Luca Nicoli, PhD
Cryptoeconomist · Research Scientist · Engineer
Research scientist trained in Engineering Physics, with a focus on semiconductor nanotechnologies. After earning a PhD cum laude from Scuola Normale Superiore in Theoretical & Computational Chemistry, he shifted to crypto working on MEV solver agents, optimal routing, and cryptoeconomic mechanism design. He is also co-founder and administrator of Traent Hub, Pisa's technology and innovation hub.
Selected case studies
Formal and computational analysis of Revnets, proving four cryptoeconomic guarantees and reducing all system dynamics to seven immutable launch-time parameters.
Economic design of a trustless tensor-compute network: stake and slashing conditions that make honest execution the equilibrium, validated by adversarial agent-based simulation.
An action-first Filecoin Plus DataCap allocator that distributes DataCap proportionally to on-chain FIL burns, deployed to mainnet with a public verification dashboard.
An MCP-based conversational tool that pairs DeepSeek V3 with MechaFIL, a differentiable digital twin of the Filecoin economy, to deliver plain-language forecasts with interactive charts.
Urani's in-house arbitrage agent on Solana: peer-to-peer intent matching plus threaded AMM routing, released as an open-source Apache-2.0 solver template.
A research codebase that models the market as a token-venue graph and solves forward routing as a convex optimization, provably finding the surplus-maximizing execution.
Perso
dai sentieri che ho tracciato
prima ancora di averli percorsi.
Ed io, smarrito
mi trovo.