Antoni Kiszka

Antoni Kiszka (Derpetual): Derivatives for Any Asset & the Thiel Fellowship

Derpetual co-founder Antoni Kiszka explains a protocol for creating derivatives that don't require locked-up liquidity, enabling longs and shorts on assets from meme coins to AI compute, with a CFTC-licensed derivatives exchange as the end goal. He describes dropping out of university for the Thiel Fellowship, his parents' reaction, and his hope that such markets redirect quantitative talent like Jane Street's toward socially useful prediction.

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