Partnerships

Access on-chain markets for the products your desk already trades.

Many of the instruments traded through prime brokers and traditional exchanges — gold, oil, FX, equity indices, and crypto perpetuals — now have liquid on-chain equivalents. Mackinac provides the technology, data, and integration support to access these venues with self custody, transparent fees, and familiar protocols, without rebuilding the operational stack.

We provide the infrastructure and tools for qualified partners operating in qualifying jurisdictions.

• Desk management on familiar terms — order, position, and risk lifecycle in a single platform, whether the underlying instrument is an exchange-traded future or an on-chain perpetual.
• Bring your own data — integrate existing quote feeds, internal pricing engines, and traditional market data alongside on-chain feeds.
• Connect through familiar protocols — FIX gateways in and out of the stack, so existing order flow infrastructure can reach on-chain venues without a rewrite.
• Execution that fits how you already trade — routing rules, algorithms, and pre-trade checks are partner-configurable, not fixed.

For concrete comparisons of how on-chain venues stack up against traditional execution paths — including funding rates versus futures carry and side-by-side fee and margin analysis — see our writing:

• Funding Rates, Rollover Fees, and the Implicit Carry of Traditional Futures →
• CME Micro ETH vs. ETH Perpetuals: Fees, Margin, and Hidden Costs →

Mackinac itself is one example of what the stack supports — the analytics interface, the API, the data layer, and the on-chain subscription contract are all built on the same infrastructure available to partners. Reach out if you'd like to test the order management features hands-on in a paper account.