Designing DeFi

Conference

NEW YORK

MAY 20-21

D² is a two-day academic conference dedicated to research on the design, analysis, and evaluation of decentralized finance protocols, with a particular emphasis on incentives, economic mechanisms, and protocol-level innovation.

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Jarry Xiao
Perpetual Decentralized Exchanges

Jarry Xiao is the co-founder and engineering lead of Ellipsis Labs, an infrastructure company building trading-focused systems on Solana and beyond. He is best known for helping develop Phoenix, Ellipsis’s on-chain central limit order book, and for his work on Atlas, the firm’s newer blockchain for “verifiable finance.” Xiao’s background is in high-frequency trading, with prior work on options trading systems, and as an early contributor to Solana’s compressed NFT work. More broadly, his work is related to designing low-latency, market-structure-aware infrastructure that tries to bring traditional trading performance into on-chain finance.

Rajiv Sethi
Engines of Prophecy: The Power and Perils of Prediction Markets

Rajiv Sethi is a professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University, and has previously held visiting fellowships at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is a co-author (with Brendan O'Flaherty) of Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice, published by Harvard University Press in 2019. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the American Economic Review, and is a founding associate editor of Collective Intelligence

Keynote Speakers

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Ciamac Moallemi
Columbia University, Paradigm, Uniswap Labs

Tarun Chitra
Robot Ventures, Gauntlet

Bita Abolfathi
Uniswap Labs

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Danning Sui
Pantera Capital

Mallesh Pai
Tempo

Ruizhe Jia
Stanford University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Aadityan Ganesh
Princeton University

Abdou Ndiaye
New York University

Agathe Sadeghi
Uniswap Labs

Akaki Mamageishvili
Offchain Labs

Akis Kattis
NYU

Alex Nezlobin
Uniswap Labs

Alfred Lehar
U of Calgary

Alvaro Cartea
U of Oxford

Andreas Park
U of Toronto

Arthur Gervais
UC Berkeley

Austin Adams
Whetstone Research

Aviv Yaish
Yale University

Bo Waggoner
U of Colorado

Boyang (Boris) Mu
Polytechnic Institute of Paris

Brad Bachu
Uniswap Labs

Brian Zhu
Columbia University

Bruno Mazorra
Flashbots

Burak Öz
Flashbots

Chuck Fang
Drexel University

Clara Shikhelman
ChainCode Labs

Cuneyt Akcora
U of Central Florida

Dan Moroz
Harvard University

Daniel Xiapu Luo
Hong Kong Polytechnic

Fahad Saleh
CBER, U of Florida

Fan Zhang
Yale University

Fayçal Drissi
Oxford-Man Institute

Fei Wu
King's College London

Franck Gabriel
U Claude Bernard Lyon

Gerry Tsoukalas
Boston University

Ghada Almashaqbeh
U of Connecticut

Jason Milionis
Category Labs

Jeremy Clark
Concordia University

Jiasun Li
George Mason University

Julien Prat
IP Paris

Kaihua Qin
U of Warwick

Kanye Ye Wang
U of Macau

Kite Liu
Uniswap Labs

Lioba Heimbach
Category Labs

Mahimna Kelkar
Columbia University

Manvir Schneider
Cardano Foundation

Marcel Nutz
Columbia University

Marius Zoican
U of Calgary

Massimo Bartoletti
U of Cagliari

Matheus VX Ferreira
U of Virginia

Mauricio Trujillo
Independent Researcher

Michael Crystal
Stanford University

Mike Neuder
Princeton University

Moritz Grundei
U of Munich

Nagu Thogiti
Independent Researcher

Nir Chemaya
U of Negev


Natascha Hey
Columbia Business School

Paulo Guasoni

Dublin City University

Philippe Bergault
Université Paris-Dauphine

Raphaela Sapire
Superstate

Sarah Allen
Flashbots IC3

Scott Kominers
Harvard Business School

Shouqiao Wang
Columbia Business School

Steven Campbell
Columbia University

Tim Roughgarden
Columbia University

Victor Xu
Platonia Research

Vipindev Vasudevan
MIT

Wenpin Tang
Columbia University

Xinyu Zhang
Ellipsis Labs

Yuki Yuminaga
Independent Researcher

Yotam Gafni
Weizmann Institute