Smart Financial Contracts
Research project (thesis/tesina) for the Bachelor’s degree in Financial Management at ITAM, advised by Guillermo Zamarripa. Explores the viability of implementing blockchain technology and smart contracts in the microstructure of the Mexican financial market (BMV), analyzing inefficiencies such as asset divisibility, market hours, and brokerage commissions.
The project evolved from initial proposals on decentralized markets toward a comparative analysis of interest rates in DeFi vs. traditional finance.
Main Page
- Smart Financial Contracts — Central page of the project with the research question, meeting minutes, pending tasks, and the thesis thread
Thesis Proposals
- Decentralized Financial Markets v.0 — First proposal: viability of blockchain for the BMV
- Decentralized Financial Markets v.1 — Second proposal: microstructure of the Mexican financial market and blockchain
- Decentralized Financial Contracts v.1 — Formal proposal centered on smart financial contracts and DeFi
- Building Interest Rate Markets in DeFi — Most recent proposal: comparative analysis of DeFi interest rates vs. the traditional system
Market Inefficiency Research
- Perfect Divisibility of Assets — Analysis of the subdivisibility of digital financial assets
- Market Hours — Research on the impact of market closures on price formation
- AMM Algorithm — Analysis of the Automated Market Maker algorithm and its role in eliminating intermediaries
Essays and Ideas
- BYOB: The Case for Smart Contracts — Essay on how to be your own bank through smart contracts and DeFi
- Thoughts — Ideas and pseudo-hypotheses on ETFs, perpetual derivatives, and smart contracts
- Tokenized Stock — Research on the tokenization of real-world stocks
Challenges and Problems
- Challenges in Structuring a Decentralized Stock Exchange — Compliance, liquidity, technology, and UX challenges
Meeting Notes
- First Meeting with Guillermo Zamarripa — Minutes from the first meeting with the thesis advisor
Implementation
- Code — Notes on the steps of financial asset trading and their automation
Related Projects
- Optimizer Finance — Practical DeFi applications and financial optimization
- Schola — ITAM academic context
- ETH Global NYC — Ethereum hackathon related to blockchain development