🤝 @CherryServers joins TheHUB as the first bare metal computing partner!
Together, we're creating the new standard of trading infrastructure. High-performance, builder-first rails where crypto markets and traditional finance converge.
Much more to come.
[Career Update]
After an intense few months working behind the scenes, I’m excited to share what comes next.
I’m joining Global Kiwi Labs, the devco building @TheHUB, as co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer.
TheHUB is building purpose-built trading infrastructure for crypto. Starting with colocation, connectivity, and compute designed specifically for the next generation of exchanges, market makers, validators, and high-performance onchain markets.
Why does this matter? Because the crypto market structure is evolving fast.
As we all know, crypto is becoming more institutional. DeFi is becoming more performance-sensitive. And the line between traditional finance and decentralized finance is getting thinner every cycle. We are moving toward a market where matching, sequencing, settlement, liquidity, and connectivity start to look much closer to serious financial infrastructure. And once that happens, the question becomes obvious: Where should traders, engines, validators, and critical infra actually sit?
In TradFi, the answer has been clear for decades: purpose-built data centers, equalized access, deterministic connectivity, and shared infrastructure around the venues where price discovery happens.
Crypto is reaching that moment now.
At Global Kiwi Labs, we understand the path TradFi has taken over the last decades. We understand what institutional traders and HFTs expect from trading venues. And we know that legacy cloud infrastructure was not designed to support this next phase of crypto markets.
TheHUB is the physical space where we will see the convergence between TradFi and DeFi. Where institutional-grade market infrastructure meets crypto-native rails. Where exchanges, market makers, validators, and infra providers can colocate and, ultimately, form the center of crypto’s price discovery.
What excites me most is that this is not just another infra company. It is a bet that crypto markets are maturing, and that the next wave of performance, fairness, and liquidity will be built from the physical layer up.
Huge thanks to @RobertSagurton, @mateoward, and especially @nzjamo222 for the opportunity and trust.
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crypto trading infrastructure is lagging behind its peers in the traditional exchange space by at least a decade
today, only a handful of crypto HFTs teams have the experience, capital and scale to build out proprietary high-performance trading infrastructure
@TheHUB is fast-forwarding crypto market infrastructure to the 2020s and more importantly, TheHUB is available for everyone not just the privileged few
Excited to share that Hikari is becoming an operator on @TheHUB.
Small sets of colocated validators are the most pragmatic answer to delivering institutional-grade execution onchain today. Tighter spreads, lower latency, more markets, more flow.
The broader thesis is that decentralized finance will not mature by endlessly multiplying isolated technical surfaces.
It will mature by converging critical infrastructure into environments that are fairer, faster, and more reusable.
The next generation of exchanges won't look like OG ones.
@blinktrade, @pacifica_fi , @bulktrade, and others are each pushing different types of innovation into the market, but one thing they have in common, they operate much closer to modern tradfi markers:
- Offchain matching engine for speed.
- Onchain settlement for transparency.
- Crypto-native rails with market structure closer to what serious traders already understand.
Matching happens where speed, throughput, and latency matter.
Settlement happens where transparency, custody, and auditability matter.
But once exchanges move in this direction, the next question becomes obvious:
Where should their traders sit?
If the matching engine becomes performance-sensitive infra, then proximity, deterministic connectivity, low jitter, and fair access start to matter again. And this is exactly what the cloud DOESN'T provide,
That’s exactly where @TheHUB comes in.
TheHUB is the perfect home for this new generation of exchanges: purpose-built infrastructure where they can colocate their matching engines and allow traders to connect in a controlled, equalized, low-latency environment.
Crypto exchanges are growing up, just like the whole crypto space. They are finally gonna have the needed grown-up market structure.
By Q4 every validator, DEX, and onchain trader will be wondering why they’re constantly getting “one upped” by residents of @TheHUB
Fogo validators, DEX’s, and oracle will be anchors.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
In fragmented markets, each additional exchange introduces new integration costs, new latency asymmetries, and new liquidity silos, forcing participants to solve the same coordination problem repeatedly.
In TheHUB, each new venue increases the utility of the broader ecosystem.