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Crypto Exchanges Globally
500+
24H Global Trading Volume
$30.87 B
Market Opportunity
$1.18 T
Best Offer ETH
$1,385.00
Best Offer BTC
$16,857.00
Best Offer YFI
$8,701.00
Best Offer DOT
$5.76
Delivering Best Execution
Seeking the most favorable prices to execute orders within crypto markets.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Proprietary AI model in which machine learning and deep learning are employed to predict real time digital asset order book prices with a high level of confidence.
ACCESS TO DEEP AGGREGATED LIQUIDITY
As a liquidity aggregator, FLUID connects to all major liquidity partners, providing deep liquidity for trading pairs.
LOW LATENCY
When you trade with FLUID, our execution response time is near to immediate.
COUNTERPARTY RISK MITIGATION
FLUID provides the appropriate risk policies and procedures to mitigate risk for institutions, professional traders and retail.
The AI-Driven Liquidity Aggregator Delivering Best Execution
PREDICTIVE MODELING
A proprietary hybrid digital asset AI model is employed to obtain real time order book prices with a high level of confidence.
SMART ORDER ROUTER
Smart Order Routing powered with the latest ultra-low latency technology to connect to major exchanges to hedge exposures and improve liquidity.
EXECUTION ALGORITHMS
Customized algo strategies to minimize market impact and prevent information leakage for large orders such as VWAP, TWAP, and Arrival Price Volume Participation.
RISK ENGINE
An Engine that provides appropriate risk policies and procedures, optimizes borrowing costs, and efficient collateral management.
MATCHING ENGINE
A deep liquidity pool that provides access to FLUID’s global network of clients and market makers.
FLUID's Products
API TRADING
Institutional API trading for spot, futures and options markets
FLUID T
State of the art institutional trading terminal for the digital asset markets
FLUID X
A single window interface for everyday traders available on desktop and mobile
LIQUIDITY INTEGRATION
For exchanges that lack liquidity and want to provide a better user experience
COMMUNITY TREASURY
Earn APY, reduce fees or unlock premium features
Product Features
SPOT TRADING
- Fast automatic settlement
- Powerful tools and analytics
- Trade through a UI or API
DERIVATIVES
- Dynamic delta and volatility trading strategies
- Spread trading and peg-to-parity algorithm
- Ability to trade large blocks anonymously using RFQ technology
MARGIN TRADING
- Appropriate risk policies and procedures
- Collateral management
- Optimizing borrowing cost
CROSSING ENGINE
- Crossing at the best available price across exchanges
- Ability to execute large block trades without impacting the price at the exchanges
- Anonymity and minimizing market impact
TREASURY MANAGEMENT
- Taking long and short positions across major cryptocurrency pairs on multiple CEXs and DEXs
- Monetizing pricing disparity and huge inefficiencies that exist in crypto markets
- Applying and monitoring these strategies to Tier 1 exchanges only
TOKENIZED MARKETS
- Ability to trade NFTs through integration with the largest NFT marketplaces
- Ability to trade tokenized real estate
- Ability to trade securitized products, including tokenized shares of private companies
STAKING REWARDS & OFFSET ACCOUNT
- Reduce trading fees
- Unlock Follow Traders, FLUID’s IP and in-trading chat bot
- Unlock tiered referral rewards
EXECUTION ALGORITHMS
- Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP) and Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP)
- Volume Participation to calculate the order quantity as a percentage of the total trade volume
- Arrival Price to minimize pre-trade arrival price Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) and slippage
CRYPTO MARKETS ARE DANGEROUSLY INEFFICIENT
Price Disparity Calculator
Unlike TradFi markets, crypto suffers from liquidity fragmentation and a lack of liquidity, resulting in high volatility, large price slippages, vulnerability to market manipulation, flash crashes and more.
Select a coin below and see how disparate prices are across exchanges due to liquidity fragmentation.
Binance
ETH/USDT
$ 1,813.25
Huobi
ETH/USDT
$ 1,812.72
Kucoin
ETH/USDT
$ 1,813.81
Bitfinex
ETH/USDT
$ 1,813.50
OKX
ETH/USDT
$ 1,813.29
Kraken
ETH/USDT
$ 1,813.22
Binance
BTC/USDT
$ 28,400.01
Huobi
BTC/USDT
$ 28,398.41
Kucoin
BTC/USDT
$ 28,409.54
Bitfinex
BTC/USDT
$ 28,403.00
OKX
BTC/USDT
$ 28,395.50
Kraken
BTC/USDT
$ 28,406.30
Binance
YFI/USDT
$ 8,701.00
Huobi
YFI/USDT
$ 8,702.15
Kucoin
YFI/USDT
$ 8,702.04
Bitfinex
YFI/USDT
$ 8,707.40
OKX
YFI/USDT
$ 8,705.00
Kraken
YFI/USDT
$ 8,728.00
Binance
DOT/USDT
$ 6.37
Huobi
DOT/USDT
$ 6.37
Kucoin
DOT/USDT
$ 6.37
Bitfinex
DOT/USDT
$ 6.38
OKX
DOT/USDT
$ 6.37
Kraken
DOT/USDT
$ 6.37
Binance
SOL/USDT
$ 20.97
Huobi
SOL/USDT
$ 20.97
Kucoin
SOL/USDT
$ 20.98
Bitfinex
SOL/USDT
$ 21.01
OKX
SOL/USDT
$ 20.98
Kraken
SOL/USD
$ 21.01
Binance
AVAX/USDT
$ 17.63
Huobi
AVAX/USDT
$ 17.64
Kucoin
AVAX/USDT
$ 17.64
Bitfinex
AVAX/USDT
$ 17.65
OKX
AVAX/USDT
$ 17.64
Kraken
AVAX/USD
$ 17.69
A Wealth of Experience
FLUID Finance is run by a seasoned senior team with over 40 years of combined and diversified experience in tier-one financial institutions.
