altFINS Appoints a CSO to Lead AI Innovation in Crypto Trading and Investing
Bratislava, Slovakia, April 7th, 2025, Chainwire
altFINS, the leading crypto analytics platform, is proud to welcome Juraj Hric as its new Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). Mr. Hric brings a unique blend of academic expertise, FinTech leadership, and global experience spanning Australia, Hong Kong, and Europe.
Mr. Hric has held senior positions in both academia and industry. He led AI development as CEO of Zyanza, an InvestmentTech platform based in Sydney, and served as Senior Vice President at Macquarie Group, one of Australia’s top investment banks. He also contributes to the FinTech academic scene as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Sydney and UNSW Business School, specializing in financial technology and machine learning.
“Juraj’s deep experience in AI and quantitative finance makes him a perfect fit to lead our AI innovation efforts,” said Richard Fetyko, CEO of altFINS.
Powering the Next Generation of Crypto Tools with AI
During 2025, with Mr. Hric’s leadership, altFINS will be launching a suite of advanced AI-driven features designed to give traders a cutting-edge advantage:
- AI Trading Signals and Automation – data-backed signals and trading algos powered by generative AI models.
- AI Co-Pilot – a conversational interface to help users find trade setups, analyze assets, and navigate the platform using natural language.
- AI Technical Analysis – Automated pattern recognition and price action analysis for smarter trade planning across thousands of assets.
- News Sentiment – Real-time analysis of crypto news and social media sentiment that will feed into trading algos and traders’ decision-making process.
- AI Agent – Personalized portfolio analysis that proactively searches for trading and investment opportunities, risk mitigation strategies, and other timely market insights.
- Scalable social media marketing. Utilizing altFINS’ vast data and content, an AI Agent will identify and share timely market insights on social media networks to create broader awareness of altFINS.
“altFINS has accumulated years of history of trading analytics, on-chain data, news, research, and education content in the crypto domain. I’m excited to help altFINS leverage the latest AI advancements to unlock valuable investment insights and tools for traders,” added Juraj Hric.
These innovations reflect altFINS’ mission to bring institutional-grade trading intelligence to retail and professional crypto traders alike.
About altFINS
altFINS is an analytics platform that calculates over 120 analytics and scans thousands of digital assets to help active traders find trading ideas based on off-chain and on-chain data. They take market noise and turn it into market insights.
