OI14: Behind the Scenes of a Crypto Hedge Fund ft. Michael Hall & Anatoly Crachlilov
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Moritz Seibert speaks with Anatoly Crachilov and Michaell Hall from Nickel Digital, a prominent London-based crypto hedge fund. Anatoly (CEO) and Michael (CIO) founded the company in 2019 with an initial focus on in-house arbitrage and basis trading strategies. Over the years, their business model has evolved and adapted to the fast-changing world of digital assets. Today, Nickel Digital operates as a multi-strategy, multi-manager setup with more than $250 million in AUM, making it one of the largest and longest-standing crypto hedge funds globally.
Anatoly, Michael and Moritz speak about the opportunities and challenges of operating a multi-PM digital asset hedge fund, how they differ from traditional asset hedge fund pod shops, and how the attract and find new PMs to work with them.
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Episode TimeStamps:
02:13 - Introduction to Nickel Digital and how they found their way to crypto
08:10 - A trip down memory crypto lane
12:25 - Why is the basis still so wide on crypto?
15:07 - The state of alpha in the crypto space
18:23 - What kind of portfolio does Nickel Digital run?
19:56 - How they...
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| 0:16.1 | We have a cascade of alerting systems to notify us of any issues that we have with any systems, |
| 0:24.9 | with exchanges going down, because exchanges can have outages, they can stop broadcasting |
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| 0:35.2 | So the way that we sleep soundly is we build very robust risk management systems. |
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