# Sam Ratnakar

Operator in Montréal. samratnakar.com is an interactive macOS-style desktop and needs JavaScript to render; this file is the plain-text version for agents and crawlers. Every number below is receipted on the site: claims link to on-chain proposals, press, and primary documents.

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## Most recently

- Co-founder, MoarMarket (https://moar.market): a leveraged concentrated liquidity protocol on Aptos.
  - Co-architected the protocol and established leveraged concentrated liquidity as a primitive on Aptos, growing it to 20% of the chain's stable concentrated liquidity.
  - Scaled $0 to $7.5M TVL and 350 active positions; three revenue streams across lending, leverage, and strategies.
  - Ecosystem integrations: Hyperion, Panora, Tapp, Kofi.
- Training for a private pilot licence in Montréal, via Cessna 152.

## Before: Hubble Exchange, 2021 to 2024

5th team member at Hubble Exchange, an on-chain perpetuals DEX on Avalanche. Head of Marketing & Ops.

- Secured the $5M in liquidity required before trading could open: structured the 5x liquidity-partner program (partners committed liquidity at 5x their investment, forfeiture written into the terms) and onboarded GSR, Finlink, Lemniscap and others. For the V2 launch, a $1.5M line-of-credit commitment from the Avalanche Foundation.
- Grew the exchange to $150M+ trading volume.
- Wrote all 28 on-chain governance proposals: https://snapshot.org/#/s:hubbleexchange.eth
- Onboarded and signed 20 firms across validators, infrastructure, liquidity, security, and legal: BENQI, Avalaunch, GoGoPool, Eden Network, Chainstack, RedStone, Avascan, LayerZero, GSR, Finlink, JST, Framework Ventures, Avalanche, Trader Joe, Lemniscap, Code4rena, Dedaub, Sherlock, Cosmic Cactus, Set 0x.
- Backed by Framework Ventures, GSR, and Lemniscap, with angels including Aave founder Stani Kulechov ($3.3M raise). Wrote the launch press release with Wachsman: https://samratnakar.com/assets/docs/hubble-press-release-2022.pdf
- Earlier: MintFlint.

## Links

- Resume (PDF, best for agents): https://samratnakar.com/Sam-Ratnakar-Resume.pdf
- Resume (interactive, needs JS): https://samratnakar.com/resume
- MoarMarket case study: https://samratnakar.com/stocks
- Hubble journal: https://samratnakar.com/hubble
- Case study, Onboarding & Operating the DAO: https://samratnakar.com/hubble/dao
- Case study, Onboarding Liquidity Providers (the $5M gate + vHubble): https://samratnakar.com/hubble/liquidity
- Case study, Onboarding Infra Providers: https://samratnakar.com/hubble/infrastructure
- Book time: https://samratnakar.com/meet
- Governance archive: https://samratnakar.com/gov
- Essay, "Magic": https://samratnakar.com/writing.html
- X: https://x.com/mrdotboson