Who is Wintermute? The notorious market maker in the crypto world.

Wintermute is known as a well-known market maker (MM) in the Crypto market, having “pumped” projects to strong growth such as dYdX, Angle protocol, and recently Optimism ($OP) which has grown more than 8 times from $0.4 to $3.2.

On February 14th, there was information suggesting that Wintermute is the MM team behind the NFTs Blur project, and currently, the $Blur token has also doubled from its bottom price of $0.6. Additionally, the name “Wintermute” has been seen when tracking on-chain activities of Smart Money on Nansen.

So what is the Wintermute investment fund? Let’s explore with Allinstation in the article below!

What is the Wintermute Investment Fund?

Wintermute Fund

Wintermute is a leading algorithmic trading company focused on innovative digital asset markets and building the future of the financial industry.

The goal of Wintermute is to create a decentralized market with fairer, more transparent, and efficient products.

The Wintermute Fund is a quantitative trading firm established in 2017 by a group of digital and financial experts. The fund is headquartered in London, UK.

Wintermute focuses on the cryptocurrency market and uses quantitative techniques to create real-time trading strategies. The company has developed technologies to process large amounts of data and execute trades within milliseconds.

Wintermute is currently one of the leading quantitative trading companies in the cryptocurrency field, operating on many exchanges worldwide and highly regarded for its analytical and trading efficiency.

Besides being an active participant in trading and market-making activities (as a Market Maker), Wintermute is also an investment fund that invests in projects in the Crypto market.

Development Team

Evgeny Gaevoy is the Founder & CEO of Wintermute

Founder & CEO Wintermute is Evgeny Gaevoy

Evgeny has over 15 years of experience developing fintech businesses. Before founding Wintermute, Evgeny built and operated the business of a well-known ETF organization in Europe at Optiver (HFT and OTC). Evgeny holds a master’s degree in finance and an MBA from the London Business School.

Valentine – Chief Technology Officer

Valentine – Chief Technology Officer

Valentine has 20 years of experience in software architecture and development, including 15 years working at leading banks (Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered) and trading companies. Before joining Wintermute, Valentine worked at the low-latency trading platform XTX. Valentine holds a Ph.D. in computer science/mathematics.

Marina Gurevich – Chief Operating Officer

Marina Gurevich – Chief Operating Officer

Before joining Wintermute, Marina was a strategy consultant and founder of System2 Labs (a project helping startup founders build sales models and enhance enterprise value). Marina has over 10 years of experience in management, sales, and marketing for Fortune 100 companies, including Procter & Gamble, Philips, and Nikon.

Wintermute’s Investment Portfolio

Wintermute’s Investment Portfolio

Wintermute is known more as a market maker (MM) than an investment fund, but it has a relatively “stable” investment portfolio for the future, with many projects still under construction and development worth mentioning, such as Optimism (OP), Hashflow (HFT), Blur (BLUR), dYdX, etc.

For those who want to watch a market maker Wintermute review video, here it is:

Some Notable Projects

Optimism

Optimism Project

Optimism is certainly the first name to be mentioned when looking at Wintermute’s portfolio.

The layer 2 platform made a relatively “huge” impact for those participating in the Crypto market in June 2022 after an Airdrop worth thousands of USD for early project participants.

In March 2022, Optimism announced the completion of a $150 million Series B funding round with a valuation of $1.65 billion. This funding round was led by two prominent names, a16z and Paradigm. Previously, the Series A round raised $25 million, also led by a16z.

Recently, the price of the Optimism ($OP) project has grown more than 8 times from $0.4 to $3.2 in just over a month, and this strong price increase is likely supported by MM Wintermute. From here, it can be affirmed that Wintermute seems to be one of the “kings” of chart drawing for price movements.

Read more: Optimism (OP) price has increased significantly recently, see why

Hashflow

Hashflow Project

Hashflow is a decentralized exchange (DEX) that allows investors to connect with top market makers (MM) in the market. Additionally, the protocol is a cross-chain bridge with relatively fast processing speed, integrating MEV-resistance.

Hashflow recently closed a $25 million Series A funding round from major names like Jump Crypto, Wintermute & GSR in July this year.

Previously, in May, the project also received $3.2 million from prominent names like Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital.

Besides MM Wintermute behind the project, Hashflow also has a relatively hot fund recently, which is Jump Crypto. The price of the Hashflow (HFT) project has also grown nearly 250% to $0.95 from the bottom of $0.28 in December 2021.

Read more: What is Hashflow? A complete guide to the Hashflow project

dYdX

dYdX Project

dYdX is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) with many features supporting derivative products (Derivatives) built on Starkware (Eth L2) with features like Spot trading, Margin, and Perpetual contracts.

In January 2021, dYdX raised $10 million USD from GSR, Hashed, RockTree Capital, Scalar Capital, SCP, Spartan Group, and Wintermute. Previously, through the Series A funding round in 2018, dYdX raised $10 million USD led by a16z Crypto and Polychain Capital.

Additionally, dYdX involves other prominent names like Multicoin Capital, Polychain, Hashed, and Brian Armstrong (CEO of Coinbase).

Read more: What is dYdX? Complete information about the dYdX project

Blur

Blur Project

Blur is an NFT exchange project that allows users to trade NFTs. Additionally, Blur is a tool supporting pro NFT traders who need a tool to maximize trading experience and portfolio management.

Recently, the Blur project airdropped from a few hundred to several thousand USD to users, and immediately after, the price dropped to the $0.5 – $0.6 range after about an hour of listing on exchanges. Currently, the price of the Blur project has doubled from the bottom. It is unknown whether MM Wintermute will push this project to a higher price in the future.

Some information suggests that the project sent tokens to MM Wintermute to manipulate the price, but this information has not been verified.

Blur transfers tokens to Wintermute, information here

Additionally, Blur recently went through an $11 million funding round from 8 investors. This round was led by the Paradigm fund, followed by Zeneca, Keyboard Monkey, eGirl Capital, etc.

Read more: What is Blur? The development potential of BLUR coin in 2023

Recent Information about Wintermute Fund

• Market Maker Wintermute hacked for $160 million
• Wintermute maintains credibility by returning $96 million to TrueFi after being hacked: Recently, on September 20th, Wintermute was hacked for over $160 million. However, on the due date of October 15th, Wintermute still managed to repay the loan along with interest to TrueFi to demonstrate its credibility.

Conclusion

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