AD Derivs: Insights from Crypto Option Traders

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.

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.

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