About Me & Works

Hey, I’m Simon, Founder and CEO of Chainflip, and I sit on the board of the the Oxen Foundation. Accross the team I’ve had the privilege of building teams that have produced several products, including:

• Chainflip, a cross-chain AMM designed to seamlessly allow users to swap tokens across ecosystems without violating chain sovereignty
• Session, a secure messaging app based on the Signal protocol that has no phone numbers, central servers, and onion routes messages over the Loki network.

I’m a long time cryptocurrency enthusiast, and my work is inspired by democratic values. On top of the several protocol designs for several distributed systems that I wrote along with Kee Jefferys, Maxim Shishmarev, and Jason Rhinelander, I’ve written extensively about the nascent and arguably non-existant field of cryptoeconomics. My interest in economics and finance stretches back to my high-school days, and overlying these disciplines on top of the crypto space highlights some very interesting and sometimes deeply problematic phenomena in the industry. My aim is to define and draw attention to the various games being played in the industry, and to design or evolve better games which can be used to improve the stability and performance of cryptocurrency assets for their intended functions.

Works

Some of the larger papers I’ve written or contributed to are:

• 2022 - JIT AMM Paper - Novel AMM Design designed specifically for cross chain swapping
• 2021 - Chainflip Cryptoeconomics Series - Lenghty Series on the Chainflip Cryptoeconomics
• 2020 - Chainflip Whitepaper - Core protocol design of the Chainflip system
• 2020 - LRC-7 - an analysis of Blockswap’s economic implications for Loki and recommendations to address them
• 2020 - LRC-3 - the second analysis of the Loki network’s economic scheme in light of Proof of Stake
• 2019 - Session Whitepaper - Our secure messaging app’s primary design document
• 2018 - Loki Cryptoeconomics - a preliminary design for Service Nodes
• 2018 - Loki Whitepaper - The founding document for the Loki Project

Thanks for reading! Contact me at simon@oxen.io