About
Antoine Mecker
Financial engineer → Crypto native → Investor
Financial engineer by training, blockchain native by conviction. I have a double master's degree in Financial Engineering & FinTech and Corporate Finance.
I write about global macro regime changes, geopolitics, crypto, tech, AI, investments thesis. I post content on Substack and YouTube. I run my very own family office. My business has three branches: thesis-driven research, direct investments, and quantitative trading systems. I'm currently running two algos live on a perp DEX. I have Accordion, a cointegration-based pair trading bot and a market maker optimised by an AI agent.
Selectively contrarian. When things are too good to be true, there is probably something wrong. Humans will always be greedy and stupid. That's why we will always see excesses and bubbles in the markets.
Based in Lisbon.
Finance
- Financial engineering
- DeFi mechanics & AMMs
- Pair trading (cointegration)
- Market making
- Macro & thesis investing
Blockchain
- ZKP & Layer 2
- Smart-contract programming
- DeFi protocols
- Bitcoin
Engineering
- Python & Rust
- TypeScript / Next.js
- Quant algorithms
- AI agent integration
- System design
Research
- Substack analyst
- Geopolitics
- Macro-economics
- On-chain flows