Paradigm is a non-custodial institutional liquidity network for crypto derivatives that describes itself as the largest of its kind in crypto. Paradigm's Twitter Score is 123 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #5,230 (top 5%) among 484,207 tracked accounts.
Paradigm was founded by Anand Gomes and operates across both CeFi and DeFi, connecting institutional traders without taking custody of user assets or funds. The platform says its network includes more than 1,000 counterparties and more than 50 market makers, supporting deep liquidity for more than 120 products across assets, instruments, and strategies. Paradigm is not an exchange, does not settle or clear transactions, and does not engage in market-making or proprietary trading.
Paradigm's two core products are Unified Markets, which provides on-demand auctions via RFQs and complex order books, and Delta-1 Spreads, which provides streaming order books for trading spreads between Delta-1 instruments. The platform supports options, perpetuals, and futures on top cryptocurrencies as single or multi-leg spreads and combinations. Paradigm passed a SOC2 Type 2 audit in October 2023, covering a monitoring period from June through August of that year. Paradigm is also affiliated with Paradex, which its blog says emerged following the collapse of FTX as crypto markets confronted counterparty risk.
Paradigm is backed by Jump Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Digital Currency Group, Genesis Trading, Amber Group, QCP Capital, Nexo, Optiver US, IMC, GSR Markets, Akuna Capital, MGNR, Avon Ventures, CMT Digital, Pattern Research, and Vectr Fintech. Its advisory board includes figures with backgrounds spanning TradeWeb, MarketAxess, ICE, IHS Markit, Barclays, and KeyBank, among others.
Paradigm has published 7,537 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 143 accounts a total of 922 times. Paradigm's portfolio includes Taxbit.
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The accounts that follow Paradigm include 401 founders, 132 angel investors, 244 influencers and 22 VCs. Among them are Ansem, Nic Carter, Haseeb Qureshi, Andrew Kang, SBF and smolting wassie, verse.