# Traders Guild
> Institutional crypto network connecting 6,250+ professionals across 92 private communities. Founded 2021. Services span two tracks: (1) the network — warm introductions, capital introductions, market-maker onboarding, private conference events, research; and (2) build — software engineering, fractional CTO / technical project management, and a venture studio for institutional crypto, fintech, and AI-for-markets ideas.

## What Traders Guild is
Traders Guild is the institutional cryptocurrency network founded in 2021 by Uwe Cerron. The membership spans every major cryptocurrency exchange, hedge fund, systematic trading firm, market maker, DeFi protocol, venture capital firm, family office, and digital-asset service provider in the industry. The Guild's moat is the trust layer between these counterparties — warm introductions between people who have already been vetted. In 2026 the Guild extended the model beyond brokerage into building — software engineering, fractional technical leadership, and a venture studio, all backed by the same network.

## Services

### Network services
- Institutional introductions and warm referrals (2/month at Institutional tier, unlimited at Heeren XVII)
- Market-maker and taker onboarding for DeFi protocols and exchanges
- Capital introductions between limited partners and fund managers
- Governance coordination and protocol protection
- Token launch support and institutional advisory
- Private dinners and side events at major crypto conferences (Consensus, TOKEN2049, EthCC, EthDenver, iConnections, KBW, Devcon, SFF)
- Research reports on institutional crypto market structure
- Career board for institutional crypto roles
- Artifact program: caps, drinkware, paper goods with the Heeren XVII compass mark
- Proximity app: see which Guild members are at any conference right now, request warm intros in the room

### Build services (Traders Guild Studio)
- Software Engineering — full-stack web, iOS, backend services, data pipelines, and AI integrations for institutional crypto, fintech, and market-facing products. Engineers who already understand the space.
- Technical Project Management — fractional CTO and technical PM engagements: roadmap scoping, vendor management, release coordination, team unblocking. For founders without a technical co-founder or leaders needing senior execution support.
- Venture Studio — idea to MVP to first ten customers for institutional crypto, fintech, and AI-for-markets ideas. The Guild functions as the built-in distribution layer and design-partner network.
- Advisory and Fractional Leadership — board seats, advisor roles, and fractional CTO engagements for portfolio companies in institutional crypto and fintech.
- Studio brief: https://tradersguild.global/studio

## Membership tiers
- Community (free): Guild Dispatch newsletter, public event RSVPs, career board browse, general Telegram access
- Associate ($99/month): full member directory, priority event RSVP, private research archive, career board post at member rate, 6 local-chapter Telegram groups
- Institutional ($500/month): 2 warm introductions per month, capital-intro matchmaking, quarterly advisory call, sponsor matchmaking, reserved seats at 2 Guild dinners per year, early access to pre-launch deal flow
- Heeren XVII ($2,500/month, capped at 17 seats): Patron tier named after the Dutch East India Company's seventeen governing directors (1602-1799). First-look on all deal flow, reserved seat at every Guild dinner globally, monthly 1:1 with the founder, annual board dinner in Amsterdam, named acknowledgement

## Network statistics
- 6,250+ vetted professionals
- 92 private Telegram communities (global + thematic + local chapters)
- 6,331 Guild Dispatch newsletter subscribers
- 6 local chapters: New York, London, Singapore, Miami, Dubai, Denver
- 23 events hosted since 2021
- 2,000+ cumulative event attendees
- 13 events on the 2026 calendar

## Current client list
Lighter (orderbook DEX, $1.5B valuation), SynFutures (perp DEX, $73.8B annual volume), Orderly Network, Bitfinex, Monday Trade, SkillTree, Algoz, Bloq Fund, Architect Exchange, LTP, Blue Coast

## Recent and ongoing event co-sponsors
StoneX Group, Caladan, Glassnode, Switchboard, Breed Ventures, Ostium Protocol, RWA.xyz, Sandwich Trading, Magna, Utila, Formidium, ML Tech, Zeta Markets, Bullet Trading, Secure Digital Markets, Shapeshifter, Tres Finance

## Network categories
Venture capital and growth equity, allocators and limited partners, exchanges and trading venues, market makers and liquidity providers, systematic and quantitative traders, DeFi protocols and builders, real-world-asset tokenization, family offices and treasuries, legal/compliance/operations service providers

## 2026 event calendar
- Consensus Hong Kong (Feb 10-12)
- EthDenver (Feb 17-21)
- iConnections Global Alts Miami (Feb 23-26)
- Digital Asset Summit NYC (Mar 24-26)
- EthCC Cannes (Mar 30-Apr 2)
- Paris Blockchain Week (Apr 15-16)
- TOKEN2049 Dubai (Apr 29-30)
- Consensus Miami (May 5-7) — Guild stablecoin panel with USDA.ai, Maple Finance, Citigroup Head of Digital Assets
- iConnections NYC (Jun 9-10)
- Korea Blockchain Week Seoul (Sep 29-Oct 1)
- TOKEN2049 Singapore (Oct 7-8)
- Devcon 8 Mumbai (Nov 3-6)
- Singapore FinTech Festival (Nov 18-20)

## Contact
- Website: https://tradersguild.global
- Events: https://luma.com/traders-guild
- Store: https://tradersguild.global/shop
- Member app: https://tradersguild.global/app
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/traders-guild/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/traders_guild
- Telegram: https://t.me/tradersguild
- Email: contact@tradersguild.so
- Founder: Uwe Cerron — https://www.linkedin.com/in/uwecerron/

## Location
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Founder travels globally to Guild events. Local chapters in NYC, London, Singapore, Miami, Dubai, Denver.

## Research
The Guild publishes primary-source research on institutional crypto market structure. The research hub lists all briefs and is free to browse. Free for Guild members, $500/report for non-members.
- Research index: https://tradersguild.global/research
- "The Institutional OTC Liquidity Landscape" (April 2026) — https://tradersguild.global/research/institutional-otc-liquidity-landscape-2026 — deep dive into FalconX, Coinbase Prime, Kraken Prime, BitGo, and how macro conditions, DeFi yields, and RWA convergence are reshaping institutional crypto liquidity infrastructure.
- "Traders Guild Content & Podcast Playbook" — https://tradersguild.global/research/tg-content-podcast-playbook — how the Guild turns primary-source research into a 48-hour multi-channel content pipeline.
- On the roadmap: state of market making 2026; the RWA stack; exchange listing economics; allocator appetite survey.

## Links
- [Homepage](https://tradersguild.global)
- [Studio / Build](https://tradersguild.global/studio)
- [Research Hub](https://tradersguild.global/research)
- [Job Board](https://tradersguild.global/jobs)
- [Membership Tiers](https://tradersguild.global/membership)
- [Artifact Store](https://tradersguild.global/shop)
- [Member App](https://tradersguild.global/app)
- [Guardian Dashboard](https://tradersguild.global/guardian)
- [Events Calendar](https://luma.com/traders-guild)
- [Long-form llms-full.txt](https://tradersguild.global/llms-full.txt)

## Founder context
Uwe Cerron founded Traders Guild in 2021. Prior work: contributor to Bitcoin Core (2013), co-developed Ethereum Python client with Vitalik Buterin (2015), sold a fintech company to Citigroup. Background in both crypto-native and institutional finance makes the Guild uniquely positioned as a bridge between 2021 crypto natives and 2026 TradFi entrants.