DeFi Quant Trader — On-Chain Liquidity & Alpha

The Bitcoin Street Journal; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bitcoin Street Journal seeks an experienced DeFi / On-Chain Trader to join its New York team. You will identify and execute opportunities across decentralized markets, with emphasis on liquidity, market structure, and alpha generation across on-chain ecosystems.

This role requires a deep understanding of DeFi capital flows and strong quantitative skills, plus proficiency with Python and on-chain data sources.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience trading digital assets, DeFi markets, crypto derivatives, or related electronic markets.
• Deep understanding of decentralized finance ecosystems and how major protocols function.
• Strong knowledge of AMMs, liquidity pools, lending markets, perpetual futures, staking mechanisms, and tokenomics.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and capitalize on market inefficiencies.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skill set.
• Proficiency in Python and experience working with on-chain data.
• Knowledge of blockchain analytics platforms and protocol data sources.
• Strong understanding of risk management and portfolio construction.
• Ability to thrive in fast-moving markets with limited supervision.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a high level of ownership and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a proprietary trading book focused on DeFi, on-chain liquidity, and digital asset markets.
• Research, develop, and execute trading strategies across decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, perpetuals venues, and emerging on-chain products.
• Identify opportunities across market-neutral, directional, arbitrage, basis, funding, and liquidity-provision strategies.
• Monitor blockchain activity, token flows, wallet behavior, and protocol incentives to generate actionable trading signals.
• Analyze market microstructure across both centralized and decentralized venues.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to build automated trading systems, execution infrastructure, and monitoring tools.
• Evaluate new protocols, liquidity venues, token launches, and ecosystem developments.
• Actively manage portfolio risk, exposure, counterparty risk, and smart contract risk.
• Optimize capital deployment across multiple chains, protocols, and trading strategies.
• Contribute to strategic decisions around new product initiatives and market expansion.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

On-chain data

Python

Market intuition

Tools

SQL

Blockchain analytics platforms

Job description

The Bitcoin Street Journal seeks an experienced DeFi / On-Chain Trader to join its New York team. You will identify and execute opportunities across decentralized markets, with emphasis on liquidity, market structure, and alpha generation across on-chain ecosystems.

This role requires a deep understanding of DeFi capital flows and strong quantitative skills, plus proficiency with Python and on-chain data sources.