Axon Trade Update: July 31, 2018

Summary

  • The lessons cryptocurrency should learn from Wall Street
  • 2018 Rhode Island Blockchain Summit
  • Blockchain Futurist Conference
  • Media partnership with World Blockchain Forum London 2018
  • Axon Trade Weekly Crypto Market Update
  • Upcoming Axon Trade events

The lessons cryptocurrency should learn from Wall Street

Cryptocurrency has long been considered a disruptor, with a refreshing take on the finance industry that attracts innovators and non-conformists. But no matter how radical this newcomer on the block is, there is plenty to learn from those that it intends to disrupt: Wall Street. Check out an article written by Axon Trade CEO Alex Kravets — The lessons cryptocurrency should learn from Wall Street.

2018 Rhode Island Blockchain Summit

Axon Trade CTO Alex Kravets attended the 2018 Rhode Island Blockchain Summit, bringing together Rhode Island state officials, business partners and blockchain thought leaders from around the world to discuss the growth of this exciting industry: http://bit.ly/2mXWoR9.

Governor Gina Raimondo speaking

Alex with Steven Nerayoff, Axon Trade advisor and Alchemist CEO

Blockchain Futurist Conference

Axon Trade team will take part in and sponsor/exhibit at the Blockchain Futurist Conference that will be held in Toronto, Canada on August 14 -16, 2018. Axon Trade CTO Serg Gulko is one of the speakers along with such speakers as Dash Corp Group Inc. Ryan TaylorCoinsquare CEO Cole DiamondCNN Legend & Gear Advisory Board Larry King. Let us know if you’d like to catch up in person.

Media partnership with World Blockchain Forum London 2018

Axon Trade is now a media partner of World Blockchain Forum that will be held on 3–5 September, 2018 in London. The World Blockchain Forum serves as a learning guide for, not only the technical tools of investing such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, but also as a stepping stone to wise investing. The conference will showcase the latest innovations in the blockchain industry, and curate conversations between the world’s leading pioneers and experts about the promise and future of blockchain. A full list of confirmed speakers and the agenda can be found here. Tickets are available here.

Axon Trade Weekly Crypto Market Update

Another exclusive Axon Trade weekly crypto market update by Steven Aitchison — Youtube blogger and experienced crypto trader. This update contains a weekly market overview, the most important cryptocurrency news from the last week and useful crypto trading tips. Please find more details in our blog post: http://bit.ly/2Aq90dp.

Upcoming Axon Trade events

To increase awareness of our project and attract more clients, partners, and new community members, Axon Trade will participate/speak at these events:

Feel free to stop by our exhibition booths and say “hello” or ask tough questions during roundtables.

Serg’s trip to Kiev, Ukraine

Serg Gulko will be in Kiev, Ukraine from July 28 till August 12th working closely with the Axon Trade development team. Let us know if want to catch up in person. Serg’s announcement: http://bit.ly/2NAspKo

Axon Trade Update: July 26, 2018

Summary

  • FIX Trading Community’s Annual Chicago Regional Meeting
  • Serg’s trip to Kiev, Ukraine
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co. Leverages the Blockchain
  • Axon Trade Weekly Crypto Market Update
  • Upcoming Axon Trade events

FIX Trading Community’s annual Chicago Regional Meeting

Recently Axon Trade CTO Serg Gulko participated in the “Bringing Cryptocurrency Into the Institutional Order Flow” panel at the FIX Trading Community’s annual Chicago Regional Meeting for a private institutional audience as one of the speakers and shared the script he prepared for the panel discussion: http://bit.ly/2JBgglW.

Serg’s trip to Kiev, Ukraine

Serg Gulko will be in Kiev, Ukraine from July 28 till August 12th working closely with the Axon Trade development team. Let us know if want to catch up in person. Serg’s announcement: http://bit.ly/2NAspKo.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Leverages the Blockchain

Great new article by our friend Daniel G. Viola, Partner of Sadis & Goldberg, LLP — JPMorgan Chase & Co. Leverages the Blockchain. Daniel is the Head of the Digital Asset and Compliance Groups at his firm and is also the founder of the Crypto Asset Webinars and the Blockchain Shift Conferences.

