John Divine — Institutional Crypto Execution, BlockFills

John Divine is a financial markets professional and crypto execution specialist focused on structured products, derivatives, lending, borrowing, and spot execution for digital assets. He began his career as a market maker on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Intercontinental Exchange, trading listed derivatives in precious metals, interest rates, energies, and forward volatility curves. Over that span he logged more than 20,000 hours of professional trading and market-making experience and executed more than $10 billion in notional contract value as a statistical arbitrage trader across CME, ICE, and OTC markets as a direct-access market maker.

Divine later moved into digital assets, first as an execution specialist for a leading crypto hedge fund, and today works with BlockFills, engaging institutional participants in crypto strategy development and trade execution. He is also an author and public speaker on crypto market structure, known for explaining how derivatives — from covered calls to protective puts — let miners and long-term holders hedge volatility, generate cash flow, and manage downside risk without necessarily giving up exposure to Bitcoin. He frequently discusses market sentiment indicators such as options skew and contango in forward curves as read-throughs on institutional positioning.

His background gives him a distinctive vantage point: someone who learned market-making in the most heavily regulated derivatives markets in the world before bringing that discipline into a still-maturing crypto market structure.

On the Roundtable 100 Blue Ribbon Committee, Divine brings institutional-grade derivatives and execution expertise, useful for assessing liquidity and market dominance across digital assets.