# Aadharsh Pannirselvam

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## Education

**University of Chicago** · Chicago, IL
A.B. Economics, minor in Data Science. 3.81 GPA. June 2024.

## Experience

**Archetype** · New York, NY
Research Analyst -> Analyst -> Associate -> Principal. October 2023 to Present.
- Investments: TACEO, Turnkey. Portfolio companies worked closely with: Ritual, Opacity, Odyn.
- Conduct sourcing, diligence, and decision for investments in Archetype's Fund II and III, most focused on applied cryptography.
- Wrote the 3-part "Privacy 2.0" series on PETs (TEEs, MPC, FHE) and co-authored investment theses on archetype.fund.
- Built, deployed, and maintain a firm-wide Slack AI agent on DigitalOcean Kubernetes, plus its 20-skill local sidekick toolkit.
- Work with Archetype's portfolio companies across funds to direct strategy on product, marketing, and engineering.
- Forecasted the results of the USBTC-Hut8 merger in the context of BTC, HPC/AI, and power-grid pricing dynamics.

**Galaxy** · New York, NY
Analyst, Ventures Team. Summers 2022 and 2023 (June to August).
- Conducted market sourcing, diligence, and decision for technical investments in Galaxy's Principal Investments Fund.
- Researched a taxonomy of Move-based chains as part of diligence into Mysten's Series A round in 2022.
- Analyzed cross-chain stablecoin bridging and modeled impermanent loss between staking and providing AMM liquidity.
- Wrote future-facing theses on mechanism design for Proposer-Builder-separated fee markets and protocols in response to MEV.

**Benzinga Crypto** · Detroit, MI (Remote)
Blockchain Analyst. January to June 2022.
- Wrote educational content on blockchain, DeFi, and Web3 spanning technical topics such as IPFS and ZK proofs.
- Researched trends in the blockchain space to produce comparative content, focused on investment opportunities.
- Used Glassnode's on-chain data analytics to generate graphics and keywords to maximize article traffic.

**Flipside Crypto** · Boston, MA
Data Science. May to September 2021.
- Analyzed cross-chain Ethereum bridges and price data, published in OurNetwork Issue #91.
- Developed bounties and evaluated submissions for 3,100+ community researchers on Compound, Uniswap, and Yearn.
- Learned SQL and web scraping to validate and update tokenomic data on Snowflake across multiple chains and protocols.

## Leadership & Extracurricular

**ChicagoDAO** · Chicago, IL
External Governance Team, Maker Lead. March 2022 to June 2024.
- Managed the DAO's Uniswap, Compound, and MakerDAO token delegations, evaluating and designing governance proposals.
- Worked with Prof. Anthony Lee Zhang to build and maintain relations with alumni in crypto and decentralized systems.

**Blockchain Chicago** · Chicago, IL
Co-Founder, Instructor. August 2021 to June 2024.
- Built development and business curriculum with other universities' clubs to support members' DeFi literacy.
- Outlined a DAO for post-education ventures and collaborations with blockchain clubs at Booth and UChicago Law.

**Oeconomica** · Chicago, IL
Researcher, Labor and Consumption Cohort. October 2021 to February 2022.
- Designed and co-authored an original research paper on labor and consumption impacts downstream of COVID.
- Honed econometric and data-analysis skills (in R) to evaluate economic literature and validate research methods.