2025 – 2026

April 2026 Webinar
The Open Agent Economy
Davide Crapis (Ethereum Foundation)
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March 2026 Webinar
AI x Ethereum
Sophia Dew (Ethereum Foundation)
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February 2026 Symposium
Innovations in Decentralized Exchange
Alan Wu (Uniswap Labs): MEV Tax for UniswapX on PGA Blockchains
Max Resnick (Anza Labs): Prop AMMs on Solana
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November 2025 Webinar
Depositor Reactions to a Crypto Shadow Bank Collapse
Jillian Grennan (Emory University)
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November 2025 Symposium
Rising Stars of Cryptoeconomics
Aviv Yaish (Yale): Transaction Fee Mechanisms
Fayçal Drissi (Oxford): Macroeconomics of Liquid Staking
Boyang Mu (IP Paris): Incentives in Delegated Staking Protocols
Gustavo Grivol (NYU Stern): Optimal Arbitrage Timing DEX/CEX
Brian Zhu (Columbia): Privacy-Enhanced Payment Systems
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October 2025 Webinar
Integrating Bitcoin with the DeFi Economy
David Tse (Stanford University)
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October 2025 Symposium
Consensus Protocols
Ertem Nusret Taş (a16z Crypto): Consensus Under Adversary Majority
Joachim Neu (a16z Crypto): Accountable Liveness
Jacob Leshno (U of Chicago): Economic Security of Permissionless Consensus
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September 2025 Webinar
Solana Alpenglow: Performance Meets Incentives
Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)
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September 2025 Symposium
Arbitrage Profits at Decentralized Exchanges
Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia): Effect of Trading Fees on Arbitrage Profits in AMMs
Alex Nezlobin (LSE): Loss-Versus-Rebalancing under Generalized Block-Times
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2024 – 2025

May 2025 Webinar
Bitcoin Security + Preconf-Centric Ethereum
Justin Drake (Ethereum Foundation)
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April 2025 Webinar
How ZK Rollups Solve The Blockchain Trilemma
Eli Ben-Sasson (Starkware)
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April 2025 Symposium
Cryptoasset Pricing
Gordon Liao (Circle): What Drives Crypto Asset Prices?
Jiaen Li (Washington U in St. Louis): Ideology and Asset Pricing
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March 2025 Webinar
Blockchain Trade Intent Auctions
Andrea Canidio (CoW Protocol)
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March 2025 Symposium
MEV Mitigation Methods
Shea Ketsdever (Flashbots): MEV: Beyond Mitigation
Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia): Application-Level MEV Mitigation
Barnabé Monnot (Ethereum Foundation): Protocol Roles and MEV Opportunities
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November 2024 Webinar
Fireside Chat with SEC Commissioner Peirce
Commissioner Hester Peirce (SEC)
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November 2024 Symposium
PhD Job Market Stars 2024
Moty Moravvej (U of Calgary): Private Settlement in Blockchain Systems
Artem Streltsov (Cornell): Perpetual Futures and Crypto Market Microstructure
Qiang Wang (Penn State): Does DeFi Democratize Access?
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October 2024 Webinar
What's at Stake? Competition in Crypto Staking
Antoinette Schoar (MIT)
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October 2024 Symposium
Restaking
Naveen Durvasula (Columbia): Robust Restaking Networks
Mallesh Pai (Rice): How Much Should You Pay for Restaking Security?
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September 2024 Webinar
Separating MEV and Staking Rewards
Mike Neuder (Ethereum Foundation)

