Day 1 | May 20
8:15 AM – 9:30 AM | Registration & Breakfast
9:30 AM – 9:50 AM | Opening Remarks
9:50 AM – 11:35 AM | DeFi Microstructure
Brian Zhu (Columbia University) — Auctioning Time to Mitigate Latency Races: Theory and Evidence from Blockchains
Sarisht Wadhwa (Duke University) — Perils of Parallelism: Transaction Fee Mechanisms under Execution Uncertainty
Fayçal Drissi (University of Oxford) — Liquid Staking and the Limits of Policy
11:35 AM – 12:20 PM | Keynote
Jarry Xiao (Ellipsis Labs) — Perp DEXes
12:20 PM – 1:50 PM | Lunch
1:50 PM – 3:05 PM | Perpetual Futures and Derivatives
Zachary Feinstein (Stevens Institute of Technology) — Designing On-Chain Options: Amortizing Perpetual Options
Natascha Hey (Columbia University) — Risk-Based Auto-Deleveraging
Tarun Chitra (Robot Ventures, Gauntlet) — Autodeleveraging as Online Learning
3:35 PM – 4:50 PM | Mechanism Design
Srivatsan Sridhar (UC Berkeley) — Bitcoin Vaults: Trustless BTC Collateralization for Powering DeFi
Matheus Xavier Ferreira (University of Virginia) — Credible Auctions via MPC Gadgets: Bounding Information Leakage Under Abort
Fahad Saleh (University of Florida, CBER Forum) — Productivity Enables Security: The Economics of Blockchain Settlement
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Happy Hour - Location TBA
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 AM | 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