Mikhail Antonov, popularly known by his cool moniker MAV, is the CEO of Citatrade, the world’s largest crypto Staking platform. Citatrade grew from an idea to the biggest market for crypto trading and staking in just a few months. Mikhail, turned into a crypto billionaire pretty quickly, becoming a sensation in the world of blockchain.

Let’s take a look at some interesting facts about him.

Mikhail Rose to Fame in Less than 1 year

Citatrade was founded in February 2017 to service Asset Management firms and hedge funds, and it was launched globally to online clients in the beginning of 2020 It became the biggest crypto staking market in the world in a little under 6 months. Its fund raising led by some of the largest venture capitalist firms in the world raised over $25 Million USd in January this year.

He Worked on Another Trading System before Founding Citatrade

In 2005, Mikhail was in The United States, where he Joined the team that developed Metatrader. It was a trading platform for brokers. He started his crypto journey in 2013 with blockchain.com.

The Maserati Giveaway

He seems to love rather unusual marketing tactics. Citatrade has offered several promotions. One of them had a Maserati as a giveaway! While Mikhail himself isn’t a car Fanatic, his company’s promotional methods have generated a lot of attention. Although we’ll have to give it to his marketing chief who came up with this idea.

He Worked at McDonald’s

Mikhail was born in St petersburg, a province in Russia. His parents moved to Canada soon after he was born. As a young man, he started working to help with the household expenses. In the 1980’s, he joined McDonald’s and flipped burgers to help his family.

Later, he went to McGill University and studied Computer Science. He was also passionate about stock markets and trading, which made him choose this career.

He’s Minting Money Now

Worked at gas stations and McDonald’s, and he’s here now. His company, Citatrade.com , is expected to rake in about $300 Million in profits in 2020 alone. Even with the Current Economic situation, Citatrade has recorded massive investment from all around the world

With such unprecedented success, Mikhail has become a crypto star, and rightly so. His company, Citatrade can easily handle millions of dollars in transactions each Day.