Founded in March this year, Blankly was nothing more than just a personal frustration. It was an attempt to improve and connect several API’s between crypto exchanges to trade on. Existing solutions were too limiting—we knew we wanted a powerful codebase, with the ability that enables quant developers to implement one trading algorithm that could be used to backtest and deploy to trade live.
Over the last nine months, Blankly has grown out of that attempt and now built into an fully-fledged open source package, a complete quant developer platform, and an API to connect and trade across all exchanges. As this is just the beginning, we are excited as to what holds in the near future, and how we can continue to support quant developers along their journey in algorithmic trading.
With that, here is everything we’ve done this year!
FIRST, THE NUMBERS
On Github for our open source Blankly package:
34,848 total downloads
24 version releases, starting with v0.1.0-alpha on March 13 to now the most recent v1.14.0-beta on December 20
430 stars
51 contributors
58 pull requests, with 56 closed
29 issues threads, with 16 resolved
Our community contributions and engagement:
Launched 2 newsletter updates
640 total newsletter views
77 newsletter subscribers
49 active Discord members
23 r/blankly members
THE DETAILS
Complete support for Coinbase Pro, Binance, Alpaca, and OANDA
Easy 1 command setup
Backtest, paper trade, and go live in under 20 lines of code
Stream extremely stable websocket feeds in under 5 lines support across exchanges
Integrated price & data aggregation with time range adaptive to the backtest ranges and times
Built in financial indicators & metrics to reduce extra dependencies and package searching
and more…
The open source package is the core for Blankly, and we will continue to support it for years to come. We look forward to seeing what new, exciting models you can build and create with it!
Now, for the future...
Check out our new blog! There’ll be much more coming soon, whether it be on certain technologies used in trading, industry trends, business updates, and other interesting topics.
Meet the Founders: Brandon Fan, Cofounder and CEO
The Rise of Crypto Hedge Funds
We are so excited for 2022, as there’s much more in store for the future. Below is a few of what’s planned to come:
Full launch of our Blankly Platform
Custom dataset backtesting with Blankly Data
No code data pipelines with financial data hosting and partnerships
Improvements with order execution and smart routing to reduce slippage
FTX, IBKR Equities, Kraken, and other NFT + Wallet integrations
Experimental work in DeFi
If you have any exciting ideas or suggestions that you think would really help you in your workflow, feel free to reach out either through our Discord, set up a call with us, subreddit, or simply replying to this email. We read and listen to each and every comment!
Finally, a last message from Brandon, our CEO:
Hey Blankly community, I just want to say how blessed I am to be on this journey with you all. Blankly started out of our own struggles of building trading algorithms and our desire to try to just “build”, not do everything else. It’s been a wild few months as we’ve seen our package grow from a little side project, to being used by so many different individuals with a wide variety of use cases. I’ve been able to talk to so many different individuals, see what they’re building, and why they’re excited for this, and can’t wait to see more and more individuals use our package and our many other products that are coming out to empower everyone from the hobbyist, to the hedge fund trading millions of dollars. We have a lot in store so stay tuned!
Thanks again,
Brandon Fan