Axon Trade Weekly crypto market update

Another exclusive Axon Trade weekly crypto market update by Steven Aitchison — Youtube blogger and experienced crypto trader. This update contains a weekly market overview, the most important cryptocurrency news from the last week and useful crypto trading tips. Please find more details in our blog post: http://bit.ly/2uXZtUR.

Upcoming Axon Trade events

To increase awareness of our project and attract more clients, partners, and new community members, Axon Trade will participate/speak at these events:

Feel free to stop by our exhibition booths and say “hello” or ask tough questions during roundtables.

2018 Rhode Island Blockchain Summit

Axon Trade CEO Alex Kravets attended the 2018 Rhode Island Blockchain Summit, bringing together Rhode Island state officials, business partners and blockchain thought leaders from around the world to discuss the growth of this exciting industry: http://bit.ly/2mXWoR9

Serg Gulko participated in“Bringing Cryptocurrency Into the Institutional Orderflow” conference.

Co-founder & CTO at Axon Trade Serg Gulko participated in a panel discussion “Bringing Cryptocurrency Into the Institutional Orderflow” that took place in Chicago on July 18th.

Axon Trade Update: July 16, 2018

Summary

  • Axon Trade Product Update
  • Steve Nerayoff joins the advisory board of Axon Trade
  • Updates from FIX Trading community meeting
  • FIX Trading Community’s annual Chicago Regional Meeting
  • Axon Trade Weekly crypto market update
  • Upcoming Axon Trade events

Axon Trade Product Update

Alexander Kravets, CEO of Axon Trade, discussed the current state of crypto markets (hint — good stuff ahead!) and some Axon Trade product updates: http://bit.ly/2zFKOmE.

Steve Nerayoff joins the advisory board of Axon Trade

Steven Nerayoff, one of the original creators of the framework for Initial Token Offerings (ICOs), has joined the company as a strategic advisor. Nerayoff will advise Axon Trade as we roll out Axon Trade products and onboard institutional clients. Please find more details in our blog post: http://bit.ly/2KY909o.

Updates from FIX Trading community meeting

As a FIX Trading Community member, Axon Trade takes part in regular conferences and calls to definite worldwide standards in trading and market data for multiple assets classes, including cryptocurrency. Axon Trade CTO Serg Gulko shared some updates from the last FIX Trading community meeting in his blog post: http://bit.ly/2zCkzNW.

FIX Trading Community’s annual Chicago Regional Meeting

Axon Trade team will take part in FIX Trading Community’s annual Chicago Regional Meeting. Serg Gulko will participate in “Bringing Cryptocurrency Into the Institutional Order Flow” panel as one of the speakers. Let us know if you want to catch up in person!

Axon Trade Weekly crypto market update

Another exclusive Axon Trade weekly crypto market update by Steven Aitchison — Youtube blogger and experienced crypto trader. This update contains weekly market overview, the most important cryptocurrency news from the last week and useful crypto trading tips. Please find more details in our blog post: http://bit.ly/2mlSh0H.

Upcoming Axon Trade events

To increase awareness of our project and attract more clients, partners, and new community members, Axon Trade will participate/speak at these events:

Feel free to stop by our exhibition booths and say “hello” or ask tough questions during roundtables.

Axon Trade Product Update

It’s halfway through 2018, and the crypto landscape is maturing quite well with the advent of normalization, custody, technology, and regulatory clarity.

In a major milestone last month, Ethereum and Bitcoin were declared non-securities by the SEC, paving the way for capital inflows and greater regulatory certainty. A new Bitcoin ETF application was filed, we will hopefully hear the SEC confirmation by 8/10 but likely it will be pushed another 45 days as per approval guidelines. BlackRock is exploring the space too, after their leading employees left to start crypto companies. Participating in the blockchain space is quickly becoming less of a me-too progressive fad for larger organizations and more of a must-have to keep up with rapid developments and client demand for exposure.

This time it’s different — there is custody, more regulatory clarity, minimums that will necessitate larger/accredited investor participation and the entity applying is the CBOE and VanEck.

