02 Speaking and advisory

Talks

I speak about onchain finance to two rooms: people who run markets, and people who build them. The subject is how products clear, settle, and hold risk on a public ledger. This includes managed funds, prediction markets, options, and lending.

I lead Solana content for Quicknode on YouTube. On the Solana Foundation channel I co-created and presented the 2024 Developer Bootcamp. I have also taught Solana Fall School, taught for TURBIN3, and published with Helius. A set of those talks is collected in one playlist.

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What I've been talking about recently

• How financial products, such as equities exchanges, options trading, and lending markets, work as onchain programs (‘smart contracts’).
• Securely handling assets onchain.
• What changes when finance moves from monolithic assets, market hours, and humans to fractionalized, 24/7 global, and agentic trading.

Conferences

• 2026Solar (Solana China). “Operating a Parimutuel Betting Market.”
• 2026Solana Fall School. “Building a Managed Fund.”
• 2026Solana Accelerate, Miami. “How to get Everything you Ever Wanted.”
• 2025Solana Breakpoint, Colosseum Stage. “Smart contract basics.”
• 2024Solana Breakpoint, Colosseum Stage. “Smart contract basics.”
• 2023Solana Breakpoint. “Solana basics for Everyone.”
• 2018Odessa JS. “Deploying your JS app in 2018.”
• 2017Digicert Cryptography Forum. “The webcrypto API.”
• 2015Node Interactive. “NPM Everywhere.”
• 2012Norton Rose Fulbright. Open source licensing and the law.

Advisory

For teams putting these ideas into practice:

• I train teams working on onchain markets, credit, and anything else that moves money.
• I work as an advisor and a fractional CTO, including blockchain strategy advisory.
• I take expert-witness work when a matter depends on how financial software behaves.

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