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NO. 01/ABOUT/FOUNDED 2021/NON-CUSTODIAL · 150+ VENUES · 12 ALPHA TOOLS
One terminal.Built for the traderwho has too many tabs open.
Blockcircle is a remote-first, non-custodial unified execution platform founded in 2021 by Basel Ismail. We combine market intelligence and trade execution across 150+ venues spanning crypto, stocks, commodities, metals, FX, and prediction markets — sourcing the alpha and routing the trade from a single terminal.
130,000+
Markets Tracked
150+
Execution Venues
12
Alpha Tools
6
Asset Classes
02 MISSION
Collapse the tabs.
Source the alpha.
Route the trade.
Twelve engines.
One execution surface.
One execution surface.
Markets are fragmented across hundreds of platforms — exchanges, brokers, prediction venues, DEXs, perp protocols — each with different alpha signals, interfaces, and execution rails. Traders end up jumping between Telegram, Discord, TradingView, trading bots, CEXs, and DEXs just to act on a single idea.
Blockcircle collapses that into one terminal. We source the alpha — whale flows, congressional trades, insider buys, momentum signals, prediction-market mispricings, and macro indicators — and route the trade across 150+ venues covering crypto, stocks, commodities, precious metals, FX, and prediction markets, with Smart Routing across exchanges, sequential and simultaneous fan-out across accounts, and autopilot copy trading.
We are non-custodial by design. We never hold your keys, wallets, or funds. Every trade is signed from your own wallet on-chain, or fired through your own exchange API key. Trade guards, kill-switch, and per-asset limits are always on.
03 WHAT WE DO
Twelve alpha tools.
One execution layer.
Every asset class.
Every major venue.
Every major venue.
01
Trade Alpha
Unified live signals, charts, and one-click execution across every venue.
02
Prediction Alpha
Mispriced event contracts across 6 prediction platforms with cross-match arbitrage.
03
Whale Alpha
Profitable PERP wallets across many blockchains and DEXs (Hyperliquid, GMX, Drift, dYdX) plus prediction whales.
04
Political Alpha
Congressional and parliamentary trades across 18 countries, scored and ranked.
05
Insider Alpha
Officer / director / 10%-owner insider buys and activist disclosures with cluster scoring.
06
Momentum Trading Engine
11 entry systems, multi-timeframe scoring, and live signal delivery.
07
Market Reversal Engine
Multi-signal confluence for tops and bottoms across crypto and equities.
08
Asset Outperformer Engine
500+ assets ranked by relative strength across 6 timeframes.
09
Alpha Hunter
Token launches and exchange listings the moment they go live.
10
Global Liquidity Score
8 central banks, one aggregate M2 signal that front-runs risk assets.
11
Macro Risk Score
7 recession models and 50+ economic indicators in one dashboard.
12
Altcoin Market Score
11 metrics combined into one regime classifier for the altcoin market.
EXECUTION LAYER
Smart Routing across 150+ venues.
One order ticket. Every asset class.
Sequential and simultaneous fan-out across accounts, autopilot copy trading, paper-trading sandbox, kill-switch, and trade guards. Wired to 150+ venues — major CEXs, DEX spot, DEX perps (Hyperliquid, GMX, Drift, and more), DEX aggregators, traditional stock brokers, commodities desks, precious metals dealers, FX brokers, and prediction market platforms — all in one order ticket.
04 INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE
Built by alumni of
Wall Street & Main Street.
Trading systems.
Risk platforms.
Real markets.
Risk platforms.
Real markets.
Goldman Sachs
Trading systems — real-time market data infrastructure and quantitative analysis tools
ScotiaBank
Capital markets technology — derivatives pricing and risk management platforms
Yahoo!
Ad-tech platforms — high-scale real-time bidding and audience analytics systems
Inclusion above is founder alumni status. Not an endorsement.
05 ACADEMIC FOUNDATIONS
Where the team
did the reading.
MBAs · MScs · BComm
across four continents.
across four continents.
Cornell University
University of East Anglia
Queen's University Belfast
Universitas Katolik Soegijapranata
Lebanese American University
06 RECOGNITION
Third-party
validation.
Verifiable.
Public. On record.
Public. On record.
4.9 / 5 on Trustpilot
69 verified reviews from real customers
Main stage, CoinFest Asia 2025
CEO Basel Ismail presented "The Art of Alpha Hunting"
Cornell MBA founder
Built by a Cornell University MBA alum
FirmAdapt
CEO Basel Ismail also leads FirmAdapt, an AI business-transformation consultancy
Read verified customer reviews at the customer testimonials page or directly on Trustpilot.
07 LEADERSHIP
The people
building the engine.
Cofounder team.
Five continents.
Five continents.
Basel Ismail
Co-Founder & CEO
Basel is a data scientist and financial engineer. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Blockcircle. He has extensive experience across Wall Street and Main Street; he most recently left his executive position at American Express where he was the Director of AI & Product Engineering, to focus on his own ventures.
He has an MBA from Cornell University, an MS in Information Security and Risk Management from Norwich University, a BComm in Computer Network Engineering from Ryerson University, and substantial training in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has worked for and had leadership roles at Yahoo!, Scotiabank, Goldman Sachs, and American Express.
Cornell University
Agnes Rahangiar
Co-Founder, Blockcircle Indonesia
Co-Founder of Blockcircle Indonesia, leading expansion across Southeast Asia. Manages platform partnerships and community growth in one of the world's fastest-growing prediction market regions.
Universitas Katolik Soegijapranata
Conor O'Neill
Co-Founder, Blockcircle SEA
Co-Founder of Blockcircle South East Asia, driving growth and market expansion across the SEA region. Brings deep regional expertise and strategic partnerships to accelerate platform adoption.
Queen's University Belfast
Rania Halabi
Co-Founder, Blockcircle MENA
Co-Founder of Blockcircle MENA, overseeing operations across the Middle East and North Africa. Drives adoption across Arabic-speaking markets and builds relationships with regional trading communities.
Lebanese American University
Alex Hunter
Co-Founder
Better known in the crypto community as Crypto Hunter, Alex brings a sharp eye for identifying emerging investment narratives before they reach the mainstream. He focuses on researching promising sectors and uncovering opportunities across the crypto landscape, helping the team stay one step ahead of the market.
08 SECURITY POSTURE
What compliance
signs off on.
Trade-only keys.
Kill-switch always on.
Kill-switch always on.
- Non-custodial — We never hold your keys, wallets, or funds. Every trade is signed from your own wallet on-chain or fired through your own exchange API key.
- Trade-only API keys — Withdrawals disabled. IP-restricted.
- Google Cloud KMS — Every stored secret wrapped in GCP-managed envelope encryption.
- Trade Guards always on — Global kill-switch, daily loss caps, max position size limits, circuit breakers, and per-asset allowlists.
- SOC 2 roadmap — In progress with a third-party auditor.
09 GET IN TOUCHQuestions, partnerships,
Questions, partnerships,
or enterprise enquiries.
We respond within 24 hours on business days.
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