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Juan Cianci
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Juan Cianci

Mechanism DesignQuantGame Theory
14
Papers authored
Ph.D Mathematics, M.S Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Education
2024
Joined
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Juan oversees research at Kosmos Ventures as a Research Partner. He has a background in quantitative research, economic modeling, stochastic simulations, and algorithmic game theory.

He has worked as a quant, a data scientist, and as a consultant for several startups in Web3, in subfields such as distributed storage & computing, financial derivatives, and autonomous agents.

An entrepreneur at heart, he co-founded successful brick-and-mortar businesses generating over $1.5M ARR and owns a small brewpub. He holds a Ph.D in mathematics from EPFL (Switzerland), and is earning an MS in innovation and entrepreneurship from HEC Paris.

> PUBLICATIONS

Papers co-authored by Juan.

2026-05-21
Working

Risk Management in On-Chain Yield Portfolio Allocation

Juan Cianci
DeFiRiskPortfolio
2025-10-27
Paper

Prediction Markets as Bayesian Inverse Problems

Juan Cianci · Camilo Monsalve Maya · Lachlan Breakey
Mech. DesignMarketsBayesian
2025-10-27
Paper

Bullish Minting: An Adaptive Control Framework for Token Issuance

Juan Cianci · Lachlan Breakey
Token DesignControl TheoryMech. Design
2025-09-01
Working

Bayesian Futarchy

Juan Cianci · Lachlan Breakey
GovernanceFutarchyMech. Design
2025-06-18
Paper

A Methodology for Pricing Gas Options in Blockchain Protocols

Juan Cianci · Lachlan Breakey · Camilo Monsalve Maya
EIP-1559OptionsPricing
2024-10-01
Note

Results on EIP-1559, Part I: Theory

Juan Cianci
EIP-1559Mech. Design
2024-06-01
Note

Goal-adaptive minting

Juan Cianci
InfraMech. Design
2024-05-20
Essay

Building Bulletproof Communities: Combatting Sybil Attacks in Web3

Juan Cianci
SybilsMech. Design
2023-07-27
Paper

An ABM Framework for Utility-Based Cryptoeconomies

Juan Cianci · Kiran Karra · Tom Mellan · Maria Silva
Agent-Based ModelsSimulationsDigital Twin
2023-03-31
Paper

Analysis of a class of ML-MCMC algorithms based on independent Metropolis–Hastings

Juan Cianci · Fabio Nobile · Raul Tempone
SimulationsSamplingStatistical Methods
2023-03-01
Essay

Gas in the Filecoin Network: Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification

Juan Cianci
EIP-1559UQAgent-Based Models
2022-06-01
Paper

Time-efficient decentralized exchange of everlasting options with exotic payoff functions

Juan Cianci · Jesper Kristensen
OptionsDerivatives
2021-08-30
Paper

Generalized Parallel Tempering

Juan Cianci · Jonas Latz · Fabio Nobile · Raul Tempone
SimulationsSamplingStatistical Methods