Money is the base layer everyone stands on and no one questions.
Get it wrong and you get inflation, broken incentives, and people priced out of their own lives. Get it right and a lot of the world's hardest problems quietly get easier.
I don't think AI replaces money. I think it raises the bar for what money has to be — faster, programmable, and verifiable from first principles.
So I build. I invent things, I solve problems, I go deep, and I ship — companies, research, tools, essays, all pointed at the same target.
We are early. That is the good news and the work.
I take ideas the whole way.
Most people own one layer. I work across all of them — the thesis, the product, the go-to-market, the code, and the words that explain it. Not to collect skills, but because good money has to be right at every layer.
Curiosity.
Embrace bold ideas and challenge conventional thinking.
Courage.
Back transformative projects with conviction — and build them in the open.
Integrity.
Build trust and transparency into everything, at every layer.
Things I invent, build, back, and incubate — some I started myself, some I invest in and help scale.
Digital Asset Yield Summit
A conference connecting institutional investors with crypto and staking yield.
Confbase
A platform for organizing conferences and the people who run them.
Hyperliquid
An on-chain trading platform, and one of my main investments.
Looping Collective
An invite-only group of builders and investors.
Blue
A new project, currently in the works.
Money 2069
A project about what money could look like by the end of the century.
Big Mac Index
A tool comparing what money is really worth in different countries.
Bitcoin
The original cryptocurrency, and a core long-term holding.
Writing & Theses
The thinking behind the buildingI build it, then I make it spread.
Building is half the work; distribution is the other half. I turn dense crypto and finance content into category-leading organic reach — search as a real growth channel. It's the go-to-market layer of everything I build.
Let's talk growth →I'm Mirko Schmiedl. I build companies and chase ideas to the bottom — money, mostly, because I think it's the lever under everything else. Polymath by necessity, not hobby: to build good money you have to understand product, markets, technology, and people at once. Based in Zürich. Off the clock I train calisthenics, ride, and sit still on purpose — it's where the thinking clears.
