Sushant Kumar

Co-founder & CTO, Vandergrid

Sushant Kumar is co-founder and CTO of Vandergrid, where he leads the firm's trading, market surveillance and credit infrastructure.

Before Vandergrid he was CTO of a London crypto market-making firm. He joined as its first quantitative developer, built its technology from the ground up, from market-making engines and execution infrastructure to strategies and client terminals, and led engineering as the firm grew to 70 concurrent mandates.

At Vandergrid he architected the full trading stack, with engines quoting for 15+ institutional mandates across centralised exchanges, DEXs and perpetuals. He built the firm's market surveillance product, which token issuers use to check order book depth, volume quality and wash trading on the venues where their tokens trade. He also designed an issuer credit framework for tokenised assets, and is building lending against verifiable on-chain protocol revenue.

He contributes to crypto market structure policy, with public comments filed with the US SEC, the CFTC and the UK FCA on market surveillance, token disclosure and tokenised securities.

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