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DV Chain Review
DV Chain is an institutional crypto liquidity desk, not a retail broker, backed by DV Trading. DV Trading paid a 5 million dollar CFTC penalty in 2017.
Min Deposit
N/A
Spreads From
Not applicable, institutional OTC pricing, not published for retail
Max Leverage
Not applicable, institutional clients only
Platforms
Not applicable, no retail platform, REST, WebSocket, and FIX API access only
Pros
- Backed by DV Trading, an established Chicago proprietary trading firm since 2006
- Has operated in crypto liquidity since 2016 with named institutional partners
- Offers API access through REST, WebSocket, and FIX for institutional integration
- Publicly named clients like Zero Hash, Copper, and Finery Markets confirm real use
Cons
- Not a retail broker, so individual traders cannot open a personal account
- Parent entity DV Trading paid a 5 million dollar CFTC penalty in 2017
- No independent crypto specific regulator oversees DV Chain's OTC trading itself
- No public minimum deposit, spreads, or fee information for retail readers
DV Chain is a crypto market maker and liquidity provider for institutions, exchanges, and token projects. It has offered pricing and API access to crypto markets since 2016, and says it is backed by DV Trading, a Chicago proprietary trading firm with over 500 people across several countries.
A CFTC press release confirms that the entity now called DV Trading LLC was formerly Rosenthal Collins Capital Markets LLC. In 2017 the CFTC ordered it to pay a 5 million dollar penalty for illegal wash trades on Eurodollar futures, carried out between 2013 and 2015, before the current DV Trading owners took full control in September 2016.
DV Chain itself has no public retail sign up, minimum deposit, or trading platform, since it works only with institutional partners like exchanges and asset managers. Readers should judge it as an institutional liquidity provider with a real, if imperfect, regulatory history through its parent firm.
Max Leverage
Not applicable, institutional clients only
Spreads From
Not applicable, institutional OTC pricing, not published for retail
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