TechFlow News, May 5: According to The Block, SC Ventures—the fintech and investment arm of Standard Chartered Bank—announced on Tuesday a strategic investment in crypto market maker GSR, becoming GSR’s first external strategic shareholder since its founding in 2013. The parties did not disclose the specific investment amount.
Xin Song, CEO of GSR, stated that the institutional digital asset market is rapidly maturing, and this collaboration combines deep capital markets expertise with trusted banking infrastructure, using tokenization as a key starting point. Alex Manson, CEO of SC Ventures, said this investment strengthens its strategy to build an institutional ecosystem capable of supporting deeper liquidity.
This investment deepens the partnership established between the two companies last month. GSR previously invested in Libeara—a tokenization platform backed by SC Ventures—as a pivotal move to expand its crypto capital markets business. Earlier this year, GSR also acquired Autonomous and Architech to broaden its token full-lifecycle management services. Recently, GSR launched its first fund, the GSR Crypto Core3 ETF—the industry’s first actively managed, multi-asset crypto ETF to incorporate staking.
Standard Chartered has already established deep ties with the crypto industry through its custody and trading subsidiary Zodia. According to Bloomberg, SC Ventures plans to launch a $250 million digital asset services fund this year and recently participated in an investment round for crypto market maker Keyrock.
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