Arjun Balaji is a partner at Paradigm, where he focuses on investing and research, having joined the firm in 2019. Before Paradigm, he co-founded Shomei Capital, previously serving as its CIO and consulting with NYC-based hedge funds and family offices on allocation models, mining, crypto-derivatives, and financial services infrastructure. Arjun Balaji's Twitter Score is 663 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026.
Arjun Balaji published Crypto Market Structure 3.0 in 2020, a widely referenced piece examining the evolution of crypto market structure over time. He has co-authored research on Symbiotic Protocol, covering the generalized permissionless shared security restaking protocol, and co-authored Centaur, an open-source, Slack-native multiplayer self-hosted agent for investing, building, and researching. Since late 2025, Arjun Balaji has been leading Paradigm's initiative to build a prediction markets trading terminal targeting professional traders and market makers, alongside the launch of a public prediction market data dashboard and research into prediction market indices that bundle multiple markets into a single tradeable package.
Arjun Balaji has 106,523 followers as of August 2026 on X and has published 14,310 posts. His account ranks #137 (top 0.1%) out of 483,944 accounts tracked on this platform. Arjun Balaji has been mentioned by 288 accounts, with 513 total mentions.
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