📅 Date: December 16, 2025, 19:00
🎙️ Speaker: Stef Kostov
🎬 Watch live: https://softuni.bg/trainings/5271/crypto-markets-and-exchange-arbitrage

🔍 About the Event:
The crypto ecosystem evolves quickly, but it is built upon structured market logic that both mirrors and differs from traditional finance.
This seminar introduces key concepts behind crypto exchanges and demonstrates a practical approach to building automated arbitrage strategies.

The event is divided into two parts:

📘 Theoretical Part:

• Core mechanics of crypto exchanges

• How stock market principles influenced early crypto design

• Differences between CeFi & DeFi exchanges

• Understanding Oracles, Funding Rates, Options, Perpetuals

• What arbitrage is and how smart contracts fit in

• Foundational Web3 terminology and logic

💻 Practical Part:

• Building a sample project in Python

• Creating a bot that monitors multiple exchanges

• Comparing parameters across markets

• Identifying arbitrage opportunities

• Perfect for beginners and anyone interested in Web3, automation or trading strategies

🎯 The seminar is ideal for participants who want both theoretical context and hands-on exposure to crypto market mechanisms.

🎙️ About the Speaker – Stef Kostov

Stef is an engineer educated in Italy. His professional background includes:

• Process and data analyst at Leonardo (Aerospace & Defence)

• Data Engineer at Nexo, where he worked with blockchain tech, market tracking and trading strategies

• Developing arbitrage strategies in the Trading department

• Currently engaged with a U.S. company via Anthill

He is developing his own crypto market analysis project and follows both decentralized and traditional markets closely, with a strong interest in economics, history and political dynamics.

🆓 Watch for free: via the link above.