Felix Machart
Felix is Research Partner at Greenfield. He joined the firm on day one as Head of Research.
Felix has led many of Greenfield’s research efforts, most notably the paper on the state of blockchain governance. Before joining Greenfield, he was an independent researcher in the space and investment manager at Axel Springer Plug & Play.
Felix holds a double degree, Master of Science from WU Wien and Master of International Business from Queen’s University.
Publications from Felix
- _Investments
We are super excited that we have been backing Colony with Greenfield One and here is why. Being one of the earliest projects to think about DAOs in 2015/16, Colony has finally been coming to market on more scalable infrastructure with their v2 and some exciting early adopters leveraging the decentralized governance framework (see selected current features).
- _Investments
NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have been increasingly getting attention over the last year as a new frontier in digital ownership. We are excited to lead the latest $1.7M Seed round in Darkblock together with A&T Capital, with participation by Smape Capital, Unpopular Ventures, Arweave & Julian Lenz.
- _Research
One of the most difficult problems in any organization is how to balance short-term interests and long-term goals. Both are necessary for sustainable success in provisioning goods and services, but in traditional finance (TradFi) as well as decentralized finance (DeFi) capital markets there is a growing trend towards focusing on the short-term.
- _Building
Vega is a decentralized derivatives trading protocol with continuous limit order books or mechanisms such as frequent-batch auctions, constructed as a special purpose layer 1 blockchain, with cross-chain collateral deposits. We have been incredibly impressed with the advancements of their tech stack as well as the community they have been gathering along the way.