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Crypto Markets & Trading Lead

Optimum · Remote · Remote

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About Optimum

Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains. Backed by Spartan Group.

About the role

Optimum is building infrastructure that can give sophisticated market participants earlier access to valuable blockchain information and execution opportunities. We are looking for someone with direct experience in crypto trading markets to work alongside our Product and Data teams and help us understand where Optimum can create differentiated, monetizable value for traders.

What they're looking for

  • Direct professional experience in crypto trading, quantitative trading, market making, or a closely related market-structure role
  • Strong understanding of how professional crypto trading firms make money and evaluate infrastructure, data, and execution products
  • Existing relationships within the crypto trading ecosystem and the ability to get high-quality conversations with the right market participants
  • Ability to move comfortably between qualitative market conversations and quantitative analysis
  • Strong commercial judgment: able to distinguish an interesting technical capability from customer value
  • Ability to communicate trader workflows and market dynamics clearly to product, engineering, business development, and research teams
More about this role

Optimum is building the world's first data acceleration network for any blockchain. Powered by Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC), Optimum scales network speed, robustness, and throughput by orders of magnitude.

Co-founded by Muriel Médard, co-inventor of RLNC, and a team of industry experts, Optimum introduces a breakthrough in Web3 infrastructure. Our infrastructure enables high-speed data propagation, fast access, and secure updates, scaling the world computer. Backers include 1kx, Spartan, Robot Ventures, Finality Capital, Triton Capital (fka Kraken Ventures), CMT Digital, SNZ, and others.

Learn more at getoptimum.xyz

Optimum is building infrastructure that can give sophisticated market participants earlier access to valuable blockchain information and execution opportunities.

We are looking for someone with direct experience in crypto trading markets to work alongside our Product and Data teams and help us understand where Optimum can create differentiated, monetizable value for traders.

You will bring the perspective, network, and market understanding of a trader into the company: helping us identify valuable problems, test product hypotheses with the right market...

Read the full posting on Optimum's site ↗

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