Bridging the liquidity gap: How Digital Asset infrastructure is rising to meet institutional demands

In April 2025, Ripple dropped $1.25 billion to buy Hidden Road, instantly becoming the first crypto company to own a global prime broker. This is the kind of deal that signals a huge shift in institutional digital asset infrastructure. It isn’t just evolving, but is instead being rebuilt from the ground up.

One reason for this is the fragmentation problem. “Liquidity is scattered across dozens of exchanges without a single dominant platform across all trading pairs or instruments,” says Sameer Shalaby, Co-Founder & CEO of VersiFi.

“Liquidity is scattered across dozens of exchanges without a single dominant platform across all trading pairs or instruments.”
– Sameer Shalaby

This article originally appeared in e-Forex. Read the full article here.