Inside the Crypto Market Speed Race (Jamie Brown of TheHUB)

Today Sags sits down with Jamie Brown, co-founder of Global Kiwi Labs and TheHUB, with over 30 years in telecom infrastructure, trading systems, and exchange connectivity. He has led the deployment of wireless and fiber networks into major global colocation sites, delivering low-latency, policy-compliant access for high-frequency trading environments.Jamie previously held senior roles at Teza, Colt, and Virtu Financial, and founded Versocom Group where he focuses on the physical and regulatory architecture of market access—spanning cross-connect design, wireless entry, and data center equalization. Versocom’s customers are the largest tradfi exchanges on the planet in the USA, Europe Asia and South America. The convergence of Defi and Tradfi in TheHUB is the natural place for Jamie to leverage this experience and contribute to the evolution of on chain trading.Here’s what you’ll get from this conversation:🔥 Why crypto trading infrastructure is still wildly unoptimized🔥 The physics behind latency and why meters of fiber actually matter🔥 How colocated validators could change blockchain performance🔥 Why fairness in markets is really about identical latency🔥 The role of multicast feeds in high speed trading system🔥 How a universal timestamp could replace priority fee ordering🔥 Why the fastest traders make decisions in nanoseconds🔥 The hidden inefficiencies inside traditional stock market settlement🔥 Why tokenized equities are becoming inevitable for exchanges🔥 The long term vision for a global multi chain trading hub0:00 Intro08:53 First Exposure to Crypto15:46 Why Fiber Length Matters22:50 Dedicated Market Infrastructure29:49 Evaluating Competitive Latency35:03 Arbitrage and Latency Advantage40:02 Why Colocation Becomes Essential45:24 Why This Matters for Blockchains50:42 Long Term Vision for TheHUBConnect with Sags:https://x.com/RobertSagurton Trade without Compromise @ Fogohttps://www.fogo.io/