Crypto Unstacked

John Divine is a financial markets professional focused on structured products, derivatives, lend, borrow and spot market execution for digital assets. John began his career as a market maker for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange-listed derivatives, specializing in precious metals, interest rates, energies, and forward volatility curves. John has also operated within environmental product markets, listed, and OTC for compliance and voluntary participants. John moved into the digital asset arena trading as an Execution Specialist for an industry-leading hedge fund before joining BlockFills, where he is currently engaging with institutional participants in digital asset markets on strategy development & execution.

Dan Gunsberg is the Co-Founder of Hxro Network, a fully composable, on-chain derivatives primitive that provides core exchange, risk and settlement infrastructure for professional-grade financial applications. Dan has over 25 years of financial market experience both as a trader and in trade operations. Prior to co-founding Hxro, Dan co-founded Gordian Block Capital, a multi-strategy cryptocurrency hedge fund, and served as the Chief Operating Officer at DV Trading from 2011-2017. Recorded on May 3, 2022.

Marc Nichols is a Product Director at Arbor Digital , a subsidiary of registered investment advisory firm Arbor Capital. Marc is a Certified Investment Management Analyst CIMA® and Wealth Management Certified Professional WMCP®, and holds a Certificate in Blockchain and Digital Assets®.

Marc started his career as a professional tennis player and coach before transitioning to financial services as an associate advisor with Merrill Lynch in Princeton, NJ. Marc went on to start an advisory business serving wealth management clients in the New York and New Jersey market with Charles Schwab. Recorded on May 3, 2022.

Steven Chen is a Non-Executive Partner at Clarendon Arbitrage Fund, an absolute-return focused hedge fund. He has two decades of experience in institutional grade trading and specializes in trading index futures as well as commodity and currency options. Most recently, Steven was named Joint CEO & General Partner at CAF Digital Asset Management, the fund’s crypto investment arm to focus on trading crypto derivatives to generate yield for passive capital investors.

Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Hummingbot, a platform that allows users to run their own high-frequency market making bot and automate crypto trading. Recorded on April 21, 2022.

This is Part 3 of our 3-part Stablecoin War episode, where Mark Lamb and I go through the different categories of stablecoins, looking at their attributes and risks, and do a deep dive on the ongoing Terra stablecoin (UST) depegging incident. Recorded on May 10, 2022.

This is Part 2 of our 3-part Stablecoin War episode, where Mark Lamb and I go through the different categories of stablecoins, looking at their attributes and risks, and do a deep dive on the ongoing Terra stablecoin (UST) depegging incident. Recorded on May 10, 2022.

This is Part 1 of our 3-part Stablecoin War episode, where Mark Lamb and I go through the different categories of stablecoins, looking at their attributes and risks, and do a deep dive on the ongoing Terra stablecoin (UST) depegging incident. Recorded on May 10, 2022.

James Quinn is the Managing Director of Q9 Capital, a full-service digital asset platform serving private wealth individuals, family offices and corporates. James is a seasoned leader and entrepreneur having led financial services businesses and new ventures across multiple asset classes in Asia, North and South America.

Ori Cohen is the Founder and Head of Research at eFrontier, a leading research and algorithmic trading firm for digital assets.