DeFi Specialist
Skills
About the Role
You will serve as the operational backbone for DeFi growth: advising builders on protocol design and UX, onboarding new protocols and assets end-to-end, coordinating oracles, liquidators, DEX liquidity, curators, and bridges, and monitoring the ecosystem to spot risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities. You will produce rapid, actionable teardowns of protocol frontends and documentation, inform incentive strategies with data-driven opinions, and prioritize efforts that increase TVL, volume, market cap, and fees.
Requirements
- Encyclopedic knowledge of DeFi protocols (e.g., Aave, Morpho, Euler)
- Demonstrated ability to assess asset quality including stablecoins and RWAs
- Experience coordinating onboarding across oracles, liquidation infrastructure, DEX liquidity, curators, and bridges
- Ability to perform rapid protocol teardowns and produce specific, actionable recommendations
- Framework-driven approach to evaluating incentive efficiency supported by data
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Responsibilities
- Advise DeFi builders on protocol design, UX, market positioning, and competitive gaps
- Execute end-to-end onboarding of new protocols and assets, coordinating oracles, liquidators, DEX pools, curators, and bridges
- Prioritize and evaluate assets for onboarding based on market demand, composability value, and risk assessment
- Monitor the DeFi ecosystem and flag gaps, imbalances, or inefficiencies
- Inform incentive strategy to attract durable TVL and deter mercenary capital
- Drive growth in TVL, volume, stablecoin and RWA market cap, and fees