are limited to accredited investors, qualified clients, and qualified eligible persons.

What the network changes

Structural advantages, none available alone.

Each is a tangible improvement in the terms of trade. None of them depend on a single Gammon engagement; they compound across the client roster.

Pricing power

Leverage against the dealer community

When the dealer is the only quote in the room, the spread is a tax. Network clients route every roll through multi-dealer pricing, with a documented record of who priced where. Over time the dealers who consistently bid for the flow win more of it; the ones who widen on us get fewer chances. The result is a structurally narrower bid–ask, on every product, in every regime.

Capital access

Better capital-raising terms

Issuance is harder when each issuer negotiates from a standing start. Network clients are visible to a curated set of capital sources (institutional allocators, private credit, structured-equity desks, derivatives-financing counterparties) that have already underwritten the broader set of names. Diligence cycles compress. Pricing improves. New windows open at scale rather than one transaction at a time.

Liquidity

Deeper, more durable liquidity

Liquidity isn't just a posted bid; it's the willingness of a counterparty to honor that bid in size, in stress, on the third call. The network earns durable liquidity by aggregating order flow across clients and routing it through counterparties whose seat depends on showing up. The practical result: tighter execution on entry, less slippage on exit, and a counterparty stack that does not evaporate when the regime turns.

Disputes

Leverage in trade disputes

When a collateral dispute, mismark, or ISDA event is contested, the dealer's calculus changes once they know the rest of the network is watching. Network clients walk into a dispute with comparable margin records, documented pricing dispersion across counterparties, and a relationship that has reasons to settle cleanly rather than burn future flow. Faster resolution, better recoveries, and fewer disputes raised at all.

Counterparty surveillance

Earlier warning on counterparty stress

Funding patterns, rehypothecation language, collateral substitution requests, and quote behavior all leave signatures before a counterparty fails. Aggregating those signatures across the client roster surfaces stress earlier than any single issuer could detect alone, and positions the network to walk out together rather than race for the exit.

Precedent

Terms that compound

Concessions a network client wins on collateral eligibility, thresholds, NAV triggers, and termination language are documented and re-used. The next negotiation starts from the precedent, not the dealer's standard form. Over a small number of cycles, the floor moves up for everyone inside the network.

Narrative

A unified narrative to the street

Disclosure language, structured-product mechanics, and hedging posture become legible across the network rather than reinvented one issuer at a time. Sell-side analysts, allocators, and the financial press see consistent framing across comparable names. The category gets priced as a category, not as a series of one-offs, which compresses the discount that comes from being misunderstood.

How it works in practice

The mechanics that produce the advantage.

01
Curated, not crowdsourced
Counterparties are vetted for credit, pricing discipline, digital-asset workflow, and behavior under stress. Names that game the network are removed from it.
02
Multi-dealer by default
Every roll, every overlay, every structured product is bid out across at least three counterparties. Clients see the dispersion; the dealers know they are seen.
03
Issuer-grade ISDA / CSA terms
Master agreements are negotiated for public-company issuers, not fund counterparties. Eligible collateral, threshold mechanics, termination events, and dispute language are all leveled up.
04
Operator backchannel
Anonymous peer comparisons across the network: financing flows, hedging postures, concentration data. Industry-level intelligence no single client could surface alone, governed by strict confidentiality.
05
Capital introductions, both directions
Institutional allocators, private credit, and structured-equity desks use the network to source proprietary opportunities. Issuers use it to source capital. Gammon facilitates the introductions; the parties contract directly.
06
B2B2C product engineering
We design derivatives products that issuers can offer to their own institutional investors and trading partners, turning the treasury into a product platform with revenue, not just a balance sheet.

Process

How a multi-dealer quote runs.

The same five steps on every roll, every overlay, and every structured trade. The client executes; Gammon runs the process alongside the client's treasury team.

