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Protocol Researcher

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The Protocol Researcher will focus on researching mechanisms for decentralized finance, designing new protocols like Doppler, and collaborating with engineering to build these ideas.
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About the role

This role is going to be working on Doppler and other new onchain protocols.

Responsibilities
  1. Research - stay up to date on the latest and greatest in mechanism design

  2. Design - new iterations and improvements to Doppler, or other novel protocols

  3. Help build - work with our engineering team to see ideas through to production

What we're looking for

You have a world class understanding of how decentralized finance works, what's been attempted before, and where the industry is likely going. You enjoy auction theory and thinking about capital efficiency. You understand the internals of Uniswap concentrated liquidity math and designing at the cutting edge of blockchain limitations excites you. You have written and spoken communication skills and are able to thrive in an asynchronous remote work environment.

About Whetstone Research

Whetstone Research is focused on designing and building new protocols that accelerate the future of onchain markets. The team is less than 10 people with deep hands on experience in the blockchain industry; previously at Uniswap, Primitive, Aztec, and numerous others. We are working on Doppler, a hyper-efficient price discovery and liquidity bootstrapping Protocol built on the EVM, used by Zora and others. Learn more about Whetstone on our website or read our blog. Let's build the future of onchain markets together.

Top Skills

Blockchain
Decentralized Finance
Evm
Uniswap

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