“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

— Sam Walton, American Businessman (founder of Walmart)

Ask someone if they have a million dollar idea and they most certainly will say yes. The thing about ideas though, is that they aren’t much by themselves. It’s not about the ideas, it’s about the people behind those ideas. And it is the people, whether it is the team executing the idea or the customers buying the product, that essentially make the business.

The idap.io founding team has a combined experience of nearly three decades in the traditional finance market with individual members all having a technical background having pursued their undergrad from premier Indian Institutes.

Awanish Rajan, the CEO did his B.Tech in Engineering Physics from IIT Madras, before turning into a researcher in distributed systems and fintech protocols as well as an investor in the Fixed Incomes market. The CTO, Murali Thakur graduated from IIT Roorkee with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering to start off as a software engineer and eventually engaged in automated trading and developing trading strategies for derivatives market. Atish Katyal, CFA, idap.io’s CFO, went on to work as a fixed incomes trader in the capital markets industry post the completion of his BE degree in Electronics from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology. And the COO, Anupam Agarwal worked to delivery technical, operational and business consultancy on various projects for 5+ Fortune 500 companies in his role as Business Technology Consultant after his B.Tech from Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology.

Coupled with the advisors on board — all industry leaders in their respective domains — idap.io is being run by experts coming from diverse professional backgrounds with the cumulative experience of many years in Investment Banking, Finance, Economics, Information Technology, Blockchain Technology and Business Administration. It is the culmination of the backgrounds and efforts of this set of professionals that has shaped idap.io’s vision and approach to designing an exchange unlike any other.

Migrating from legacy trading to the cryptocurrency landscape, individual members of the team felt the lack of choices offered by the exchanges. Their sentiment was shared by many like them; in traditional markets there were diverse financial instruments to trade with and sophisticated tools to suit individual trading styles, while the crypto trading systems were still far behind. This presented a game-changing opportunity at hand and thus the idea to introduce the first complete crypto derivatives ecosystem was born.

The consolidated derivatives ecosystem for crypto assets is meant to be a single-serving solution for cryptocurrency traders. The different types of offerings both in terms of products and services are scattered across exchanges. Traders need to hop from one exchange to another to successfully execute a trading strategy utilising different trading instruments and/or functionalities of the platforms, thus ending up paying trading fees over multiple exchanges. Bringing together crypto derivatives, trader-friendly interface with advanced analytics and visualisation capacities as well as the very first Desktop Application with multi-monitor support to facilitate a customisable workspace, idap.io will deliver to users everything they need under its umbrella of offerings. The cherry on top of it all is the Simulated Trading Environment relevant both for beginners to grasp trading and understanding the market as well as for veterans to test out strategies and developing trading models. All this with a discount on trading fees up to 50% along with a reference price model that keeps the demand of the native token competitive, further adding to the benefits of the platform for its users.

Abiding by the philosophy of be the change you want to see, the team behind idap.io has created this ecosystem for not just those in the crypto community, but traditional traders, institutional investors and enthusiasts wanting to start out in the crypto trading landscape. In the words of American business author Michael LeBoeuf, “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all,” and customers will find the freedom made available to them on idap.io’s platform to their utmost satisfaction.