MarksMan - B2Broker

What is MarksMan

MarksMan Liquidity Hub enables retail and institutional brokers, as well as crypto-exchanges, to deliver the best possible trading experience to their customers.

The platform provides a set of services for access to spot liquidity of digital assets and other trading instruments. MarksMan supplies top-of-the-book and full market depth pricing, as well as includes simple yet powerful price construction and risk hedging features.

Fast Setup in

10 days

Technical Support

24/7

Connectivity

FIX / WSS / REST

Approaches to provide liquidity

Organic Liquidity

Market Makers Services

MarksMan Liquidity Hub

Ad-hoc connection to a single LP

Liquidity

Liquidity available from the start of operations

Trading can start even with a single user on the venue

High Availability / Failover

n/a

On-the-venue liquidity

post-exec. model

Sufficient Volume of Supplied Liquidity

depends on a venue

Extensive Selection of trading instruments

Synthetic Symbols

Price Constructor

Trades Execution and Hedging

Price risk hedging

n/a

Post execution (a.k.a. Risk Warehouse Execution Model) available

n/a

Depends on market makers

Pre-trade Execution Control Available

n/a

Depends on market makers

Coming soon

Depends on development

Technical Considerations

No integration required via APIs and/or FIX protocol

Fees

Hedging Trade Volume is Free of Charge

n/a

Liquidity Provision is Free of Charge

Depends on market makers

Minimum monthly fee is required

n/a

Typically tens of thousands of USD

Starting at USD 500

1 If the venue is based on a supported platform
2 If hedging on a MarksMan Ecosystem Partner
3 Unless stimulating Maker Orders with negative Maker fees

Ecosystem

MarksMan Ecosystem is an interconnected community of platform-accredited Liquidity Providers and
Client Instances, making available an unmatched level of user experience for their end users.

Ecosystem Participants

Ecosystem Takers or Clients

Customers operating a supported instance of an exchange system (such as B2Trader)

Employ the MarksMan platform to access the liquidity made available by Liquidity Providers on the Ecosystem List (Ecosystem Partners), external Liquidity Providers, and Market Data Aggregators

Hedge price risks at supported Liquidity Providers, both those on the Ecosystem List, and external Liquidity Providers

Ecosystem Makers or Partners

Liquidity Providers, who entered Ecosystem List as liquidity sources for the Client instances, and as platforms for price risk hedging for the Ecosystem Clients

Liquidity Providers

External LPs

Spot

Perpetual Futures

Ecosystem LP

supported, liquidity and hedging External LP List

Perpetual Futures

The upcoming Perpetual Engine services by MarksMan Liquidity Hub allow for provision, computation, and timing of the market data necessary to offer your own Perpetual Futures products.

The data include Price Index and Premium Index in accordance with the derivative product contract specification, that allows the calculation of Funding Rates to keep the Perpetual Futures contract price close to the Price Index, based on your definitions.

The innovative services by MarksMan Liquidity HUB provide institutional and retail brokers, crypto exchanges, and other trading venues with new and exciting opportunities to offer their clients perpetual Futures, meeting and even exceeding expectations in terms of exact contract specifications, unmatched liquidity and execution quality.

Documentation

Get detailed documentation, API references and other
helpful information for all of our products.

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Key Features

Price Discovery

The price discovery engine enables deriving the top-of-the-book prices as well as full-depth order books for spot assets through the Level 2 quotes from several sources, and by utilizing additional market data sources.

The number of trading instruments, order book depth and liquidity providers connected is limited only by your imagination and computing resources available.

Custom adapters to Liquidity Providers and Market Data Aggregators available on demand

Supported (FIX Protocol (Market Data), Websocket API, REST API, Public API, Private API)

Ready-made adapters connecting to supported Liquidity Providers

Full market depth prices

Top-of-the book prices

Price Construction

Flexible adjustment of liquidity streams by applying the granular configuration to the trading instruments and order books aimed at facilitating trades on one hand and reducing risks on the other. Markups, volume modifiers, order book depth, symbol mapping, decimal precision - are the parameters at your disposal to shape the liquidity on your platform.

Order book, liquidity and trading instrument selection as you see fit.

Order book depth

Modify the market depth, available to your customers

Volume modifiers

Amplify or reduce volumes, represented in the order book

Decimal precision

Manage the decimal places for symbols you quote

Markups

Apply a markup to quotes, received from LPs

Symbol mapping

Rename trading instruments any way you like

Reporting

Comprehensive reporting on all aspects of hedging orders, execution quality data, timing and other crucial information. End user trade request details, hedging order placement data, hedging order execution stats available. Searchable order history is provided with sophisticated filters in place.

