Tom J. Espel
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Posts, essays, and research notes on quantitative finance, frontier assets, and machine learning.

Representing academic publications on-chain at the age of AI

PublicationNFT enables on-chain academic publishing with rich metadata, machine-readable access, and low-cost minting on Ethereum and Sui. It supports cross-chain use and open-source extensibility.

19 Oct 2025

Is AI becoming taboo in mathematics?

The danger isn't AI in mathematics; it's using it in secret.

14 Sep 2025

Arbitrage-free pricing on blockchains with the "Validator Account"

Staking rewards are protocol-guaranteed and deterministic. We introduce the first formal risk-free rate framework for blockchain assets.

31 Aug 2025

Conversation on AI‑Driven finance

I joined Derek Ting on his "What I Think" podcast to walk through AI's evolution; from basic regressions to transformers, and what that means for finance today.

28 Apr 2025

Using LLMs to quantify the Fed's Beige Book

Eight times a year, the Federal Reserve publishes a qualitative report that influences trillion-dollar decisions. Can we use LLMs to process it faster?

31 Jan 2025

BTC and ETH display intraday seasonality

The January 2024 approval of the US Bitcoin ETF was hailed as a watershed moment. What actually changed in the market?

31 Mar 2024
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