Co-Founder, Advisor, Board Member
Currentwww.system9.ioSystem 9: Making Markets Fair and Square. System 9 is a privately held trading & software development company headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Using the power of quantitative methods and decades of trading expertise, System 9 makes markets more efficient by building bespoke trading strategies for your market.We offer a suite of services designed to optimize your project's growth and market standing, including but not limited to: Treasury Management, Liquidations and buybacks, exchange listings, and advisory services.System 9 researches, patents and develops original IP to advance the state of the overall ecosystem. Our founders, Peter Sokolow, Ryan Gray and Sam Blan have been heavily involved Bitcoin space since 2011 and have spent much of this time developing concepts for bringing blockchain technology out of the lab and into the hands of mainstream corporate and individual users.In the future we see System 9 technologies being integrated into every possible payment and transaction channel across a broad range of blockchains as well as the applications that integrate them. We see a world where every transaction is not just a sale between a customer/retailer, but instead a transaction that carries a payload of possibilities taking advantage of available arbitrage or pricing discrepancies in order to most efficiently make use of these funds.This will reduce frictions on both sides of every transaction while contributing a positive feedback loop to the underlying blockchain currencies making them more stable opening up use cases that are still yet to be discovered. Positions held:COO: September 2017 - December 2019CRO: December 2020 - December 2022