--- title: "Trading Technologies Adds OG.com Access in Major Q4 Push" date: 2026-08-18 author: "Kathleen Kinder" featured_image: "https://coinlaw.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/trading-technologies-to-link-institutions-to-og-com-in-q4.jpg" categories: - name: "Cryptocurrency" url: "/crypto.md" tags: - name: "News" url: "/tag/news.md" --- # Trading Technologies Adds OG.com Access in Major Q4 Push Trading Technologies said on 18th August, 2026 that it will connect its institutional trading platform to OG.com, the CFTC-registered exchange and clearinghouse operated by Crypto.com, with the link scheduled to go live in the fourth quarter of 2026. ## The Big Picture - Trading Technologies will route institutional orders to OG.com, Crypto.com’s CFTC-registered exchange and clearing house. - OG.com connectivity on the TT platform is scheduled to go live in the fourth quarter of 2026. - TT will also support Crypto.com’s new margin based crypto futures contracts from the day they launch. - North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc. runs both the OG Prediction Markets brand and Crypto.com Derivatives North America. - TT, owned by Thoma Bravo and 7RIDGE, sells trading systems to Tier 1 banks, hedge funds and commodity trading advisers. ## TT opens its futures terminal to OG.com event contracts The link places regulated event contracts inside the order-entry stack that professional futures desks already run every day. Trading Technologies said clients will reach OG.com through the platform’s execution and algorithmic trading tools, along with its clearing and margin optimization products. That routing decides adoption, because institutional order flow rarely leaves the terminal a desk is already licensed, surveilled and audited on. **Steve Humenik,** chief legal officer of OG.com and executive vice president at Crypto.com, tied the move to institutional demand in the [companies’ announcement](https://crypto.com/uk/company-news/trading-technologies-to-expand-prediction-markets-and-crypto-derivatives-access-with-support-for-ogcom-and-cryptocom): “ As regulated prediction markets and digital asset derivatives continue to mature, providing institutional participants with secure, compliant and seamless access is paramount. Steve HumenikChief Legal Officer – OG.com Event contracts settle against a stated outcome, a mechanic that shapes [how prediction market contracts price and resolve](https://coinlaw.io/how-prediction-markets-work/) and how a clearinghouse margins them. **OG Prediction Markets** lists contracts across cryptocurrency, financials, companies, economics, climate and culture, reachable directly or through introducing brokers and futures commission merchants. > Regulated prediction markets, expanded. > > We’ve partnered with [@Trading\_Tech](https://x.com/Trading_Tech?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) to bring more prediction markets access to its users. > > Learn more here: [pic.twitter.com/FI8FNsWCnw](https://t.co/FI8FNsWCnw) > > — Crypto.com (@cryptocom) [August 18, 2026](https://x.com/cryptocom/status/2089700330648879545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## Margin-based crypto futures ship alongside the event contracts TT will provide full support for **Crypto.com’s new margin-based crypto futures contracts** at launch, the quieter half of the announcement. **Alun Green**, TT’s executive vice president and managing director for futures and options, pointed to growing client appetite for regulated prediction and digital asset markets, and described the OG.com connection as part of the firm’s multi-X strategy across asset classes. The announcement confirms the connection and its quarter. It leaves four things unstated: - **Which underlying assets the margin-based futures will cover?** - **When those futures contracts start trading?** - **Contract sizes, margin levels and fee schedules for either product set?** - **How many TT clients have committed to OG.com access?** ## What the connection changes for institutional desks? Regulated event contracts grew up inside retail facing venues, and the CFTC registration stack is what lets a hedge fund treat them as listed derivatives with defined clearing. **North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc**. carries both designations, operating as a designated contract market and a derivatives clearing organization under the **OG Prediction Markets** and **Crypto.com Derivatives North America** brands. ## CoinLaw’s Takeaway The value here sits in distribution. **OG.com holds the registrations already**; what it lacked was a path into the order management systems that Tier 1 banks, proprietary trading firms and commodity trading advisers work in all day. TT supplies that path, and it arrives with clearing and margin optimization attached, which cuts the operational cost of adding a venue for a desk that measures onboarding in quarters. Timing carries its own weight. A fourth-quarter go live lands the prediction market connection in the same window as Crypto.com’s margin based futures, giving institutional clients two products behind one onboarding effort. Whether that produces durable volume depends on contract design and fee levels neither company has published, and on how quickly futures commission merchants extend clearing coverage to event contracts.