Felix Machart
Felix is Investment 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
- _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.
- _Research
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.
- _Investments
We are excited to share that we have backed Liquity in a $6M round together with Pantera, Nima Capital, Alameda Research, IOSG, AngelDAO, and others. Liquity is a decentralized interest-free borrowing protocol that allows users to borrow the USD-pegged stablecoin LUSD with ETH collateral.
- _Research
Last year we at Greenfield were searching for a comprehensive document to get an overview on various governance approaches applied by blockchain projects, ideally in one source — but we could not find anything, so we decided to create it ourselves. This post lays out conclusions from the paper, which is linked in full at the bottom.