01
Write the trade down
Instrument, strikes, tenor, notional, settlement, and collateral terms, checked against policy limits before any dealer sees it. Every dealer receives the identical specification.
02
Select the panel
At least three counterparties with executed ISDA and CSA documents and open credit lines. Dealers at their exposure limit for this client are excluded, however well they price.
03
Request quotes at the same time
One response window for all dealers, quotes firm for a stated size and time. Staggered requests let the first dealer's quote leak into the second's.
04
Compare on all-in cost
Premium against a reference mid from the listed market or the client's vol surface, plus collateral terms and post-trade counterparty exposure. The tightest headline price is not always the cheapest trade.
05
Execute and record
The client executes with the chosen dealer in its own name. Every quote, the winner, and the cover are logged; the record feeds the board pack and the next round of dealer scoring.

The full mechanics, including panel size and what goes in the pricing record: multi-dealer RFQ for crypto options.

Counterparty types

Who sits on the other side of the trade.

Each type is vetted for credit, pricing discipline, digital-asset workflow, and behavior under stress. We do not publish names; panels are built per client and per trade.

OTC options dealers

Bank and non-bank desks that quote listed tenors and bespoke strikes, and warehouse risk where listed markets are thin.

Listed-market liquidity

Regulated futures and options venues and the market makers that quote on them, used as the reference price and for standardized exposure.

Futures and basis desks

Counterparties for cash-and-carry, calendar spreads, and futures hedges where the margin model matters as much as the price.

Prime brokers

Cross-margining, financing, and consolidated reporting for clients running positions across more than one venue.

Lenders against digital-asset collateral

Term and open loans secured by BTC or ETH, compared on LTV triggers, cure periods, and rehypothecation rights as well as rate.

Structured-product and equity-linked desks

Notes, convertibles, and equity-linked structures for issuers, priced against the options embedded in them.

Compute capacity counterparties

Neoclouds, capacity resellers, and the new compute venues, for forwards, offtake, and hedges referenced to a GPU-hour index where one is credible.

Qualified custodians

Custody and tri-party collateral arrangements so collateral can be posted without leaving segregated accounts.

Capital sources

Institutional allocators, private credit, and structured-equity investors for issuers raising capital. Introductions only; the parties contract directly.

Boundaries

What the network is not.

We say this clearly so the offer is unambiguous.

Not a buy-side club

The network is a structure for better terms of trade, not a coordinated trading vehicle. Clients act independently; nothing in the network resembles or facilitates market coordination.

Not a placement agent

Capital introductions are bilateral. Gammon facilitates fit; the parties run their own diligence, contract directly, and pay registered agents where applicable.

Not anonymous on every dimension

Peer comparisons are anonymized in aggregate. Specific counterparty terms shared between named participants require explicit consent.

Reference library

Reference pages on counterparties and documentation.

Questions

Frequently asked questions.

What is multi-dealer pricing for crypto derivatives?: Sending the same trade specification to several counterparties at once and executing with the best all-in price. It replaces the single-dealer relationship, where the dealer knows it is the only quote, with a documented competition on every roll.
How many dealers should quote a crypto options trade?: At least three with executed documentation and available credit. Fewer and the competition is thin; many more and information about the trade starts to leak into the market before execution.
Does Gammon Capital execute trades or take a share of the spread?: No. Gammon is a non-discretionary advisor, paid by the client, not the spread. The client executes in its own name, holds custody, and owns its counterparty relationships.
What makes ISDA and CSA terms issuer-grade?: Terms negotiated for a public company rather than accepted from a dealer's fund template: eligible collateral that includes what the issuer actually holds, threshold and minimum transfer amounts sized to its liquidity, termination events that do not trigger on routine corporate actions, and dispute mechanics with a clear valuation process.
Who can access the Strategic Treasury Network?: Gammon clients, provisioned at engagement kickoff. Engagements are limited to accredited investors, qualified clients, and qualified eligible persons.

Talk to us about the network.

Network access is provisioned at engagement kickoff. Capacity is constrained by intent; we add new clients only at a pace the network can absorb.