Anton Katz of Talos Highlights the Need for Better Infrastructure to Woo Wall Street to Crypto
Anton Katz, CEO of digital asset trading platform Talos, has highlighted the need for better infrastructure in the crypto industry to attract Wall Street investors.
In a recent interview, Katz emphasized that banks and hedge funds are looking for the right applications and tools to fully participate in the space.
He claimed that Talos aims to facilitate this by creating connections between these financial firms and liquidity through tools that they are familiar with in capital markets.
Katz described the company's role as building the "piping" and then developing the layer on top. "It's not a very sexy thing to say with investors, but that's how we think about it," he said.
Katz, along with his Broadway colleague Ethan Feldman, founded Talos in 2018 to connect institutional investors with digital asset trading opportunities.
His background as an MIT-trained engineer and his prior executive positions at AQR Capital Management and Broadway Technology make him a good fit to bridge the gap between traditional and digital financial markets.
According to Katz, building robust infrastructure is crucial as the digital asset space undergoes institutionalization following high-profile failures and increased regulatory scrutiny.
Katz argued that certain protections demanded by institutional investors, such as those seen in traditional markets, can be imported into the crypto space.
He noted that the capital market side has developed safeguards over time based on past failures, which can offer valuable lessons for the crypto industry.
"We've seen these kinds of events that have people at some point say, 'We need a lot more protection here,'" said Katz.
"Well, the capital market side actually does that pretty well because it's years of
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