> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://tetrafi.mintlify.site/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OTC Desks > Bring a bilateral book on-chain - electronic pricing, one compliance gate, and settlement you can keep. Most institutional stablecoin and tokenized real-world asset flow still settles through closed, bilateral OTC relationships - coordinated over chat and trust, pre-funded into each venue rather than settled delivery-versus-payment. The cost lands in three places: capital scales with venue count, not with flow; T+1 cycles run while trades execute now; and the wait between them rides on broker and LP credit lines. The relationships stay yours - what changes is the plumbing underneath them. ## The Whole Desk, Electronic Electronic execution is the easy half. The rest of a desk - onboarding, compliance, and the evidence somebody asks for months later - is what actually keeps flow bilateral, and it moves onto the same rail: * **Firm quotes instead of chat** - a quote is a signable **intent** - an on-chain transaction, not a chat ticket - priced by every LP competing for it rather than one book * **Onboard once** - one verified onboarding pack, reused for KYB with every counterparty on the network * **One policy, everywhere** - automated on-chain and off-chain checks under one policy, composed per deployment and controlled by your institution * **One audit trail** - enforcement evidence shared across parties instead of every party repeating the same manual reviews, with flow monitoring in one place Electrify the full transaction lifecycle and the saving lands in the cost base, not only in the spread: treasury operations, compliance operations, and counterparty onboarding shrink from headcount to configuration. In emerging markets - Africa above all - that is the bigger prize, and it comes with less fraud: fewer manual processes, deep policy enforcement around every treasury operation and action, and a chain on which everything is verified - accountability built in, not audited in afterwards. The rail also reaches the on-chain economy: stablecoins, tokenized collateral, and DEX liquidity are **settlement legs**, not integrations, and the flow there is **programmatic** - protocols, apps, and agents that pay on delivery, in code, with no relationship manager on the other end. A pre-funded bilateral book cannot serve it; an electronic quote can, and you hold both worlds: the relationships you built, and the on-chain economy they could never reach. ## Settle Your Way Each is a separate decision; your clients get the upgrade while your own cycles stay exactly as they are: * **Settle on TetraFi's rails** - escrowed delivery-or-refund, assets and payment moving together or not at all - nothing pre-funded, no principal exposed while the other side decides * **Or keep your own settlement and still quote T+0** - [Instant Settlement](/collateral/instant-settlement) (coming soon) - a vault buys the receivable from committed network capital, a purchase, not a credit line - so your counterparty is paid today, **you keep your cycles**, and the credit lines that carried the wait come off your balance sheet * **Stop parking a balance at every venue** - [Venue Prefunding](/collateral/venue-prefunding) (coming soon) collapses one balance per CEX and OTC venue into a single committed credit layer: execute at flow size, fund at net size * **Net the rest down** - [Multilateral Netting](/netting) (coming soon) clears an OTC circle's bilateral T+1 obligations down to one wire a day ## Adopt What You Need Netting points at the book you already settle - a desk nets its own bilateral obligations without moving them onto our rails or revealing them: positions are readable only inside a [sealed engine](/netting/privacy-and-control), so who you face, and at what size, stays between the two of you. | Adopt | What changes | What you keep | | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | | **Firm liquidity** (live) | competitive electronic pricing on flow that was bilateral | your counterparty relationships | | **[Multilateral Netting](/netting)** (coming soon) | a circle of bilateral T+1 obligations clears to one wire a day | your settlement rails | | **[Shared Collateral Network](/collateral)** (coming soon) | [your counterparty is paid T+0](/collateral/instant-settlement), and [venue balances](/collateral/venue-prefunding) become one credit layer | your own cycles and credit terms | ## APIs to Use Firm quotes, escrow-settled - quoted into, or sourced from. Where cross-chain and multi-leg settlement compose into one order. ## Get Started Running a desk today? [Start the conversation](/support) - tell us your venues, your corridors, and the settlement cycle you want to keep.