August Digital is a New York-based institutional crypto company building on-chain prime brokerage infrastructure. Its platform gives trading desks, funds, protocols and treasuries secure smart-contract accounts, real-time risk and pricing engines, cross-margining, lending, and structured products so they can borrow, lend, trade and settle across DeFi and CeFi with any liquid collateral - all with on-chain auditability. August also operates Upshift, a vault product that opens institutional-grade yield strategies to a wider set of users. The company raised a $10M Series A led by Dragonfly in March 2025 and reports having processed roughly $45B in cumulative volume.
RQD* Clearing is a New York-based correspondent clearing firm that provides clearing, custody, and execution services for broker-dealers on a cloud-native, real-time platform. Spun out of options market maker Volant, it self-clears U.S. equities, options, and ETFs, positioning itself as a modern alternative to legacy clearing providers with direct API integration, 24x5 availability, and infrastructure built on Microsoft Azure.