Business Developer
SynFutures is a platform for trading perps on Base
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About SynFutures
SynFutures is a decentralized derivatives marketplace for onchain perpetual contracts. The platform utilizes Oyster AMM, a novel solution that combines order book and AMM models fully onchain to enhance liquidity. It is designed for a wide range of traders and allows for permissionless listing of any asset in seconds. The system integrates active and passive liquidity provisions into a unified system and incorporates risk management practices from traditional and centralized finance. SynFutures partners with market makers, DeFi protocols, and L1/L2s to provide a robust onchain trading experience. SynFutures is a decentralized derivatives protocol featuring the Oyster AMM model, which builds upon its previous sAMM architecture. The Oyster AMM introduces several key features: 1) Single-Token Concentrated Liquidity for Derivatives, which facilitates liquidity concentration in specific price ranges and incorporates leverage for capital efficiency, using a single token for two-sided liquidity. 2) A Permissionless On-chain Orderbook, which democratizes market access and enhances capital efficiency, transparency, and security by keeping everything on-chain. 3) A Single Model for Unified Liquidity, which seamlessly integrates the concentrated liquidity AMM and the orderbook, providing a cohesive system for both active traders and passive liquidity providers, ensuring efficient atomic transactions. 4) Advanced user protection mechanisms like a dynamic penalty fee to discourage price manipulation and a stabilized mark price system to mitigate sudden price fluctuations. The protocol has been battle-tested across three versions, with over $75B in cumulative trading volume and 200K+ traders.
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About the Role
You will drive the development and execution of ecosystem strategy and identify, engage, and negotiate with DeFi projects, dApps, and other partners. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, marketing, and legal to ensure partnerships are integrated smoothly. You will lead complex negotiations, oversee deal execution and onboarding, and monitor partnership KPIs to provide actionable impact reporting.
Requirements
- 2.5+ years in business development, partnerships, or ecosystem growth within blockchain, DeFi, or intent sector
- Deep understanding of DeFi and Layer 2 scaling challenges and opportunities
- Proven track record building and scaling high-impact partnerships in the blockchain industry
- Exceptional negotiation skills for large, complex deals
- Technical acumen to work with engineering teams on integration requirements
- Nice to have: experience at other DeFi projects
- Nice to have: understanding of accelerator, incubator, or venture capital (VC)
- Nice to have: network or experience at trading firms
Responsibilities
- Drive ecosystem strategy and partnership development
- Identify and engage DeFi projects and dApps for strategic partnerships
- Negotiate and close high-level partnership deals
- Collaborate with product, engineering, marketing, and legal to integrate partnerships
- Oversee partnership lifecycle from negotiation to onboarding and integration
- Track partnership KPIs and report impact