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Lumena Labs is building the next generation of DeFi products, starting with Avantis. Our mission is to bring high scale DeFi derivatives, market making, and capital-efficient composability to everyone.

5 members

Coinbase Ventures

Galaxy Ventures

VC-Funded

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avantisfi.com

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Results-driven Senior Frontend Developer with 6+ years of experience in web development and a deep understanding of web3 technologies. Proven track record of delivering high-quality frontend solutions for complex projects. Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks. Excellent problem-solving skills, strong attention to detail, and a passion for creating seamless user experiences.

Piyush Deshpande

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3rd+

- Started out as a freelance strategist in 2016, helping content creators, brands create digital identity. Learned biz dev, fundamentals of brand positioning through it. - Deep dove into content marketing, which led to the birth of an agency, which helped connect businesses and creators together. Learned how key is branding, team building & client synergy. - In freshman year of uni; was part of under25xmitwpu, which helped me put to test the biz dev, negotiations and content skills I had learnt over the years. - In Uni, won ranks in various business strategy, case study & debate competitions which further solidified my understanding of strategy & business. - In the final year at uni, I joined a early stage startup who had just raised their Seed fund as a community intern, switched up roles to then as a marketing associate; helped in building core features & marketing strategies/campaigns. here I realised my inclinations towards product and product management Fast forward to early 2022 I joined Polygon Labs. - I led strategy & growth for multiple startups like grail.xyz, cope.studio, urbanvaults, dehidden. - These startups experienced a growth of 27% per quarter on an average through the strategies & marketing funnels I created. - I was also part of the GTM team for Coinbase Wallet, Polygon X Flipkart Firedrops. Which received over 10M impressions on socials in totality. After a solid stint at Polygon, I joined Socket.Tech (backed by Framework, Nascent) which currently is a frontrunner in building blockchain interop infra. - Owning everything content & marketing for Bungee.Exchange - grew to over 150K+ following across socials & around $2.5M daily volume. - Been part of collaborations with the top dApps likes GMX, Level, Goal3 and many more. - I've run campaign initiatives end-to-end like Bungee v2 launch, Bridge Protection launch, driving growth campaigns like on-chain quests & day-to-day socials content, including shortform & long form content totalling around 4M in impressions.

Brank D

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3rd+

Built full stack software that handled hundreds of thousands of users and trading software for billions in AUM. Wrote Quant Algos for a market neutral fund, as well as managing backtesting / modeling / trading infrastructure at a systematic crypto fund. Discovered crypto with Bitcoin mining. Never looked back since taking the dive with building protocols and smart contracts