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Tech · Longevity · Markets · Opinions Enrico Rubboli, propr. Dubai, UAE
An introduction

Enrico Rubboli is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He founded Mintlayer, a Bitcoin-native sidechain for decentralised finance, RBB Lab, a production-grade software studio, and Sidq Finance, an on-chain Islamic finance certification body. He writes occasionally about health, protocols, capital, and building things that last.

He invests in early-stage companies at the intersection of tech, health, AI, and finance. He prefers founders who read more than they tweet, ship more than they post, and answer their own emails.

I · Writings
An index of essays, in reverse chronology
  1. May 15, 2026essayMy Longevity Protocol: A Living Experiment
    25 min read·read essay →
  2. May 14, 2026essayWhat "Biological Age" Tests Actually Measure (Mostly: Noise)
    15 min read·read essay →
  3. May 12, 2026essayResilience vs Slowdown: Two Theories of How to Age Well
    12 min read·read essay →
  4. May 11, 2026essaymTOR and AMPK: The Two Switches Behind Almost Every Longevity Lever
    14 min read·read essay →
  5. May 10, 2026essayHow to Trigger Autophagy
    12 min read·read essay →
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II · Holdings
Companies founded, advised, & invested in
· San Marino ·
RBB Lab
Production-grade software studio delivering senior engineering expertise end-to-end for startups and companies.
Founder
· Dubai ·
Mintlayer
Bitcoin-native sidechain enabling trustless DeFi via atomic swaps, without wrapped tokens or intermediaries.
Founder
· Abu Dhabi ·
Sidq Finance
Independent certification body issuing on-chain attestations of Islamic financial compliance.
Founder
· Milan ·
Block Invest
Blockchain platform for financial institutions to tokenize and manage bonds, funds, and securities.
Investor
· London ·
Seed Set
Decentralised platform letting startups and SMEs issue digital securities for open equity investing.
Investor
· Milan ·
0var
Quantitative models and infrastructure for measuring and integrating on-chain yield into institutional finance.
Investor
III · The Library
Why We Die
Venki Ramakrishnan
A Nobel laureate's exploration of why organisms age and die — and whether science can change that.
· in progress ·
Artemis
Andy Weir
· in progress ·
Outlive
Peter Attia
A proactive, evidence-based guide to extending lifespan and healthspan through exercise, nutrition, sleep, and emotional health.
· finished ·
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
A lone astronaut wakes up with no memory far from Earth, humanity's last hope against a star-eating extinction threat.
· finished ·
All readings →
IV · Public works
mintlayer/mintlayer-core
Reference Rust node, wallet, and API server for the Mintlayer blockchain.
Rust53
mintlayer/go-sdk
Official Go SDK: idiomatic clients for node, indexer, and wallet RPC, with embedded WASM crypto runtime.
Go1
mintlayer/web-gui
TypeScript web interface for interacting with a Mintlayer node.
TypeScript
erubboli/zk-thunder
ZK Thunder — zero-knowledge infrastructure in Rust.
Rust1