A global tech- and research-driven trading firm where ideas become breakthroughs in global markets.

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Most teams think of an agent as a standalone app, and think building many agents means building many standalone apps. On July 1, Matt Nassr, Head of Global Data and AI Transformation, is talking about how to build a shared substrate so every agentic workflow compounds on the last one. If you are attending AI Engineer World's Fair or based in San Francisco, seats are limited. Apply for a spot: gem.com/form?formID=a64fb3c8…
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As models become more capable, the focus is increasingly shifting from what they can do to how they perform and adapt beyond controlled environments. Excited to be back at #ICML2026, connecting with the global research community and exploring how advances in ML translate from research into real-world systems. Learn more: optiver.com/what-we-do/resea… #MachineLearning #AI #Research | @icmlconf
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When your platform’s users stop being people and start being agents, the job of a platform team changes. You’re no longer building for someone clicking through a UI. You’re building for an agent that needs context, guardrails, and the ability to act on its own. At @databricks Data AI Summit, Calvin Yiu will share what Optiver’s Lakehouse team built to make that shift work: the infrastructure that sits between the data platform and the agents using it, which parts of Databricks they chose to build on and, just as honestly, where it still falls short. Learn more: bit.ly/4egl0xJ #DataAISummit
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For years, policymakers have looked for ways to push trading activity back to lit markets. But measures like caps have been tried, and they didn't work. Instead of returning to lit markets, trading simply migrated elsewhere. Our new paper argues that Europe should stop trying to force the flow and start fixing the structural issues that put lit markets at a disadvantage. If Europe wants stronger equity markets, the answer is better market design. Here are 5 way to make that happen. optiver.com/insights/markets…
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We're live for Day 2 at AI Engineer Melbourne. We run production trading systems across 100 exchanges. Stop by to talk agentic AI, production systems and engineering at scale. @webdirections #aiengineer #aimelbourne #AIE #AI #machinelearning
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When something feels slow, you’re probably looking in the wrong place. UI issues are rarely local. They’re usually caused by how data is fetched, recomputed, and duplicated across the system. Read more 👇 bit.ly/42aDEBg?utm_campaign=…
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AI coding tools are moving quickly. The conversation is shifting from what's possible to what actually works in practice. As part of #NYTechWeek, Matt Nassr, Head of Global Data Engineering and AI Transformation at Optiver, will join leaders from @driver_ai_, @ShipBob and @LucaNet to discuss the workflow changes, trade-offs and organizational challenges that come with adopting AI coding agents. If you're interested in how engineering organizations are approaching these changes beyond demos and experimentation, it should be a worthwhile conversation. If you're in New York for NY Tech Week, registration is open while spots remain: bit.ly/4fgELY6
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Teams building and scaling better agentic outcomes are building systems designed for agents to check their own work, and fix it, instead of relying on humans to detail corrections. At @aiDotEngineer Melbourne next week, Moss Ebeling will speak about what closed-loop design looks like and how you can use it to build real leverage via automation in your workflows. If you’re attending, check out this AI Engineering track event on Wednesday at 1:30pm and stop by the Optiver booth to talk with the team.
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“We have a tremendous advantage at Optiver in that we own our path to production.” That line from our most recent Tech Town Hall reflects how we think about engineering: direct ownership, tight feedback loops, and work that connects quickly to live outcomes. As we scale into more markets, products, and systematic strategies, the focus is clear: build reusable platforms, scale agentic AI workflows with strong guardrails, and help teams move from idea to impact faster. Learn more about tech at Optiver: bit.ly/4dtstZQ
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Excited to be at #FCCM2026 this week! Tomorrow, Optiver FPGA Engineering Lead Kevin Sprague will discuss how FPGA engineers make system-level tradeoffs across hardware and software to optimize real-time trading systems. Breakfast starts at 7:30am and talk begins at 8:00am. See you there!
