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luca-nik/README.md

πŸ‘‹ Hi, I’m Luca

I’m a cryptoeconomist and research scientist at CryptoEconLab, working at the intersection of mechanism design, protocol simulations, and incentive engineering for decentralized systems. I have a background in theoretical & computational chemistry (PhD) and Physics Engineering.

Before CEL, I worked as an MEV Scientist Engineer at Urani.trade, building intent matching, routing algorithms and toxic MEV reduction solutions.

I’m also the founder of MatTwins: a research project applying ML surrogates to materials discovery for sustainable innovation.


πŸ”¬ Research Focus

  • design & analysis of cryptoeconomic mechanisms
  • agent-based modelling of on-chain systems
  • coordination markets, allocation systems & incentive alignment
  • intent-based architectures and fair sequencing

✍️ Web3 Writing & Research


πŸ›οΈ Editorial Work

Part of the editorial board of Recerts: The Recerts Journal of Mechanism Design for Public Goods, a peer-reviewed venue for research on funding mechanisms, incentive systems, and impact verification.


πŸ› οΈ Selected Projects


πŸ“š Scientific Background

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  1. mev_agent mev_agent Public

    πŸ€– This project involves developing a Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) agent designed to optimize order execution by matching a set of order intents with various potential liquidity sources. The goal…

    Python 14

  2. LSTM2RL-SynthCryptoMarketMaker LSTM2RL-SynthCryptoMarketMaker Public

    πŸš€A personal research project to explore πŸ“ˆ financial crypto markets, πŸ€– deep neural networks, and 🧠 reinforcement learning algorithms. Simulate a synthetic crypto market with LSTM oracles and train a…

    Python 1 1

  3. Blockchain_ResearchLead_Assignements Blockchain_ResearchLead_Assignements Public

    πŸš€ DeFi Challenges & Algorithmic Trading Solutions πŸ“Š Explore solutions to research tasks on arbitrage, liquidity pools, and market-making strategies.

    Python 1

  4. rust-solana rust-solana Public

    πŸ¦€ Experiments of coding simple dApps on Solana using Rust for the business logic and TypesScript for the client logic.

    Rust

  5. thedatadudech/lottery thedatadudech/lottery Public

    Team project of the Encode Solana Bootcamp

    TypeScript 3