Ruchir Gupta, CFA

Co-Founder

United Kingdom11 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Managed a $1B+ crypto balance sheet at GSR.
Led DeFi liquidity strategies for institutional clients.
Expert in structured products and risk management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on digital assets and structured finance.

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Skills

Core Skills

TreasuryOptions TradingDefiLiquidity StrategiesOptions StrategiesTradingRisk ManagementStructured ProductsEquity DerivativesStructuring

Other Skills

AlgorithmsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Neural NetworksAsset ManagementBalance Sheet OptimizationBalance SheetsBitcoinBloombergBusiness StrategyCCapital AllocationCash FlowCredit DerivativesCryptocurrencyCryptocurrency Trading

About

Former digital assets and fixed income trader turned entrepreneur. Building at the frontier of digital finance—where decentralized markets meet institutional-grade fixed income. Previously led Treasury and Options Trading at GSR, a top digital assets market maker, where I managed a $1B+ crypto balance sheet, built bespoke yield and liquidity solutions for token foundations and ETF sponsors, and scaled systematic options strategies across altcoin markets. I also spearheaded DeFi liquidity strategies and TVL bootstrapping for L1s/L2s. Before that, I spent 7 years at Nomura trading exotic hybrids and managing cross-asset basis books in Asia, gaining deep expertise in structured products, risk warehousing, and balance sheet optimization. I'm also an angel investor in emerging Web3 and Indian start-ups.

Experience

Gyld finance

Co-Founder

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Institutional Staking Markets

Various startups

Angel Investor

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Reflexical (web3 fellowships)
STAN (social app for gaming)
Sports for Life (sports coaching)
Quant E (energy solutions)
Flexprice (open source metering infrastructure for AI companies)
Zulu club (fashion quick commerce)
Eternz (curated jewellery)
Giza (non-custodial DeFi algorithmic agents)
Curvance (DeFi lending on Monad)
Yala (BTC liquidity across blockchains)
N1 (emerging Layer 1)
xAI

Gsr

Managing Director - Head of Treasury & Options Trading

Feb 2022 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

Treasury
Basis arbitrage & carry strategies, borrow/lend book, derivative margining strategy, structured exchange-risk and stablecoin-risk reduction strategies. Developed and executed solutions across yield strategies (option based, staking), illiquid & locked token hedging (multisig/triparty solutions), financing of treasury assets, and contingent liquidity provisioning
Options
Led a team of traders building out a new systematic options trading strategy as well as optimizing the firm's altcoin options book
DeFi
Led a team of two traders managing the development and risk-management of DeFi liquidity strategies for clients (primarily AMM LP pool management) as well as TVL bootstrapping opportunities for new L1/L2s

TreasuryOptions TradingDeFiLiquidity StrategiesYield Strategies

Nomura

Executive Director, Exotic Hybrids & Asian Basis Trading

May 2015 – Feb 2022 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Singapore · On-site

Fast track promoted from Analyst to Associate (1 year), Associate to VP (2 years), VP to ED (3 years). Gained strong risk management experience across asset classes, complex derivatives, as well as balance sheet & funding / financing trades.
Co-managed a cross-asset (rates, equities, fx, credit) structured products book. Took positions on complex risk across long dated forwards, vol, correlation across assets classes. Additionally, ran a multi-billion dollar Asian local currency bonds basis arbitrage book as a proprietary strategy.

Risk ManagementStructured ProductsBalance Sheet Optimization