Digital Assets Innovation, with Institutional Trust

Digital Assets Innovation, with Institutional Trust

Pioneering the future of digital assets, informed by a legacy of excellence in financial infrastructure: SIX offers institutional services for digital assets issuance, custody and trading, financial data, and regulatory solutions.

The digital securities market saw a surge of growth in the past five years, driven largely by institutional adoption and technological advancements – and its potential is far from realized as it stands to continue to grow and serve as a disruptor in financial markets. 

For over 95 years, SIX has stood for financial stability and innovation. SIX built those values into its digital asset offering, giving market participants the tools they need to realize the potential of digital securities markets.

Global Landscape and SIX Expertise

Digital assets are virtual or intangible resources that exist in electronic form. They can be created, stored, and transmitted electronically. They can be bought, sold, traded, or transferred electronically, often with the help of blockchain technology.  

The universe of digital assets is broad, and the offering and expertise of SIX extends to the areas of digital securities and currencies, digital money and payments, and non-digital products that offer exposure to digital assets.

Since their introduction to the public in 2009 with the emergence of Bitcoin and Ethereum, the types of digital assets, their use cases, and the systems used to manage them have proliferated and now include a wide variety of assets, like tradeable digital securities, cryptocurrencies, tokenized real-world assets, and digital money and payments. 

Digital Assets Insights

200 mn 200 mn
World Bank bond issued using CHF wCBDC
1+ bn 1+ bn
in assets issued on the SDX platform
378 378
crypto products listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange
1st 1st
fully regulated exchange and CSD on DLT
25 25
crypto indices
85+% 85+%
data coverage of global cryptocurrency market activities, corresponding to 22,400 listings
Global Global
service spanning all relevant financial markets across the globe

SIX Digital Assets Ecosystem – from Issuance to Data

The SIX Digital Assets Ecosystem was built with the consideration of maximizing end-user ease and value via comprehensive and informed support across digital asset processes. SIX empowers customization, speed, and highly-informed decisions in the areas of digital securities, digital currencies, central bank digital currencies, and non-digital products that offer exposure to digital assets, like crypto-ETFs and -derivatives.

SIX Digital Exchange: first fully regulated blockchain-based digital asset exchange. SDX is a fully regulated digital asset exchange and Central Securities Depository (CSD) on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). SDX offers a comprehensive platform for trading, settling, and custody of digital assets, and is designed to bridge traditional finance and digital markets by providing a secure, regulated environment for institutional participants.

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The trading venue for digital assets-based traditional securities, facilitating digital asset liquidity through advanced trading platforms. The SIX Swiss Exchange offering covers a wide range of investor interests, from exchange traded products (ETPs) with crypto underliers, to using digital assets as reference data and smart contracts. Connexor, the leading reference data tool for structured products, fixed Income and ETPs, is digital-ready for processing smart contracts and interacts smoothly with digital market participants for seamless and efficient connection of the DLT world with the traditional market. 

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Backbone for digital assets post-trade services and CBDC pilot programs, secure custody and settlement infrastructure tailored for digital assets, leveraging blockchain technology. Looking beyond cryptocurrency at the digital assets space more broadly, SIX works closely with leading central banks to explore and deliver greater issuance of Central Bank Digital Currencies – essential to the progression of distributed ledger technology market infrastructures.

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Advanced data services for digital asset markets, providing real-time insights, compliance data, and analytics. Our data offering covers 85% of all cryptocurrency market activities worldwide including real-time and historical pricing data, and crypto derivatives data. Our crypto indices measure the performance of the largest and most widely known crypto-assets within the CMI 10 Index and customized indices for bitcoin, ethereum, solana, and many other crypto assets. Additional services include Ultumus' ETFs portfolio composition file solution used by crypto ETP providers, digital asset regulation & tax data including MiCA, and a market abuse solution for cryptocurrencies (SICAM). All our data is available through user-friendly display and delivery tools for seamless integration.

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Today's Most Trusted Financial Market Infrastructure, Moving Finance into Tomorrow

 

The writing is on the wall: digital assets and their corresponding infrastructure are poised to drive significant growth for market participants. When surveyed, market participants cited alternative asset classes and distributed ledger technology based solutions as the number one and two biggest drivers of growth for their organizations.  

The key to unlocking those growth-drivers lies in solutions and infrastructures that can scale to market-size. More than 60% of market participants reported a desire for safe, transparent, and regulated environments for trading digital assets, and cited regulatory uncertainty and market liquidity as deterrents from engaging in digital securities markets. 

To answer that call and facilitate seamless market interaction, SIX developed a digital assets ecosystem with institutional trust and expertise in combination with the drive to redefine the future of finance.  

 

 

Biggest Enablers  for Your Organization When It Comes to Growth?

1. Alternative asset classes including digital assets

2. DLT-based solutions

Read Full Details in Our Latest Future of Finance Study

What Sets Us Apart

Regulation and Security

As a regulated entity, SIX brings the trust needed to comply with financial regulations and security standards.

Global Reach

The broad international presence of SIX enables us to offer services in various markets.

Technology Leadership

We leverage blockchain and DLT technology for scalable and secure solutions.

 

Integrated Financial Market Infrastructure

SIX bridges traditional finance with the digital world through legacy market expertise combined with cutting-edge technology.

Together, We Combine Digital Assets Innovation with Institutional Trust

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