AD Derivs: Insights from Crypto Option Traders

Josh Lim, who recently left GT to focus on building something new in the crypto space, spent years as the head of derivatives trading. Genesis Trading is known for a massive OTC trading desk and lending window. Josh explains his views on the crypto vol. space, crowded trades in 2022 and touches on the May 2022 market implosion. 

Ribbon Finance is a DeFi Options Vault built on Ethereum, Avax and Solana. Ribbon is the pioneer of DeFi Option Vaults.Julian talks about his background before starting Ribbon Finance, his journey through the various auction process iterations and the future of Ribbon Finance. For more information visit: https://www.ribbon.finance/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ribbonfinance

Toby has an extensive background in tier 1 investment banking and hedge funds. He has held senior trading positions at Managing Director level across proprietary trading and asset management including running the proprietary trading desk at Deutsche Bank that focused on fixed income, currency and commodity markets, senior portfolio manager roles at stand alone global macro hedge funds including Sequoia and Deutsche Bank. Prior to joining Zerocap Toby was in charge of $1 billion in investments within UBS. Toby’s role at zerocap is to have responsibility for the entire trading book of risk, identifying opportunities across the whole digital asset realm, risk management, design and implementation of structured products and solutions. 

Lyra is a decentralized options protocol native to L2 Ethereum.Lyra is an AMM model, DeFi Options Protocol. Today we talk about Nick's background at SIG, co-founding Lyra and the mechanics of the Lyra AMM. 

Today we explore Tristan's journey into crypto, options and building Zeta Markets. Tristan also explains the rational behind building on Solana as opposed to Ethereum and delves into deep insights regarding the different blockchain mechanics. For more information on Zeta Markets visit: https://zetamarkets.gitbook.io/zeta/

Tom Sosnoff is a trailblazer in the online brokerage industry, driving innovation and financial education for investors of all levels. He offers up his expertise in the options markets as co-host of tastytrade LIVE!, airing daily on the tastytrade network.A former floor trader, Tom became one of Chicago's most well-known serial entrepreneurs in fintech when he built a breakthrough options-trading platform, thinkorswim, later sold to TD-Ameritrade for $750 million.Leveraging over 20 years of experience as a Market Maker for the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and one of the original OEX traders in the S&P 100 Index pit, Tom pursued his vision to educate retail investors in options trading and build a superior trading platform and a brokerage firm that specialized in options. With that vision in mind, tastytrade was founded in 2011. Six years later, tastyworks launched with Scott Sheridan at the helm as CEO.

Originally from New Zealand, Euan Sinclair is an option trader with twenty five years of professional trading experience and holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Bristol.He is the author of "Positional Trading", "Options Trading" and "Volatility Trading". This interview discusses his background, trading philosophy and what Euan is currently looking at in both crypto and crypto volatility.

Two Prime is a crypto vol. focused hedge fund with $200m AUM. Nathan Cox is the Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of Two Prime. Today we learn about Nathan's career journey, his experience trading various volatility strategies and his journey into crypto volatility.Two Prime website - https://twoprime.io/Nathan's Twitter Account - https://twitter.com/nathanieljcox

Imran Lakha is a veteran options trader with over +20years of experience. He ran the equity index vol. desks at Merrill Lynch and Citi. After an extensive trading career he founded @options_insight an options education company. For more information about Options Insight and their upcoming bootcamp, check out https://www.options-insight.com/options-trading-bootcamp

Uddhav is the co-founder and CEO @Friktion, a DeFi Option DOV protocol. Uddhav has a background in energy options trading at BP. We discuss his previous trading experience, co-founding Friktion and plans for the future of Friktion.