Program

  • 08:00am - 08:10am
    Welcome and Opening Remarks

    Agostino Capponi (Columbia University)

  • 08:10am - 08:15am
    CBER CtCe Research Funding Announcement

    Andreas Park (University of Toronto) and Fahad Saleh (University of Florida)


    • AMMs and Uniswap v4

    Session Chair: Xin Wan (Uniswap Labs)
  • 08:15am - 09:00am
    Economics of Automated Market Makers

    Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

  • 09:00am - 09:45am
    Overview of Uniswap v4

    Fahad Saleh (University of Florida)

  • 09:45am - 10:00am
    Coffee Break


    • Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)

    Session Chair: Jongsub Lee (Seoul National University)
  • 10:00am - 10:45am
    Overview of Maximal Extractable Value

    Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia University)

  • 10:45am - 11:30am
    Mitigation Techniques for Maximal Extractable Value

    Julian Ma (Ethereum Foundation)

  • 11:30am - 01:00pm
    Lunch with Eigen Layer Presentation: Overview of Eigen Layer

    Speaker: Brett Palatiello (Head of Economics Research, Eigen Labs). Moderator: Lewis Cohen (Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP).


    • Order Flow Auctions

    Session Chair: Mahendrarajah Nimalendran (University of Florida)
  • 01:00pm - 01:45pm
    Market Microstructure Concepts for Cryptoeconomics

    Joel Hasbrouck (NYU Stern)

  • 01:45pm - 02:30pm
    The Ecosystem of OFAs in the Cryptoeconomy

    Brad Bachu (Uniswap Labs)

  • 02:30pm - 02:45pm
    Coffee Break


    • Real-World Hook Design

    Session Chair: Kenneth Ng (Uniswap Foundation)
  • 02:45pm - 03:15pm
    MEV-Aware Hook Design

    Karthik Srinivasan (Sorella Labs)

  • 03:15pm - 03:45pm
    Darkpool Hook Design

    Mehran Hydary (Arena Exchange)

  • 03:45pm - 04:00pm
    Coffee Break

  • 04:00pm - 05:00pm
    Keynote: Do Cryptocurrencies Matter From An Economic Perspective?

    Speaker: Bruno Biais (Professor of Finance, HEC Paris). Moderator: Kose John (NYU Stern).

  • 05:00pm - 05:15pm
    Concluding Remarks

    George Deodatis (Vice Dean for Research at Columbia Engineering)

  • 08:30am - 09:15am
    Panel: Evolution of Decentralized Exchange: Risks, Benefits, and Oversight

    Moderator: Troy Paredes (Former SEC Commissioner and Founder, Paredes Strategies LLC). Panelists: Campbell Harvey (Author, Duke University), Brian Nistler (Discussant, Uniswap Foundation).

  • 09:15am - 09:30am
    Coffee Break


    • Privacy in the Cryptoeconomy

    Session Chair: Yuliya Guseva (Rutgers University)
  • 09:30am - 10:00am
    Regulating Decentralized Systems: Evidence from Sanctions on Tornado Cash

    Authors: Anders Brownworth (Radius Inc.), Jon Durfee (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Michael Junho Lee (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Antoine Martin (Swiss National Bank). Discussant: Alfred Lehar (University of Calgary).

  • 10:00am - 10:30am
    Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium

    Authors: Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation), Jacob Illum (Chainalysis), Matthias Nadler (University of Basel), Fabian Sch¨ar (University of Basel), Ameen Soleimani (Privacy Pools). Discussant: Jiasun Li (George Mason University).

  • 10:30am - 10:45am
    Coffee Break

  • 10:45am - 11:30am
    Special Session: Zero Knowledge - Introduction and DeFi Implications

    Speaker: Benedikt Bünz (New York University). Moderator: Jay Sethuraman (Columbia University).

  • 11:30am - 01:00pm
    Lunch with 2nd CBER-Circle Insight Award Presentation

    Moderator: Gordon Liao (Circle)


    • Decentralized Exchanges

    Session Chair: Evgeny Lyandres (Tel Aviv University)
  • 01:00pm - 01:30pm
    Automated Market Makers and the Value of Adaptive Fees

    Authors: David Cao (University of Pennsylvania), Brett Falk (University of Pennsylvania), Gerry Tsoukalas (Boston University), Discussant: Alex Nezlobin (London School of Economics).

  • 01:30pm - 02:00pm
    An Analysis of Intent-Based Markets

    Authors: Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet), Kshitij Kulkarni (UC Berkeley), Mallesh Pai (Rice University), Theo Diamandis (MIT), Discussant: Andrea Canidio (CoW Protocol).

  • 02:00pm - 02:15pm
    Coffee Break

  • 02:15pm - 03:00pm
    Panel: The Economic Limits of Permissionless Consensus

    Moderator: Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern). Panelists: Tim Roughgarden (Author, Columbia University), Katya Malinova (Discussant, McMaster University), Katrin Tinn (Discussant, McGill University).


    • Research Briefs

    Session Chair: Bita Abolfathi (Uniswap Foundation)
  • 03:00pm - 03:10pm
    Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auctions and Why?

    Danning Sui (Flashbots)

  • 03:10pm - 03:20pm
    Decentralization of Ethereum’s Builder Market

    Fan Zhang (Yale University)

  • 03:20pm - 03:30pm
    CLVR Ordering of Transactions on AMMs

    Robert McLaughlin (University of California at Santa Barbara)

  • 03:30pm - 03:40pm
    Price Formation in Memory Pools

    Fayçal Drissi (University of Oxford)

  • 03:40pm - 03:50pm
    A User-Owned and Compliant Privacy Protocol for Decentralized Finance

    Amit Chaudhary (University of Warwick)

  • 03:50pm - 04:00pm
    BoLD: Fast and Cheap Dispute Resolution

    Ben Berger (Offchain Labs)

  • 04:00pm - 04:15pm
    Coffee Break

  • 04:15pm - 05:00pm
    Special Session: Overview of Rollups

    Speaker: Ed Felten (Offchain Labs). Moderator: Aviv Yaish (Yale University).

  • 05:00pm - 05:10pm
    CBER Forum Announcements

    Andreas Park (University of Toronto) and Fahad Saleh (University of Florida)

  • 05:10pm - 05:15pm
    Concluding Remarks

    Agostino Capponi (Columbia University)