Researcher
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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.
Skills
About the Role
You will conduct comprehensive research on emerging DeFi protocols and products. You will build and calibrate risk models, optimize mechanism parameters, and analyze financial and on-chain data to extract actionable insights. You will run and write Dune Analytics and SQL queries to fetch and normalize data, read and interpret smart contract whitepapers, and produce professional reports. You will present findings to clients and the broader community, collaborate with internal teams to refine outputs, and contribute to continuous improvement of research processes and tools.
Requirements
- European Time Zone
- Proven experience in economic research, risk analysis, or a related field
- Preferable experience in DeFi or blockchain protocols
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to compile and write formal research papers and reports
- Proficient in reading and understanding smart contract whitepapers
- Comfortable running and modifying Dune Analytics queries and writing basic SQL queries
- Ability to work with clients and internal teams
Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive analysis of emerging DeFi protocols and products
- Model and calibrate protocol risk parameters
- Optimize mechanism design and protocol parameters
- Analyze financial and on-chain data to extract actionable insights
- Run, modify, and write Dune Analytics and SQL queries for data fetching and normalization
- Read and interpret smart contract whitepapers
- Develop and deliver professional research reports
- Present research findings to clients and the community
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine outputs
- Contribute to continuous improvement of research methods and tools