6th Annual [CBER] Conference

June 4–5, 2026 · New York University, New York, NY, USA
In collaboration with the NYU Stern School of Business, Boston University's Digital Business Institute at the Questrom School of Business, Columbia University's Center for Digital Finance and Technologies, Ecole Polytechnique, the FinTech Research Center at the University of Florida, the NTU Global Institute of Finance, Technology, and Society (GIFTS), and the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management's FinHub
Sponsored by the Uniswap Foundation and Native Markets
Conference Registration
Day 1 – Thursday, June 4
Welcome and Opening Remarks12:45 – 1:00 pm
  • Kose John, NYU Stern
Special Session: BFT Protocols1:00 – 2:30 pm
Chair: Hanna Halaburda, NYU Stern
  • Byzantine Consensus in the Lens of BlockchainsDahlia Malkhi, UC Santa Barbara
  • Hyperliquid ProtocolBrett Falk, University of Pennsylvania
Coffee Break  2:30 – 2:45 pm
Special Session: Perpetual Futures2:45 – 3:45 pm
Chair: Leonid Kogan, MIT
  • Perpetual Futures PricingUrban Jermann, University of Pennsylvania
  • Microstructure of Perpetual Futures MarketsRuizhe Jia, Stanford University
Coffee Break  3:45 – 4:00 pm
Research Session: Decentralized Trading4:00 – 5:00 pm
Chair: Joshua Reed, NYU Stern
  • Risk-Based Auto-Deleveraging
    • Natascha Hey, Columbia University
    • Steven Campbell, Columbia University
    • Ciamac C. Moallemi, Columbia University
    • Marcel Nutz, Columbia University
    Discussant: Donghwa Shin, University of North Carolina
  • Price Formation in Blockchains with Discrete Clearing and Paid-Priority Queues
    • Agostino Capponi, Columbia University
    • Álvaro Cartea, University of Oxford
    • Fayçal Drissi, University of Oxford
    Discussant: Thomas Ernst, University of Maryland
Day 2 – Friday, June 5
Fireside Chat: Hyperliquid8:45 – 9:30 am
Moderators: Brett Falk, University of Pennsylvania and Joel Hasbrouck, NYU Stern
  • Jeff Yan, Founder of Hyperliquid Labs (virtual)
Coffee Break  9:30 – 9:45 am
Research Session: Tokenomics9:45 – 10:45 am
Chair: Shyam Sridhar, Ethereum Foundation
  • Buyback Programs for Platform Tokens
    • Rodney J. Garratt, UC Santa Barbara
    • Maarten R.C. van Oordt, VU Amsterdam
    Discussant: Andrew Wu, University of Michigan
  • Delegated Control, Agency Conflicts and Endogenous Governance Cycles in Token-Based Platforms
    • Michele Fabi, Telecom Paris-CREST
    • Valerie Laturnus, Durham University
    • Romain Rossello, HEC Paris
    Discussant: Basil Williams, Imperial College Business School
Coffee Break  10:45 – 11:00 am
Special Session: Stablecoins11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Chair: Mahen Nimalendran, University of Florida
  • Economics of StablecoinsQuentin Vandeweyer, University of Chicago
  • Regulation of StablecoinsYesha Yadav, Vanderbilt University
Lunch Session12:00 – 1:30 pm
Chair: Andrea Canidio, Category Labs
  • Building Agentic Payments InfrastructureAustin Bennett, Mercor
  • Ethereum for AISophia Dew, Ethereum Foundation
Panel: Stablecoins and Financial Intermediation1:30 – 2:30 pm
  • Moderator: Andreas Park, University of Toronto
    • Phil Dybvig, Washington University in St. Louis
    • Campbell Harvey, Duke University
Coffee Break  2:30 – 2:45 pm
Research Session: Tokenization2:45 – 3:45 pm
Chair: Katrin Tinn, McGill University
  • Liquidity Mechanisms in DeFi: Design and Fragmentation in Illiquid Real-World Asset Markets
    • Ralf Laschinger, LMU Munich
    • Heiko Leonhard, University of Regensburg
    • Gregor Dorfleitner, University of Regensburg
    • Wolfgang Schäfers, University of Regensburg
    Discussant: Katya Malinova, McMaster University
  • Tokenized Stocks
    • Lin William Cong, Nanyang Technological U
    • Wayne Landsman, University of North Carolina
    • Daniel Rabetti, National University of Singapore
    • Che Zhang, Tsinghua University
    • Wenqi Zhao, National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Alfred Lehar, University of Calgary
Coffee Break  3:45 – 4:00 pm
Fireside Chat: Tokenization4:00 – 5:00 pm
Moderator: Gerry Tsoukalas, Boston University
  • Joshua White, Chief Economist at Securities and Exchange Commission
Closing Remarks5:00 – 5:05 pm
  • David Yermack, NYU Stern