Protocol Engineer • DeFi Mechanism Researcher • Founder @ Sevryn Labs
Designing financial primitives, market mechanisms, and protocol-level systems.
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$ whoami
> Tushar Pamnani
$ role
> Founder @ Sevryn Labs
$ location
> India 🇮🇳 (Global / Remote)
$ current_focus
> DeFi Protocol Design, Market Microstructure, Mechanism Designinterface ProtocolEngineer {
role: string[];
superpower: string;
philosophy: string;
researchAreas: string[];
}
const tushar: ProtocolEngineer = {
role: [
"DeFi Protocol Engineer",
"Mechanism Designer",
"Protocol Researcher",
],
superpower:
"Translating financial intuition into mathematical protocol primitives",
philosophy:
"A good protocol is not just code — it is a market with rules.",
researchAreas: [
"Automated Market Makers",
"Bonding Curves",
"Prediction Markets",
"Liquidity Mechanisms",
"Market Microstructure",
],
};$ organization
> Sevryn Labs
$ mission
> Research and build novel DeFi protocols and financial primitives.
$ focus
> Designing mechanisms where math, incentives, and code align.Sevryn Labs focuses on:
- Protocol research
- mechanism design
- financial primitives for decentralized markets
Recent topics explored:
• Bonding Curves — intuition → mathematical derivations
• Automated Market Makers — invariants and pricing mechanics
• Liquidity distribution across price space
• LMSR prediction markets
• Convexity in financial protocols
The goal is to understand why protocols work, not just how to implement them.
DeFi Protocols
- Custom AMM implementation (Solana)
- Prediction market mechanism based on LMSR
- Research-driven protocol experiments
Protocol Research
- Deep dives into bonding curves
- Mathematical foundations of AMMs
- Market microstructure in on-chain systems
Mechanism Design
- Studying incentive structures in decentralized markets
- Exploring liquidity formation mechanisms
- Designing novel DeFi primitiveslanguages:
- Solidity
- Rust
- TypeScript / JavaScript
- Python
- C / C++ / Java
domains:
- DeFi Protocol Engineering
- Mechanism Design
- Market Microstructure
- Financial Math
protocols:
- Ethereum
- Solana
- Uniswap Design Space
tooling:
- Foundry
- Hardhat
- Anchor
- Node.js
- ReactMost people see DeFi as smart contracts.
I see it as:
markets + incentives + math + code
Code only enforces the rules. The real challenge is designing the system behind it.
$ reach --me
> email: tusharpamnani55@gmail.com
> linkedin: linkedin.com/in/tushar-pamnani
> twitter: @Tushar_Pamnani_
"Protocols are programmable markets.
Mechanism design is the real engineering."