V. Institutional workflows
For teams operating where incomplete information is expensive.
Different teams use Skilt differently. The common requirement is the same: a reliable operating view across market, on-chain, and liquidity conditions, one the team can interrogate, not just accept.
The workflow
Before, during, and after the position.
Professional use of market intelligence follows the life of the position. Skilt is built to serve each phase with the same connected record.
- 01Pre-trade
Understand liquidity, positioning, funding, flow, and volatility.
- 02In-market
Monitor changing conditions, dislocations, and abnormal activity.
- 03Post-trade
Reconstruct events, attribute flows, and refine market understanding.
01
Hedge funds
A market view that holds up under scrutiny.
Portfolio managers operate on theses about structure, flows, or entities, and those theses depend on a view of the market that is complete and current. Skilt gives funds the underlying picture: where liquidity sits, who is accumulating, how funding and positioning are evolving, and which conditions are changing ahead of price.
Because the platform shows the basis for what it presents, including venues, entities, pools, and how conditions evolved, PMs can interrogate a view rather than accept it. That is the difference between an operating picture and a claim.
02
Market makers
The structural conditions that set the spread.
A market maker's risk is concentrated in the moments inventory is held and the conditions around it move. Skilt keeps the relevant conditions, including depth across venues, funding, flow imbalance, volatility regime, and the entities active on the other side, in one continuous view.
Desk leads use it to decide where to quote, when to widen, and what behavior in the flow justifies stepping back. The platform does not manage inventory; it makes the market's state legible while inventory is exposed.
03
Proprietary firms
Structure first, then strategy.
Prop firms run strategies that assume a market structure: correlations that hold, liquidity that is where it was yesterday, and participants who behave as they have. When those assumptions quietly break, the strategy does not fail loudly; it erodes.
Skilt watches the assumptions. Correlation shifts, liquidity migration, entity behavior, and regime changes are visible as conditions in their own right, so strategy reviews start from what the market is doing rather than what the backtest remembers.
04
Asset managers
Position sizing begins with market quality.
Allocators to digital assets care about the same things they care about everywhere: liquidity, custody, counterparty behavior, and the cost of changing their minds. In decentralized markets those properties are spread across chains and protocols, and they move.
Skilt gives allocators and their risk teams a continuous view of market quality, including depth, concentration, flows, and the entity landscape, so decisions about sizing and timing are made against the market as it is, not as it was at the last review.
05
Research teams
The substrate for defensible research.
Research on decentralized markets is only as good as its connection to how the market actually behaves: which entities move size, where liquidity migrates, and how structure changes across regimes. Skilt gives researchers that connected record, continuously maintained.
Analysts use the platform to develop and pressure-test frameworks on funding dynamics, cross-chain flows, or entity behavior against live conditions rather than one-off extracts.
06
Digital-asset desks
One desk, every venue and chain.
Bank and non-bank desks entering decentralized markets inherit a fragmentation problem: the market they must operate in spans venues, chains, and protocols that do not share a common view. Assembling that picture by hand does not scale.
Skilt is the assembled picture. Desks use it for pre-trade context, in-market monitoring, and post-trade reconstruction: the same operating environment across everything they touch.
Access
Bring your team into one operating picture.
Access is granted per firm, with workflows tailored to the desk, fund, or team. Request access to begin the evaluation.