Christian Catalini is a research scientist and crypto founder who co-created the Diem/Libra stablecoin project and founded the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab. Christian Catalini's Twitter Score is 253 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,659 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Christian Catalini works at MIT Sloan School of Management as a Research Scientist and co-founded Lightspark, a Bitcoin payments company backed by a16z Crypto and Paradigm as co-lead investors. He previously co-created the Diem/Libra stablecoin project, which was shut down in January 2022 and its assets sold to Silvergate Bank. He also previously served as Head Economist at Meta FinTech and as Chief Economist at the Diem Association.
Christian Catalini serves as an advisor to Coinbase, Skyfire, and The Better Money Company, and sits on the independent board of Hivemind Capital. He is a member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Technology Advisory Committee and formerly participated in the Bank of England CBDC Engagement Forum. He also contributes to Forbes. Earlier in his career, he was involved in the MIT Bitcoin Project, which offered incoming freshmen $100 worth of bitcoin to study early-adopter behavior.
Christian Catalini has published 8,328 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 144 accounts a total of 244 times. Christian Catalini's portfolio includes Flashnet.
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