Online Seminars

Davide Crapis (Ethereum Foundation)

Sophia Dew (Ethereum Foundation)

Alan Wu (Uniswap Labs): MEV Tax for UniswapX on PGA Blockchains
Max Resnick (Anza Labs): Prop AMMs on Solana

Jillian Grennan (Emory University)

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

David Tse (Stanford University)

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

Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)

Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia): Effect of Trading Fees on Arbitrage Profits in AMMs
Alex Nezlobin (LSE): Loss-Versus-Rebalancing under Generalized Block-Times

Justin Drake (Ethereum Foundation)

Eli Ben-Sasson (Starkware)

Gordon Liao (Circle): What Drives Crypto Asset Prices?
Jiaen Li (Washington U in St. Louis): Ideology and Asset Pricing

Andrea Canidio (CoW Protocol)

Shea Ketsdever (Flashbots): MEV: Beyond Mitigation
Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia): Application-Level MEV Mitigation
Barnabé Monnot (Ethereum Foundation): Protocol Roles and MEV Opportunities

Commissioner Hester Peirce (SEC)

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?

Antoinette Schoar (MIT)

Naveen Durvasula (Columbia): Robust Restaking Networks
Mallesh Pai (Rice): How Much Should You Pay for Restaking Security?

Mike Neuder (Ethereum Foundation)

Davide Crapis (Ethereum Foundation)

Lioba Heimbach (ETH Zurich)

Ankit Chiplunkar (Frontier Research): Ethereum Orderflow Landscape
Danning Sui (Flashbots): Empirical Study of Ethereum Orderflow

Mallesh Pai (Rice University)

John Reed Stark (Duke Law, former SEC): Regulation
Hermine Wong (UC Berkeley Law, former SEC/Coinbase): Regulation

Xin Wan (Uniswap Labs): UniswapX
Agostino Capponi (Columbia): Paradox of JIT Liquidity

Barnabé Monnot (Ethereum Foundation)

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

Yesha Yadav (Vanderbilt University)

Lin William Cong (Cornell University)

Daniel Rabetti (NUS): Auditing DeFi Protocols
Thomas Bourveau (Columbia): DeFi Assurance: Audit Adoption

Toni Whited (University of Michigan)

Matheus Ferreira (Harvard): Credible Decentralized Exchange Design
Jungsuk Han (Seoul National U): DAO Governance

Catherine Tucker (MIT)

Kristin N. Johnson (CFTC Commissioner)
Scott Bauguess (Coinbase VP)
Jai Massari (Lightspark CLO)
Zachory O. Fallon (Ketsal PLLC)

Brett Falk (UPenn): Economics of NFTs: Creator Royalties
Donghwa Shin (UNC): Reaching for Yield in DeFi

Ari Juels (Cornell University)

Joshua Gans (University of Toronto)

Lin William Cong (Cornell): Inclusion and Democratization Through Web3
Alfred Lehar (U of Calgary): Systemic Fragility in Decentralized Markets

Gordon Liao (Circle / Uniswap)

Anthony Zhang (U of Chicago): AMM and Loss-Versus-Rebalancing
Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest): The Need for Fees at a DEX

Quentin Vandeweyer (University of Chicago)

Andrew Karolyi (Cornell): Value Premium and Factor Pricing of Crypto Assets
Yukun Liu (U of Rochester): Economics of NFTs

Raphael Auer (Bank for International Settlements)

Andrew Hinkes (NYU)

Lin William Cong (Cornell): The Coming Battle of Digital Currencies
Darrell Duffie (Stanford): Digital Currencies: China and the US at a Crossroads

Agostino Capponi (Columbia University)

Cathy Barrera (Prysm Group): Bridging the CS-Economics Gap
Yujie Qian (Prysm Group): Incentives and Information in Dapps

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

Aggelos Kiayias (U of Edinburgh / IOHK)

Amy Whitaker (NYU)

Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University)

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

Robert Townsend (MIT)

Arthur Gervais (Imperial College): Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value
David Siska (Vega / U Edinburgh): Incentivising Exchange Liquidity
Ye Wang (ETH Zurich): Cyclic Arbitrage in DEXs

Eli Ben-Sasson (Starkware)

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

Angelika Welte (Bank of Canada): Distributional Effects of Payment Card Pricing
Martin Schneider (Stanford): Credit lines, Bank Deposits or CBDC?

Emin Gün Sirer (Cornell / Avalanche)

Itay Goldstein (UPenn Wharton)

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

Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet Networks)
Guillermo Angeris (Stanford)
Alex Evans (Placeholder)

Bénédicte Nolens (BIS)

Emiliano Pagnotta (Imperial College)

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

Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)

Volodymyr Babich (Georgetown): Distributed Ledgers and Operations
Yao Cui (Cornell): Value and Design of Traceability-Driven Blockchains

Rod Garratt (UC Santa Barbara)

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

Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University)

Christine Parlour (Berkeley Haas)

Bruno Biais (HEC Paris)