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Crypto and web3

Tinker

Tinker is a cryptocurrency electronic trading & market making firm, founded in 2014. At our peak we've processed $10m+ in daily volumes and represented 10-20% of all BTCUSD trading on regulated exchanges.

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Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
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Y Combinator
competitors
4
Mapped from High Signal graph features.
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D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #960

Tinker is a cryptocurrency electronic trading & market making firm, founded in 2014. At our peak we've processed $10m+ in daily volumes and represented 10-20% of all BTCUSD trading on regulated exchanges.

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generated read
High Signal interpretation

Tinker is classified as Crypto and web3 from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
regulated exchanges
mapping method
Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Tinker

Crypto and web3 · 4 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.