Alex Otsu

There is no way to hedge investment risk on anything besides Bitcoin right now, which only makes up for 40% of the total cryptocurrency volume. In addition to the market for altcoins, we are seeing a shift to more traditional assets (securities, commodities, deeds, etc) being tokenized. These factors combined make PixelAlpha's product fit very timely as a platform that enables more sophisticated strategies and legitimizes the asset class to attract more institutional investors, which is a necessary step in facilitating continued exponential growth in the space.
The team has experience building AI models from highly scalable applications in the finance, aviation, and recruitment spaces.
People need a derivatives exchange for digital assets because there isn't any good one that exists right now. They need it to be decentralized because that is the only way it will be able to keep up with the growth of number of assets that are entering the space.

The founding team has over 30 years experience in financial markets and 12 years in digital entrepreneurship. Derivatives are the natural next step for mature markets and exert a normalizing effect on spot pricing across all exchanges. In addition to decreasing the effectiveness of arbitrage and leveling the trading playing field, it also penalizes trading coins that back weak projects by adding the ability to short them.
Furthermore, by focusing on security (through authentication solutions described later) and throughput (by using Stellar), we can attract the institutional investors necessary for maintaining the exponential growth the crypto space has been experiencing.