Christian Catalini

The economic breakthrough underneath bitcoin’s design.

What crypto asset prices do — and don’t — tell us about underlying value.

Lecture on how digital money reshapes competition.

Philadelphia Fed fintech conference panel.

Panel on stablecoins' role in the financial system.

Cheaper, faster payment rails as a lifeline for small-business margins.

Whether portable, user-owned assets can restore contestability to platform markets.

Why stablecoins matter, how they should be regulated, and what they mean for the future of money.

Hour-long seminar spanning cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, Diem, and CBDCs.

Frontier Dialogue on digital money, from stablecoins to CBDCs.

The case for open, interoperable payment rails over closed networks.

How regulators should approach decentralized finance and disintermediation.

OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute conversation on the future of digital money.

CNBC's report on Libra's evolution into Diem — with the project's co-creator on where it went and why.

On CNBC: Diem's phased launch strategy.

Digital ledgers beyond bitcoin: what the technology is actually good for.

A 40-minute talk on blockchain as trust infrastructure.

Fed panel on cryptocurrencies and CBDCs.

The redesigned Libra 2.0, explained at the Crypto Economics Security Conference.

Libra, cryptocurrency, and blockchain — the design and the regulatory reckoning.

Conference talk on the economic design of Libra.

Breaking down Libra: the economics behind the design.

Laura Shin's Unchained, episode 144 — the economics of Libra and what Facebook stood to gain.

Why Libra’s design points toward decentralization rather than corporate control.

Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain: verification costs and networking costs.

Early panel on ICOs and crypto capital formation.

Blockchain explained for a general audience.

Permissionless blockchains have the potential to increase competition, privacy and innovation in digital platforms.

Separating durable economics from noise in the first blockchain wave.

The MIT Digital Currency Experiment research, presented at HBS.

The MIT Digital Currency Experiment: giving every MIT undergraduate access to Bitcoin in 2014.

Research brief on negative citations in science.

Research brief on equity-crowdfunding syndicates.