Gryps

Gryps is the institutional liquidity layer for on-chain derivatives. RFQ perpetuals on SEI, designed from the ground up for serious allocators. Tiger 21–style membership architecture from I-1 through I-4, a Chatham House lounge for the people moving the volume, and the comms and positioning work that bridges institutional Wall Street to crypto-native venue design. Voltrade launched on mainnet in May 2026.

My role is institutional ecosystem. Not protocol development. The job is everything between the protocol and the people who use it at scale: membership design, content, conference presence, bizdev, community architecture, the events that bring the right rooms together.

The institutional surface runs on substantial AI automation. The Gryps Research Engine publishes long-form institutional analysis weekly to blog.gryps.finance via a four-skill orchestration. Intelligence gathering, drafting, three-pass fact-check, Sanity push. The Cowork automation suite drives the full content pipeline. The Agentic Dashboard at agentic.gryps.finance monitors the agent fleet in real time. Most of what looks like a small institutional team is one operator plus a coordinated stack of AI agents. The same lab framing as Plumbline, applied to a different vertical.

A membership architecture. I-1 through I-4 tiers, Chatham House lounge, a points-and-token system mapped to participation. Built before the institutional flow arrived rather than after. The bet was that the structural sophistication of the institutional surface would matter as much as the protocol mechanics, and the early evidence suggests it does.

Honestly: I'm not the protocol architect; that's the team's deep engineering work. What's mine is the layer that sits between the protocol and the allocator. And that layer has more in common with running a serious institutional advisory practice than with most things people associate with "DeFi marketing."