AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 25) - Mario Lozada @PowerTrade
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. 2022
Mario 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/
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 24) - Dan & Degeneral @RyskFinance
Rysk Finance is a new type of DOV "DeFi option Vault" that goes beyond simple strategies to enable delta hedged volatility exposure.
We talk with Dan and Degeneral DeFi about their protocol as well as the careers before building Rysk.
From more information visit:
https://www.rysk.finance/
Twitter: @ ryskfinance
If you're interested in joining the Rysk team, email dan@rysk.finance
gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 23) - Chris Newhouse @GSR
GSR has nine years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner, asset manager, and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges.
Chris walks us through his journey as a young trader in college to a professional crypto vol. trader at GSR.
We talk about market strategies and the current crypto vol. environment.
For more information about GSR check :
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GSR_io
Website: https://www.gsr.io/
Chris Twitter: https://twitter.com/CryptoDeFiGuy
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 22) - Reggie & Jake @hook.xyz
Hook is a new NFT-native options protocol. In their most basic form, call options represent the right (but not the obligation) to purchase a specific underlying asset at some time in the future. The Hook protocol implements a version of these call options concept applicable to NFTs, ultimately allowing option sellers to earn premiums by selling some potential upside from their asset and allows option buyers to purchase that upside.
Today we discuss Reggie and Jake's backgrounds before starting hook.xyz, current protocol design and recent success since recently launching on ETH mainnet.
For more information visit:
https://www.hook.xyz/
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 21) - Joe Clark @Opyn
Opyn is a defi options protocol that went live on mainnet in Q1 2020.
After building initial DeFi option primitives on Ethereum, Opyn later created the first DeFi power-perpetual known as "Squeeth".
Joe Clark, a major contributor to "Squeeth", enlightens listeners on the mechanical details of "Squeeth" as well as underlying theoretical pricing.
We also ask Joe about his trading background, important trading wisdom he's learned throughout his career and how he found his way into the crypto vol. space.
For more information on Squeeth and Opyn visit:
https://www.opyn.co/
https://medium.com/opyn
gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 20) - Akshai Rajendran & Reid Munroe @PatternResearch
Pattern Research is a market-making firm across both CeFi and DeFi in the crypto option space.
We talk about Akshai's and Reid's backgrounds, how they made the switch into crypto vol. and where they see the market now.
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 19) - Shaun Fernando - Chief Risk Officer & Head of Product Strategy @Deribit
Deribit is the world’s biggest crypto options exchange by volume, accounting for around 90% of the open interest for Bitcoin and Ethereum options.
With its proprietary matching engine, Deribit is one of the most technically advanced crypto derivatives exchanges with co-location services in Equinix LD4 and sub-millisecond order RTTs.
Shaun Fernando has a trading background and is the Chief Risk Officer at Deribit.
We talk about Shaun's previous work experience, his day-to-day at Deribit and take a detailed look at major events, such as the ETH 2.0 merge.
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 18) - Krupa & Bhargav - Founders DeFi Options Protocol @Oddz
Krupa Sagar and Bhargav Kacharla are two of the co-founders of DeFi Options Protocol Oddz.
We talk about the mechanics behind Oddz protocol, their individual backgrounds before co-founding Oddz and the future developments of Oddz protocol.
We also touch on unique insights into the Indian derivatives markets.
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep.17) - Hao Yang - Head of Options @Bybit
Hao Yang heads the options product division at CeFi exchange Bybit.
We chat about Hao's background in trading and crypto before joining Bybit,
some of the innovation behind Bybit's options offering and finally future roadmaps for Bybit.
For more information about Bybit and Bybit Options visit: https://www.bybit.com/
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep.16) - Julien - Co-founder @OrcaTraders
Julien is co-founder of Orca Traders.
Orca originated as an options market maker on Deribit in 2017 and evolved into a fully-fledged prop shop.
We chat about the evolution of the crypto vol. surface, Julien's days as an electricity trader and the future of his trading operations.
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Intro to Solidity Basics 2 | functions, visibility modifiers, writing a contract
A basic introduction to writing functions in Solidity, understanding the four types of visibility modifiers, and live coding a simple voting smart contract.
Remix: https://remix.ethereum.org/
Solidity docs: https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/v0.8.17/
Check out Genesis Volatility: https://gvol.io/
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 15) - Sean McNulty - Head of Derivatives @Coinhako
Sean McNulty helps run the OTC crypto options desk at Coinhako.
We talk about his role at Coinhako, his previous background trading options at JP Morgan and how Sean sees crypto volatility versus other asset classes.
Founded in 2014 by Singapore entrepreneurs, Coinhako was created with a simple value proposition – to create a simple and hassle-free way to access Bitcoin. Over the years, we have expanded on this to provide access to a wide variety of digital assets, as we work towards our vision of enabling access to the crypto-economy across Asia.
gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 14) - Josh Lim - Previously Head of Derivatives @GenesisTrading
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.
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 13) - Julian Koh - Co-founder @RibbonFinance
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
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 12) - Toby Chapple - Head of Trading @Zerocap
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.
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Trading Volatility: AMA for Real Vision Crypto Pro
In this AMA we demo the GVol platform and how to use volatility in your discretionary trading, to isolate edge.
This AMA was conducted for the Real Vision Crypto Pro audience.
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 11) - Nick Forster - Co-founder of @Lyra
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.
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Options Risk Analyzer Tutorial
Check out our "Option Risk Analysis" tool built with CryptoSheets
https://app.cryptosheets.com/#/templates/596
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 10) - Tristan Frizza - Co-founder & CEO of @Zeta Markets
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/
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Excel: Options Risk Analyzer
This video shows users how to use the GVol excel risk analyzer (a crypto sheets template)
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 9) - Tom Sosnoff @tastytrade
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.
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GVol Education: Monthly "Employement Report" BLS Economic Release
US Employment Report - 8:30 AM ET on First Friday of the month.
This video explains the details for the "Employement Report" BLS Economic Release.
We explore both the household survey and establishment survey, and describe the Pros/Cons of each methodology.
We also visit some of the grey area found in the "Unemployment Rate" and the labor force calculation.
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gvol.io Podcast (Ep. 8) - Euan Sinclair @BlueFin Capital Management
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.
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