Is the Crypto bubble about the burst or consolidate prior to an unprecedented growth spurt? The Crypto Currency landscape continues to offer unique trading and investment opportunities. Large financial institutions are forging ahead with new crypto products, adopting cryptocurrency futures, derivatives, and forward contracts.
Recently U.S. regulators have been constructive about crypto currency with the potential imminent approval of a crypto ETF (exchange traded fund) and institutional quality custody solutions could soon arrive.
Are Institutional Investors heading to Crypto in 2019? Is the industry on the precipice of billions of dollars of extra capital?
Where can the current and future investment & trading opportunities by found in Crypto Currency world?
08.00 - 09.00
Registration and Morning Welcome Coffee
09.00 - 09.30
Conference Opening
Introductions, level setting the day &the day’s agenda
Modern Capital markets, bubbles, anomalies, & drivers of crypto demand
ETH & BTC: a call option on future technology & positive steps towards institutionalization
2019 forecasts for all markets: blockchain, cryptocurrency, and payments
SOL STEINBERG:
Founding Principal, OTC Partners
09.30 - 10.15
Crypto Market Dynamics and Currents
Crypto coin offers, volume, and trading
Markets , exchanges, derivatives, and regions
Strategies and future use cases
ROBERT SAVAGE:
CEO, CCTrack Solutions, LLC
10.15 - 11.00
Blockchain + Tokenization = Intellectual Property Liquidity
History of IP market & legacy monetization opportunities for investors
Blockchain & tokenization & Where we see this market heading
PATRICK WOLOVECK:
Founder, Knowledge Base Capital
11.00 - 11.30
Morning Break and Networking Opportunities
11.30 - 12.15
Crypto Investment Dynamics and Strategies
BRANDON ELSASSER:
CIO of Victoria Capital Management
12.15 - 13.00
Security Token Platforms and Securitization
Stable coins & Token economics
DAVID J. NAMDAR
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 14.45
KEYNOTE: Crypto Factor Models & Statistical Arbitrage
Factor models for cryptoasset returns
Cross-sectional statistical arbitrage trading of cryptoassets.
ZURA KAKUSHADZE:
Ph.D. CEO, Quantigic® Solutions. Author, “151 Trading Strategies”.
14.45 - 15.30
Topic to be confirmed
RAAKHEE MILLER:
Chief Executive Officer at Bitsian
15.30 - 16.00
Afternoon Break and Networking Opportunities
16.00 - 16.45
The Chicken and the Egg: How Cryptocurrency Derivatives Proliferation Has Spurred Liquidity and Reduced Volatility in the Spot Markets
How market makers transfer liquidity among markets through instantaneous cross-asset price discovery
Introduce the evolution/timeline of crypto spot and derivatives markets
BitMEX & the trading landscape monopoly, exploring other markets
MICHAEL DEL CASINO:
Portfolio Manager, Profluent Trading
16.45 - 17.30
Settlement for Digital Assets: Present and Future.
Risks and limitations of the existing model
What can be adopted from FX/Equity world?
What should be changed in order to leverage digital assets advantages?
Pitfalls and future steps
SERG GULKO:
CTO of XTRD
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