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Jump Crypto

Jump Crypto

Jump Crypto is a division of the Jump Trading Group focused on Web3 infrastructure development and investment.

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jumpcrypto.com
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Company
Company
Organization
Organization

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Industry
Staking as a service
Staking as a service
Blockchain and cryptocurrency
Blockchain and cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency
Blockchain
Blockchain
Finance
Finance
Financial technology
Financial technology
Venture capital
Venture capital
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Location
Chicago
Chicago
B2X
B2B
B2B
Parent Organization
Jump Capital
Jump Capital
Number of Employees (Ranges)
11 – 50
Email Address
careers@jumpcrypto.com
mediainquiries@jumpcrypto.com
contact@jumpcrypto.com
Number of Employees
39
Full Address
600 W. Chicago Ave., #600, Chicago, IL 60654, US
Founded Date
2015
Competitors
Graph Ventures
Graph Ventures
Chainode Tech
Chainode Tech
Audit One
Audit One
Stakezilla
Stakezilla
Jane Street
Jane Street
Susquehanna International Group
Susquehanna International Group
Key People
Saurabh Sharma
Saurabh Sharma
Peter Johnson
Peter Johnson
Kanav Kariya
Kanav Kariya

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Active
Strategic Partnerships
Sweatcoin
Sweatcoin
folks finance
folks finance
Invested in
Squads
Squads
Juno
Juno
P2P Validator
P2P Validator
Omni Network
Omni Network
Cetus Protocol
Cetus Protocol
Thetanuts Finance
Thetanuts Finance
Dialect
Dialect
Coinflow
Coinflow
...
Partner Organizations
Extend XYZ
Extend XYZ
PRISM
PRISM
Overview

Jump Crypto is the cryptocurrency arm of Jump Trading Group, a quantitative trading firm. It began in 2015 as a skunkworks intern project.

At the Avalanche Summit in Barcelona, Spain, held in 2022, Jump Crypto's President, Kanav Kariya, revealed that the firm’s crypto operations include getting involved in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space and diversifying from its trading roots to include development, investing, governance voters, and community members. Jump Crypto put up $320 million that was exploited when the hack of the Wormhole cross-chain bridge occurred.

Kanav Kariya, president of Jump Crypto said:

“Blockchains enable global consensus amongst mutually distrusting parties. We believe that current DeFi applications are only the tip of the iceberg. These new, open rails have the capacity to enable innovation and product models that stretch far beyond the realms of traditional financial systems. Jump Trading has spent decades focused on building the infrastructure for high performance systems and technologies. We’re bringing that muscle to crypto and aim to meaningfully contribute to the construction of the ‘plumbing and the railroads’ necessary for widespread adoption of crypto."

An interview with Jump Crypto president Kanav Kariya

Firedancer

Firedancer is a Jump Crypto project to develop critical infrastructure for the Solana blockchain and to help increase the growth of the Solana ecosystem, by increasing the performance of the blockchain and through developing new open source validator clients using the C++ programming language. As validators play an important role in confirming the legitimacy of transactions on the Solana blockchain, Firedancer is intended to increase the speed at which those transactions can be validated and the speed at which DeFi projects can work on the Solana blockchain, all while increasing the networks fault tolerance, and built to be adoptable by the community and be accountable to the underyling network.

As part of the Firedancer project, which will develop validator nodes for the Solana blockchain, Jump Crypto will also offer staking services and allow smaller users to add their own SOL to the validator's pool to earn a share of the rewards through the Firedancer service.

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