AD Derivs: Insights from Crypto Option Traders
Amberdata Derivatives is an institutional grade crypto options analytics platform. Director of Derivatives, Greg Magadini, interviews titans in the crypto vol. trading space, as well as traditional markets vol. traders and other successful traders.
Episodes
72 episodes
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 72) - Guillaume Lamber, CEO and Founder @Panoptic
Panoptic integrates with Uniswap v3 and v4, offering perpetual options on all assets available on one of the world's largest decentralized exchanges.Panoptic's Ethereum launch opens the platform to the public, unlocking new opportunitie...
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Season 2025
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Episode 72
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39:46
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 71) - Bulat Kaliev, CPO @BABB & @ReDeFi
Bulat Kaliev is the Chief Product Officer at BABB and ReDeFi. Bulat has an extensive background in crypto and follows the crypto AI space very closely. We chat about his views on the AI space as well as his roles as Chief ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 71
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29:35
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 70) - Stephan Lutz, CEO @BitMEX
A pioneering cryptocurrency exchange known for its advanced trading features, BitMEX specializes in derivatives trading with up to 100x leverage through the creation of Perpetual contracts. Catering to professional traders, the platform offers ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 70
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51:46
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 69) Marc Tillement, Director of the Pyth Data Association @Pyth Network
The Pyth Network is an oracle solution built on Solana designed to provide real-time, high-quality financial market data to blockchain applications. Pyth aims to bring accurate pricing information, especially for fast-moving markets like crypto...
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Season 2024
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Episode 69
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35:09
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 68) Bohan Jiang, Head of OTC Options Trading @Abra
Abra is a financial services and technology company that operates a cryptocurrency wallet service including a trading service for buying and selling cryptocurrencies, a service for earning interest on cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, and a len...
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27:40
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 67) Brent Kochuba, Founder @SpotGamma
Brent Kochuba is the Founder of SpotGamma, a financial insights company, which applies its proprietary methodology toward modeling index and equity options.Prior to SpotGamma, Brent was most recently a portfolio manager with Seven North...
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Season 2024
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Episode 67
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33:12
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 66) Jake Ostrovskis, OTC @Wintermute
Jake Ostrovskis is a principal on Wintermute’s over-the-counter (OTC) Desk.Jake executes trades for a range of counterparties in digital assets and advising on products like spot, options, tailored products, CFDs, and NDFs. Befo...
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Season 2024
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Episode 66
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42:02
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 65) Neoman007, OTC Trader @ex-GSR
ex-GSR OTC trader and exotic derivatives specialist, Neoman007 explores discussions about his career, crypto volatility and pricing insights for trading exotic derivs. To get more market insights, follow Neoman's Telegram channel: ...
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50:24
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 64) Michael Dunn, President @Bitnomial Exchange
Bitnomial was founded in 2014 to create a marketplace connecting native digital asset hedgers with institutional traders. Bitnomial offers improved derivatives exchange technology coupled with new digital asset settlement systems.
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Season 2024
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Episode 64
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29:44
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 63) Matthew Liu, Co-Founder and CSO @SynFutures
SynFutures is a decentralized derivatives exchange platform that allows users to trade futures contracts based on various assets, including cryptocurrencies, altcoins, indices, NFTs, and real-world assets. The platform offers features such as 3...
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Season 2024
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Episode 63
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36:11
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 62) Ilan Levy-Mayer, VP @CannonTrading
Cannon Trading Company has been based in the Beverly Hills financial district since 1988. They are a member of the National Futures Association, the Better Business Bureau, the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and are registered with the CFTC ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 62
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30:11
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 61) Bernd Sischka, CCO @PowerTrade
Bernd Sischka is the chief commercial officer at PowerTrade. Today we discuss the novel offering of altcoin options trading at PowerTrade and the various tools that PowerTrade offers to their traders. PowerTrade is transfo...
