Whetstone Research

Location: United States Workplace: Remote About the role This role will be the first BD and Growth hire at Whetstone Research. Responsibilities 1. Lead institutional growth for Doppler http://doppler.lol - sales, BD, and the strategic relationships that turn warm intros into bespoke production deployments 2. Build Whetstone's institutional surface: funds, asset managers, banks, fintechs, and corporates that want to bring or use assets onchain. 3. Be the translation layer between institutional buyers and our protocol teams - feeding product, integration, and regulatory signals back so we build what the market actually needs 4. Help us know what we don't know. Which institutional segments are shipping next, which are noise, and where should we be skating to? What we're looking for We believe that the time for Institutions to come onchain is here. After a decade of whitepapers and pilots, institutions are finally getting serious. BlackRock, Apollo, Franklin Templeton, JPM, Fidelity, and dozens of others have moved from "exploring" to live deployments. Within the next 24 months many of these organizations will decide which protocols and infra the billions or even trillions behind them actually settle on. We want someone who already lives at that intersection and wants to own Doppler's seat at the table. You probably have a warm rolodex inside one or more of: the digital assets desks at major banks (JPM, GS, BNY, Citi), crypto-native institutional players (Fidelity Digital Assets, Galaxy, BitGo, Anchorage, Coinbase Institutional), the tokenization teams at TradFi asset managers (Apollo, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, WisdomTree), or the new infra layer (Securitize, Ondo, Superstate, Figure). You understand why Doppler's novel approach to protocol design matters to a treasurer thinking about a tokenized bond just as much as to a coin launch on Zora - and ideally, you can hold a credible conversation about settlement risk with a CIO in the morning and MEV with a protocol team in the afternoon. Even better if you've previously built an institutional book from zero at another crypto-native company, or led the digital assets push inside a TradFi institution and are now ready to do it onchain for real. You're comfortable being a player-coach for the first 6 months - running the meetings, writing the memos, closing the deals yourself - before building the team around you. Generally, we hope that you love this industry as much as we do, that you've been watching tokenization mature long enough to know the difference between the real deals and the theater, and that you're as terminally online as we are. 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 15 people with deep hands on experience in the blockchain industry; previously at Uniswap, AAVE, Aztec, Hedera, and other household big tech names like Google, Amazon, or LinkedIn. We build Doppler - custom market infrastructure for new asset classes. Doppler has created over 14 million new digital assets that have done over $2 billion in lifetime trading volume. Let's build the future of onchain markets together.

Location: Remote Workplace: Remote ABOUT THE ROLE This role involves helping third-party teams integrate Doppler’s smart contract protocol, SDK, and Indexer, while building new features to support their needs. You’ll work directly with teams like Zora, Bankr, FxHash, Paragraph, and others. RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Designing - helping various applications design their ideal Doppler integration 2. Implementing - from example code to hands on pull requests 3. Testing - automating reliability using the latest & greatest methodologies 4. Shipping - ensuring successful production deployments 5. Optimization - iterating on market structures towards ideal outcomes WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR You’re an experienced engineer who has shipped and supported production systems. You write clean, maintainable code and understand what it takes to move integrations from design to deployment. You’re highly proficient in TypeScript and comfortable working across or building new SDKs, APIs, and even getting your hands dirty with smart contracts. You can read unfamiliar codebases quickly, write example integrations, submit production-ready pull requests, and debug issues across application and contract boundaries. Ideally, you: - Have strong TypeScript experience - Have integrated with EVM smart contracts in production - Write solid automated tests - Communicate clearly and work well with external engineering teams - Thrive in remote, high-ownership environments - Have maintained production consumer applications with high volume or usage You’re pragmatic, reliable, and excited about shipping high quality onchain integrations that will do millions in volume on a daily basis. ABOUT WHETSTONE RESEARCH Whetstone Research http://whetstone.cc is focused on designing and building new protocols that accelerate the future of onchain markets. The team is around 10 people with deep hands on experience in the blockchain industry; previously at Uniswap, Primitive, Aztec, and numerous others. We are working on Doppler http://doppler.lol, a hyper-efficient price discovery and liquidity bootstrapping protocol. Let's build the future of onchain markets together.

Location: Global Workplace: Remote ABOUT THE ROLE This role will be the first marketing hire at Whetstone Research. RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Lead marketing for Doppler http://doppler.lol 2. Create digital content for social media, multiple websites, and video campaigns 3. Manage internal and external contributors to release high quality content 4. Help us know what we don't know. How, and what, should we prioritize? WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR We are looking for someone who understands the unique ins-and-outs of the blockchain industry. Someone who gets NFT or memecoin culture, yet also knows why Stripe and various fortune 500 companies are inevitably going to come onchain, or even build their own chains. This ideal person for this role will be comfortable and have experience working across Whetstone's multiple audiences, from our application's focus on consumer trading, to Doppler being a more traditional B2B SaaS product. Even better if you have previous experience leading consumer go to market or marketing at other successful companies. Generally, we hope that you love this industry as much as we do, and are as terminally online as we are. 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 15 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, Bankr, and others. Learn more about Whetstone on our website http://whetstone.cc or read our blog https://paragraph.com/@whetstone. Let's build the future of onchain markets together.

Location: Global Workplace: Remote ABOUT THE ROLE This role is going to be working on the open source Doppler SDK and Indexer. RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Implementing - new SDK and Indexer features 2. Testing - automate backend testing alongside a release pipeline 3. Support - helping applications and protocols integrate the SDK and Indexer 4. Shipping - overseeing successful production releases with release notes and versioning WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Ideally are experienced implementing and delivering highly reliable and scalable backend data services. You are deeply familiar with TypeScript and GraphQL. You have an understanding of the blockchain industry and the difficulties of managing multichain indexer deployments. You know that testnet faucets are frustrating to deal with and have clever solutions for testing across all various configurations that users may end up deploying. You have experience contributing to and managing open source software projects external teams rely on in production. You like helping others solve their problems with novel solutions and are a great communicator. 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 http://whetstone.cc or read our blog https://paragraph.com/@whetstone.

Location: Global Workplace: Remote ABOUT THE ROLE This role is going to be working on Pure Markets https://pure.st. RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Implementing - new UI features and improved designs 2. Testing - automate UI testing alongside a release pipeline 3. Shipping - overseeing successful production releases WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Hopefully you're obsessed with implementing high quality user experiences and interfaces. Ideally you're product minded and have a deep amount of respect for users. You love the blockchain industry and everything that entails, including an understanding of why non-custodial UX is what it is. You enjoy quickly testing out and iterating on a product until finding something that converts to real, tangible outcomes. You work well as part of a team, know when to ask for help, and lean on your colleagues in a remote environment to ensure we are continuously releasing improvements. You have experience delivering highly reliable and modern interfaces to millions of users. 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 http://whetsone.cc or read our blog https://paragraph.com/@whetstone. Let's build the future of onchain markets together.