About
Hi, I’m Matt Black.
I’m the cofounder of Lygos Finance, a company building Bitcoin-backed lending infrastructure using Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs).
Previously, I cofounded Atomic Finance, a bitcoin defi company focused on building non-custodial financial tools using DLCs.
Maintainer of node-dlc and bitcoin-abstraction-layer
Created Atomic Odds for betting on Trump vs Biden using DLCs
Built Atomic Loans for getting Bitcoin-backed loans using native-BTC
Author of BIP 197, ERC 1850 and ERC 1630
Built Cross-Chain Atomic Swaps with Liquality
Presentations
Bitcoin, Lightning and DLCs @ Bitcoin Van Isle Jul ‘25
Just Don’t Break Anything Panel @ OP_NEXT ‘25 Virginia
Infrastructure Pitch Day @ Bitcoin ‘23 Miami
Building the future Finance on Bitcoin @ Bitcoin Summer in Montreal Conference ‘22
Podcasts
SLP #716 Feb 2026
BOB #168 Nov 2025
Bitfinex Talks Sep 2025
SLP #519 Oct 2023
TFTC #436 Jul 2023
BOB #120 Jul 2023
TLS #114 Jul 2023
Blockware Podcast Mar 2023
TFTC #193 Sep 2020
HashR8 Apr 2020