On the Axon Trade side, we are seeing the demand for our products spike — but some are in greater demand than others. In particular, this is true of the Axon Trade Dark Pool solution, leveraging actual banking custodians for fiat and digital asset custodians for crypto to allow for cheap, easy, and vetted large OTC trades.

In line with our road map, we have recently released our FIX API, the unified market data and execution API for institutional use. The following product is to be a downloadable trading platform called Axon Trade PRO that allows for manual execution across exchanges.

However, given enormous institutional interest in the Dark Pool product, we have decided to prioritize Axon Trade Dark first. We feel that adjusting to market needs is important, and as the blockchain industry changes quickly, we must be nimble in order to meet incoming demand head on.

For fiat custodianship, the solutions we are leveraging are Noble Markets and Signature Bank, allowing for custody and seamless journal transfers of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars on the fiat side of the Axon Trade Dark trades.

On the crypto escrow side, we are exploring itBit (US based and fully licensed), DACC (physical custody in secure environment dealing with over 70 tokens) and Noble (digital custody coming!).

By integrating these fiat and digital custody solutions along with a dark matching engine and white-listed participants, a vetted, KYC enabled, fund verified trusted Axon Trade Dark Pool environment will facilitate hundreds of millions of dollars of large crypto to fiat trades at 20x less cost than current exorbitant OTC transaction middlemen fees.

Axon Trade PRO and Axon Trade SPA continue to be our focus and we are aiming to bring them online in 2018, with Axon Trade PRO coming first. On the Axon Trade PRO side, we’ll be publishing live screenshots as soon as the production version is in testing. An updated roadmap will be published soon as well.

Also — Thomas Lee’s analysis of the potential scope of the crypto market as driven by a generational shift is quite illuminating — see it here, highly recommended.

Steve Nerayoff joins the advisory board of Axon Trade

Steven Nerayoff, one of the original creators of the framework for Initial Token Offerings (ICOs), has joined the company as a strategic advisor. Nerayoff will advise Axon Trade as the company begins to roll out the product and onboard institutional clients for the initial trials of their complete trading platform.

“Steve is legend in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency and to have him onboard with us as we begin to onboard major strategic partners is incredible and truly an honor,” said Alexander Kravets, CEO of Axon Trade. “His deep knowledge of the industry, unmatched experience, connections, and expertise will prove invaluable for us in the near future. It’s also a huge testament to our project and the grand vision we have for a person like him to recognize the potential in our future and we are humbled by that.”

Nerayoff is a prolific serial entrepreneur, attorney and inventor of 20 international patents, having founded seven companies in Silicon Valley and New York City. He is a blockchain pioneer with his involvement in top projects and is also the Chairman of the publicly listed company Global Blockchain Technologies (OTCMKTS:BLKCF) (TSXV:BLOC). He also founded Alchemistspecializing in blockchain project development and investment. Steven has assembled a team of industry leaders having advised and invested in over 25 projects, including: Aion, Bancor, Ethereum, Factom, GlobalBlockchain, Investfeed, Kudos, Lisk, MAD, Po.et, Polymath, Ripio, RSK, Sirin, Steemit, Storm, Streetwire, tZERO, Veridium, Vezt, ZCash, and Zencash.

Steven’s innovative work as the legal architect of Ethereum’s record setting token sale continues to be the basic structure used throughout the world today. Steven innovated the concept of “utility”, specifically using the concept of “gas” or “fuel” for legal purposes. Steven continues to be instrumental in defining the industry standards.

“Axon Trade is fantastic project that is potentially solving one of the biggest challenges in cryptocurrency and providing a mechanism that brings institutional investors into the crypto,” said Nerayoff. “What’s more, the team backing them up have the experience, connections, and technical background to make it happen.”

The veteran Wall Street traders who are building Axon Trade are introducing a new infrastructure that would allow banks, hedge funds, and large institutional traders to easily access cryptocurrency markets. By building a low-latency infrastructure with a unified FIX API, a technology used on Wall Street for over 25 years, along with a standalone trading platform and liquidity aggregation the company will provide precise and virtually instant pricing data while minimizing ‘slippage’ for the trading of digital assets. The company will also be building a private dark pool for private institutional trading off of the public blockchain.

