Anton Golub — CEO

You can email me: anton.golub@gmail.com Anton Golub is Chief Business Officer of Freedx, a next-gen centralized crypto exchange built for crypto newcomers and experienced traders. Anton is also an advisor, founding member and Chairman of SwissAssetDAO. Anton founded & served as CEO of flovtec, Swiss market-maker providing liquidity solutions to digital asset exchanges, token issuers & protocols and offering investment products for professional & institutional investors. Anton is also a co-founder of Trust Square AG, a pre-eminent blockchain technology hub located in Zurich's financial district. Anton co-founded Lykke Corp, a blockchain-powered exchange to trade all assets with zero fees, where he served as a Chief Science Officer. Prior to Lykke, he worked as a quantitative researcher at Olsen Ltd (successor to Olsen & Associates, founded in 1985), a hedge fund that pioneered the field of high-frequency trading. As a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Alliance Manchester Business School, Anton worked on high-frequency trading, market microstructure and flash crashes. In 2011, he was invited to participate in the Foresight Project - The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets, an international project on algorithmic trading funded by HM Treasury in the UK. Anton has also been involved in several research projects backed by the European Union (EU) and was on the Supervisory Board for the BigDataFinance project funded through Horizon 2020. He has co-authored 13 academic papers and two books.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech executive with deep expertise in crypto and market-making.

Experience: 14 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Entrepreneurship

Career Highlights

Founder of multiple successful crypto ventures.
Expert in high-frequency trading and market making.
Authored 13 academic papers on trading strategies.

Work Experience

RWAlabs.ae

Founding Member | RWA Tokenization (8 mos)

Freedx

Chief Business Officer | Crypto Exchange (1 yr 10 mos)

SwissAssetDAO

Founder & Chairman of Board of Directors | Tokenization Real-World Assets (RWA) DAO (2 yrs 11 mos)

flovtec

Founder & CEO | Crypto Market Maker | Crypto Hedge Fund (4 yrs 5 mos)

TRUST SQUARE

Co-founder & Non-executive Board Member | Crypto Co-working Hub Ecosystem (4 yrs 5 mos)

Lykke

Co-Founder & COO | Crypto Exchange (4 yrs 11 mos)

Olsen Ltd

Quantitative Trader | Hedge Fund (11 mos)

Manchester Business School

Researcher | High Frequency Trading (HFT) (4 mos)

HM Treasury

Researcher | High Frequency Trading (HFT) (3 mos)

Manchester Business School

Researcher | High Frequency Trading (HFT) (8 mos)

Education

at Baruch College

Phd Candidate Computer Science at University of Geneva

Master's degree at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Anton Golub

CEO

United Arab Emirates14 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

Founder of multiple successful crypto ventures.
Expert in high-frequency trading and market making.
Authored 13 academic papers on trading strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech executive with deep expertise in crypto and market-making.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Entrepreneurship

Other Skills

High Frequency TradingMonte Carlo SimulationMatlabTrading SystemEconometricsRTime Series AnalysisQuantitative FinanceQuantitative AnalyticsMathematical ModelingStatisticsNumerical AnalysisStochastic ProcessesStatistical ModelingMachine Learning

About

Experience

14 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

2 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Rwalabs.ae

Founding Member | RWA Tokenization

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · United Arab Emirates

Freedx

Chief Business Officer | Crypto Exchange

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · United Arab Emirates

Swissassetdao

Founder & Chairman of Board of Directors | Tokenization Real-World Assets (RWA) DAO

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Zug, Switzerland · Hybrid

Founded a Swiss DAO to open compliant RWA access for crypto firms; set up the Swiss Association wrapper, onboarded 100+ professionals, and built steady inbound RWA deal flow.

Flovtec

Founder & CEO | Crypto Market Maker | Crypto Hedge Fund

May 2018 – Oct 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Zug, Switzerland

Founded and scaled a Swiss market-maker; achieved SRO (VQF) status, raised $6m, and built profitable market-making & execution products - launched market-making investment product with a 46.2% lifetime track record.

Entrepreneurship

Trust square

Co-founder & Non-executive Board Member | Crypto Co-working Hub Ecosystem

Mar 2018 – Aug 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Zürich Area, Switzerland

Co-founded Zurich’s flagship blockchain hub - 3,500 m², 30+ companies, 300+ tenants - backed by leading Swiss public figures and institutions.

Entrepreneurship

Lykke

Co-Founder & COO | Crypto Exchange

May 2013 – Apr 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Zürich Area, Switzerland

Co-founded and scaled Lykke to 200k+ users across exchange, OTC, asset management, and tokenization; launched Lightning, atomic swaps, and multichain settlement; raised $11m and closed enterprise deals with leading players in digital asset ecosystem.

Entrepreneurship

Olsen ltd

Quantitative Trader | Hedge Fund

Jun 2012 – May 2013 · 11 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

Developed profitable HFT mean-reversion and generalized pairs strategies; represented the firm in EU-funded BigDataFinance and Sophocles projects.

Manchester business school

Researcher | High Frequency Trading (HFT)

Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

Marie Curie researcher on high-frequency market liquidity; co-authored widely cited HFT papers (incl. “High-frequency trading and mini flash crashes”) and presented globally.

Hm treasury

Researcher | High Frequency Trading (HFT)

Sep 2011 – Dec 2011 · 3 mos

At 24, served as Project Leader for HM Treasury’s study on internalisation and displayed liquidity within the UK’s flagship computer-trading programme, with 150+ leading industry experts.

Manchester business school

Researcher | High Frequency Trading (HFT)

Sep 2010 – May 2011 · 8 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

Alliance Manchester Business School is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. Ranked 2nd in the UK for research and the most targeted by employers, it provides education to undergraduates, postgraduates and executives across the globe.