Chris Yu is a co-founder and CEO of SignalPlus, a crypto-derivatives infrastructure provider he co-founded to address gaps in the crypto-options market. Chris Yu's Twitter Score is 3.1 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #252,752 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Chris Yu co-founded SignalPlus in 2021, building a platform that spans crypto-options pricing, analytics, liquidity aggregation, multi-venue connectivity, execution, risk management, automated market-making and structured-product infrastructure. The platform has since integrated its flagship products with Binance, Bybit, Deribit, OKX and Paradigm. Before founding SignalPlus, Chris Yu previously worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citibank, where he developed a background in macro trading, foreign exchange, FX options and interest-rate products.
Chris Yu has led SignalPlus through several funding rounds. The company announced more than US$12 million raised across its Seed and Series A rounds in August 2022, with HashKey Capital leading the Series A and GBV Capital leading the Seed round. A US$11 million Series B followed, announced in January 2025 and led by AppWorks and OKX Ventures with participation from Avenir Group and HashKey. In May 2026, HashKey Fintech Multi-Strategy Fund IV LP led a Series B+ investment of US$40 million, of which HashKey Holdings contributed US$20 million in cash. Chris Yu has also spoken publicly about Bitcoin options, crypto-market trading infrastructure and onchain structured products in a Galaxy interview. Chris Yu's account has accumulated 613 followers as of July 2026 across 510 posts, and has been mentioned by 10 accounts a total of 13 times.
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