1. Christian Catalini is a co-creator of Diem, the Chief Economist of the Diem Association, and the Theodore T Miller Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
10 Facts About Christian Catalini
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Christian Catalini joined the faculty of MIT in 2013, and was appointed in 2018 as Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program.
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In 2013, Christian Catalini co-designed with Catherine Tucker the MIT Digital Currency Experiment that distributed $500,000 in Bitcoin to all MIT undergraduates.
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In 2017, Christian Catalini founded the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab, which brings together the fields of economics and computer science to study cryptocurrency protocols, their incentives and market design.
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Christian Catalini is a faculty advisor to the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, and an economic advisor to Algorand, a cryptocurrency startup founded by Silvio Micali.
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In 2018, Christian Catalini joined David Marcus' team at Facebook, Inc to develop the economical design of Libra.
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At Diem, Christian Catalini is focused on the economic, market design, growth incentives, and business model of the project.
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In 2022, Christian Catalini joined Coinbase Institute and sits on the Advisory Board.
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Christian Catalini is best known for some of his fundamental early work on the economics of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, crowdfunding, early stage capital formation, and the economics of science.
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In 2017, Christian Catalini received the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research.