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Bitcoin El guanyador del concurs Alpha, Animus Technologies, ha rebut 1 milió de dòlars en capital llavor
In conclusion of the inaugural Bitcoin Alpha Competition, Samara Alpha Management i Bitcoin Revista Pro seleccionat Animus Technologies, a Los Angeles-based digital assets fund, as the victor in what was a “breakthrough moment” for the fund manager. As winner of the competition, Animus was awarded $1 million in seed capital and access to Samara Alpha’s institutional-grade infrastructure for managing their fund. Animus and their CEO Maxmilian Pace were recognized on-stage at the Bitcoin Conferència d'Amsterdam for their AI-based model for capturing alpha in the Bitcoin market and were hand-selected for their innovative approach amongst 150 other talented applicants.
Animus, which began six years ago at the University of Southern California, was the result of three close friends with a passion for Bitcoin and artificial intelligence who saw an opportunity in a nascent market using a toolset that was being underleveraged in the form of artificial intelligence. Their flagship model employs a long-only strategy that integrates real-time market sentiment data processed via AI to capture excess returns in the Bitcoin mercat.
Animus’s CEO Pace expressed that winning the Bitcoin Alpha Competition was “massive” for their operations, both in terms of the $1 million prize, but also due to Samara Alpha’s institutional-grade infrastructure and industry reputation:
“Quan es gestiona un fons, necessites ajuda administrativa, fiscal i d'auditoria, formació, tantes coses; poder racionalitzar això, des d'una perspectiva de costos, és increïble. No és exactament fàcil triar el proveïdor de serveis adequat per a aquestes coses, i això és una barrera addicional per als gestors de fons emergents que entren a l'espai. Ara, ens podem centrar en allò que som millor, que és la formació de senyals i la creació de valor mitjançant la investigació".
En una sol·licitud de comentaris, el director de riscos de Samara Alpha Management, Roy Tse, va assenyalar:
"La nostra associació amb Bitcoin Magazine on the Alpha manager search has been a tremendous success and we were impressed and pleasantly surprised by the number of innovative strategies we have seen. We are excited to provide $1mm in seed capital to the winners, Animus Technologies, and look forward to nurturing and helping their business grow.”
When asked why Animus uses Bitcon as a vehicle for generating returns rather than traditional assets, Pace opined that Bitcoin is “inherently speculative; it is inherently a psychology problem. The fact that narratives are impactful for individual trading behaviors means that those narratives then have a strong effect on the price and the story that underlies this asset. We’ve seen that this week with the [false] ETF news coming out. An ETF didn’t come out, it was just news about the ETF that moved the market sharply.” Ostensibly, their AI models for teasing apart that sentiment allows them to capitalize on these emotional bouts of volatility.
Pace also offered insight on the current state of Bitcoin market as it traded around $34,000 after the recent run-up in price:
“Per primera vegada en molt de temps estem veient com la cobdícia es fa predominant al mercat, cosa que no hem vist en els últims 18 mesos en cap moment. Si mireu els darrers 2 anys, ja ho ha passat extremadament baixista. Crec que el recent augment del sentiment és un auguri molt bo per a la reducció a la meitat i tot el que es construirà arran de la innovació que hem vist al mercat baixista. Hi ha molta construcció que s'està produint durant aquest període que surt a la llum quan el mercat gira. Això és el que diré: no us espanteu que pugem un 50%. Disminuir el zoom. La realitat és que ja era hora in el mercat quan es tracta d'una tecnologia en creixement exponencial".
A mesura que el Bitcoin industry seems to be awakening from the slumber of a grueling bear market, the innovators, die-hards and battle-hardened HODLers are excited to show off what they’ve accomplished in the meantime. Bitcoin Amsterdam was an opportunity for companies like Animus and Samara Alpha Management to connect and form relationships that will pay dividends long into the future.
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Font original: Bitcoin Magazine