Head of Research, Ruma
Marcus Reid
Marcus leads research at Ruma, where he studies how crypto social intelligence — sentiment, emotion, and narrative attention — translates into market behavior. He focuses on turning noisy public conversation across X, Reddit, YouTube and news into structured, measurable signals for traders and researchers.
Focus areas: Crypto sentiment analysis · Mindshare and narrative tracking · Fear & Greed indexes · Social intelligence methodology
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