Lack of liquidity is a growing concern in crypto, says Auros’ Jason Atkins
Crypto markets have spent the past year talking up institutional demand, but one constraint keeps resurfacing beneath the headlines: there’s just not enough liquidity currently in the market to let Wall Street enter with its size and scale without destabilizing prices.
Speaking ahead of Consensus Hong Kong, Jason Atkins, chief commercial officer at crypto market maker Auros, said illiquidity, not volatility, remains the industry’s biggest structural problem.
“You can’t just say institutional capital wants to come in if you don’t have the avenue for them to do it,” Atkins said.
The issue, he argued, is whether markets can withstand the size of institutional appetite.
“It’s one thing to be like, ‘we’ve…
