Thiago Rüdiger

[Career Update] After an intense few months working behind the scenes, I’m excited to share what comes next. I’m joining Global Kiwi Labs, the devco building @TheHUB, as co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer. TheHUB is building purpose-built trading infrastructure for crypto. Starting with colocation, connectivity, and compute designed specifically for the next generation of exchanges, market makers, validators, and high-performance onchain markets. Why does this matter? Because the crypto market structure is evolving fast. As we all know, crypto is becoming more institutional. DeFi is becoming more performance-sensitive. And the line between traditional finance and decentralized finance is getting thinner every cycle. We are moving toward a market where matching, sequencing, settlement, liquidity, and connectivity start to look much closer to serious financial infrastructure. And once that happens, the question becomes obvious: Where should traders, engines, validators, and critical infra actually sit? In TradFi, the answer has been clear for decades: purpose-built data centers, equalized access, deterministic connectivity, and shared infrastructure around the venues where price discovery happens. Crypto is reaching that moment now. At Global Kiwi Labs, we understand the path TradFi has taken over the last decades. We understand what institutional traders and HFTs expect from trading venues. And we know that legacy cloud infrastructure was not designed to support this next phase of crypto markets. TheHUB is the physical space where we will see the convergence between TradFi and DeFi. Where institutional-grade market infrastructure meets crypto-native rails. Where exchanges, market makers, validators, and infra providers can colocate and, ultimately, form the center of crypto’s price discovery. What excites me most is that this is not just another infra company. It is a bet that crypto markets are maturing, and that the next wave of performance, fairness, and liquidity will be built from the physical layer up. Huge thanks to @RobertSagurton, @mateoward, and especially @nzjamo222 for the opportunity and trust. Follow us on X: x.com/TheHUB.

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[Career Update] After an intense few months working behind the scenes, I’m excited to share what comes next. I’m joining Global Kiwi Labs, the devco building @TheHUB, as co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer. TheHUB is building purpose-built trading infrastructure for crypto. Starting with colocation, connectivity, and compute designed specifically for the next generation of exchanges, market makers, validators, and high-performance onchain markets. Why does this matter? Because the crypto market structure is evolving fast. As we all know, crypto is becoming more institutional. DeFi is becoming more performance-sensitive. And the line between traditional finance and decentralized finance is getting thinner every cycle. We are moving toward a market where matching, sequencing, settlement, liquidity, and connectivity start to look much closer to serious financial infrastructure. And once that happens, the question becomes obvious: Where should traders, engines, validators, and critical infra actually sit? In TradFi, the answer has been clear for decades: purpose-built data centers, equalized access, deterministic connectivity, and shared infrastructure around the venues where price discovery happens. Crypto is reaching that moment now. At Global Kiwi Labs, we understand the path TradFi has taken over the last decades. We understand what institutional traders and HFTs expect from trading venues. And we know that legacy cloud infrastructure was not designed to support this next phase of crypto markets. TheHUB is the physical space where we will see the convergence between TradFi and DeFi. Where institutional-grade market infrastructure meets crypto-native rails. Where exchanges, market makers, validators, and infra providers can colocate and, ultimately, form the center of crypto’s price discovery. What excites me most is that this is not just another infra company. It is a bet that crypto markets are maturing, and that the next wave of performance, fairness, and liquidity will be built from the physical layer up. Huge thanks to @RobertSagurton, @mateoward, and especially @nzjamo222 for the opportunity and trust. Follow us on X: x.com/TheHUB.

@slx_fi 👀

Another clear signal of what I posted the other day, prediction markets are becoming more similar to exchanges than people realize, and it is attracting large and serious traders. Once again, I think Prediction Markets will become a big vertical for @TheHUB.

@RobertSagurton I know a guy...

Predictions + this energy. Who’s building this? 👀

Loved this! Spreadsheets were built for humans to read and reconcile information. Blockchains are built for machines to verify state, coordinate ownership, and settle transactions. Once AI agents move from analyzing markets to acting on them, the exchange architecture has to change too. To me this is exactly why @blinktrade is interesting: fast offchain matching where latency and throughput matter. Onchain settlement where transparency and auditability matter. Crypto-native rails where agents, traders, and market makers can interact directly. Love the vision.

