Reading List

BOOKS

  • Ammous, S. (2018). The Bitcoin Standard
  • Brynjolfsson, E., & McAfee, A. (2014). The Second Machine Age
  • Buffett, M., & Clark, D. (2008). Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements
  • Collins, K. (2014). The Nature of Investing
  • Dalio, R. (2021). The Changing World Order
  • Dixon, C. (2024). Read Write Own
  • Fry, H. (2018). Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
  • Furlonger, D., & Uzureau, C. (2019). The Real Business of Blockchain
  • Graham, B. (1972). The Intelligent Investor
  • Ismail, S., Diamandis, P. H., & Malone, M. S. (2023). Exponential Organizations 2.0
  • Kay, J. (2015). Other People’s Money
  • Lau, D. (2020). How to DeFi
  • Lewis, M. (1989). Liar’s Poker
  • Lewis, M. (2014). Flash Boys
  • Popper, N. (2015). Digital Gold
  • Rovelli, C. (2020). Helgoland
  • Ramachandran, A., Santoro, J., & Harvey, C. R. (2021). Defi and the Future of Finance
  • Rubenstein, D. M. (2022). How to Invest: Masters on the Craft
  • Skinner, C. (2014). Digital Bank
  • Taleb, N. (2007). Fooled by Randomness
  • Wang, X. (2020). Blockchain Chicken Farm
  • Zeisberger, C., Prahl, M., & Bowen, W. (2017). Mastering Private Equity

PAPERS

  • Damsgaard, J. (2022). The Real Value of Cryptocurrency
  • Deane, S., & Fines, O. (2023). Cryptoassets: Beyond the Hype
  • Harvey, C. R., et al. (2022). An Investor’s Guide to Crypto
  • Low, R., & Marsh, T. (2019). Cryptocurrency and Blockchains: Retail to Institutional
  • Marchesi, L., et al. (2022). A blockchain architecture for industrial applications
  • Metelski, D., & Sobieraj, J. (2022). A Study of Key Performance Indicators in Terms of DeFi Protocols’ Valuations
  • Muirhead, R., Brinkmann, F. & Crow, T. (2024). Web3 x AI
  • Nakamoto, S. (2009). Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
  • Novocin, A., & Weber, B. (2022). Emerging Technologies and the Transformation of Exchange Trading Platforms
  • Oerth, A., & Dowsett, D. (2023). Exploring Cryptocurrencies: The History, the Hype, and the Future
  • Peterson, M. (2018). Blockchain and the Future of Financial Services
  • Sai, A. R., et al. (2021). Characterizing Wealth Inequality in Cryptocurrencies
  • Soni, U., & Preece, R. (2023). Valuation of Cryptoassets: A Guide for Investment Professionals
  • Weyl, E. G., et al. (2022). Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul
  • Wüst, K., & Gervais, A. (2017). Do you need a Blockchain?
  • Xu, T. A., Xu, J., & Lommers, K. (2022). DeFi vs. TradFi: Valuation Using Multiples and Discounted Cash Flows
  • Zou, Y., & Herremans, D. (2022). A multimodal model with Twitter FinBERT embeddings for extreme price movement prediction of Bitcoin

ARTICLES

  • Acuiti. (2023). The Future of Digital Assets Market Structure in Europe
  • Andreessen, M. (2023). Why AI Will Save the World
  • Chainalysis. (2023). The 2023 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report
  • Demertzis, M., & Martins, C. (2023). Decentralised finance: good technology, bad finance
  • Department of the Treasury. (2024). National Money Laundering Risk Assessment
  • Financial Stability Board. (2023). The Financial Stability Risks of Decentralised Finance
  • Gieschen, F. (2023). Focus: The Last Superpower?
  • Gioia, T. (2024). The State of Culture, 2024
  • Global Legal Insights. (2023). Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Laws and Regulations 2024
  • Levine, M. (2022). The Crypto Story
  • Oliver Wyman. (2023). Navigating Crypto
  • Qureshi, H. (2019). So you want to build a crypto startup?
  • Sigel, M. (2023). A Potential Valuation Methodology for Ethereum
  • The Investment Association. (2023). UK Fund Tokenisation: A Blueprint For Implementation

The abyss of what we do not know is always magnetic and vertiginous…we are asked to accept that reality may be profoundly other than what we had imagined: to look into the abyss, without fear of sinking into the uncomfortable.

Carlo Rovelli