No one who did trading during the barter system era would have imagined the fast systems that blockchain offers today. Cryptocurrency trading as an industry is quite young. The first proper crypto exchange began operating in March 2010, a little over a year after Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first coin on the Bitcoin blockchain. And then the pace picked up remarkably.

Between 2020 and 2022, the market infrastructure for crypto trading began to take shape. And now prop trading, which had been forex-dominated for a long time, began to see crypto-native prop firms. Since then, and especially from 2024 onward, interest in crypto-related prop trading has surged – with several industry trackers reporting double- or triple-digit year-on-year…