All the necessary information about trades and hedge orders at your fingertips to keep track on risk hedging and to support your decisions.

Export to convenient data formats

Drill down for order details

Search/filter by all fields

Easily accessible information

Risk Hedging

Available from a wide selection of Liquidity Providers on Ecosystem List, Supported List, or any external Liquidity Provider via custom adapters.

Simple yet powerful features to hedge your price risks.

Connection to one or more Liquidity Providers

Flexible hedging parameters:

Comprehensive reporting

Hedge Ratio - 0..100%, configurable by User Account, Hedging Platform, Symbol, etc.

Min and Max Order Size for the hedging purposes

Execution quality monitoring

Hedging Platform selection and whitelisting

Hedging instrument symbol override

Hedging Order Type, Time-in-Force

Liquidity Provider
Connectivity

Seamless connection to a variety of Liquidity Providers
and Market Data Aggregators via numerous methods.

MarksMan connectivity solutions allow for improved price discovery, liquidity access, and trade execution at high speed and low latency, catering to the most demanding institutional clients, crypto exchanges, and retail brokers, dealing in spot cryptocurrency markets.

Market Data API, Trading API, Account Management API

Ready-made adapters to Liquidity Providers

Custom API adapters may be developed on demand

FIX Protocol, Websocket API, REST API supported

Public and Private API

API Keys Setup

A quick and easy interface to establish secure access to a hedging account on a chosen liquidity provider by entering keys to trading API.

An intuitive way to manage access to hedging platforms.

Strong encryption is applied; the API keys may only be added or replaced in their entirety

Add or remove API keys to establish connection

Connection status is prominently displayed

Synthetic Instruments

Create new synthetic instruments by combining separate symbols, inverting base and quote assets, and applying fractions to enable effective liquidity feeds of the novel artificial pairs offered by your market-making business or at your trading venue.

Artificial asset pairs

for example, μBTC/DOGE

Fractional instruments

such as μBTC

Synthetic crosses

combine ETH/USDT and XRP/USDT to offer ETH/XRP

Account Management System

True multi asset Account Management System. Account status, as well as account details, such as Balance, Equity, Unrealized and Realized PnL always at your fingertips. Granular user access administration to make certain who has the rights to Deposits/Withdrawals, Position Management, Reporting and other account management features.

Manage open positions of an account or a group of accounts

View/sort/search the trades for any period of time

Select an account or a list of accounts to work with

Review the balance operations, select time periods and get alerts

Monitor the negative balance protection status and other crucial account information

Packages

We have specifically developed our package solution so that potential
clients can find the best fit for their business.

Features

Basic

Advanced

Enterprise

Price Discovery

Top-of-the-book

Market Depth

All Available Symbols

Price Construction

Markups

Precision

Volume Modifier

Symbol Mapping

Order Book Depth

Synthetic Crosses

Fractional Instruments (μBTC)

Liquidity Provider Connectivity

FIX Protocol (Market Data)

Websocket API

REST API

Market Data API

Trading API

Account Management API

Public API

Private API

Liquidity Provision and Risk Hedging

Ecosystem List LPs

Supported External LPs

1 LP

Up to 6 LPs

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Use Cases

Basic Package

Ecosystem-based deployment

The Client exchange receives the liquidity from the Ecosystem Partner (such as B2BX), and hedges the price risks on the Ecosystem Partner.

The connectivity extends to one Ecosystem Partners or a number of them.

Advanced Package

Hybrid Deployment

The Client exchange may chose to receive the liquidity from either or both of the following sources, as well as hedge risks:

Ecosystem Partner (such as B2BX), or multiple Ecosystem Partners

One External LP, such as Binance

Enterprise Package

Universal connectivity deployment

The Client exchange may chose to receive the liquidity from either or both of the following sources, as well as hedge risks:

Ecosystem Partner (such as B2BX), or multiple Ecosystem Partners

Up to 6 External LP, such as Binance, etc.

Customer support

Email us

Our professional customer service team is available to assist you with any queries.

Use ticket system

Get our assistance directly
from the platform.

Use Slack

You will be assigned with a personal manager speaking your language

Architecture

MarksMan Liquidity Infrastracture

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