The Greenhouse

Where the future is built, block by block.

Lior Messika

A Genesis Story

Today, Eden Block brings the most multidisciplinary, specialized, and demonstrated investment team into the uncharted world of blockchain ventures. Our mission is to bridge the colossal gap between opportunity and execution within this nascent industry.

Dermot O'Riordan and Ollie Blears

Gradually, then Suddenly

The UK could cement its recognition as a world-leader in financial technology if it equips itself now with a regulatory framework fit for the future.

Dermot O'Riordan

Social Capital in the 21st Century

Looking ahead to 2021 and beyond, values can act as the catalyst that sparks greater coordination and innovation in cryptonetworks; the light that guides us across the chasm to mainstream adoption of ten million-plus daily active crypto users.

Dermot O'Riordan

Eden Block Investment Thesis for Biconomy

Technologies that reduce friction expand markets. Biconomy is building transactional infrastructure for the decentralised web. Its platform abstracts away crypto transaction complexities for both developers and users.

Dermot O'Riordan

Defensibility in the Time of DeFi

Decentralised finance (DeFi) is an ecosystem of finance applications on Ethereum that enables traditional financial services such as lending, borrowing, trading, and asset management, but in a fully self-custodial environment, so that no one entity (like a bank) controls your assets.

Lior M. Messika

Money and Value: An Unstable Relationship

The dramatic emergence of decentralized finance (DeFi) in the past decade, and more recently in the past year, has raised serious concerns regarding the volatility of digital decentralized assets.

Lior M. Messika

DeFi: Crashing the Counterparty

Follow the dollar and it inevitably leads through centralized entities. Capitalism might have democratized our economic systems but monetary policy remains stubbornly centralized.

Lior M. Messika

Beyond The Box

Innovation is what sets us, as humans, apart from the natural world. Through innovation, we realize our profound ability to impact our environment.