I build financial products and the venues they trade on. Started on a power exchange in 2008 โก, ran a power trading desk, a derivatives fund, two venture companies that exited, a crypto VC book and a secondaries fund.
Now
01 ยท buildingMargarita Finance
Tokenised premium-income products on Solana and NEAR. Regulated issuance, close to USD 100M traded.
Built
02 ยท side projects, all liveVarior
Connect a wallet, get Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall on your holdings. Institutional risk numbers for anyone. Solana first.
Fyscal
Macro finance publication built on live fiscal-flow data: Treasury, FRED, CFTC, EIA. Weekly US cadence, ask-the-data window, Pro tier.
Kurtos
Public crypto options pricing and education. Barrier pricer, vol surface, live Deribit and Derive data.
The All-In Audit
Fact-checking dashboard that tracks and scores the claims made on the All-In Podcast.
Regolith Index
Searchable index of 1,200+ Space Resources Roundtable presentations, 1999 to today. Lunar and asteroid mining as a 10โ20 year theme.
Writing
03 ยท rssContact
04 ยท say hiTaking a startup from 0 to 1, tokenising an asset, or looking at secondaries?
I advise founders and investors on early-stage company building, tokenisation and secondaries investing. Tell me where you are and what you're trying to solve, and I'll get back to you.
- Startup advice
- Tokenisation
- Secondaries investing
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Never give up.Galaxy Quest, 1999
Never surrender. ๐