EthosX

EthosX

The protocol for derivatives on blockchains

Claymont, DE
2 employees
DeFi
Seed · $2.3M

About EthosX

EthosX is a decentralized finance platform creating end-to-end financial derivatives on blockchains. No centralized exchanges, clearinghouses, depositories, clearing banks, CSD participants etc. required.

We are starting with cryptocurrency options first, with the intention to move towards other crypto derivatives and traditional finance derivatives eventually.

For example, one can buy a bitcoin hedging token directly from EthosX without involving any exchange or counterparty and earn profits when the bitcoin price is falling (similar to a put option). It is perpetual and is completely on-chain, end-to-end. It is held as a token in wallets and can be sold/transferred to anyone at any time.

At institutional level, using EthosX’s options infrastructure two hedge funds can trade high-value on-chain options with each other directly without involving any banks or brokers with zero counterparty risk and zero settlement risk.

We are also providing derivatives infrastructure to other crypto companies who want to use these products as a part of a larger package to their customers.

Global derivatives ecosystem is broken. Derivatives trading in traditional finance has way too many gatekeepers and intermediaries. Crypto was supposed to be free of these issues and a solution to all of this, but it is itself getting more and more centralized with disastrous consequences.

We at EthosX intend to pick the best of both worlds and change the way retail and institutional financial derivatives are traded world over.

Company details

Team Size2
LocationClaymont, DE
IndustryDeFi

Funding

Total raised

$2.3M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
FFranklin Templeton
TToken Metrics Ventures
AAscensive Assets
TTaisu Ventures

Founders

SP

Smit Patoliya

Smit did B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras. He has worked in quantitative finance most of his career and has keen interest in financial derivatives. At EthosX, he aims to build end-to-end derivatives solutions on blockchain.

D

Deepanshu

Quantitative finance professional for over 8 years. Former Vice President of Quantitative Research in the Global Derivatives Clearing business at JP Morgan Chase. Studied engineering at IIT Kharagpur and obtained MBA from IIM Calcutta.

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.