About Dan
As a practitioner, I am the Founder of Lightbulb Capital in Hong Kong and Singapore. Previously, I was the CIO of the Modular Blockchain Fund at Modular Asset Management and the COO of HSBC Securities in Singapore.
As an academic, I am a Lecturer in ESSEC’s top-ranked Master in Finance program where I teach a course on FinTech and Digital Platforms in Finance. Previously I was an Affiliate Faculty Member at Singapore Management University where I taught executives courses on Blockchain & Digital Assets, and Decentralized Finance (DeFi). I was also a visiting professor at IE business school, where I received the teaching excellence award.
My research work investigates blockchain in the financial markets context, and has been published by various academic journals by Springer and MIT Press. I was also the Founding Associate Editor-in-Chief of World Scientific’s Annual Review of Fintech journal.
I am completing my PhD in Finance at Erasmus University, and hold Master degrees in Innovation (SMU) and Finance (IE).
The Blockchain Scholars Book: Current Academic Insights Condensed for Busy Busy Practitioners
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It acts as a one-stop shop for research topics in Blockchain, presented in a practitioner-friendly format
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It covers the 4 most critical-to-understand themes: Blockchain & Tokenomics, Markets (CeFi & DeFi), Privacy and DAOs
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It includes articles written & summarised by a carefully curated group of top scholars in field
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All chapters are short, easy-to-read, and tailored to the practitioners who need to understand these topics but whose busy schedule doesn’t allow for enough time to read full academic articles to do so.