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Tradeblock: Nitai Bran, CEO, and John Todaro, Director of Research

2020/4/18
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In this podcast, Ines Gonzalez del Mazo speaks with Nitai Bran, CEO of Tradeblock and John Todaro, Director of Research.

Tradeblock is a company leader in the provision of institutional trading tools and research for digital currencies. It was founded in 2013 and has its headquarters in NYC.

More specifically Tradeblock:

  • Provides a professional platform for institutional bitcoin traders, featuring market analytics, blockchain insights, order management, trade execution, team communication, and compliance automation.
  • Creates and publishes a robust bitcoin index, uniquely designed to prevent manipulation, serving as the reference rate for tens of millions of dollars of registered derivative products.
  • Provides data services: analyses on market data relating to cryptocurrencies, trading, regulations, mining, protocol updates, blockchain analysis, and economic developments.

Nitai Bran Bio: Nitai Bran is the CEO of TradeBlock. Prior to joining TradeBlock, Nitai worked for a technology consultant leading ERP implementations for Fortune 500 companies operating across Latin America. Soon after, he designed a platform to visualize SAP data on mobile devices. Based on initial success, the product was spun-off into a dedicated Business Intelligence company that was established in NYC and operated for four years.

John Todaro Bio: John Todaro is the head of digital currency research at TradeBlock. TradeBlock reports have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Reuters, CNBC, Coindesk, Cointelegraph, and other media outlets. Prior to joining TradeBlock, John founded and managed a digital currency fund and began his career in the sales & trading division of Citigroup. John is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania