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Jump Trading was founded in 1999, they’re traditional finance people, not “crypto people”.
by ericd 4y ago
Jump Trading was founded in 1999, they’re traditional finance people, not “crypto people”.
- j4yav 4y agoThey seem to have since then moved to operating in crypto (tfa says they want the domain for their crypto business).
- nneonneo 4y agoThey’re buying this domain solely to use it for their wormhole network, which bridges blockchains together. So, in this context, they most definitely are “crypto people”.
- ericd 4y agoI know it’s for a crypto related project, I read the article, but I’d argue that the average finance person adding another asset class that they trade is substantially different from the archetype that most would describe as “crypto people”.
- siftrics 4y agoThey are absolutely "crypto people." They have had nigh the most crypto engineering power of any firm in the entire world for like 5-6 years now. They have literally hundreds of extremely smart people who have been in crypto since the beginning.
- ericd 4y agoAh ok, thanks for the context! The people I know in hedge funds are far away from being what most would think of as crypto people, but perhaps Jump is a bit of an exception.
- pgwhalen 4y agoMost crypto people are traditional finance people at this point, this is lost in a lot of conversation about crypto.