2023 – 2024

May 2024 Webinar
Scaling Ethereum: EIP 4844 and Beyond
Davide Crapis (Ethereum Foundation)
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April 2024 Webinar
Non-Atomic Arbitrage in Decentralized Finance
Lioba Heimbach (ETH Zurich)
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April 2024 Symposium
Ethereum Order Flow and MEV Supply Chain
Ankit Chiplunkar (Frontier Research): Ethereum Orderflow Landscape
Danning Sui (Flashbots): Empirical Study of Ethereum Orderflow
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March 2024 Webinar
Market Microstructure of Ethereum Block Production
Mallesh Pai (Rice University)
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March 2024 Symposium
Digital Assets and the Law
John Reed Stark (Duke Law, former SEC): Regulation
Hermine Wong (UC Berkeley Law, former SEC/Coinbase): Regulation
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February 2024 Symposium
UniswapX and JIT Liquidity
Xin Wan (Uniswap Labs): UniswapX
Agostino Capponi (Columbia): Paradox of JIT Liquidity
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November 2023 Webinar
Scaling Ethereum: Rollup Economics
Barnabé Monnot (Ethereum Foundation)
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November 2023 Symposium
PhD Job Market Stars 2023
Nir Chemaya (UCSB): Estimating Investor Preferences for Blockchain Security
Ruizhe Jia (Columbia): Price Discovery on DEXs
Aviv Yaish (Hebrew University): Speculative DoS Attacks in Ethereum
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October 2023 Webinar
Payments and Stablecoins/CBDCs in the Global Economy
Yesha Yadav (Vanderbilt University)
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September 2023 Webinar
The Tokenomics of Staking
Lin William Cong (Cornell University)
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September 2023 Symposium
Auditing DeFi
Daniel Rabetti (NUS): Auditing DeFi Protocols
Thomas Bourveau (Columbia): DeFi Assurance: Audit Adoption
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2022 – 2023

April 2023 Webinar
Will CBDC Disintermediate Banks?
Toni Whited (University of Michigan)
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April 2023 Symposium
DAOs and DEXs
Matheus Ferreira (Harvard): Credible Decentralized Exchange Design
Jungsuk Han (Seoul National U): DAO Governance
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March 2023 Webinar
Scaling Smart Contracts via Layer-2 Technologies
Catherine Tucker (MIT)
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March 2023 Symposium
Regulation of Digital Assets
Kristin N. Johnson (CFTC Commissioner)
Scott Bauguess (Coinbase VP)
Jai Massari (Lightspark CLO)
Zachory O. Fallon (Ketsal PLLC)
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February 2023 Symposium
Investing in DeFi
Brett Falk (UPenn): Economics of NFTs: Creator Royalties
Donghwa Shin (UNC): Reaching for Yield in DeFi
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December 2022 Webinar
Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)
Ari Juels (Cornell University)
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November 2022 Webinar
Solomonic Solution to Ownership Disputes: Blockchain Front-Running
Joshua Gans (University of Toronto)
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November 2022 Symposium
DeFi on Ethereum
Lin William Cong (Cornell): Inclusion and Democratization Through Web3
Alfred Lehar (U of Calgary): Systemic Fragility in Decentralized Markets
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October 2022 Webinar
Stablecoins and DEXs
Gordon Liao (Circle / Uniswap)
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October 2022 Symposium
Decentralized Exchanges
Anthony Zhang (U of Chicago): AMM and Loss-Versus-Rebalancing
Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest): The Need for Fees at a DEX
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September 2022 Webinar
Can Stablecoins be Stable?
Quentin Vandeweyer (University of Chicago)
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September 2022 Symposium
Token Classification
Andrew Karolyi (Cornell): Value Premium and Factor Pricing of Crypto Assets
Yukun Liu (U of Rochester): Economics of NFTs
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2021 – 2022

