About Us

# Our Vision and Story

## Profile

Crypto Option Mining is a technology provider helping traders develop their skills and build a verifiable track record. Our technology is bolted on to our exchange providing traders with regulatory cover to charge a 15% success fee.

Founded in 2012, we employ more than 40 across our London headquarters and our development office in Spain.

- 2012

  Founded

- 40+

  Employees

- 80+

  Countries
  We've Clients From

- 3000+

  Traders

- 3x

  2017 Revenue
  Growth

- 15kM+

  Notional
  Traded Monthly

## Vision - Home to Traders

We’re the ecosystem giving traders* equal opportunity, where merit alone drives outcomes.

* Trader = he who invests effort, in addition to capital, into capital markets.

## Mission - We Fast-Track Traders

...aligning their incentives with ours, as well as those of fellow traders, to pool our collective talent, information and capital for private and social benefit.

- ### Quality Education

  certified by Crypto Option Mining and/or community members.

- ### Execution

  to open and close trades on the best terms.

- ### Information

  by the community (individual & trader collective), for a fair price.

- ### Investor capital

  with the highest profit participation in the market.

## Values - Our Compass

What makes our mission worthwhile is that we breathe by these values, every step of the way.

### Focus on impact

Our vision is ambitious, but our time and resources are limited. Every decision, big or small, short or long term, maximises the contribution of our (funds / talent / time) to the vision. Evolution = question the best use of resources, at all times.

### Take calculated risks

We generate impact because we’re nimble. Agility implies risks, and that’s a good thing. Any risk where client resources (capital, data) are not at stake is worth it if the odds are good enough. Playing it safe is the riskiest gamble.

### Empower clients & employees

We reward contributions on merit - regardless of who contributes. We do this because we need the best employees devoting their talent & effort to the vision, and the best traders to entrust us their capital and intellectual property.

### We’re transparent

Our business is regulated to custody customer capital and information. We earn employee, client and regulator trust by being as transparent as we can within respect for employee & customer privacy, as well as the law.

### We’re decent & humble

We build the product we love to use: if it’s not worth our savings, it’s not worthy of yours. In building it we treat customers, employees and providers with confidence in ALWAYS doing the right thing: decency & humbleness are the best ways to commanding respect.

## Our Story

1. ### March 2012

   Tradeslide Trading Tech. founded.

2. ### April 2013

   Launch of trading strategy diagnostic algorithms.

3. ### May 2014

   Regulated as Broker by the FCA under the name Crypto Option Mining.

4. ### November 2014

   DarwinIA trading challenge launched.

5. ### April 2015

   Crypto Option Mining investor platform launched.

6. ### April 2017

   Launch of Crypto Option Mining Reloaded.

7. ### August 2017

   Trader performance fees surpass $500k. First DARWIN reaches $1M AUM.

8. ### November 2017

   First DARWIN reaches $3M AUM and is temporarily closed to new investment.

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