Meet the story of the young man who started as a trader at 9 years old and founded a giant in the cryptocurrency sector.

Source: PortaldoBitcoin Original Title: Meet the story of the young man who started as a trader at 9 years old and founded a giant in the cryptocurrency sector Original Link: The story of Denis Dariotis, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of GoQuant, a cryptocurrency trading software company, is gaining fame. This is because the entrepreneur was more than precocious: he started trading in the financial market at the age of nine.

The story began almost randomly: the boy from Montreal was impressed by the symbols flashing in green and red on the morning program of CNBC that his parents left on in the background. This sparked an interest to actually start studying the profession of a trader.

“I remember telling my teachers that I needed 10 minutes outside of class to check my portfolio when the market opened and closed,” recalls Dariotis.

Dariotis tried to follow Warren Buffet's theses and soon became interested in programming as well. At the age of 11, he started working with basic programming languages and later mastered Python and C++.

By combining financial market analysis with his programming knowledge, the teenager began to create automated ways to check databases and make his decisions.

At 15, he started consulting for a Canadian bank. It was at that time that he got to know the cryptocurrency market and saw an opportunity: to solve the issue of fragmented liquidity among centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, and OTC desks. Another important point was to look at the delays that occurred in updating the order books of the exchanges.

Thus, in January 2025, GoQuant emerged, which today trades more than $1 billion in trading volume per day and employs about 80 staff spread across the USA, Europe, India, the Philippines, and Morocco.

The company secured a pre-seed round of $3 million, in addition to a seed round of $4 million led by the crypto trading firm GSR.

Recent additions to the brand include GoDark, an institutional-level dark pool, and GoCredit, a lending platform that has around half a billion dollars in crypto loans in the pipeline.

“We really want to be at the center of how value moves,” said Dariotis. “So, we are largely a technology provider, rather than a financial intermediary, at a time when everything is essentially becoming a market: prediction markets, the 'perpetuation' of various types of assets, the tokenization of various assets. Everything is becoming tradable, so there is a need for a central platform that connects everything and does so efficiently.”