Tharun Ekambaram

Built a Polymarket autonomous trading agent that fuses 9 signals through a Bayesian log-odds engine and won the Polymarket bounty at Penn Blockchain

Developed Laytus Protocol, a structured position protocol on Robinhood Chain using a Gaussian copula pricing engine and EIP-712 signed quotes, taking 2nd place ($40K) at the Arbitrum Open House in New York

Won 1st place out of 57 teams at the Midwest Blockchain Conference for Pi Network blockchain forensics research combining NLP, ARIMA modeling, and on-chain statistical testing

Won 1st place at the Penn Blockchain Conference for an institutional-grade Cronos analytics pipeline covering wash-trade detection, wallet clustering, and cross-chain peer valuation

Shipped a VWAP execution engine on Monad that demonstrated 5-10x slippage reduction versus single-block market execution

Built a fully client-side GTO poker trainer supporting 5 game variants with an ICM calculator and bluffing engine based on Minimum Defense Frequency

Ran a plasma donation economic behavior study using 80,000+ Reddit posts and Granger causality tests, finding a peak correlation of r=0.81 at a 3-month lag with U6 unemployment

Built internal finance automations that eliminated most of the manual follow-up work our team at Coinbase was doing every month