Around a year ago I was working in banking as a risk analyst. Around that time, I started questioning my goals as a banker, it first seemed like an obvious career choice after years of finance education, but I was looking for something more adventurous.After the financial crisis, the banking sector was mostly about reconciliation and regulation, and I graduated when business was slumping. I joined a financial institution and although I learnt a lot during those years, it appeared to me that I was being taught the standard way of doing things but there was little room for innovation.One day my boss forwarded me an invitation to a FinTech conference in London, the Quantech conference, and he asked me to represent him at the event. So I went and that was the first time I heard about blockchain, bitcoin and smart contracts. After that, it was a fast chain of events: I read everything available about blockchain, went to meetups and conferences and started giving presentations internally about bitcoin and blockchain.This led me to the HackEthon event in September 2016 at Thomson Reuters, where I met Vlad, as CryptoCompare was one of the sponsors. He explained to me that the crypto space is like the wild wild west, information is scattered and there are a lot of scams, but with CryptoCompare he wants to build a trusted source of information that users can go to if they want to learn about a cryptocurrency, mining, exchange or wallet, and many more.After that, I was introduced to Charlie, who co-founded CryptoCompare, and I quickly realised that these are the good guys of the crypto space (and many people confirmed).CryptoCompare wants to deliver consistency, trust and truth for the crypto space.So I joined CryptoCompare in January 2017!It is an exciting space to be in right now, watching governments trying to deal with cryptocurrencies, companies issuing their own share tokens, traders pumping and dumping coins. And indeed, the cryptocurrency market is the wild wild west, but every day is a new learning opportunity. And that’s why it is so important to share the knowledge with others, so the crypto space can become safer.My personal goal at CryptoCompare is to help users become financially literate by building tools for them to analyse and mitigate financial risk.So this was my intro blog post, I’ll come back with more data and finance related posts soon. Happy trading!Why I joined CryptoCompare was originally published in Tales from the Crypto on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.