Shermin Voshmgir is the author of Token Economy and founder of Token Kitchen. She started BlockchainHub in Berlin, was the director of Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at Vienna University of Economics, which she also co-founded. She was a curator of the infamous project TheDAO back in 2016. She is setting up a data driven farm in Portugal with her partner. They investigate how to tokenize agricultural assets and sustainable ecosystem services such as soil quality or CO2 capture with the support of hardware wallets and sensor technology.
Shermin studied information systems management at Vienna University of Economics and film-making in Madrid. She has created a series of audio-visual works. An Austrian with Iranian roots, she lives in Portugal where she works on the intersection of technology, agriculture, art and social science.