From a Childhood Hobby to Billions in Turnover: The Story of GoQuant's Founder
Date: 2025-12-01 Author: Gabriel Deangelo Categories: BUSINESS
22-year-old Denick Dariotis, CEO of GoQuant, spoke with CoinDesk about his professional journey, which began significantly earlier than most of his colleagues. As a schoolboy, he was already monitoring market movements, and today he manages the infrastructure that processes over $1 billion in daily trading volume. He says GoQuant's ultimate goal is to become a key player in the digital asset economy and a hub for value movement.
The future entrepreneur was only nine years old when he first became interested in stock trading. He recalls asking his teachers for a few minutes at the beginning and end of classes to track his portfolio. While studying didn't stop him from observing market movements, he preferred not to share his screen contents—even with his professors.
Dariotis later expanded his interests, switching to programming. He mastered Python and C to automate his own trading strategies. His technical skills quickly proved useful—at fifteen, he was licensing his developed algorithms to a Canadian bank and consulting with investment managers. At a conference in New York, a hedge fund approached him about a job offer, but backed out after learning his age.
At the same time, he began studying the crypto market. The young developer was surprised by how fragmented liquidity was and how slowly order books updated. It was this problem that prompted him to create the infrastructure that he later embodied in GoQuant. The company strives to remove technical barriers for institutional players and offers products focused on high-speed order processing.
In 2025, GoQuant raised approximately $7 million in early rounds of investment with the participation of GSR. Today, the company has over 80 employees in the US, Europe, India, the Philippines, and Morocco. New areas include the GoDark dark pool and the GoCredit lending service, whose reported crypto loan volume, according to Dariotis, is approaching $500 million.
The company's CEO is confident that digital assets are gradually turning everything into a market. He notes that the emergence of new forms of tradable instruments—from prediction markets to tokenized assets—is only accelerating this process. GoQuant, he says, intends to be at the center of this value movement.
He also points out that the crypto investor audience remains largely young. CryptoQuant previously reported that more than half of market participants are under 45, and the majority invest amounts under $10,000. Individual case studies highlight the scale of the opportunities—for example, Forbes estimates nineteen-year-old Barron Trump's net worth at $150 million, with him owning approximately 2.3 billion WLFI tokens.
