Waters Wavelength Podcast: Talos’s Samar Sen
Samar Sen, head of Apac at Talos, joins the podcast to talk about the institutional tools in the digital assets space.
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This week, Samar Sen, head of Apac at Talos, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They discuss how institutional tools for the digital asset space have grown in the last few years and the tools Talos is building on.
1:30 – Samar explains how he moved from the sell side to working with digital assets
6:30 – How the SEC greenlighting spot bitcoin ETFs impacts Talos
9:30 – The evolution of institutional tools for the digital asset over the last two years
12:30 – The Cloudwall and D3X acquisitions
17:00 – Building from an institutional background
19:30 – How Talos built Sonic and how it minimizes slippage
21:30 – Steps to consider before trading in digital assets
26:00 – The buy vs. build debate
34:00 – Other areas Talos is looking to enhance
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