marco amendola

I research DeFi protocol risk and market manipulation, and turn on-chain findings into material that leadership teams and institutional clients use to make decisions: incident reports, investment committee memos, competitive intelligence, risk frameworks.

At Yield.xyz (Jul 2025 to Mar 2026) I was the sole analyst, reporting directly to the CEO. I wrote 12+ incident reports on oracle exploits, vault execution failures, infinite mint attacks and protocol insolvency events, each structured as timeline, root cause, on-chain fund flow tracing, client exposure mapping, remediation criteria. I authored a 30-page investment committee memo on three major lending protocols, covering collateral mechanics, liquidation risk, bad debt quantification and $50M exit liquidity modeling, which the CEO used directly in institutional client conversations. I also improved the internal risk parameters rulebook (25+ parameters across blockchain, protocol, asset and vault risk), the standard used to score every new yield integration before approval.

Since March 2026 I have worked independently on market integrity and protocol risk, and the work is public and reproducible. An insider-trading detection methodology for prediction markets: wallet clustering, entry-timing analysis against information events, on-chain fund flow tracing, validated against a documented case. An investigation reconstructing 939 of 973 UMA oracle disputes from public RPC alone, which found that voters holding a position do vote their own book (63.2% against a 50% baseline) but hold too little stake to change outcomes. A Uniswap v3 LP rebalancing study that inverts the break-even fee APR instead of assuming it, with pre-registered predictions and a live Dune dashboard tracking which pools clear the bar. Predictions are written before each run and negative results are published as the deliverable.

Italian and Spanish native, English bilingual, Portuguese conversational.