Analyst in DeFi

Position Summary

Analyst in DeFi – Analyze, design, and optimize DeFi strategies with a focus on delta‑neutral yield and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate protocols across multiple categories, including CEXs/DEXs, perpetuals, tokenized equities, money markets, yield aggregators, and related infrastructure.
• Track and interpret key metrics such as TVL flows, liquidity depth, token unlocks, funding rates, and pool utilization across different chains.
• Prepare investment memos and risk reports outlining opportunities, red flags, and expected returns.
• Pull, structure and analyze on‑chain data from various sources.
• Design and evaluate yield‑farming and delta‑neutral strategies.
• Build internal dashboards to monitor positions, yields, funding rates, liquidity depth, and overall protocol performance.

Requirements

• Highly analytical mindset and deep curiosity about how the crypto and DeFi ecosystem works.
• Comfortable working independently, synthesizing complex information, and forming clear, well‑reasoned conclusions.
• 1+ year of experience in DeFi research, on‑chain analytics, or yield strategy design.
• Strong understanding of core DeFi primitives: AMMs, perpetuals, lending protocols, bridges, liquidation mechanics, and funding rates.
• Solid analytical skills in tokenomics and valuation frameworks.
• Hands‑on experience with blockchain explorers, Dune, DeFiLlama, Nansen, Arkham, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with on‑chain data (RPC queries, events/logs) and reading basic Solidity code.
• Strong understanding of risk frameworks, including protocol mechanics, smart‑contract risk, oracle and manipulation risk, economic risk, and MEV exposure.
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher (reading and writing).

Bonus

• Deep understanding of the options market.
• Up‑to‑date market knowledge, including the ability to clearly explain how protocols such as Pendle or Yieldbasis work