Shield Swap and Flowdesk expand confidential trading for institutions. Last Updated: October 17, 2026 3:00 am 2 mins read OpenLeverage is announcing a collaboration with Flowdesk, a global liquidity provider and digital asset trading and technology firm, to provide deep and reliable liquidity to Shield Swap. Flowdesk brings institutional-grade liquidity to Shield Swap, giving participants a way to confidentially trade at scale without surfacing their activity to the broader market. This collaboration gives professional traders access to popular trading pairs with new privacy protections and reflects a shared focus on building efficient and liquid digital asset markets. Flowdesk combines deep financial and crypto expertise with algorithmic and proprietary trading systems to connect digital assets to global liquidity. Flowdesk provides transparent OTC trading and liquidity solutions for institutional investors, token issuers, and exchanges, connected across 150+ centralized and decentralized markets. Shield Swap takes a confidential approach for traders. Participants are able to execute a trade without publishing their identity, holdings, and strategy to the market. Inside Shield Swap, participant identities stay off the public ledger, portfolio balances remain encrypted to the participant's keys, and trades do not expose the participant's full activity to public observers. Every trade also creates an encrypted compliance record that can be reviewed when access is compelled when law. Working with Flowdesk connects these two parts of the trading experience. Flowdesk supports deep, efficient liquidity for assets moving through Shield Swap. Once positions are shielded inside Shield Swap, subsequent holdings remain confidential within the platform, even while liquidity pools are managed by Flowdesk. This collaboration gives professional traders a way to participate in onchain finance with confidentiality and compliance. Early access is open to institutional and professional investors at shield.fi. Shield Swap is a technology provider. It is not a broker, dealer, or registered intermediary, and does not provide investment, legal, tax, or other advice of any kind. Participants act on their own account and remain responsible for their trading decisions and compliance with applicable law. Flowdesk Legal Notice In this communication, "Flowdesk" refers collectively to the Flowdesk group and may include one or more of its affiliated or related entities, as applicable. The specific entity providing a service, and the services available to you, may vary depending on your location, the nature of the service, and the applicable legal and regulatory requirements in the relevant jurisdiction. References to "Flowdesk" should therefore not be understood as referring to a single legal entity or as implying that any particular entity within the Flowdesk group is authorized or permitted to provide all services in all jurisdictions. Disclaimer: This is a paid release. The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the content provider and do not necessarily represent those of NewsBTC. NewsBTC does not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of information available in such content. Do your research and invest at your own risk. Disclaimer: The information found on NewsBTC is for educational purposes only. It does not represent the opinions of NewsBTC on whether to buy, sell or hold any investments and naturally investing carries risks. You are advised to conduct your own research before making any investment decisions. Use information provided on this website entirely at your own risk.

Flowdesk Europe receives Payment Institution authorization from the ACPR under PSD2. The authorization allows Flowdesk Europe to provide custody and transfer services for fiat-denominated stablecoins, complementing its MiCA CASP authorization and regulated offering for European clients. PARIS-(BUSINESS WIRE)- Flowdesk, a global liquidity provider and digital asset trading and infrastructure provider, today announced that its European entity, Flowdesk Europe, has been authorized as a Payment Institution by the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority, l'Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR), under the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The authorization allows Flowdesk Europe to provide custody and transfer services for e-money tokens (EMTs), the fiat-referenced stablecoins regulated under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, to its clients across the European Union. The authorization follows the entity's Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization received from the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) under MiCA at the end of June this year. With both authorizations in place, Flowdesk Europe can now support its EU clients across the trading, custody, and transfer of crypto-assets and EMTs, reflecting the firm's long-standing commitment to operating within clear and comprehensive regulatory frameworks for digital assets. "Our clients increasingly use stablecoins to move value, and they expect high regulatory standards across all of their activity," said Guilhem Chaumont, Co-founder and CEO of Flowdesk. "Adding this authorization to our existing CASP authorization lets us meet that expectation for our EU clients, from execution through to custody and settlement, under one regulated entity. As liquid assets continue to move onchain through stablecoins and other forms of tokenization, institutions need a regulated and compliant counterparty that can support that shift." With offices globally including Paris, and Dubai, and over 200 employees, Flowdesk is backed by institutions including BlackRock, Cathay Innovation, and Coinbase Ventures, offering 24/7/365 coverage across more than 150 exchanges globally. Now holding Payment Institution authorization from the ACPR, CASP authorization from the AMF under MiCA, and a full Broker-Dealer license from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), Flowdesk is strengthening its foundations as a partner for institutions, exchanges, and token issuers. Interviews with Guilhem Chaumont, Co-founder and CEO, are available upon request About Flowdesk Flowdesk is a full-service digital asset trading and technology firm specializing in liquidity solutions and OTC trading. With offices globally, Flowdesk combines deep financial and crypto expertise with algorithmic and proprietary trading systems to connect digital assets to global liquidity. Flowdesk's technology is engineered to bring clarity and precision to digital asset and tokenized asset markets. Flowdesk Europe CIB Code: 18098 (delivered by the ACPR) Flowdesk Europe SAS MiCA registration number A2026-022, registered with the AMF. This crypto-asset marketing communication has not been reviewed or approved by any competent authority in any Member State of the European Union. The offeror of the crypto-asset is solely responsible for the content of this crypto-asset marketing communication.