Meet Our Core Team
Ahmed W Ismail
Founder, President & CEO
18 years of management experience at some of the most prestigious investment banks, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Jefferies. Co-founder of HAYVN, the regulated digital currency OTC.
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Waleed Rizk
Head of Engineering
Waleed is an experienced software developer, architect, and team leader in the financial domain, having worked with top investment banks and financial services such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, UBS, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, MarketAxess, and more.
He has been providing build outs of low latency order management systems, e-Trading Systems, Smart Order Routers, and Algorithmic Trading Systems for over a decade, across equities, fixed income, FX and crypto.
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Lawrence Henesey
Head of Data Science
Dr. Henesey leads FLUID's application of AI and brings 30 years of experience in the field of
various AI technologies such as Multi Agents, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Genetic
Algorithms.
Dr. Lawrence Henesey is also an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing (COM), a department located in Blekinge Institute of Technology, which has been ranked #6 in the world for Software Engineering.
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Kiran Pingali
Head of Product
Kiran has 20+ years of experience in financial services, specifically in electronic trading. He began his career at Citigroup, Japan, working in Equities Technology and Equities Quantitative Research. He then worked for Lehman Brothers Japan, in their Equities Electronic Trading Desk covering institutional clients trading Pan-Asian equities.
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Shah Sheikh
CISO
18+ years industry experience. Co-Founder of DTS Solution, a leading cybersecurity advisory and founder of Crowdswarm – a leading bug bounty and crowdsourced penetration testing platform.
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Matias Jeldrez
Head of Marketing & Communications
13+ years experience across Marketing & Communications leading teams of up to 40+ within technology companies, agencies, and publishers such as Microsoft, DP World, Dubai Tourism, Mindshare by WPP, Havas Group, and Nissan.
Matias consulted on projects with budgets of up to 80m USD to solve business challenges for B2B and B2C.
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Advisory Team
Kyle Chassé
Master Ventures / CEO of PAID Network
A cryptocurrency/blockchain industry veteran and technology entrepreneur has founded, advised and invested in numerous early-stage blockchain projects since his initial investment in Bitcoin in 2012.
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Dane Hoy
Master Ventures / PAID Network
Managing Partner at Master Ventures - blockchain venture studio focused on co-founding and funding the next generation of Web 3.0 infrastructure - Founder, Entrepreneur and blockchain investor.
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Roderick Mckinley
Bloomberg
A seasoned advisor that adds value by offering strategic guidance, product development, and tokenomic design services for a range of blockchain applications, including DeFi, blockchain games, and Layer 1 protocols.
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Joeri Van Geelen
Founding Partner NxGen.xyz
A founding partner of NxGen.xyz that provides next generation utility to companies, investors and DAOs to build the third generation of the internet.
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Ryan Williams
Legal Counsel / Binance & Ripple
Lawyer and entrepreneur passionately supporting emerging technology startups. Founder of Ashbury Legal, bringing design thinking principles to the attorney-client experience.
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The FLUID Roadmap
FLUID is dedicated to deliver its promise to build the liquidity aggregator of the future.
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Q1-Q3 2021
FLUID's prototype and design and conceptualization of Ultra Low Latency Technology (ULLT) and AI technology behind smart order routing for FLUID
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Q2 2021
FLUID was announced as the company name in June
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Q4 2021 - Q2 2022
Blockchain Wallet integration and development of Smart Contracts and utility design for $FLD
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Q1 2022
Design complete of technical architecture behind ULLT trading system with CEXs
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Q2 2022
Development of AI algorithms used for predicting CEX and DEX order books and first release of FLUID research papers
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Q3 2022
Release of second research publication and release of prediction results around FLUID AI engine
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Q4 2022
Full release of the FLUID MVP, which incorporates aggregated order books and showcases FLUID AI’s ability to predict order books with near 100% accuracy
Development of trade and risk matching engines and back office trade operations -
Q1 2023
FLUID Beta release: FLUID liquidity platform production launch with liquidity from CEXs and DEXs
AI data-driven autonomous model implemented -
2024
Release of FLUID-M, derivatives exchange token utility product
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