Martin Köppelmann

About Gnosis

Martin Köppelmann has been an entrepreneur and in the blockchain space for more than 5 years. He is the CEO and co-founder of the decentralized Gnosis prediction market - the first bigger dApp that went live on Ethereum. Closely related to prediction markets is his work on decentralized market driven governance mechanisms: Futarchy.Beyond the entrepreneurial activity Martin has done research on the economic incentive structure of different consensus mechanisms and scalability solutions via state channels. Martin help building the Ethereum community by co-hosting the Ethereum meetup groups in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Finally, Martin is well known for his work and research on “basic income on the blockchain: Circles” - a new currency built on top of Ethereum that aims to implement a basic income as monetary policy.Gnosis will be a disruptive force driving change in a number of systemically important global markets, including finance, insurance, and information. Gnosis prediction markets will also find applications in new forms of distributed, market-based governance protocols, and will provide unique incentivization opportunities for both local and global economies. Gnosis is well-positioned as a medium for a long-term shift toward information arbitrage economies that will power the Internet of Things, as well as more advanced forms of artificial intelligence. We believe that we are on the cusp of a Cambrian explosion of machine intelligence that will leverage a global liquidity pool of information for decision-making and will be deeply interwoven on a shared blockchain fabric such as Ethereum. Decentralized prediction markets seeded on Gnosis will be the ideal medium of exchange for these intelligent agents.