6th Annual [CBER] Conference

June 4–5, 2026 · New York University, New York, NY, USA
In collaboration with Columbia University's Center for Digital Finance and Technologies, Boston University's Digital Business Institute at the Questrom School of Business, Ecole Polytechnique, FinTech at Cornell – an Initiative of the SC Johnson College of Business, the FinTech Research Center at the University of Florida, the NYU Stern School of Business, and the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management's FinHub
Sponsored by the Uniswap Foundation and Native Markets
Day 1 – Thursday, June 4
Welcome and Opening Remarks1:15 – 1:30 pm
Special Session: Hyperliquid1:30 – 2:30 pm
  • Brett Falk, University of Pennsylvania
Special Session: Perpetual Futures2:45 – 3:45 pm
  • Perpetual Futures PricingUrban Jermann, University of Pennsylvania
  • Microstructure of Perpetual Futures MarketsRuizhe Jia, Stanford University
Research Session: Decentralized Trading4:00 – 5:00 pm
  • 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
Research Session: Tokenomics8:45 – 9:45 am
  • 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: TBD
  • Buyback Programs for Platform Tokens
    • Rodney J. Garratt, UC Santa Barbara
    • Maarten R.C. van Oordt, VU Amsterdam
    Discussant: Andrew Wu, University of Michigan
Special Session: Stablecoins10:00 – 11:00 am
  • Economics of StablecoinsQuentin Vandeweyer, University of Chicago
  • Regulation of StablecoinsYesha Yadav, Vanderbilt University
Special Session: Building Agentic Payments Infrastructure11:15 am – 12:00 pm
  • Austin Bennett, Circle
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
Research Session: Tokenization2:45 – 3:45 pm
  • 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, Cornell University
    • 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
Fireside Chat: Tokenization4:00 – 5:00 pm
  • Joshua White, Chief Economist at Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Moderator: Gerry Tsoukalas, Boston University
Closing Remarks5:00 – 5:05 pm