Derivatives are now the primary liquidity engine for digital assets, with perpetual contracts account for *78% of total crypto derivatives. They help institutions hedge exposure, execute trading strategies, and do more with less capital. Without them, market volatility would be far greater, and liquidity, more limited.
But the ecosystem has evolved fast. What once happened on centralized exchanges like Binance and Bybit, has now expanded into a broader ecosystem. Decentralized venues such as HyperLiquid and broker-dealer platforms have entered the market, each with its own data structure and reporting rules. Liquidity is more flexible than ever, but the result is fragmented data: trades, positions, and settlements that don’t line up – making reconciliation and accounting far more complex.
Meanwhile, regulatory expectations have surged. Finance teams must classify every funding payment, track every micro-settlement, and justify every P&L movement – with audit-ready precision.
In this article, we explore the challenges of digital asset derivatives accounting and reconciliation, and how to solve it.
The challenge: fragmented data
Derivatives trading data is one of the most complex parts of digital asset finance. Every exchange structures and reports its data differently, hiding a lot of complexity beneath the surface.
Unlike blockchain transactions, which follow a clear and universal standard, derivatives data is a matter of interpretation. The same event can appear in completely different formats depending on the platform.
For example:
- Funding fees may be aggregated per asset on one exchange but per position on another
- Settlements may appear as individual microtransactions or as daily summaries
- Transaction labels and fee categories vary widely across venues
For participants operating across multiple exchanges or liquidity venues, this fragmentation makes reconciliation a constant challenge. What should be a unified ledger becomes a mix of incompatible data streams that require aggregation, interpretation, and simplification before they can even be read accurately.
The challenge is not trading derivatives but making sense of them afterward.
How TRES solves this
TRES brings order to this chaos. By integrating directly with leading exchanges including Kraken, Deribit, Binance, FalconX, Vertex, Bybit, Hyperliquid, Gate.io, we aggregate all derivatives activity into one standardized structure for accurate reconciliation and reporting. This gives you one ledger, a continuous view where all data is speaking the same language and following cohesive logic.
What TRES delivers:
- A unified data model: Standardizing trades, funding, fees, and P&L into a single structure
- Automatic transaction classification: Every movement is timestamped, tagged, and mapped correctly
- Continuous reconciliation: Positions, balances, and valuations stay aligned across exchanges
- Built-in audit trail: Every ledger entry links back to the original source data
TRES provides a single source of truth for derivatives positions, valuations, and realized or unrealized gains. Our platform’s reconciliation layer ensures that every open position and funding transaction is correctly mapped and aggregated. The result is precision without the manual overhead: compliant reporting, clean audit trails, and full transparency across the derivatives lifecycle.
In a market where *78% of trading volume occurs in derivatives, TRES enables finance teams to keep pace with institutional sophistication, offering the accuracy and control required to operate confidently in an increasingly regulated environment.
Derivatives drive the market – and TRES ensures finance teams can keep up.
*Cryptocurrency Derivatives Market Statistics 2025: Growth, Trends, and Projections by Coin Law.
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