Day 2 | May 21

8:45 AM – 9:30 AM | Breakfast

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Empirical Analysis

  • Walter Stover (George Mason University) — Cultural Backgrounds and Depositor Behaviors in a Crypto “Bank” Run

  • Jay Yu (Pantera Capital) — Paper Agents, Paper Gains: An Empirical Analysis of DeFi Investment Agents

  • Joel Hasbrouck (Stern School, NYU) — Market Inefficiency in Cryptoasset Markets

11:00 AM – 11:45 PM | Keynote

  • Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College, Columbia University) — Prediction Markets

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM | Lightning Talks

12:45 PM – 2:15 PM | Lunch

2:15 PM – 3:05 PM | DeFi Microstructure 2

  • Jason Milionis (Category Labs) — EVM Workloads in the Wild: Evidence for Multi-Dimensional Gas Metering, State Growth, Delayed Execution, and Parallelism

  • Sen Yang (Yale University) — Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum's Block-Building Paradigms

3:20 PM – 5:00 PM | AMMs

  • Viraj Nadkarni (Princeton University) — Automated Market Making for Energy Sharing

  • Vittorio Ruffo (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management) — Market Efficiency in Prediction Markets - A Comparison with Derivatives

  • Nihar Shah (Ostium) — Hyperbolic Funding Rate Mechanisms for Open Interest Balancing in Perpetual Futures Markets

  • Jeremy Clark (Concordia University) — SoK: Market Microstructure for Decentralized Prediction Markets (DePMs)

5:00 PM – 5:05 PM | Closing Ceremony