In this episode, Aaron Mangal discusses the Coinigy platform with Derek Urben, CFO of Coinigy, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Coinigy is a cross-exchange charting, portfolio management, trading, and research platform.
Using a monthly subscription model, Coinigy allows users a wide cornucopia of data sets and access to exchanges including the possibility to execute trades through a secure Application Programming Interface (API).
Derek Urben, CFO, Coinigy
Coinigy's reach stretches across more than 45 exchanges with 75+ technical indicators all under a single pane of glass interface. On the alert side of things you can trigger SMS, E-Mail and in-browser price alerts powered by low-latency data feeds.
In addition, they allow instant access to real-time APIs and historical data. There is also the ability to leverage enterprise-grade data feeds for individuals and institutions.
The API is live, real-time data powered by the Coinigy CryptoFeed™. This API stretches across 41 exchanges, 3,516 markets and 3.468 cryptocurrencies.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- About Derek's origin story and how he got started in Cryptocurrency and Coinigy
- Who the users of Coinigy are
- Why Coinigy doesn't hold user funds
- The emergence about just about anything "as a service"
- Why the membership subscription model was chosen
- Basic security practices and architecture behind the platform and how it protects users
- Why APIs are a common practice along with cloud computing for traditional trading houses
- About the research arm of Coinigy and the types of information they aggregate
- How they position as an aggregator allows a non-biased exploration of the ecosystem
- Why the future of firms, mergers and private equities will shift dramatically
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