AD Derivs: Insights from Crypto Option Traders

Laura has an extensive background in the crypto vol. space. She worked at LedgerX , then Paradigm and now LedgerPrime. Today we explore insights about crypto vol. and the different types of customers within each market segment. We also explore some of Laura's career insights. Twitter: https://twitter.com/VidiellaLaura

Pierino Ursone is the Head of Options over at Deribit, the worlds #1 crypto options exchange. Pierino started his career in the 90's as a market-maker at Optiver. After being a market-marker in the pits, Pierino managed a proprietary options book in the energy space.Pierino Ursone is also the author of the #4 best selling option book globally "How to Calculate Options Prices and Their Greeks" published by Wiley.Today we talk about Pierino's career background then dig into Deribit's launch of DVOL futures. You can learn more about Pierino Ursone here:Deribit - DVOL Contract SpecificationsDVOL White PaperLinkedInTwitter"How to Calculate Options Prices and Their Greeks"

Delta Exchange is the second biggest Crypto Options exchange by volume and offers innovative derivatives products.It offers daily, weekly and monthly expiry in Bitcoin & Ethereum Options.Pankaj Balani (CEO/Co-founder of Delta Exchange), sits with us to chat about his background, the future of crypto Options markets, how to think through possible growth and retail demand for crypto Options.Website: https://www.delta.exchange/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Delta_Exchange

TheRealMarty is a crypto vol. twitter OG. Starting with right place at right time in terms of finding BTC (AKA price was low) TheRealMarty went from nothing to learning about spot, TA, then Options (in that order)Art school drop out turned vol trader. He worked a small fund 1-2 years before opening up his own.TheRealMarty now runs small boutique fund - specializing in selling options where hetrades mostly on deribit(options)/bitmex(futures)

Arisa is the co-founder and CEO of Cega. Cega is building exotic options structured products for investors that generate superior yield and offer built-in protection against market downturns. Cega is developing new capabilities in tech, token contracts, and data modeling that will enable the next evolution of DeFi derivatives. Arisa was previously a derivatives trader at UBS and a product marketing manager at Google. She is an advisor to the Japan Blockchain Association.JP is CIO of Tras Mobian, a crypto derivatives market making firm. JP was previously a derivatives trader at various large traditional finance institutions, specifically on Equity exotic derivatives and Commodity derivatives. He was heading Commodity Index Trading at Societe Generale.

Matt (AKA: Cryptarbitrage) is currently working on the risk and product team at Deribit. Matt also created Deribit's option education series over the past two years. https://insights.deribit.com/options-course/Today we chat with Matt about his previous experience in professional poker, sport betting arbitrage and crypto exchange arbs. Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptarbitrage

Samneet Chepal, CFA is a quant trader and analyst at Ledger Prime.Today we discuss Sam's journey into the markets and quantitative analysis. How did Sam find his way into a quant role versus a typical trading role and why did he end up being in crypto vol. We also explore some differences between market-making and buy side. For the report referenced in the podcast please click the link below Report: Link Here Twitter: https://twitter.com/samchepal

Today we speak with Johannes, a professional proprietary trader in Europe. We explore Johannes experience learning how to trade early in his career.We visit the crazy experiences he had in now defunct FX bucket-shops. Johannes then explains his views and thoughts trading crypto futures spreads as well as his unique trading insights from experiences in traditional business.  

Live on the Ethereum, Polygon, and Arbitrum, Volmex provides traders with the opportunity to directly trade an implied volatility index for BTC and ETH. Today we chat with Cole Konnelly, the founder of Volmex, about his background and journey into building the first on-chain tradable volatility index.For more information Visit:Website: https://volmex.finance/Volmex Index Charts: https://charts.volmex.finance/Docs: https://docs.volmex.finance/Twitter: https://twitter.com/volmexfinance

Power Trade is a crypto options exchange. They provide a mobile experience for traders. Up and coming in the crypto vol. scene they just had a record month for volumes in Oct. 2022Mario walks us through his background before starting Power Trade. We then talk about Power Trade's exchange mechanics and how the crypto options market is evolving, including the potential for DeFi & CeFi cross markets. Twitter:  @PowerTradeHQ  Website: https://power.trade/about/