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Eric Manoukian
Online. Looking for a research or business-development seat at an institution building in digital assets. Boston, MA.
I'm Eric. I grew up in Manalapan, New Jersey, and I live in Boston now. Most mornings start at the gym before anything else, and one night a week I'm on the ice in a men's league, which I've been doing since I played at Endicott. Weekends get a round of golf when the weather allows, and I will drive a long way for a good meal.
The rest of the time I'm learning markets. I've been in crypto since 2021, as a user first and a researcher second, and professionally for the last two years: protocol research at Messari, then business development at Anchorage Digital. The part I like most is finding the number nobody has published yet and working out what it means.
When a tool I want doesn't exist, I build it. A daily briefing that writes itself before I wake up, dashboards that read straight from the chain, an agent that runs my calendar. This site is all of it in one place.
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LinkedInWhat I'm into
The parts of the week that aren't work.
- GolfA round whenever the weekend and the weather allow. The swing is a work in progress.
- HockeyMen's league, one night a week, since the Endicott days. The morning after is a slow one.
- The gymMost mornings start there. Squat 335, bench 245, deadlift 385, tested in September. The 1,000 lb total is 35 lb away.1,000 lb club97%
- FoodI will drive a long way for a good meal, and I have opinions about where the best ones are.
- MarketsFilings, governance forums, Dune and the overnight newsletters, read after dinner because I want to.
- CryptoOn chain since 2021, through two cycles. A user first, then a researcher, now both.
- BuildingWhen a tool I want doesn't exist, I build it. The briefing, the boards and the agent on this site all started that way.
Work
Five years across research, product and business development, the last two in digital assets.
Member of Business Development
Anchorage Digital, Remote
- Hit 100% of ramp quota for qualified opportunities within three months, sourcing family offices, hedge funds and venture firms into a qualified pipeline that reached $200M for the custody platform.
- Built AI agents and workflow automations for prospect research, account enrichment and outreach preparation, used across the sales organisation.
- Tracked custody, stablecoin and tokenisation developments to sharpen targeting, messaging and competitive positioning.
Jun 2026
to Oct 2026
Research Analyst, Protocol Services
Messari, New York, NY
- Produced in-depth reports on institutional DeFi, Layer-2 adoption and emerging protocols for a global institutional client base: mechanics, tokenomics, revenue models and risks.
- Ran quantitative on-chain analysis in Dune and Messari's data platform to surface signals and track protocol metrics for clients.
- Worked directly with protocol teams to validate on-chain data, roadmaps and token design.
Aug 2025
to Jun 2026
Product Manager
FINTRX, Rockland, MA
- Led product strategy and the roadmap for the Family Office product suite, coordinating cross-functional teams to ship data enhancements adopted by 50+ enterprise clients.
- Turned family-office market trends into product requirements, shortening time to market for new data modules.
Jun 2024
to Aug 2025Business Development Analyst
FINTRX, Rockland, MA
- Hit the quarterly quota of $75K new ARR and 20 opportunities a month in every quarter after ramp, closing the final two quarters at 125% of the revenue target across 100+ active accounts in HubSpot.
Aug 2023
to Jun 2024
Equity Research Intern
Northeast Equity Research, Beverly, MA
- Built DCF and comparable-company models for US equities; investment memos fed directly into portfolio review.
Jan 2022
to May 2022
Builds
Side projects that shipped. Most started as a tool he wanted for himself.
Token Tape
A free daily digital-asset briefing written by an automated research desk: 18 data sources pulled before dawn, four charts, every figure footnoted, in inboxes at 06:30 ET. Edited, not written, by hand.
Claude routines, GitHub Actions, Next.js, Buttondown
PendleScan
Live analytics for every Pendle market on 11 chains, with a 0 to 100 risk read on the collateral behind each yield. It now powers the Pendle dashboard here.
Next.js, Pendle API, Recharts
On-chain fact sheets
Live reads of protocols from public RPC and chain logs: the Plasma One card and XPL unlocks, a Robinhood Chain fund's register, a perp DEX's longevity scorecard.
Chain logs, Dune, DefiLlama, hourly collectors
Cato
A chief-of-staff agent that runs his calendar, training blocks, job search and reviews out of a Git repository, over Telegram and email, without being asked twice.
Claude, scheduled routines, Obsidian
Research and community
Published work, and the audience that reads the rest.
- When Machines Become Economic Actorsx402 gives agents a way to pay and ERC-8004 a way to be trusted.Messari
· 10 Feb 2026 - To BASE or Not to BASEHow a token could turn a 1.1% revenue line into a $1.2 billion Coinbase asset.Messari
· 20 Mar 2026
@CryptoRick98 on X 6,250 followers built on original analysis of DeFi lending, DEXs, stablecoins and tokenised assets, including on-chain deep dives on Maple Finance, Robinhood Chain and the RWA sector. Since 2021.- Maple Finance ambassador Works with the protocol team and community on on-chain credit. Active user of lending, DEX and yield protocols since 2021, incentive programmes and governance included.
Blockworks Research Published protocol research, hosted at Blockworks.
Education
Endicott College, Beverly, MA
BS Finance, minor in Computer Science
GPA 3.78 / 4.00. Dean's List, seven semesters. Men's ice hockey, Investment Club.
Sep 2019
to Aug 2023
- Ramp quota, 100%Qualified-opportunity quota hit within three months at Anchorage Digital.
- PublishedTwo Messari protocol reports read by institutional clients.
- 125% of targetThe final two FINTRX quarters closed above the revenue target.
- Dean's List, seven timesEvery semester but the last at Endicott College.
- Six years on chainA DeFi user since 2021, through two cycles.
- 6,250 strongAn X audience built on original analysis, not engagement bait.
Skills
- Digital assets
- custody, stablecoins, tokenisation and RWAs, lending, DEXs, tokenomics, risk
- On-chain data
- Dune, DefiLlama, Messari, Etherscan, SQL, Python
- Business development
- prospecting, pipeline building, qualification, investor relationships, HubSpot, Salesforce
- Research and writing
- research memos, protocol deep dives, X threads, client and leadership presentations
- AI and automation
- agents and workflow automation, n8n, Claude, LLM pipelines, prompt engineering
- Finance and technical
- DCF modelling, capital markets, VBA, C++, Excel