JOSEPH GABRIEL LAGONSIN News Editor
BSO has launched Crypto Connect Plus, a platform for crypto trading firms that want to deploy cloud-based trading infrastructure more quickly.
The service is designed to cut deployment times from weeks to about 10 minutes by replacing manual setup with a self-service model. Through the BSO Portal, users can order and activate two Amazon Web Services EC2 instances with a credit card.
The product is aimed at crypto traders, market makers, digital asset platforms, liquidity providers and proprietary trading firms. BSO presents the launch as a response to the demands of round-the-clock digital asset markets, where firms often need to add infrastructure quickly across venues and regions.
Provisioning trading infrastructure has often involved sales discussions, procurement steps, engineering work and network validation. Crypto Connect Plus brings those stages into a single online workflow, reducing manual handovers between customers and infrastructure teams.
The setup includes two EC2 instances deployed across separate Availability Zones. The instances are linked through BSO's network backbone and positioned using a latency-optimisation engine designed to improve routes to major crypto trading venues.
The service carries a 99.9% latency service-level agreement and includes live monitoring of latency, jitter and packet loss across seven locations: Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dublin, London, Ashburn and Frankfurt.
Those metrics are closely watched by trading firms because they affect the consistency and speed of market access. In crypto markets, where venues and liquidity are spread across international centres, the route a connection takes can matter as much as the choice of cloud region.
One challenge for firms using public cloud is that selecting a cloud region does not by itself determine how traffic will be routed or how stable the connection will remain over time. BSO says its optimisation engine uses network data during deployment to place EC2 instances in positions suited to major crypto platforms including Binance, Kraken, OKX and Bybit.
