Gajesh Naik (EigenLayer): "Without crypto, I wouldn't have had the career path I have"

31.01.2024
Gajesh Naik (EigenLayer): "Without crypto, I wouldn't have had the career path I have"
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Gajesh Naik is just 15 years old, yet he already has a solid background in crypto. He has already been through FTX, Solana and is now part of the team of developers at EigenLayer, the hottest project of the moment. He gave an interview to The Big Whale.

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Louis Tellier

Louis Tellier is Lead Institutional Research at Blockstories, where he focuses on developing the institutional offering for digital assets. He joined Blockstories in April 2025. Blockstories was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Berlin, with presence in France and Switzerland.

Prior to joining Blockstories, Tellier worked as a crypto journalist at The Big Whale from August 2023 to January 2025, covering crypto and blockchain topics. Before that, he was a journalist at L'AGEFI from May 2022 to July 2023, specialising in cryptocurrencies. Earlier in his career, he worked as a web and video journalist at BFM Business and as a video journalist at Le Figaro. He also taught journalism at IICP in Paris for three and a half years, with a focus on web video journalism. Tellier is a graduate of Sciences Po Grenoble and the University of Lille.

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