I stumbled into a 1962 bank ledger at the office. I dove into it w/ @moonshiesty as a brief study on AI and the future of markets. What we found: a $3.58 check that bounced. To reverse it, Citizens & Southern Bank mailed a paper debit memo, stamped it twice, and a teller re-keyed it by hand beside a column literally labeled VOID for the mistakes. Crazy how inefficient this was! Spreadsheets were supposed to kill this silly workflow. Instead, they just digitized the same trust mode - - a human, a bank, a record only they could see. That's the part that's finally breaking/evolving Robinhood is rolling out agentic trading and the shift is to a whole new system: AI + blockchains + stablecoins + tokenized products and then you have supporting legislation like the GENIUS and CLARITY Acts that scales rails that are finally legal to build on obvi that spreadsheets were for us humans to read but Blockchains are built for machines to verify, analyze, and transact, and the only ledger that AI can act on without permission. That $3.58 took a teller, a stamp, and a letter. The system replacing it won't need any of them. We're nowhere near ready to imagine what that unlocks.

@macofweb3 you are already invited, ser! Let's make it happen, just sent you a DM!

@thiagorudiger Would love to hop in the hub . Wen invite ?👀

When a price moves and a market maker's quote becomes stale, they face two options: update the quote or cancel it. If the market maker decides to cancel it, that cancellation races adversarial orders that spotted the stale quote, and if they arrive first, the fill executes at the wrong price. That gap between the price move and the cancellation is where losses accumulate, and because network jitter makes packet travel time variable, the market maker can never know how wide it will be. TradFi learned to narrow and stabilize it through equalized colocation, by engineering identical travel times for every participant inside a given latency envelope to the matching engine. @TheHUB's goal is to bring equalized networks through equal-length dedicated fiber to crypto, so market makers can compete on the strategy behind the quote, not on the timing of the cancellation.

@macofweb3 ofc!

@thiagorudiger Does the hub market makers deal with prediction markets ??

GM from @TheHUB!

@asymmetric_re @TheHUB @fogo LFG! 🦾

We're joining @TheHUB as a @Fogo validator. Colocated infrastructure optimized for low latency and deterministic execution.

@blinktrade amazing piece! well deserved shoutout

Appreciate the shoutout The way we see it: DoubleZero fixes the network layer, Solana provides the settlement layer, and Blink brings the exchange layer Fast, fair, verifiable markets need all three Blink and you'll miss it

🤔🤔🤔

@im_jowee @fogo @smartcoded wen

@fogo @smartcoded Soon

Faster settlement changes the shape of opportunity. The interesting part is what it removes from the workflow, waiting, retries, and all the little defensive steps teams build around slow state. Fogo’s settlement is optimised for [REDACTED]. Soon.

@Moshaikh @neilhar @blinktrade @moonshiesty @mas1money ahaha! love that! Bullish on @blinktrade

@thiagorudiger @neilhar @blinktrade @moonshiesty @mas1money NFS my friend ;)

In Austin whiteboarding with the @blinktrade team

@moonshiesty @TheHUB "TheHUB is available for everyone not just the privileged few" - Excellent highlight! One of our core motivations is allowing for institutional grade infra to be accessible by traders and markets of any size or stage.

crypto trading infrastructure is lagging behind its peers in the traditional exchange space by at least a decade today, only a handful of crypto HFTs teams have the experience, capital and scale to build out proprietary high-performance trading infrastructure @TheHUB is fast-forwarding crypto market infrastructure to the 2020s and more importantly, TheHUB is available for everyone not just the privileged few

A crypto trading firm building its own execution stack has to start with infrastructure: colocation, connectivity, and compute. Today, that stack needs to be assembled independently and integrated into the trading setup from scratch. A world where each firm needs to pay multiple times to deploy the very same trading stack in different data centers to access multiple markets is just not efficient. This is, btw, the state of the art even in TradFi. That’s one of the biggest innovations we are introducing with @TheHUB: a shared trading infrastructure combined with the state of the art in terms of trading data centers. Equalized colocation, dedicated fiber, GPS master clocks operating with customizable timestamping and shared market data products.

Exchange grade capital markets infrastructure for crypto. Welcome to @TheHUB.

We are having initial conversations with Prediction Markets and you'd be surprised about their sophistication and similarities with exchanges when it comes to order routing and transaction matching. I think Prediction Markets will become a big vertical for @TheHUB.