Curriculum vitae, told as a path
Portrait of Wassie 2835: a cartoon penguin with sleepy eyes holding a katana
Fig. 1: the protagonist

The penguin's path

Wassie 2835

Business Operations Lead & Trader

Credo, digital assets arm of ARB Trading Group · Tallinn, Estonia · Remote

Prologue

The short version of the story.

Digital assets operator and trader. For the past few years I've worked alongside some of the best traders in the industry at Credo, first on the prop desk and now running business operations, while trading my own account.

I run much of what the outside world sees of the firm: the daily briefing, Credo's X account, the Credo Wire news feed, marketing strategy and execution, and long-form research that gets Credo ready for TradFi institutions as perps and real-world assets go mainstream.

Markets came after operations. I've traded since 2019, starting with options on US and Indian equities, and before that co-founded a grocery business in India that reached $2M ARR and a team of 70+ before a full exit.

Trophies so far

The highlights, before the long walk.

Credo Wire
First
often ahead of AGGR and Tree News
Credo on X
Sole
owner of the firm's account
Trading since
2019
options, then crypto futures
Founder exit
$2M
ARR, 70+ team, sold 2019

The path

Five levels, oldest first. The penguin walks as you scroll. Tap it for a slash.

Level 0

Training grounds

Two degrees, two countries

Education · 2007 – 2012

Quests completed

  • Bachelor's, Information Technology · Amity University, Noida · 2007 – 2011
  • MSc, Entrepreneurial Studies · Royal Holloway, University of London · 2011 – 2012

Level 1

Founder

Co-founder & COO · Mr.Groc (formerly DeliveryWaala)

NCR, India · Sep 2014 – Aug 2019 · ended in an exit

Quests completed

  • Bootstrapped a hyperlocal delivery startup into an established grocery chain: $2M ARR and a cross-functional team of more than 70.
  • Ran supplier negotiations, logistics, local supply chains and end-to-end business strategy.
  • Led the company through a strategic corporate partnership and a full share-sale exit in 2019.

Level 2

Options

Co-owner & Investment Analyst · 6arz OÜ

Tallinn, Estonia · Sep 2019 – now

Quests completed

  • Traded options on US and Indian equities and indices with discretionary strategies, growing seed capital 8x in six months.
  • Applied TradFi frameworks, such as bond yields and the equity risk premium, to crypto to track how legacy capital cycles move crypto liquidity.
  • Built high-conviction, positive-expectancy trading models with risk-managed leverage, trading cross-market book depth, cross-exchange premiums and options skew.

Level 3

Prop desk

Proprietary Futures Trader · Credo

Dec 2022 – 2025

Quests completed

  • Traded a wide set of Binance futures pairs, reading volatility regimes to switch between trend-following, mean reversion, long/short and sector rotation.
  • Managed funded capital under strict drawdown limits, using institutional execution tools to control risk and slippage.
  • Lead researcher for the desk's internal updates: overnight narrative shifts, token launches and sector rotations.
  • Wrote market updates for the firm's Substack, turning altcoin setups and macro drivers into clear takeaways.

Level 4 · current

Operations

Business Operations Lead · Credo

Digital assets arm of ARB Trading Group, a TradFi derivatives prop firm · Remote · 2025 – now

Quests completed

  • Run Credo Wire with a team of the desk's traders. Once the infrastructure on Nimbex, Credo's proprietary execution software, was ready for traders, we opened its news feed up as a marketing channel, delivering headlines often ahead of major outlets such as AGGR and Tree News, and grew Credo's Telegram channel and X following on the back of it.
  • Solely responsible for Credo's X account: daily briefs, market insights and regular short-form nuggets. Developed Nimbex marketing around quick charting tools on Discord, Telegram and similar platforms.
  • Solely responsible for the firm-wide daily market briefing: thousands of developments cut down to the few that matter, with every headline and number verified.
  • Set marketing strategy and execution, from posts to long-form research articles that position Credo for TradFi institutions as perps and real-world assets expand.
  • Built the firm's institutional investor funnel from scratch in HubSpot, and run the website's careers page and applicant pipeline.
  • Give the Nimbex developers regular feedback and improvement suggestions from the desk's side. Billions in volume have traded on it ahead of its public launch.
  • Trade my own account alongside the role.

Level 5

Not written yet

The path continues from here. The contact details are at the top of the page.

Character sheet

Stats are years on the calendar, nothing made up.

Name
Wassie 2835
Class
Business Operations Lead & Trader
Base
Tallinn, Estonia · Remote
Guild
Credo
Trading since
2019
Equipped
One katana (decorative), strict drawdown limits (real)

Experience log · 2007 to today, drawn to scale

  • Education2007 – 2012
  • Mr.Groc · Co-founder & COOSep 2014 – Aug 2019
  • 6arz · Options & analysisSep 2019 – now
  • Credo · Prop futures traderDec 2022 – 2025
  • Credo · Business operations2025 – now

Inventory · what I know

Derivatives & markets

  • Perpetual swap mechanics
  • Funding-rate arbitrage
  • Cross-exchange premiums
  • Market microstructure & book depth
  • Volatility regimes
  • Positioning: OI, funding, breadth
  • Options: greeks, skew, implied vol
  • US & Indian equity and index options

Macro & risk

  • Bond yields & liquidity cycles
  • Cross-asset correlation
  • Kelly / fractional Kelly
  • Leverage & liquidation math
  • Drawdown-constrained capital
  • Flush & stress scenarios

Systems & product

  • Product feedback on trading software
  • Quick-charting bots on Discord & Telegram
  • Backtest design
  • AI-directed engineering
  • Python
  • AWS · SSH · Git

Operations & growth

  • Marketing strategy & execution
  • X account (sole owner)
  • Real-time news desk
  • Daily market intelligence
  • Long-form research
  • Investor pipeline (HubSpot)
  • Community: Discord, Telegram
  • Supply chain & logistics
  • Teams of 70+

Maps · venues traded

Binance · Hyperliquid · Deribit · Bybit · OKX

Quest log

Selected work, in a little more detail.

Credo Wire & Credo on X

Credo

Once the infrastructure on Nimbex, Credo's execution software, was ready for the desk, a small team of us opened its real-time news layer to the public as Credo Wire. It often lands headlines before the major crypto news outlets, and it grew Credo's Telegram channel and X following.

On X
Daily briefs, market insights and short-form nuggets, run solely by me.
Distribution
Credo Wire, the X account and quick charting tools on Discord and Telegram, used together as the marketing engine.

Research for TradFi readers

Credo

Long-form pieces (3,000–5,000 words) that explain crypto-native instruments through traditional finance analogies, written for the institutions Credo wants to reach. The current piece looks at pre-IPO perpetual futures on Hyperliquid: how they track sentiment and direction ahead of a listing, and why volatility rises as they converge with the exchange's indicative price.

Process
Brief first, agreed with the team, then a sourced research file, then drafting with charts built from verified on-chain data.
Daily briefing
A morning card covering headlines, ETF flows, market breadth, the biggest gainers and losers, and upcoming catalysts.