One Platform. Two Years. $1 Billion Per Day.

Chris Pento
Clear Street
Published in
1 min readJul 19, 2021
The Clear Street team celebrates outside NASDAQ.

Clear Street’s clearing and custody platform launched two years ago this month. In short order, we’ve reached the point where we’re handling over a billion dollars in trades daily. How did we get here? There are lots of reasons, including a lot of hard work. In the past year alone, our engineering team has added over a million lines of code. We’ve created over 75,000 CICD pipelines, representing every test, build, and deployment we’ve accomplished. We’re building quickly.

As we look ahead, I wanted to take a moment to highlight key decisions we made as a team to propel the growth of the company and our platform:

1. We solved the problem behind the problem

If you ask anyone who trades thousands of shares per day and doesn’t have a billion dollars in their account what’s wrong with their current broker, they’ll probably say at least one of the following things: it can be hard to get access to the services I need, the tools aren’t very good, and the data is slow and messy. All of those are problems, but they’re just surface problems.

Keep reading on our blog:

www.clearstreet.io/insights/one-platform-two-years-1-billion-per-day

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