CLEO Trading Platform Integrates with Gold-i’s MatrixNET Liquidity Management Platform to Set New Standard for Prop Firms

WHY THIS MATTERS
The integration between CLEO and Gold-i reflects the rapid maturation of the prop trading ecosystem, particularly in crypto and CFDs. Prop firms have grown quickly by offering retail traders access to capital through structured challenges, but the infrastructure behind these models has often been fragmented, with gaps between trading interfaces, risk controls, and liquidity simulation.

By combining CLEO’s trader-facing platform with Gold-i’s institutional-grade liquidity infrastructure, this partnership addresses a key need: aligning the front-end experience with realistic market conditions. For prop firms, accurately simulating execution environments such as slippage, latency, and partial fills is critical to maintaining credibility and managing risk. For traders, having tools tailored to challenge rules and performance metrics improves transparency and usability.

As crypto markets operate continuously and volatility remains high, demand for robust, always-on infrastructure and realistic trading environments is increasing. This integration helps bridge the gap between retail-style access and institutional-grade backend systems.

CLEO, the first trading platform built specifically for crypto and CFD prop firm traders, has integrated with Gold-i’s MatrixNET liquidity management and distribution platform, providing a market leading offering for prop firms, from infrastructure through to interface. 

Both CLEO and Gold-i have developed specialist solutions for the prop trading industry. The CLEO platform, available on mobile (iOS & Android) and web, provides challenge tracking, risk management designed around prop firm rules, and execution tools that map directly onto how funded trading actually works. Its mobile dashboard shows customised breach rules and success metrics for the selected challenges at a glance, and highlights whether a trader is about to pass or fail the challenge. 

Gold-i’s MatrixNET liquidity management platform, with access to over 80 Liquidity Providers and 35 crypto exchanges, enables prop firms to fully simulate Liquidity Provider executions. It has customisable settings for latency, slippage, partial fills, rejections, and other market conditions, mirroring live trading environments. Clients can trade multiple assets within a single platform, including high volumes or cryptos with large ticket sizes. Importantly, Gold-i offers 24×7 support, providing prop firms with access to high quality technology support when the global crypto market is active. 

Kevin Grulich, CEO, CLEO said, “This partnership unites Gold-i’s infrastructure and reach with CLEO’s trader-facing executional layer, enabling prop firms to scale whilst also equipping traders with purpose-built tools, designed for evolving market demands. The growth of crypto prop trading, increased trader sophistication, and ongoing market volatility make this an ideal time for a collaboration between Gold-i and CLEO. Furthermore, the 17 years of proven trust in Gold-i’s technology, its expertise in the prop trading sector, and the breadth and depth of liquidity available through MatrixNET provide immediate credibility to our combined offering.”

Tom Higgins, CEO, Gold-i added, “CLEO has carved a niche as a market leading web-based and mobile platform designed specifically for prop firm traders. We are thrilled to have integrated the CLEO platform with MatrixNET, and believe that our combined expertise provides prop firms and prop firm traders with an unrivalled offering.”

FF NEWS TAKE
This is a vertical integration play in a fast-growing niche. Prop trading platforms are evolving from simple challenge providers into more sophisticated ecosystems, and partnerships like this show a move toward full-stack offerings.

Gold-i brings credibility and depth of liquidity, while CLEO focuses on user experience and trader-specific functionality. Together, they are positioning themselves as a turnkey solution for prop firms looking to scale without building infrastructure from scratch.

The bigger trend is specialisation. Rather than adapting generic trading platforms, firms are building purpose-built environments for specific user groups like prop traders. The key question is sustainability. As the prop trading model faces increasing scrutiny around fairness and execution practices, platforms that can demonstrate realistic trading conditions and robust infrastructure will be better placed to stand out.

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