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Season 2024
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Episode 61
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25:26
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 60) - Alex Ryvkin, Founder @Rho
About RhoRho provides efficient markets for crypto-native rates such as funding rates, lending-borrowing rates, and staking rewards. The platform enables users to hedge and profit from shifts in these crypto-native rates, offeri...
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33:35
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 59) - Bret Kenwell @eToro
Today we interview Bret Kenwell, U.S. Investment & Options Analyst at eToro.We discuss Bret's background, the increased adoption of options trading by retail investors since the COVID-19 pandemic and the overlap between crypto investors...
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Season 2024
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Episode 59
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29:50
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 58) - Stephan and Mario @Bitmex & PowerTrade
BitMEX has officially launched options. We discuss the recent launch and the collaboration with Power Trade.We explore the AltCoin offering from BitMEX and other unique option trading insights. To learn more about BitMEX opt...
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Season 2024
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Episode 58
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29:11
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 57) - Darius Tabatabai, co-founder @Vertex Protocol
Vertex is a cross-margined decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol offering spot, perpetuals, and an integrated money market bundled into one vertically integrated application on Arbitrum.Vertex is powered by a hybrid unified central limi...
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42:28
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 56) - Yoann Turpin, co-founder @Wintermute
Wintermute is a leading proprietary trading crypto market maker. They provide liquidity solutions across the digital asset eco-system.They create liquidity on the world's best crypto exchanges and trading platforms. They use algor...
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Season 2024
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Episode 56
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48:32
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 55) - Antonio Juliano, Founder and CEO @ dYdX
dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange that currently supports perpetual trading. dYdX runs on smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and allows users to trade with no intermediaries.Today we chat with Juliano, the founder and CE...
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Season 2024
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Episode 55
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30:44
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 54) - Varun Kumar, Founder and CEO @Hashflow
Hashflow is a DEX Aggregator that offers deep liquidity across the leading blockchains. Leveraging an intent-based Smart Order Routing (SOR) architecture, Hashflow offers traders the best prices, access to over $8B in liquidity, and the ability...
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Season 2024
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Episode 54
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25:41
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 53) - Lewis Fellas Head of Hedge Funds @ CoinShares
Since 2014, CoinShares has been building the future of investing - creating Europe’s leading European digital assets investment firm and innovating the technology and infrastructure to enable access and power investment in the new digital econo...
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Season 2024
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Episode 53
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26:46
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 52) - John Palmer President @Cboe Digital
Cboe is the world's go-to derivatives and exchange network, delivering cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to people around the world.Cboe Digital is a US regulated exchange and clearinghouse for crypto spot and crypto d...
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Season 2024
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Episode 52
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28:37
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 51) - Evgeny Gaevoy Founder & CEO @Wintermute
Wintermute is a leading proprietary trading crypto market maker. They provide liquidity solutions across the digital asset eco-system.They create liquidity on the world's best crypto exchanges and trading platforms. They use algor...
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Season 2024
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Episode 51
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35:37
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 50) - Moshe Cohen & Yoni Neeeman CEO/CINO @CVI
The Crypto Volatility Index (CVI) is a decentralized VIX for crypto that allows users to efficiently trade market volatility without the directional risk of spot trading.Today we talk about the background of CVI and the recent V3 launch...
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Season 2024
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Episode 50
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28:48
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 49) - Nick Forster Co-Founder @Lyra
Nick Forster is the co-founder of DeFi options protocol Lyra. Before founding Lyra, Nick was an equity options trader at SIG. Today we discuss Lyra's latest protocol launch, Lyra V2. V2 is a central limit order book style ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 49
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39:58
AD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 48) - Artur Sepp Head Quant @Clearstar Labs
Artur Sepp is the head quant at family office, Clearstar Labs. Here Artur has a focus on delta neutral strategies in DeFi markets and CeFi crypto volatility venues, such as Deribit.Artur has an extensive background in volatility tr...
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Season 2023
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Episode 48
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39:58