What is Dirt Roads

Every month or so, Dirt Roads goes deep in analysing the way value flows through complex systems. Although it naturally overlaps with some of the themes covered by hundreds of often great finance, fintech and DeFi analysts, this newsletter maintains the ambition to focus on what is truly changing at the back end of financial intermediation. For this reason, DR shares more with mathematics and philosophy than marketing and technology.

About the Author

My name is Luca Prosperi. I spent my entire almost 20-year career building, advising, studying, and investing in financial intermediaries.

After having contributed to the evolution of some of the most impactful DeFi protocols and advised investors that are operating in the space, today I am CEO and co-founder of the M0 project. M0 is the universal platform powering builders of application-specific stablecoins. With M0, developers can build safe, programmable and interoperable digital dollars. In simple terms: we are reinventing money. You can read more about it on www.m0.org.

I have competed for 10 years as an elite Ironman-distance triathlete, and spent one of those years defeating lymphatic cancer. I thought extreme sports were behind me, but as soon as I could I went back, swapping tarmac for the trails.

You can find more about me here.