Charlie Quant Lab

Ananda Banerjee

Research Lead at BeInCrypto. Founder and Forward-Deployed Engineer at Charlie Quant Lab.

At BeInCrypto, he leads research across market reports, on-chain analysis, analytical standards and analyst development. At Charlie Quant Lab, he takes a live research problem, builds the data and software around it, ships the working system and keeps testing it against the market. That is what forward-deployed means here.

Professional portrait of Ananda Banerjee
RESEARCH / BUILD / DEPLOY

The article is one output. The research system behind it stays live.

Research is stronger when the writer can build the test.

The work can end as an article, a scoring system, a dashboard, a probability model or a live terminal. The form changes. The standard does not: show what moved, find what carried it and name the fact that could break the conclusion.

Find the break

Start where price, money, people and the public story stop agreeing.

Build the test

Join market, company and on-chain evidence without pretending they measure the same thing.

Ship the tool

Turn the useful test into a page, model or monitor that another person can use.

Keep score

Follow the call after publication and record when the evidence changes or the idea fails.

The record behind the title.

11+years working across markets, research and financial content.
300+published research articles across crypto, equities, commodities and trading.
250K+page views recorded across the on-chain research body of work.
45+Dune dashboards built for wallets, exchange flows, token unlocks and DeFi activity.
26award categories designed with six pillars and separate scoring tracks.
100+live Charlie Quant Lab pages connecting markets, companies, policy and infrastructure.

From explaining markets to building the systems behind them.

2021-2022

CoinSwitch

As a trading analyst and newsroom journalist, he hosted and scripted more than 30 market episodes, explained ZK-rollups and trading systems on camera, produced a 15,000-view programme and helped grow a newsletter to 3,000 subscribers in four months.

2022-2026

BeInCrypto, writer and editor

He moved from advanced DeFi and blockchain explainers into market research, wrote more than 300 articles and set standards for a large quarterly body of analytical work. His CV records more than 200 articles reaching Google page one.

2023-2025

Equities and Web3

At Trading.biz, he covered US stocks, ETFs and options across more than 100 articles. At Avocado Guild, he led content across four gaming projects, worked with 20-30 creators and helped lift engagement by 23%.

2025-2026

On-chain and institutional research

He built more than 45 Dune dashboards, tracked whales and exchange flows, produced institutional work on stablecoins, custody and tokenization, and designed the Institutional 100 scoring method across 26 categories and six pillars.

Infrastructure

Imperator

He supports research on the Hyperliquid ecosystem, including its validator and RPC infrastructure. The work brings network operations into market analysis instead of treating a chain as a ticker alone.

Current

Research Lead at BeInCrypto

He now leads the research agenda, flagship reports, on-chain work, analytical standards and analyst development. The promotion joins newsroom judgment, market research and the products built underneath both.

Built in parallel

Charlie Quant Lab

As founder and Forward-Deployed Engineer, he turns research questions into working products: a cross-market terminal, probability models, trading monitors, regulation trackers and public research pages that keep checking the conclusion.

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