The Greenhouse

Where the future is built, block by block.

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

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.

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

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.