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Research for the market.Media for the room.Strategy for what comes next.

I work between crypto research, media, and strategy, turning market noise into reports, interviews, campaigns, and stories that people remember.

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A working archive

The market talks all day.
Very little of it is worth writing down.

I find the part that is, and build something around it.

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Writing · Research · Media

Selected Work

Four doors. Each one opens onto a different kind of work.

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Blogs / Articles

My Pieces

Blogs and articles on crypto and the work, and on whatever else won't leave me alone.

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Reports / Regulation / Markets

Research

Reports built to survive scrutiny. Regulation, taxation, market structure.

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Web3 Media Platform

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Interviews, reports, and conversations with the people building this.

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Design / Experiments / Play

Miscellaneous

Designs, decks, comics, and experiments. Work and play, side by side.

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How I work

What I do

People hire a title. They keep the person who does the work.

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Research that survives a second look

Reports, market analysis, regulatory mapping, licensing research, and narrative structure, without the fake certainty.

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Media rooms around serious builders

Interviews, event coverage, guest research, production direction, thumbnails, titles, clips, and distribution systems.

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Strategy, GTM, and investor materials

Business plans, fundraising decks, positioning, financial models, campaign structure, and market-entry thinking.

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Editorial systems and distribution

Turning messy ideas into repeatable content engines across reports, articles, social, video, and campaigns.

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By the Numbers

Numbers stay quiet. They still count.

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About

I build things that survive the second look.

The work I keep is the work I slowed down on. I would rather sit with a question until it stops sounding clever and starts sounding true than be first to say something loud, and most of what matters happens before anyone sees it.

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