Francesco Mosterts
Francesco Mosterts is a researcher and technology professional with a background spanning decentralized technologies, investment research, and financial operations. He is the founder of Chainbound and previously worked in research and investment roles at Point72 and XMonetae Capital. [11]
Education
Mosterts graduated from New York University with a Bachelor’s in Economics in 2020. [3]
Career
Mosterts represented Italy on the Italian Motocross National Team from 2013 to 2014, competing in European and World championships through the Federazione Motociclistica Italiana. In 2019, Mosterts worked as a Mergers and Acquisitions Analyst at Altimo on an internship in the Tel Aviv District. He later joined XMonetae Capital LLC in 2020 as an Operations Associate, a position he held until 2022. He then became Director of Research Development at the firm from April to July 2022. Mosterts joined Point72 as an Associate in September 2022 and remained with the firm until August 2023, working in the New York City metropolitan area. In August 2023, he founded Chainbound, a research and development lab focused on decentralized technologies. Chainbound has worked on projects including Fiber Network and Umia and publishes research related to its technical work. [3]
Interviews
Umia Finance
In an April 2026 interview on the Utopia in Beta podcast, Mosterts discussed decision markets and their use in governance, capital formation, and organizational coordination. He explained how Umia enables projects to issue tokens governed through decision markets, combining onchain mechanisms for enforcing outcomes with an off-chain legal framework that delegates authority and supports enforcement. The discussion covered separating day-to-day management from governance, with decision markets allowing participants to influence strategic decisions such as treasury management. Mosterts also explored potential applications beyond cryptocurrency, including AI, Web2 companies, startups, and public goods projects, where shared ownership and market-based decision-making could coordinate participants. He further discussed prediction markets as tools for evaluating future outcomes and described tokens as programmable mechanisms for ownership, value transfer, and governance. [10]
Presentations
How Launchpads Fail
In a May 2026 presentation at ETHPrague, Mosterts discussed the challenges of capital formation for blockchain projects and introduced Umia as an onchain venture creation platform. He described Umia as combining four main components: a legal framework using token wrappers, noncustodial onchain treasury management, governance through decision markets, and permissionless fundraising. The platform uses a continuous clearing auction based on Uniswap’s CCA mechanism for fundraising, with configurable access and pricing, while decision markets support both operational and strategic governance. Mosterts also explained how the noncustodial treasury can automate operational disbursements and use governance mechanisms to manage parameters such as treasury spending, token supply, and project liquidity. The presentation concluded with a discussion of internet-native and AI-native companies, including models in which capital and governance are distributed among communities and venture operations are managed through programmable onchain systems. [9]
