DeFi Protocol Specialist

About Messari

Messari is the industry’s leading market intelligence company focused on the digital asset ecosystem. We provide curated insights, market data, and research solutions that empower our customers to form actionable insights to confidently make decisions in the fast-moving cryptoasset space. At Messari, we believe crypto is the technology of the free people, free-thinking, and free markets. We believe that cryptoassets have the potential to revolutionize both technology and finance and improve the lives of people everywhere.

About the Job

In this role, you will contribute as a core member of the Messari Intel team. Intel is a leading crypto intelligence tool used by top investors, exchanges, and crypto teams as part of our Enterprise suite. On a daily basis, you’ll be responsible for identifying key events happening on various DeFi applications and providing actionable summaries for our users while becoming well versed in multiple crypto protocols and assets.  As a DeFi Protocol Specialist on the Messari Intel team, you will be directly involved with the research and analysis of the latest developments, releases, and launches for new and existing DeFi applications across Ethereum, Avalanche, BSC, Solana, Cosmos, Polkadot, Algorand, Fantom, and more. This position involves participating in project discords, forums, Twitter, GitHub, and other communication channels to stay on top of updates and ensure that our users never miss an important update in a constantly evolving space. Candidates with knowledge or familiarity of AMMs, lending protocols, decentralized derivatives, stablecoins, and flashloans are encouraged to apply. This position is a unique opportunity to become an expert in the inner workings and developments in DeFi while contributing to an industry-leading crypto market intelligence platform.  Crypto is 24/7 and global so we are seeking remote candidates across a range of time zones.

Responsibilities

• Become an expert in understanding DeFi protocols and their governance processes.
• Update internal systems as updates, releases, and launches occur within DeFi with synthesis and analysis of these events.
• Research and conduct diligence around new or yet-to-be-launched DeFi protocols. 
• Ensure that all updates are added in a timely manner and that information is accurate.
• Active participation in DeFi project’s communication channels including but not limited to Telegram, Twitter, and Discord.
• Active monitoring and analysis of software releases and smart contract deployments.

Qualifications

• Strong familiarity with DeFi primitives across smart contract platforms and or their traditional finance counterparts. 
• Experience using or contributing to DeFi protocols and their governance processes.
• Understanding of various blockchain analytics tools, and competency ingesting and analyzing network data.  
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment and make decisions with minimal oversight.
• Bonus points for things like a high degen score or a strong presence on crypto twitter and other social channels.
• Strong English reading and writing skills.

Our commitments

Messari is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and respected consistently. Diversity of experience drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, and competitive and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, and have our product reflect the diversity of our customers. At Messari, we welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, socioeconomic status, religion, age, marital or parental status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.