Blueprint Finance announces strategic funding round to scale Concrete's institutional DeFi infrastructure. Chainwire | Publish date: 08/20/2026 (Last updated: August 20, 2026 12:06 AM) Polychain Capital leads the round, with participation from Bullish, Keyrock, BitGo, FalconX, G-20, Flowdesk, JPEG Trading, and Sentient Capital. NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Blueprint Finance, the core developer of Concrete, today announced the completion of a strategic funding round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Bullish, Keyrock, BitGo, FalconX, G-20, Flowdesk, JPEG Trading, Sentient Capital, Andes, and 2Square. The strategic round brings together a group of investors spanning venture capital, institutional trading, custody, liquidity provision, and digital asset infrastructure. The financing will support Blueprint Finance as it continues to scale Concrete, its full-stack vault infrastructure that is designed to enable institutions, protocols, and asset managers to launch, manage, and allocate capital through sophisticated on-chain strategies. Concrete continues to design and build infrastructure for a new phase of decentralized finance - one in which vaults increasingly function as programmable on-chain capital allocators. Rather than requiring allocators to manage execution, accounting, risk controls, rebalancing, and integrations across fragmented protocols independently, Concrete provides the infrastructure to bring these functions together within a unified vault system. The company has also continued to expand its work with protocols, asset issuers, networks, and institutional allocators to build vaults that can support on-chain yield products and serve as core liquidity infrastructure. Beyond scaling its vault infrastructure, Blueprint Finance has continued to expand the Concrete ecosystem with new on-chain financial primitives, including AssetCX and concUSD. These products represent the next evolution of Concrete: moving to build new assets, markets, and financial products on top of its institutional-grade foundation. "DeFi is moving beyond the era where capital allocation was defined by chasing the highest advertised yield," said Nic Roberts-Huntley, CEO and co-founder of Blueprint Finance. "The next phase is about infrastructure: giving professional allocators the controls, transparency, automation, and risk management they expect while preserving everything that makes on-chain markets powerful. This strategic round brings together firms that understand those markets from every angle, and we're excited to have them alongside us as we scale Concrete into the infrastructure layer for on-chain asset management." The round reflects growing institutional interest in vault infrastructure as digital asset markets mature. Institutional allocators increasingly require more than access to on-chain yield: they need auditable accounting, defined operational permissions, scalable execution, transparent risk controls, and infrastructure capable of operating through rapidly changing market conditions. "Who participated in this round is as important to us as the capital itself," added Roberts-Huntley. "These are firms that operate at the center of digital asset markets. Bringing that expertise into the Concrete ecosystem gives us strategic partners across liquidity, execution, custody, and distribution as we build infrastructure designed for the next generation of on-chain capital." About Blueprint Finance Blueprint Finance builds infrastructure for institutional on-chain finance and is the core developer of Concrete. Concrete is a full-stack vault infrastructure platform designed to power the next generation of on-chain asset management. Its modular architecture enables institutions, protocols, asset issuers, and allocators to build and operate vaults with automated execution, accounting, risk controls, and quantitative strategy tooling. By combining DeFi-native composability with institutional-grade operational infrastructure, Concrete is building the foundation for scalable, transparent, and programmable capital markets on-chain.