Program
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08:00am - 08:10am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Agostino Capponi (Columbia University)
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08:10am - 08:15am
CBER CtCe Research Funding Announcement
Andreas Park (University of Toronto) and Fahad Saleh (University of Florida)
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08:15am - 09:00am
Economics of Automated Market Makers
Andreas Park (University of Toronto)
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09:00am - 09:45am
Overview of Uniswap v4
Fahad Saleh (University of Florida)
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09:45am - 10:00am
Coffee Break
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10:00am - 10:45am
Overview of Maximal Extractable Value
Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia University)
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10:45am - 11:30am
Mitigation Techniques for Maximal Extractable Value
Julian Ma (Ethereum Foundation)
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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).
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01:00pm - 01:45pm
Market Microstructure Concepts for Cryptoeconomics
Joel Hasbrouck (NYU Stern)
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01:45pm - 02:30pm
The Ecosystem of OFAs in the Cryptoeconomy
Brad Bachu (Uniswap Labs)
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02:30pm - 02:45pm
Coffee Break
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02:45pm - 03:15pm
MEV-Aware Hook Design
Karthik Srinivasan (Sorella Labs)
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03:15pm - 03:45pm
Darkpool Hook Design
Mehran Hydary (Arena Exchange)
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03:45pm - 04:00pm
Coffee Break
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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).
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05:00pm - 05:15pm
Concluding Remarks
George Deodatis (Vice Dean for Research at Columbia Engineering)
AMMs and Uniswap v4
Session Chair: Xin Wan (Uniswap Labs)
Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)
Session Chair: Jongsub Lee (Seoul National University)
Order Flow Auctions
Session Chair: Mahendrarajah Nimalendran (University of Florida)
Real-World Hook Design
Session Chair: Kenneth Ng (Uniswap Foundation)
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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).
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09:15am - 09:30am
Coffee Break
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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).
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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).
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10:30am - 10:45am
Coffee Break
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10:45am - 11:30am
Special Session: Zero Knowledge - Introduction and DeFi Implications
Speaker: Benedikt Bünz (New York University). Moderator: Jay Sethuraman (Columbia University).
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11:30am - 01:00pm
Lunch with 2nd CBER-Circle Insight Award Presentation
Moderator: Gordon Liao (Circle)
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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).
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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).
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02:00pm - 02:15pm
Coffee Break
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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).
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03:00pm - 03:10pm
Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auctions and Why?
Danning Sui (Flashbots)
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03:10pm - 03:20pm
Decentralization of Ethereum’s Builder Market
Fan Zhang (Yale University)
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03:20pm - 03:30pm
CLVR Ordering of Transactions on AMMs
Robert McLaughlin (University of California at Santa Barbara)
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03:30pm - 03:40pm
Price Formation in Memory Pools
Fayçal Drissi (University of Oxford)
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03:40pm - 03:50pm
A User-Owned and Compliant Privacy Protocol for Decentralized Finance
Amit Chaudhary (University of Warwick)
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03:50pm - 04:00pm
BoLD: Fast and Cheap Dispute Resolution
Ben Berger (Offchain Labs)
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04:00pm - 04:15pm
Coffee Break
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04:15pm - 05:00pm
Special Session: Overview of Rollups
Speaker: Ed Felten (Offchain Labs). Moderator: Aviv Yaish (Yale University).
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05:00pm - 05:10pm
CBER Forum Announcements
Andreas Park (University of Toronto) and Fahad Saleh (University of Florida)
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05:10pm - 05:15pm
Concluding Remarks
Agostino Capponi (Columbia University)
Privacy in the Cryptoeconomy
Session Chair: Yuliya Guseva (Rutgers University)
Decentralized Exchanges
Session Chair: Evgeny Lyandres (Tel Aviv University)
Research Briefs
Session Chair: Bita Abolfathi (Uniswap Foundation)