Current Position & Biography
Alain Falys is an entrepreneur and investor whose work connects payments, digital assets and tokenized investment access. Fabric Ventures’ current biography identifies him as a partner at M&A Arts and places him within its Research and Investments team. M&A Arts independently lists him on its executive team. This profile uses those current descriptions rather than carrying forward an older operational title at a previous payments venture.
His earlier company-building experience includes OB10 and Yoyo Wallet. Those businesses form part of his payments background, but they are not, by themselves, evidence of cryptocurrency infrastructure work. His direct relevance here rests on Qori’s crypto-payment offering and his more recent involvement in tokenized access to art.
Notable Contributions
Falys co-founded Qori with Daniel Maurice-Vallerey. Synalcom’s March 15, 2023 merger announcement dates Qori’s founding to 2021 and describes its technology for accepting card, cryptocurrency and instant-transfer payments through terminals and mobile devices. The merger brought Qori together with Synalcom to create Sylq. This is a documented business-building contribution; it does not establish that Falys personally wrote the payment software.
Sylq’s current Pay by Crypto page explains the merchant-facing model: a customer pays using cryptocurrency, while the merchant receives settlement in fiat currency. The company describes payment initiation through QR codes or links and daily fiat settlements. These are product descriptions, not independently verified guarantees of settlement timing, security or universal wallet compatibility. The distinction also means that accepting this type of payment does not necessarily turn a merchant into a holder of cryptocurrency.
At M&A Arts, Falys is part of a team working on art finance and fractionalization. Fabric describes his role as building tokenized access to fine art. M&A Arts explains fractionalization as dividing artwork exposure into shares or fractions that investors can purchase. Fractionalization and blockchain tokenization are related in this context, but they are not interchangeable concepts: the firm’s general explanation does not establish that every offering uses an identical blockchain architecture or ownership structure.
Why Katharos Is Following Them
Falys’s work brings digital assets into established commercial settings rather than treating them only as standalone trading products. Merchant settlement and tokenized investment access both require the connection between a digital transaction and an enforceable real-world arrangement to be clear. His combination of payments ventures and current art-finance work makes those interfaces relevant subjects for reporting.
Katharos follows the implementation details rather than promises of effortless adoption or liquidity. A lower entry amount does not remove investment risk, and a digital token does not by itself demonstrate ownership rights, an available resale market or regulatory approval.
Areas to Follow
Relevant areas include merchant payment flows and settlement terms; the relationship between crypto payments and conventional acquiring; how art-related interests are represented; and what documentation explains custody, investor rights and transfers. Current roles and product availability should be checked as these businesses evolve.
Reporting Scope
Coverage concerns documented company-building, payments and tokenization work. Switzerland reflects M&A Arts’ published business base, with France and the wider European payments market providing additional professional context. It is not a statement about personal residence or citizenship, nor an endorsement of any investment offering.
Katharos Category
Stablecoins & Payments
Photo Credit
Archival photograph: Harry Murphy / MoneyConf / Sportsfile, “HM1_5941”, June 13, 2018, eXchange Stage, MoneyConf, RDS Arena, Dublin. CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized. Original photograph: Source 7; license: Source 8.