Program Schedule
Talks will be posted in coming weeks.
8:15 AM – 9:00 AM
registration & Breakfast
Check in at the registration desk on the first floor. Connect with fellow attendees
and speakers over breakfast.
and speakers over breakfast.
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM
Opening Ceremony
Raphaela Sapire, Tarun Chitra, Ciamac Moallemi
9:20 AM – 10:05 AM
Keynote Talk
Georgios Konstantopoulos
10:05 AM – 11:20 AM
DEFI DEXs & TRADING
No Fish Is Too Big for Flash Boys! Frontrunning on DAG-based Blockchains
Jianting Zhang
Dynamic Geometric Mean Market Makers (TLDR Paper)
Adam Bouabda
Session Chair: Lily Johnson
11:20 AM – 11:45 AM
Break
Snacks and beverages provided
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
DEFI DEXs & TRADING
Alexander Herrmann
LENDING & PERPS
Leverage Costs and Cryptocurrency Demand
Agostino Capponi
AgileRate: Bringing Adaptivity and Robustness to DeFi Lending Markets
Viraj Nadkarni
Session Chair: Kshitij Kulkarni
1:00 PM – 2:10 PM
Lunch
Food and beverages provided
2:10 PM – 3:25 PM
INFRASTRUCTURE
Wenhao Wang
Stefanos Chaliasos
Session Chair: Aki Kattis
3:25 PM – 3:50 PM
Break
Beverages provided
3:50 PM – 4:40 PM
INFRASTRUCTURE
Manuel Mueller-Frank
4:40 PM – 5:05 PM
GOVERNANCE
Vabuk Pahari
Session Chair: Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira
5:15 PM – 7:00 PM
HAPPY HOUR
THE EXPAT
64 Tiemann Pl, New York, NY 10027
64 Tiemann Pl, New York, NY 10027
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Breakfast
Breakfast with speakers and attendees.
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Keynote: Building benevolent systems
ZANO [Jito]
10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Empirical ANALYSES
Burak Öz
Daniele Maria Di Nosse
Session Chair: Danning Sui
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Break
Snacks and beverages provided
12:00 PM – 12:50 PM
Infrastructure
Bahar Acilan
Pricing by Stake in DeFi Insurance: Consensus Approach, Flaws and
Implications
Implications
Maxim Bichuch
Session Chair: Pranav Garimidi
12:50 PM – 2:10 PM
Lunch & TLDR Fellowship poster session
Food and beverages provided
2:10 PM – 3:00 PM
LENDING
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Break
Beverages provided
3:30 PM – 4:20 PM
defi
Christof Torres
Session Chair: Sarah Allen
4:20 PM – 5:30 PM
Lightning talks
Lightning Talks
- Tivas Gupta: 2025 TLDR Data Repository
- Alex Hajjar: futarchy, liquidity → decisions
- Yiyun Zheng: The Price of Airdrops
- Erwan: zero to one liquidity bootstrap
- Irene Aldridge: Ultra Fast Multi-Dimensional Matching
- Lianne Li: Remixing Uniswap’s math --> prediction market AMM
- Rashid Makhmud: From hackathons to hard truths, gearing up DeFi warriors
- Markus Schmitt: Decentralising access to DEXs
- Michele Fabi: An AMM for Energy DePin
- Fei Wu: Measuring CEX-DEX Searcher Profitability:
The League of Legends on Ethereum
- Bo Waggoner: Request for Innovation in AMMs
- Anthony Hart: Strings Over Trees
- Alex Hajjar: futarchy, liquidity → decisions
- Yiyun Zheng: The Price of Airdrops
- Erwan: zero to one liquidity bootstrap
- Irene Aldridge: Ultra Fast Multi-Dimensional Matching
- Lianne Li: Remixing Uniswap’s math --> prediction market AMM
- Rashid Makhmud: From hackathons to hard truths, gearing up DeFi warriors
- Markus Schmitt: Decentralising access to DEXs
- Michele Fabi: An AMM for Energy DePin
- Fei Wu: Measuring CEX-DEX Searcher Profitability:
The League of Legends on Ethereum
- Bo Waggoner: Request for Innovation in AMMs
- Anthony Hart: Strings Over Trees
Session Chair: Theo Diamandis
5:30 PM – 5:35 PM
Closing REMARKS
Ciamac Moallemi
Frequently asked questions
Is TLDR 2025 still accepting conference submissions?
No, call for papers ended on February 14, 2025, but we will accept lightning talks at the conference.
What is TLDR?
TLDR stands for The Latest in DeFi Research. TLDR evolves the DeFi space by generating new research and implementing existing research through a conference and fellowship: www.thelatestindefi.org/
What is the tldr fellowship program?
The Fellowship program is for engineers, academics and students who want to shape the future of decentralized finance. As a Fellow, you’ll receive a salary and intellectual support from the world's best DeFi researchers to fully immerse yourself in the world of DeFi.
HOW MUCH Is the 2025 TLDR Conference?
Tickets will cost $20 for each day. As TLDR is a non-profit, there will be an option to pay $250 per person if you are able.
conference location
Columbia Business School
David Geffen Hall
645 W. 130th Street
New York, NY 10027
David Geffen Hall
645 W. 130th Street
New York, NY 10027
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