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
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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