Meet Dalio Otis, who started trading stocks in elementary school and founded a billion-dollar trading software company at the age of 22.

Since third grade, Denis Dariotis has been engaged in investment operations, and now at the age of 22, he has built a Crypto Assets infrastructure company with daily trading volume exceeding one billion dollars, rapidly reshaping the global digital asset market. As the founder and CEO of GoQuant, his story has made many realize that the innovation in financial technology is no longer dominated by traditional systems, but is driven by a generation of younger individuals who are more mature and possess interdisciplinary capabilities. Dariotis grew up in Montreal, Canada, and his trading enlightenment did not come from formal classes, but from the flashing red and green quotes on the television screen as his parents watched CNBC news every morning.

Started investing in stocks in third grade, please do not disturb the teacher!

Dalio understood at the age of nine how to use the pocket money in his piggy bank for stock investment and asset allocation. By the time he was in third grade, he had already started spending time reviewing his Portfolio. Sometimes, he would even ask the teacher for leave during class to check his positions during the opening and closing periods. When the teacher saw him trying to understand what he was looking at on his laptop, he decisively closed his laptop and told the teacher it was personal privacy!

Dalio Tis started learning programming at the age of 11.

Daliotis accumulated financial literacy from a young age through Warren Buffett's value investment philosophy. He started programming at the age of 11, self-taught in web languages, and then delved into Python and C++. These technical skills became key for him to enter the field of quantitative trading. At 13, he realized he was spending too much time organizing data, so he set out to develop automation tools, truly stepping into the quantitative world. He backtested strategies, learned to optimize portfolios and manage risks, and continuously explored various details of market microstructure. At the age of 15, he successfully licensed his strategy to a large Canadian bank, gaining his first major institutional client, and subsequently assisted multiple investment management firms. At a trading and information science conference in New York, a major hedge fund expressed interest in hiring him on the spot, only to be stunned when they learned his age. During this period, he also began researching Crypto Assets. He discovered that although Crypto Assets were rapidly gaining popularity, the market was highly fragmented, with centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, and various over-the-counter platforms all lacking efficient, unified institutional-level infrastructure, and even the speed of order book updates was inconsistent. This led him to decide to approach it from the ground up, building a complete underlying structure for the Crypto market.

GoQuant volume exceeds 1 billion USD

In January 2025, GoQuant, founded by Dalio Tis, completed a $3 million pre-seed financing and a $4 million seed round led by the encryption trading company GSR, quickly expanding into a multinational team with about 80 employees across the United States, Europe, India, the Philippines, and Morocco. Today, GoQuant's daily volume has exceeded $1 billion, and its products include not only the main trading infrastructure but also the institutional-grade dark pool GoDark and the Crypto Assets lending platform GoCredit, the latter of which currently has about $500 million in loan scale under negotiation for allocation.

Dalio Tis emphasized that GoQuant is building the core infrastructure for value flow. GoQuant is positioned not as a financial intermediary but as a technology platform that provides high efficiency, scalability, and the ability to accommodate all asset classes. He believes that in an environment where asset tokenization, predictive markets, and globalization of trading are advancing rapidly, the world needs a universal layer that can connect all markets.

More and more young people are trying to build startups in their bedrooms at home. Dalio advises to stay flexible and be ready to adjust direction at any time. He stated that originally just doing data processing can also be quite good. However, if you only create a product worth one hundred million dollars, it will always be worth only one hundred million. When creating an interconnected, ecological whole, the value can be infinitely amplified.

This article introduces Dalio Tis, who started trading stocks in elementary school and founded a billion-dollar trading software company at the age of 22. It first appeared in Chain News ABMedia.