James Davies is a derivatives and digital-asset market-infrastructure founder who co-founded Derivatives Clearing Network, a clearing infrastructure company targeting crypto options, futures, and OTC foreign-exchange swaps that is filing for CFTC-registered derivatives clearing organization status. James Davies's Twitter Score is 8.5 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #106,201 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
James Davies co-founded London Derivatives Exchange, where he was involved in developing a non-expiring Constant Maturity Futures methodology that became the subject of a U.S. patent application, later abandoned following transfer to Deutsche Börse. London Derivatives Exchange entered voluntary liquidation in 2024 after Davies oversaw its wind-down. He also co-founded Crypto Valley Exchange, a decentralized futures-and-options protocol built on Arbitrum with USDC collateral and wallet support across Ethereum, Optimism, Base, and Solana, which raised $7 million across pre-seed and seed rounds co-led by Fabric Ventures and Kyber Capital Crypto Fund, with participation from AMDAX, Wave Digital, Funfair Ventures, Seier Capital Family Office, Five T Group, and Saxon.
James Davies previously served as CEO of CVEX Labs, the publisher of Pascal Protocol, and formerly held the role of Chief Product Officer at Tacans Labs. Earlier in his career, he was previously Chief Financial Officer at Crypterium, previously COO at GMEX Group, previously CIO at Coindirect, and previously Head of Sales at Trayport. He also formerly served as an advisor to ICDX. Through Handleport, he provides technical and commercial due diligence across trading infrastructure, commodities, payments, digital assets, and DeFi protocols. His public commentary focuses on crypto perpetual futures, tokenized collateral, clearing-counterparty risk, and institutional crypto-market structure.
James Davies's account has published 1,934 posts and has 60,364 followers as of August 2026. The account has been mentioned by 16 accounts, with 50 total mentions.
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