AD Derivs: Insights from Crypto Option Traders

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. 

Mark Sebastian was a former market maker on the AMEX and the CBOE. He is a founding partner and the CIO of Karman Line Capital, a volatility arbitrage hedge fund. 
Mark Sebastian is the founder OptionPit.com a full service options mentoring and consulting firm working with traders, money managers, and hedge funds on option strategies.
Learn more at https://optionpit.com/

For more information visit https://voladynamics.com/

Misha Fomytskyi
Prior to co-founding Vola Dynamics LLC, he spent 12 years working in the derivatives space in trading and quant roles, including head of the options trading team at Getco LLC, as portfolio manager at JD Capital Management, and the founder and CEO of Mivol LLC. Having a deep understanding of trading, modeling, and technology allowed him to be a driving force in adopting quantitative techniques in valuation, risk management and trading analysis in these businesses. He received his Ph.D. in physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 2004.

Michal Koonin is the co-founder of Paradigm.co an RFQ venue for trading crypto options.
Paradigm is responsible for 99% of all crypto option block-trades at the time of this recording.
For more information visit https://www.paradigm.co/