Day 1 | May 20
8:15 AM – 9:30 AM | Registration & Breakfast
9:30 AM – 9:50 AM | Opening Remarks
Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia Business School, Paradigm, Uniswap)
Bita Abolfathi (Uniswap)
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
Session chair: Natascha Hey (Columbia University)
11:10 AM – 11:35 PM | Break
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) — Amortizing Perpetual Options
Natascha Hey (Columbia University) — Risk-Based Auto-Deleveraging
Nagu Thogiti (Breakwater Labs) & Mauricio Trujillo Ramirez (Tektonic Company) — Autodeleveraging as Online Learning
Session chair: Guillaume Lambert (Panoptic)
3:05 PM – 3:45 PM | Break
3:45 PM – 5:00 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
Session chair: Manvir Schneider (Cardano Foundation)
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Happy Hour - RSVP HERE (waitlist only)
Day 2 | May 21
8:45 AM – 9:30 AM | Breakfast
9:30 AM – 10:45 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
Session chair: Ruizhe Jia (Stanford)
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Break
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Keynote
Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College, Columbia University) — Engines of Prophecy: The Power and Perils of Prediction Markets
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Break
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lightning Talks
Xinyu Zhang (Ellipsis Labs) — Prop AMMs: A Market Structure View of On-chain Liquidity
Maurice Herlihy (Brown University) — Defensive Rebalancing for Automated Market Makers
Wenhao Wang (Yale University) — Spam MEV
Shaheer Sidd (Stevens University) — Mind the Gap: Price Discovery Across Blockchain Networks
Niusha Moshrefi (Princeton University) — ParlayMarket: Automated Market Making for Parlay-style Joint Contracts
James Dai (Surf AI) — Reading vs Navigating: An Empirical Capability Cliff for AI Agents in DeFi
Emmanuel Batse (Clober) — Solving PropAMM Quote Spoofing with Unified Execution
Session chair: Danning Sui (Pantera)
1:00 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
Session chair: Zachary Feinstein (Stevens Institute of Technology)
3:05 PM – 3:20 PM | Break
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)
Session chair: Dan Moroz (Harvard)
5:00 PM – 5:05 PM | Closing Ceremony