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DEFI RISK & TOKENOMICS

Linas Stankevičius

GTM & Research Lead

I work on DeFi risk, tokenomics and the tooling around them, from structured economic reviews to traceable AI-assisted research systems used by risk teams.

Lithuania · Remote · Six-plus years in Web3

$25M+
Raised across client mandates
6+ YRS
Web3 research, BD & delivery
JBBA
Peer-reviewed methodology, 2023
EEA
DeFi risk guidelines contributor
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FOCUS

FOCUS

DeFi risk research and tooling for teams working on lending markets, vaults, tokenomics and onchain risk.

SCOPE

Incentives, governance, value accrual, emissions, distribution, vesting, market structure, economic risk.

OUTPUT

Ratings research, economic simulations, stress tests, and AI-assisted analysis workflows.

Co-designed the peer-reviewed Tokenomics Audit Checklist with Dr. Stylianos Kampakis, turning token economy review into an audit-grade framework across incentives, governance, emissions, utility, distribution, vesting, market structure, and economic risk.

WORKED EXAMPLE

A short, concrete walk-through of the five-phase token design lifecycle, from client requirement to live review. One access pass, traced end to end.

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EXPERIENCE

2025 —
PRESENT

Advisor / Researcher, Token System Design

Provecto Labs
  • Advise on token system design, incentive architecture, and governance across high-complexity crypto ecosystems.
  • Model liquidity, value accrual, emissions, and economic risk for live and pre-launch token systems.
2025 —
2026

GTM Lead, Web3 Risk Automation

ResearchTech
  • Lead GTM positioning for agentic AI workflows that let risk teams run their own methodologies at scale.
  • Shape product requirements around source traceability, analyst review, conflict detection, freshness, uncertainty, and audit trails.
  • Run commercial narrative and discovery across DeFi risk, vault curation, RWA underwriting, ratings, oracle, and listing-review workflows.
2024 —
2026

Researcher / Product Initiatives

Tesseract Academy · Vibe Economics
  • Develop research, content, and product concepts around tokenomics ratings and token economy risk frameworks.
  • Build economic simulations and AI-assisted analysis workflows for token design review.
2022 —
2024

Tokenomics Researcher · Economic Services Lead

Hacken
  • Built and commercialized economic audit and tokenomics research services as a delivery line.
  • Co-designed the Tokenomics Audit Checklist methodology for audit-grade review of supply mechanics, incentives, governance, utility, vesting, emissions, market structure, and systemic risk.
  • Delivered and managed tokenomics work for major ecosystems, including research exposure linked to 1inch and Mina Protocol.
  • Contributed to the EEA DeFi Risk Assessment Guidelines.
2021 —
2023

Managing Partner

Cryptexus
  • Co-founded and managed a crypto advisory business covering fundraising, business development, token strategy, and Web3 market entry.
  • Helped client projects raise more than $25M in aggregate.
2017 —
2021

BD / Token Economy Consultant

Blockchain & Fintech Consulting
  • Started in business development at an early Lithuanian blockchain consulting agency.
  • Developed token economy work from spreadsheet models toward checklist-based audits, agent-based modeling concepts, and structural risk analysis.
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RESEARCH & PROJECTS

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CORE SKILLS

DeFi & RWA Risk Assessment Economic Audits & Stress Tests Vault Curation Risk Tokenomics Audit Methodology Incentive & Mechanism Design Emissions & Vesting Modeling AI Research Automation Evidence Provenance Agent-Based Modeling GTM for Technical Products Stakeholder Discovery Governance & DAOs
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PROJECT EXPOSURE

1inch Mina Protocol NEAR Coinshift Hacken Provecto Labs Kaunas University of Technology
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CONTACT

Open to work with rating agencies, vault curators, listing teams, and protocols on token economy risk & more.