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AI in BFSI is moving from experimentation to execution, with a stronger focus on scalability, risk, and measurable impact. At the @iitbombay@OptiverGlobal AI Innovation Lab Symposium, discussions explored real-world AI applications, industry research from leading banks, and themes spanning cybersecurity, ethics, risk mitigation, and digital infrastructure. Inaugurated by Prof. Upendra Bhandarkar, with contributions from faculty and industry leaders, the symposium reflected strong industry-academia collaboration. #IITBombay #Optiver #BFSI #AIinFinance #FinTech
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Interesting FPGA problems are rarely isolated to the #FPGA. As trading systems scale, latency and performance constraints emerge across hardware, software, and protocols. At #FCCM2026, Optiver FPGA Engineering Lead Kevin Sprague will discuss how our engineers approach system-level tradeoffs in low-latency trading infrastructure. If you can’t make the talk, sign up to receive the recap: bit.ly/4tqnMGc

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Fetching a table and subscribing to updates sounds straightforward until you need it to be correct. The snapshot misses new rows, while the stream sees them immediately, and you cannot drop or reorder either. This boundary is where most of the complexity sits. See how we use Postgres WAL and logical decoding to make this work. Read more: bit.ly/4mUGIeo
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#AI is getting surprisingly good at the basics of #trading. So we put it to the test. We gave leading LLMs the same exam we use with our interns, and then pushed them further with a mock assessment designed for traders six months into the job. See how AI performed against real Optiver traders: optiver.com/working-at-optiv…
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We @edenblockvc just announced our partnership with @OptiverGlobal, one of the leading trading firms in the world, and a major university endowment, welcoming them as new strategic shareholders. Full post below:
Earlier today, Bloomberg reported that Optiver, one of the leading trading firms in the world, as well as a large university endowment fund have become strategic shareholders in Eden Block. We're honored to welcome these partners into Eden Block as we continue to aggressively scale our platform. Eden Block is built on the belief that the most important systems of the next decade will emerge at the intersection of markets, software, and intelligence. This evolving amalgam of infrastructure will enable endless applications. This view has not always been obvious. For a long time, much of what sits at this intersection felt early, fragmented, and difficult to categorize. Underlying teams, and the solutions they are working on did not fit neatly into any clear buckets that investors could easily underwrite. The infrastructure was incomplete, the applications immature and unclear. The demand signals were weak or indirect. In many cases, the most important work was happening below the level of visibility or interpretability that markets typically reward. Over time, this direction has become more clear. Markets are becoming increasingly permissionless and programmable, and intelligent software, powered by compute, sits at the heart of their coordination and execution. Machine intelligence, once detached from broader economic activity, has become the beating heart of innovation, and the driver of most, if not all future inventions. Therefore, scaling and accelerating the capabilities of machine intelligence has become one of humanity's biggest missions. This expansion will occur across all layers of the stack: the infrastructure, the intelligence itself, and the applications it powers. We've long held the belief that we've entered a point of no return, a point where all aspects of the world's dynamics converge on a free, permissionless market for innovation and advancement. In this market, technology loses all semblance of gravity. To put it simply, there's never been a better time in history to build things. With the support of our new partners, we're doubling down on our mission to back the builders of the new internet. We meet relentless founders at the frontier, and build alongside them. With AI disrupting or empowering every single industry in the world, markets in particular are experiencing a dramatic shift. We're excited to bring the combined platforms of Eden Block and Optiver to accelerate the teams who are shaping the markets and technologies of tomorrow. We're confident that our combined efforts will foster new experimentation, and enable the dramatic shifts we're expecting to see across markets. We're excited to reinforce our commitment to our founders, our conviction in Eden Block's mission, and the ecosystem we're building. We look forward to meeting you in the arena. Founders: we're deploying.
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Optiver Holding BV has taken an equity stake in crypto and artificial intelligence-focused venture capital firm Eden Block, as the two technologies continue to attract institutional backing. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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As a dev community, we keep making the same mistake.  We chase better models to fix our AI coding agents. It never works. Why? Agents don't fail because of the model. They fail because of missing context. Missing context = AI agents confidently failing. @OptiverGlobal had 120 commits/day and millions of lines of code. RAG couldn't keep up. Driver gave their agents compiler-level context automatically, on every commit. When you focus on the right problems, the results are dramatic. 90% less manual context work. 5x more effective agents. <2 weeks to deploy. Full case study: driver.ai/blog/optiver-custo…
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As a premier global market maker, @OptiverGlobal plays a vital role in providing liquidity and stability to our options markets. Their story began with a single trader in Amsterdam in 1986 — now, Optiver's nearly 2,000 employees operate in seven time zones, trading thousands of different products. Congratulations to the entire team on 40 years of success and innovation!
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What does 40 years in #trading teach you about markets? Optiver’s Johann Kaemingk shares reflections on the early days of the firm and the craft of #marketmaking in this episode of the Dutch-language Leaders in Finance podcast. Listen here: leadersinfinance.nl/johann-k…
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