Axon Trade is currently live with their first product, a unified FIX based multi exchange API for market data and execution co-located at NY4 Equinix data center with data connectivity across the globe. In development are several other primary solutions, such a as a unified milti-exchange trading platform, a dark pool product for OTC orders that works by leveraging digital asset and fiat custodians to facilitate large OTC orders at low cost, and liquidity aggregation across multiple exchanges.

Axon Trade Update: July 9, 2018

Summary

  • Crypto Exchange Gemini Hires Former NYSE Tech Chief
  • Swiss Stock Exchange to Tokenize Securities With New DLT Platform
  • Exclusive Weekly crypto market update from Steven Aitchison
  • Upcoming Axon Trade events

Crypto Exchange Gemini Hires Former NYSE Tech Chief

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has hired former New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) chief information officer Robert Cornish to serve as its first chief technology officer. Find more details in Coindesk article: http://bit.ly/2ue0QOE.

Swiss Stock Exchange to Tokenize Securities With New DLT Platform

Switzerland’s principal stock exchange has announced that it is developing a blockchain-based platform to tokenize traditional securities. Find more details in Coindesk article: http://bit.ly/2m36P5e.

Exclusive Weekly crypto market update from Steven Aitchison

Another exclusive weekly crypto update by Steven Aitchison — Youtube blogger and experienced crypto trader. This update contains weekly market overview, the most important cryptocurrency news from the last week and useful crypto trading tips. Please find more details in our blog post: http://bit.ly/2J8lKUY.

Upcoming Axon Trade events

To increase awareness of our project and attract more clients, partners, and new community members, Axon Trade will participate/speak at these events:

Feel free to stop by our exhibition booths and say “hello” or ask tough questions during roundtables.

Axon Trade Update: July 2, 2018

Summary

  • Axon Trade FIX API Product Update — June 30th
  • What Cryptocurrency Can Learn From Wall Street
  • Hardware Wallets Poll
  • Axon Trade events are on crypto calendars
  • Exclusive Weekly crypto market update from Steven Aitchison
  • Upcoming events

Axon Trade FIX API Product Update — June 30th

Summer is usually associated with vacations, trips, and overall relaxation. But not for the Axon Trade team! We are using this time to be prepared for the upcoming autumn run. First of all, we released the new version of FIX API gateway with added Binance support. So now our clients can receive normalized market data and trade on this exchange through our NY4 servers. Find more details in the Axon Trade FIX API Product Update — June 30th, 2018 http://bit.ly/2IGa3Va

What Cryptocurrency Can Learn From Wall Street

The groundbreaking potential of the cryptocurrency space has been well-documented over the last couple years. The maverick-like nature of the new industry is refreshing, and its non-conforming characteristics appealing. Yet, even the most radical innovations and industries can learn from their more established, monolithic counterparts that have come before them. When it comes to crypto, one of the primary sectors it can model is one of the largest, stablest sectors on the planet: Wall Street.

Read about 4 of the biggest lessons cryptocurrency can take from Wall Street in our new article: http://bit.ly/2Nh5ynu.

Hardware Wallet Poll

Take part in a hardware wallet poll. The question is “How do you sign your Ethereum transactions?” Please choose one of the four offered options or add your own option in comments: http://bit.ly/2tIKQEg.

Axon Trade events are on crypto calendars

Axon Trade events are now on CoinMarketCal and CoinsCalendar. Please click these links and then click “Real” for each event, this will help us to promote the project via these channels.

Exclusive Weekly crypto market update from Steven Aitchison

Another exclusive weekly crypto update by Steven Aitchison — Youtube blogger and experienced crypto trader. This update contains weekly market overview, the most important cryptocurrency news from the last week and useful crypto trading tips. Please find more details in our blog post: http://bit.ly/2Kojiix.

Upcoming events

To increase awareness of our project and attract more clients, partners, and new community members, Axon Trade will participate/speak at these events:

Feel free to stop by our exhibition booths and say “hello” or ask tough questions during roundtables.