Seeing that the ZF is holding a community call with questions from the community, I thought it might be a good idea for me to expand a little on what I spent some of my energy on over the past years.
I enrolled at the University of St. Gallen in 2017, but dropped out during the first year.
Started a company that was meant to facilitate finance’s transition into embracing web3 into their operations. It was a frustrating but very insightful experience. It taught me about entrenched systems and how difficult it is to introduce arguably much better technology into an existing company stack.
Seeing this, I decided with the help of one of Luxembourg’s most renowned legal firms to open one of, if not the first publicly available investment funds in the region. This was yet another experience that turned out to be just as frustrating as revealing. I talked to countless compliance officers at many banks, an ex-regulator, and even ended up having a lively discussion with the Governor of Luxembourg’s Central Bank at his office. All to no avail, we ended up not further pursuing the endeavour.
I’ve continued managing my own capital until today.
Here are a few things I said in the past and where I stand today:
I still believe a ZSA stablecoin is our best shot for critical mass proliferation.
I still believe RWA or native ZEC-backed stablecoins are out-of-scope and not practically feasible in the near future.
I had my shot at proposing a community-led alternative dev fund mechanism. I am very happy as to where we are heading today.
I hinted at a potential use case between Eigenlayer staking and ZEC PoS (or finality layer). I am still not sure what that would look like, but it might show my interest in finding synergies among other ecosystems.
I hope this helps spawn a few questions (here).
Looking forward to participating in the ZF community call.