About CoinFi
CoinFi offers crowdsourced and professionally curated research, analysis, trading signals, trading algorithms, and market-moving news to give cryptocurrency traders the real-time market intelligence needed to gain an edge.
How The CoinFi Ecosystem Works
Bringing Wall Street Level Trading Intelligence To The Blockchain
CoinFi is the first decentralized market intelligence platform for crypto. It all starts with the CoinFi token.
Being a CoinFi token holder gives you access to CoinFi's cutting edge crypto financial intelligence through two primary channels: 1) financial media and 2) trading technology.
Cryptocurrency Financial Media
Research, Analysis, & Market Moving News
The media side of CoinFi's platform offers crypto research, analysis, and market moving news, overlaid on top of real-time price charts.
While crypto research, analysis, and news already exists on the internet, there is still no single canonical source that surfaces all of the relevant market intelligence a crypto trader needs to stay on top of the markets, the same way a Bloomberg Terminal does for equities traders.
Fundamental value exists in digging below the surface. Not every investor has the time to scroll through Twitter, Reddit, forums, Slack/Telegram groups, Google, etc. in order to uncover hidden threads that may be relevant for trading. Diving deep often reveals valuable information to investors and traders, but is a time consuming activity.
Our technology systems aggregate this information and our in-house editorial team curates and filters the incoming news articles to ensure only the most important items are shown for optimum signal-to-noise ratio, saving you time and energy on research.
In addition, community analysts who uncover and publish useful information vetted by CoinFi’s crowdsourced fact-checking system and in-house moderation team are rewarded by the CoinFi ecosystem via tokens.
Trading Technology
Signals, Algorithms, & Bots
The technology side of CoinFi’s platform brings Wall Street caliber tools to the crypto market, and makes them available to the everyday crypto investor.
At the moment there are only a very limited range of signals and tools available in the crypto market. In fact, CoinFi’s very first trading signal was created when co-founder Timothy Tam started trading crypto on the side and realized he didn’t have access to any of the tools he used as hedge fund manager.
CoinFi's technology platform offers trading signals, trading algorithms, automated trading bots and data feeds. The platform includes in-house tools developed by ex-Wall Street technologists, as well as a marketplace that provides access to crowdsourced trading signals. Users who contribute their trading signals will receive CoinFi tokens commensurate to the community's assessment of their value.
Watch the videos to see some examples of trading signals that CoinFi has developed.
The Team
Timothy TamCo-founder
10+ years in equities trading and hedge funds. Started his career in Goldman Sachs Asia, before working as a senior trader in two Asia hedge funds each with $1+ billion assets under management. In his last role he was cofounder of an Asia Long Short Hedge Fund that specialized in event trading.
Han ChangCo-founder
Master's in Computer Science from Boston University. Early Bitcoin investor, founded a Chinese Bitcoin exchange; previously at MIT Lincoln Labs, OkCupidLabs, General Assembly, and Lime Brokerage. 8+ years of professional experience developing web applications serving 10M+ users as well as writing black box equity trading algorithms.
Nate TsangCo-founder
Holds a Juris Doctor from UAlberta Law. 7+ years of experience as a growth hacker in media startups as well as developing multiple web properties that have cumulatively grown from zero to 10M+ pageviews. Co-founder of a keyword intelligence platform for digital marketers, acquired in 2016.
Alex SvanevikChief Data Scientist
Alex Svanevik is Chief Data Scientist at Coinfi, a market intelligence platform for cryptoassets. He is the founder of ICOWhitelists.com, a website for discovering initial coin offerings (ICOs). Alex has 8+ years experience from data science, management consulting, and startups in Schibsted Media Group, BearingPoint, and Codeus. He holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh.
Kwa Jie HaoData Scientist
B.A. in Economics and East Asian Studies from Brown University and a M.S. in Data Science from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and previously interned at Telefonica Research. Passionate about machine learning and statistics and is looking forward to applying data science to crypto.
Jesse HonSenior Software Engineer
Full-stack engineer with 8+ years of professional development experience across web and mobile. Former developer on an investment management platform with over 159,000 client portfolios and £31.9B under direction. Co-founded a number of startups and experienced in leading development of fast-growing products.
Eugene KhaimsonHead of Algorithm Development
Eugene has 20+ years of experience in senior technology and product development roles across Hedge Funds, International Broker Dealers and major Investment Banks. His expertise extends to designing quant prediction models, algorithmic trading systems, smart order routing and dark pools for global markets.
As part of his responsibilities Eugene has been working with senior regional bank management, regulators and institutional investors to advance the acceptance of electronic trading in global equities markets.
Jane LippencottHead of Business Development
Jane is Head of Business Development at CoinFi, where she focuses on strategic partnerships, integrations, and outreach. She first started working in blockchain in 2016 as a founding team member of ZenCash, an encrypted ecosystem building an on-chain governance module and a privacy-oriented DAG protocol. Jane is an active advisor of blockchain funds Origin-X Capital, Lumen Capital Partners, and Ezra New Economy Fund and early-stage startups Blockhous and Cord. She’s passionate about decentralized governance, use cases for reputation protocols, and impact investing.
Wayne LamOperations Manager & Associate Product Manager
Previously worked at a fast paced CPA start up that grew from $0 to $1 million in annual revenues within two years. Experienced in working with small & medium businesses from a wide array of industries providing financial clarity and business solutions. Avid equities and crypto investor.
