Stormrake – Old School Brokerage for the Digital Asset Era
From The Crypto Conversation by Brave New Coin
March 12, 2026 · 25 min
About this episode
Bisher Khudeira discusses the advantages of the brokerage model for digital assets and Stormrake's growth in a challenging banking environment.
Bisher Khudeira is the COO of Stormrake , a Melbourne-based digital asset brokerage offering best execution trading, institutional custody, and asset management across Bitcoin, digital assets, and tokenized real-world assets. Bisher joins Andy to explain why the brokerage model beats the exchange model for serious investors, what it takes to build a crypto business in one of the most hostile banking environments in the developed world, and why Stormrake is about to plant its flag in Dallas. Why you should listen Bisher has spent a decade in financial services, starting in foreign exchange brokering in 2015 and buying his first Bitcoin in a McDonald's car park in 2016 via peer-to-peer. He joined Stormrake in 2022, bought into the business, and has helped scale it from fewer than a hundred clients — mostly friends and family — to over 10,000 across Australia, with a US launch now weeks away. He walks through the core brokerage proposition: Stormrake faces around 20 exchanges and OTC desks simultaneously, aggregates client orders to access deeper liquidity and sharper pricing, and charges a flat commission with no spread markup. The result is what Bisher calls the Satoshi maximiser…
People in this episode
Host: Andy
Guest: Bisher Khudeira
Topics covered
- digital asset brokerage
- crypto business
- financial services
- best execution trading
- institutional custody
- asset management
Keywords
- Stormrake
- digital assets
- brokerage model
- crypto business
- best execution
- institutional custody
- asset management
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Stormrake, Brave New Coin
Products: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Hyperliquid, Chainlink
Places: Melbourne, Dallas, Australia
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