Team

We’ve lived crypto from every angle — trading, building, and scaling products for millions of users. Our team has shipped at Hyperliquid, Deribit, Paxos, Galaxy, Zeta Markets, Kraken, and Berachain, and now we’re building Bullpen to push the frontier of providing an on-chain trading CEX experience.

The founding team behind Bullpen includes:

• Sal Qadir, CEO – Co-Founder of BullpenFi. Previously at Galaxy and ShapeShift. Host of FullPort (30k–120k weekly views) and Unlayered Pod. Computer Science, Cornell Tech.
• Ansem, Co-Founder – Prominent Solana advocate, market analyst, and community investor with a track record of driving ecosystem adoption and education.
• Luca Spinazzola, Co-Founder & Head of Engineering – Software engineer and multiple time founder. Experienced in native app development, web3 infrastructure, and open-source contributions.

We started Bullpen to deliver the speed of centralized exchanges with the transparency and community of DeFi. First with perpetuals and Solana spot, and soon with the next generation of crypto-native markets (prediction).