May 2022 Webinar
CBDCs: Motives, Economic Implications and the Research Frontier
Raphael Auer (Bank for International Settlements)
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April 2022 Webinar
The Limits of Code Deference
Andrew Hinkes (NYU)
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April 2022 Symposium
Digital Currency Competition
Lin William Cong (Cornell): The Coming Battle of Digital Currencies
Darrell Duffie (Stanford): Digital Currencies: China and the US at a Crossroads
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March 2022 Webinar
Adoption of Blockchain-based Decentralized Exchanges
Agostino Capponi (Columbia University)
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March 2022 Symposium
Auditing Economic Mechanisms
Cathy Barrera (Prysm Group): Bridging the CS-Economics Gap
Yujie Qian (Prysm Group): Incentives and Information in Dapps
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February 2022 Symposium
Alternatives to Proof-of-Work
Thomas Rivera (McGill): Equilibrium Staking Levels in PoS
Brett Falk (UPenn): Scaling Blockchains: Elected Committees
Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern): Economic Model of Consensus on Distributed Ledgers
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December 2021 Webinar
Rethinking IT from a Decentralisation Perspective
Aggelos Kiayias (U of Edinburgh / IOHK)
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November 2021 Webinar
Fractional Equity in Art: Applications of Blockchain
Amy Whitaker (NYU)
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October 2021 Webinar
Transaction Fee Mechanism Design
Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University)
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October 2021 Symposium
Governance and Meaning of Blockchain Technology
Semi Min (NYU Stern): Coevolution of Meaning and Technologies
Daniel Obermeier (TUM): Smart Contracts on a Blockchain
Ying-Ying Hsieh (Imperial College): Governance in Blockchain Platforms
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September 2021 Webinar
Delegation of Programmable Contracts
Robert Townsend (MIT)
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September 2021 Symposium
DeFi: Front-Running, Incentives and Cyclical Arbitrage
Arthur Gervais (Imperial College): Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value
David Siska (Vega / U Edinburgh): Incentivising Exchange Liquidity
Ye Wang (ETH Zurich): Cyclic Arbitrage in DEXs
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2020 – 2021

June 2021 Webinar
ZK-STARKs: Solving Blockchain Scalability and Privacy
Eli Ben-Sasson (Starkware)
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June 2021 Symposium
Non-Fungible Tokens
Christoph Spaenjers (HEC Paris): NFTs: Modern Masterpieces or Money for Nothing?
Josh Fairfield (Washington and Lee): Digital + Unique: Law and History
Nitin Gaur (IBM Digital Assets): Next Generation Non-custodial Services
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May 2021 Symposium
Central Bank Digital Currencies
Angelika Welte (Bank of Canada): Distributional Effects of Payment Card Pricing
Martin Schneider (Stanford): Credit lines, Bank Deposits or CBDC?
April 2021 Webinar
Open and Programmable Finance
Emin Gün Sirer (Cornell / Avalanche)
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March 2021 Webinar
Initial Coin Offerings as Commitment to Competition
Itay Goldstein (UPenn Wharton)
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March 2021 Symposium
Blockchain Attacks and Reorganizations
Joseph Bonneau (NYU): Hostile Blockchain Takeovers
Savva Shanaev (Northumbria U): Cryptocurrency Value and 51% Attacks
Klaus Grobys (U of Vaasa): Tail Risk of Cyberattacks in Bitcoin
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February 2021 Symposium
Decentralized Finance
Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet Networks)
Guillermo Angeris (Stanford)
Alex Evans (Placeholder)
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December 2020 Webinar
Regulation, Cryptocurrency and CBDC
Bénédicte Nolens (BIS)
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November 2020 Webinar
Bitcoin as Decentralized Money
Emiliano Pagnotta (Imperial College)
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November 2020 Symposium
Tokenomics
Jiasun Li (George Mason): Digital Tokens and Platform Building
Ye Li (Ohio State): Token-based Platform Finance
Simon Mayer (Erasmus): Token-Based Platforms and Speculators
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October 2020 Webinar
Cryptocurrencies, Currency Competition and the Impossible Trinity
Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
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October 2020 Symposium
Blockchain for Supply Chains
Volodymyr Babich (Georgetown): Distributed Ledgers and Operations
Yao Cui (Cornell): Value and Design of Traceability-Driven Blockchains
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September 2020 Webinar
Why Fixed Costs Matter for PoW Cryptocurrencies
Rod Garratt (UC Santa Barbara)
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September 2020 Symposium
Empirical Patterns in Cryptoasset Markets
Evgeny Lyandres (Tel Aviv): ICO Success and Post-ICO Performance
Amin Shams (Ohio State): Structure of Cryptocurrency Returns
Donghwa Shin (UNC): Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Schemes
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August 2020 Webinar
The Digitalization of Money
Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
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July 2020 Webinar
Miner Collusion and the Bitcoin Protocol
Christine Parlour (Berkeley Haas)
June 2020 Webinar
Rationals vs Byzantines in Consensus-based Blockchains
Bruno Biais (HEC Paris)
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