Insights

The thinking is public.

Our founder has spent a decade writing and speaking about markets, capital and technology — in national business press and on the TEDx stage three times. None of it is proprietary. You can read and watch it before you ever talk to us.

Published and presented in

Financial Express Mint TEDx

Nithin Eapen has written for India's national business press and spoken at TEDxHartford, TEDxUBridgeport and TEDxMACE, alongside more than 100 keynotes and panels.

TEDx

Three talks, three arguments.

Decentralized finance, urban growth policy, and where charitable giving loses its value. Different subjects, one habit: take a system apart, find the intermediary, and ask what it is actually being paid for.

Nithin Eapen speaking: Demystifying DeFi at TEDxHartford

TEDxHartford

Demystifying DeFi: why you need new paradigms for financial services

Nithin opens with a question about what happens when a market forces every transaction through an intermediary — then uses it to explain why decentralized finance is not a product category but a different set of assumptions about who has to be trusted.

Watch on YouTube

Nithin Eapen speaking: How can small cities attract people and keep growing, at TEDxUBridgeport

TEDxUBridgeport

How can small cities attract people and keep growing?

Why people move to cities, what makes growth compound once it starts, and what smaller cities can realistically do about it — an argument about S-curves applied to public policy.

14:15 · Watch on YouTube

Nithin Eapen speaking: Why your donations are not optimized, at TEDxMACE

TEDxMACE

Why your donations are not optimized

Charitable giving loses value at every intermediary between the donor and the recipient. The talk works through where that value goes and what a decentralized alternative would have to get right.

13:22 · Watch on YouTube

Published writing

Columns on markets, money and technology.

17 columns published in Financial Express under the Creed Capital Crypto banner, plus writing in other outlets. Every link goes to the original at the publisher.

Creed Capital Crypto — a recurring column in Financial Express

17 pieces to date, written for one of India's national business dailies. Each links to the original at the publisher. Titles below are grouped by argument rather than by date.

Money, and what makes it work

Before the technology, the question underneath it: what money actually is, what it has to do, and why the thing we currently use is a historical accident rather than a law of nature.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

Why you have to learn about this new asset class

The opening column. Not a case for buying anything — a case for understanding an asset class before you are asked to have an opinion on it.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

Bitcoin is money, just that it’s better

Money is not defined by who issues it but by what it does. Measured against those functions, the argument for why one form outperforms another.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

Paper money replaced gold. Will digital currencies replace it?

Every monetary transition looked impossible until it was obvious. What the shift from gold to paper tells us about whether the next one happens.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

What is Bitcoin?

The plain-language explanation, written for someone who has heard the word for a decade and never had it explained without jargon.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

Is there anything strategic about a strategic crypto reserve?

A skeptical read of government reserve proposals: what a sovereign reserve would actually have to achieve, and whether the stated case holds.

How it actually works

The mechanics, explained without hand-waving. These are the pieces most coverage skips because they are harder to write than a price prediction.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

What is a Bitcoin wallet, and how do you create one?

What a wallet actually holds — and why the mental model most people carry over from banking is the source of most costly mistakes.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

Transactions, networks and blockchain: where is the data stored?

If nobody owns the ledger, where does it live? A walk through what is stored, by whom, and what that distribution buys you.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

What happens when you send a Bitcoin?

The full path of a single transaction, from signature to settlement — the piece that makes the rest of the technology legible.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

Why crypto exchanges get hacked and NSE and BSE do not

A comparison of custody and settlement models that explains the difference in risk profile — and why it is structural rather than a matter of competence.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

Ethereum and smart contracts: a whole new world unleashed

What becomes possible when the ledger can hold logic as well as balances, and where that capability is genuinely useful versus merely novel.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

The wonderful and crazy world of stablecoins

The different mechanisms behind assets that promise not to move, what each one is really backed by, and where the failure modes sit.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

Bitcoin mining consumes more energy than Finland. Does that matter?

Takes the energy criticism seriously rather than dismissing it — then asks what the comparison is actually measuring, and against what alternative.

Markets, incentives and how to think about them

The columns that reach furthest beyond crypto. These are about decision-making under uncertainty, and they apply to any market.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

Prediction markets: how you can almost certainly see the future by having skin in the game

Why markets where participants stand to lose money have consistently outforecast expert panels — and what that implies for how organisations make predictions.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

Should you trade, or buy and hold for twenty years?

The case for and against time horizon as a strategy, and what the behaviour behind the internet slang is actually describing.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

How to profit from cryptos without trading

The routes to exposure that do not involve taking a directional position — and the risks each one substitutes in place of price risk.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

An innovation that can turn the world of exchanges upside down

What changes when the matching engine and the settlement layer stop being separate institutions, and who loses their position if it holds.

Financial Express

Creed Capital Crypto

Society, self or status: what should you prioritise?

A detour from markets into what a long-running Harvard study found about what people optimise for — and what it costs them.

Additional columns in Mint and other publications are being added. To have Nithin write or speak for your publication or event, .

Speaking

Available for keynotes and panels.

Nithin has spoken at more than 100 events on decentralization, digital assets, free markets and economic policy.

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