Sharon ChenHead of Content
Sharon previously worked as the Head of Content in a fast-growing eCommerce startup in the health and wellness industry. She has also been running a content site for more than five years including two book publications. Armed with extensive experience and skill set in content marketing and operations at a Chinese Bitcoin exchange back in 2013, Sharon has joined forces with CoinFi, aiming to bring maximum exposure to the platform through content marketing.
Sylvia LeungOffice & Administrative Manager
Sylvia Leung is the Office and Administrative Manager at CoinFi, supporting the CEO and the team in both internal and external operations for business. Sylvia has over 7 years’ experience in office administration, marketing, and events management in both information technology and financial services.
Alex LascusCommunity Support
Internet marketing expert with over 5 years experience in Advertising and Community Management. Passionate about anything that’s related to social media and cryptocurrencies.
Elliot SommersCommunity Support
Senior majoring in Management Information Systems at the University of Northwestern - St. Paul. Background in corporate IT support and technical consulting. Early blockchain investor and active day trader.
Tanushree JainCommunity Support
Experienced Customer Relationship Manager and Researcher with an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Bentley University, MA. Passionate about new technology, transitioned from a background in Biotechnology (MSc) to cryptocurrency.
Advisory Board
Roger LimAdvisor
Experienced angel and blockchain investor, serving as director of the Qlink Foundation. Advisor for
Bluzelle,
SelfKey,
TheKey. Partner of VC firm specializing in tech investments
in China. Successful entrepreneur who founded
and grew WebVisions, a cloud hosting company, to 200+ employees and 26k+ customers.
Tom HowardAdvisor
Blockchain investor and founder of
Block Republic, investing community providing research,
education, tools, and industry connections for
cryptocurrency investors and founders, which runs one of the first crypto job boards. Previously founder
and CEO of Digital Engine, a rapid prototyping software development studio in San Francisco.
Lester LimAdvisor
Blockchain investor and founder of a global private syndicate investing in top ICOs. Marketing Strategy Advisor
for
SelfKey. Online business owner, digital marketing strategist
and Facebook ads specialist, having done
7-figures in revenue and over 30,000 customers from all over the world for his information and software business.
Sandra WuAdvisor
Committee member of the Association of Corporate Counsel's Blockchain Advisory Board. 10+ years of legal
experience
in M&A, corporate & securities law and private equity fund formation. Currently Head of Legal and
Chief Compliance Officer for a global asset management company managing US$23B+ in the Asia Pacific region.
Advises ICOs on operational, structuring, legal, & regulatory compliance.
Bernard HuangAdvisor
Distribution Hacker in Residence at 500 Startups, a Silicon Valley seed fund that was an early stage investor
in companies like Twilio, Credit Karma, and Grab. Previously, lead growth marketer at 42Floors. Currently
running
Clearscope, a content performance optimization SaaS product.
Tommy GriffithAdvisor
Previously the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) manager at Paypal and AirBnB and is the founder of
ClickMinded, a marketing education firm; responsible for
driving exponential organic growth in online
traffic for several multinational corporations.
Amanda LuAdvisor
CPA with 9+ years experience providing accounting, tax, financial management, and investment advisory services
to private investment vehicles and high net worth individuals. Founder of XLConsulting which specializes
in accounting, tax, and financial management services to established crypto companies, start-ups, and investors.
Tim SuttonAdvisor
Co-founder and COO of PPC Agency
Launchpresso. Experienced Internet Marketer for 4+ years
in SEO, PPC & Conversion Rate Optimization.
Tim is a Blockchain advocate and has backgrounds in retail stockbroking and financial markets.
Roadmap
The roadmap outlined below is subject to change based on user feedback, market conditions, and the competitive landscape; it is merely intended as an overview to explain the features that CoinFi intends to implement on the platform.
Last Updated: July 3, 2018
2018Q3
- Custom Newsfeed with news type classification
- Improved news and content aggregation overlaid on price charts per cryptocurrency
- Improved custom watchlist
- Advanced ICO Metrics (token retention rate, token distribution graph)
- Improved data pipeline
- Market data warehouse
- Accept staked tokens for advanced functionality
- Coin Screeners
- CoinFi Events Calendar
2018Q4
- Initial beta versions of trading signals
- Prototype of machine learning algorithms for content classification, quality assurance, and fraud detection
- Token-incentivized crowdsourcing
- Social functionality including upvote/downvote and sharing
- Revamped homepage
- Research & Analysis
2019Q1 - Trading Signals
- Abnormal volatility detection
- Abnormal price movement detection
- Abnormal volume detection
- Increased social mention detection
- Best price exchange identification
- Best currency pair identification
- Source code release detection
- Launch premium subscription for trading signals
- Accept community contributed trading signals
2019Q2 - Trading Algorithms
- VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price)
- TWAP (Time Weighted Average Price)
- BWAP (Block Weighted Average Price)
- Sniper
- % of Volume
- Target Close
- Implementation Shortfall
- Launch premium subscription for trading algorithms
- Accept community contributed trading algorithms
2019Q3
- Platform architecture for custom signals
- UI/UX for developing custom signals
- Drag and drop functionality to combine signals
- Custom alerting
2019Q4
- Custom cryptocurrency portfolio dashboard