Proprietary Trading Systems with Bryan Hernandez

The DIVI Crypto Podcast

In today's episode of The DIVI Crypto Podcast, we are talking with Bryan Hernandez, President, and Co-founder of Structure. Structure is a global platform that allows for mainstream investors to seamlessly participate in DeFi and crypto markets without the traditional educational and financial barriers. Co-founder Brian Sun built similar platforms for high frequency trading companies. Both founders enjoy building proprietary trading systems. The downside of proprietary is that it generally doesn’t benefit anyone else. It was build out of the necessity of managing portfolios and related problems. One of the early concerns was that the investing ecosystems are fragmented and segregated. From the investor’s perspective, no matter if it’s crypto, ETFs, or whatever, they are all assets. There was no unified experience. For example, if one has assets on a crypto exchange, and there was the need to move into stocks, there was no simple and unified platform for such opportunities. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to place the various asset classes under one platform so that the experience wouldn’t be fragmented, as it now is. This is accomplished by tokenizing the assets that are not traditionally tokenized. This creates the opportunity for all assets to be treated similarly. There are two important characteristics of a token that are new and will change how people behave with their assets. The first is that they are naturally fractionalized. You do not have to send an entire bitcoin, but a fraction of a bitcoin. A good example of tokenization are stable coins, where the asset is held in trust, and a person is given a token representing that asset. In order to address the various regulatory landscapes of the various nations, one focus is on the common themes of these regulations, as applicable. Most of the regulations include Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering. This sets the boundaries for the platforms that will and will not be built. We won’t develop a product that is completely anonymous, by behaving as a business that behaves and cooperates with regulations and governments. The go-to market will be the emerging markets that have fewer options. As the firm grows, it will enter into developed markets, where the amount of regulations required to be compliant is higher. The management of these assets are custodial. These assets can best be described as being wrapped. Thus, if there’s an asset that currently doesn’t have a token, Structure will buy the asset, and issue the token, with the reverse being used to sell it. For more information, visit: https://structure.fi/ https://media.structure.fi/3xUnXAD -- DIVI is creating the world's first closed-loop, vertically-integrated cryptocurrency ecosystem. Much like Apple's ecosystem is anchored by iCloud, the DIVI Project blockchain serves as the core of the DIVI network of technologies. Thanks to a keen understanding of the divide that separates the mainstream from the crypto world, the DIVI team is able to create solutions to the industry's biggest problem: adoption by non-technical users. DIVI's user-friendly, one-click solutions aim to bring blockchain-based payments into modernity with great UX. In this podcast, we will cover all aspects of cryptocurrency, hot topics, and technology as worldwide adoption grows.