Established in 2013, Boston-based payments technology firm, Circle Internet Financial has reportedly facilitated the trade of about $24 billion in digital currency through its over-the-counter (OTC) trading platform. An official blog post published on January 3rd, 2019 by Circle noted that the global internet finance company helped process over 10,000 OTC trades “across 36 different cryptoassets” with “nearly 600 distinct counterparties.”