Rok Kopp (EtherFi): "We want to become a kind of bank".

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.

Lorris Beziers is a Digital Assets Research Analyst at The Big Whale, a Paris-based crypto media company, a position he has held since January 2024. His published research covers a range of digital asset topics including DeFi lending markets, layer 2 blockchain architecture, MEV mechanics, on-chain derivatives platforms, and institutional blockchain infrastructure. Alongside this role, he has been an Associate at White Loop Capital, a French private investment firm focused on crypto-assets, since October 2024.

Prior to joining The Big Whale, Beziers worked as a DeFi Analyst at Mon Livret C from June to August 2023, where he analyzed Web3 projects across blockchains, stablecoins, and protocols, assessed yield opportunities on decentralized finance protocols, and designed a risk assessment framework for layer 2 blockchains. He holds a degree from NEOMA Business School and completed a classe préparatoire ECS at Lycée Masséna. He holds certifications from IBM and Bocconi and has competencies in Web3, finance, and data.