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The CBER Symposium series is sponsored by Columbia University's Center for Digital Finance and Technologies.
These events run from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET, typically on the third Thursday of the month. We do not conduct events during the summer nor winter.

Upcoming Symposiums

Restaking

October 17 2024
Hosted by Zhiguo He (Stanford University)

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Naveen Durvasula
(Columbia University)

Robust Restaking Networks

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Mallesh Pai
(Rice University)

 How much should you pay for Restaking Security?

PhD Job Market Candidates 2024

November 21 2024
Hosted by Kose John (NYU Stern)

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Moty Moravvej
(University of Calgary)

Private Settlement in Blockchain Systems

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Artem Streltsov
(Cornell University)

Perpetual Futures Contracts and Cryptocurrency Market Microstructure

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Qiang Wang
(Penn State University)

The Effects of Margin Requirements in DeFi Lending Markets

Previous Symposiums

Ethereum Order Flow and the MEV Supply Chain

April 18 2024
Hosted by Campbell Harvey (Duke University)

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Ankit Chiplunkar
(Frontier Research)

The Ethereum Orderflow Landscape: From MEV to CAKE

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Danning Sui
(Flashbots)

Empirical Study of the Ethereum Orderflow Landscape

Digital Assets and the Law

March 21 2024
Hosted by Joshua T. White (Vanderbilt University)

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John Reed Stark

Senior Lecturer, Duke U School of Law

Former Chief, SEC Office of Internet Enforcement

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Hermine Wong

Lecturer, UC Berkeley School of Law

Former Counsel, SEC and Coinbase

Uniswap X and JIT Liquidity

February 15 2024
Hosted by Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

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Xin Wan
(Uniswap Labs)


Uniswap X

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Agostino Capponi
(Columbia University)

 The Paradox Of Just-in-Time Liquidity in Decentralized Exchanges: More Providers Can Sometimes Mean Less Liquidity

PhD Job Market Candidates 2023

November 16 2023
Hosted by Kose John (NYU Stern)

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Nir Chemaya
(U C, Santa Barbara)

Estimating Investor Preferences for Blockchain Security

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Ruizhe Jia
(Columbia University)

Price Discovery on Decentralized Exchanges

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Aviv Yaish
(Hebrew University)

Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum

Auditing DeFi Applications

September 21 2023
Hosted by Evgeny Lyandres (Tel Aviv University)

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Daniel Rabetti
(National Univ Singapore)

Auditing Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Protocols

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Thomas Bourveau
(Columbia University)

 Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Assurance: Audit Adoption and Capital Markets Effects

DAOs and DEXs

April 20 2023
Hosted by Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

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Matheus Ferreira
(Harvard University)

Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules

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Jungsuk Han
(Seoul National University)

 Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Governance

Regulation of Digital Assets

March 16 2023
Hosted by Joshua T. White (Vanderbilt University)

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Kristin N. Johnson

Commissioner
(Commodity Futures Trading Commission)

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Scott Bauguess
 

VP Global Regulatory Policy
(Coinbase)

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Jai Massari

Chief Legal Officer and Co-Founder
(Lightspark)

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Zachory O. Fallon

Partner and Co-Founder 
(Ketsal PLLC)

Investing in Decentralized Finance

February 16 2023
Hosted by Kose John (NYU Stern)

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Brett Hemenway Falk
(University of Pennsylvania)


Economics of NFTs: The Value of Creator Royalties

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Donghwa Shin
(University of North Carolina)

 Reaching for Yield in Decentralized Financial Markets

DeFi on Ethereum

November 17 2022
Hosted by David Yermack (NYU Stern)

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Lin William Cong
(Cornell University)

Inclusion and Democratization Through Web3 and DeFi? Initial Evidence from the Ethereum Ecosystem

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Alfred Lehar
(University of Calgary)

Systemic Fragility in Decentralized Markets

Decentralized Exchanges

October 20 2022
Hosted by Leonid Kogan (MIT)

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Anthony Zhang
(University of Chicago)


Automated Market Making and Loss-Versus-Rebalancing

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Fahad Saleh
(Wake Forest University)

 The Need for Fees at a DEX

Token Classification

September 15 2022
Hosted by Amin Shams (Ohio State University)

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Andrew Karolyi
(Cornell University)

Value Premium, Network Adoption, and Factor Pricing of Crypto Assets

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Yukun Liu
(University of Rochester)

 The Economics of Non-Fungible Tokens

Digital Currency Competition

April 21 2022
Hosted by Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale University)

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Lin William Cong
(Cornell University)


The Coming Battle of Digital Currencies

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Darrell Duffie
(Stanford University)


Digital Currencies: China and the United States at a Crossroads

Auditing Economic Mechanisms

March 17 2022
Hosted by Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern)

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Cathy Barrera
(Prysm Group)

Bridging the CS-Economics Gap in Layer 1 Protocol Assumptions

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Yujie Qian
(Prysm Group)

Incentives and Information in Dapps

Alternatives to Proof-of-Work

February 17 2022
Hosted by Matt Weinberg (Princeton University)

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Thomas Rivera
(McGill University)

Equilibrium Staking Levels in a Proof-of-Stake Blockchain

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Brett Hemenway Falk
(University of Pennsylvania)
 
Scaling Blockchains: Can Elected Committees Help?

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Hanna Halaburda
(NYU Stern)

An Economic Model of Consensus on Distributed Ledgers

Governance and Meaning of Blockchain Technology

October 21 2021
Hosted by Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern)

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Semi Min
(NYU Stern)

Coevolution of Meaning and Technologies in the Diffusion of Blockchain

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Daniel Obermeier
(TUM)
 

Smart Contracts on a Blockchain

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Ying-Ying Hsieh
(Imperial College)

Governance in Blockchain-based Distributed Platforms

DeFi: Front-Running, Incentives and Cyclical Arbitrage

September 16 2021
Hosted by Arash Aloosh (NEOMA)

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Arthur Gervais
(Imperial College)

Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?

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David Siska
(Vega and U Edinburgh)
 

Market Based Mechanisms for Incentivising Exchange Liquidity Provision

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Ye Wang
(ETH Zurich)

Cyclic Arbitrage in Decentralized Exchanges

Non-Fungible Tokens

June 17 2021
Hosted by Agostino Capponi (Columbia University)

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Christoph Spaenjers
(HEC Paris)

NFTs: Modern Masterpieces— or Money for Nothing?

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Josh Fairfield
(Washington and Lee U)
 

Digital + Unique: 
Law, History, and Modern Framework

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Nitin Gaur
(IBM Digital Assets)

The Next Generation of Non-custodial Services

Central Bank Digital Currencies

May 20 2021
Hosted by Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

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Angelika Welte
(Bank of Canada)


Distributional Effects of Payment Card Pricing and Merchant Cost Pass-Through in the United States and Canada

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Martin Schneider
(Stanford University)

 Credit lines, bank deposits or CBDC? Competition & efficiency in modern payment systems

Blockchain Attacks and Reorganizations

March 18 2021
Hosted by David Yermack (NYU Stern)

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Joseph Bonneau
(New York University)

Hostile Blockchain Takeovers

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Savva Shanaev
(Northumbria University)
 

Cryptocurrency Value and 51% Attacks: Evidence from Event Studies

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Klaus Grobys
(University of Vaasa)

On the Tail Risk of Cyberattacks in the Bitcoin Market

Decentralized Finance

February 18 2021
Hosted by Christine Parlour (Berkeley Haas)

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Tarun Chitra
(Gauntlet Networks)

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Guillermo Angeris
(Stanford University)

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Alex Evans
(Placeholder)

Tokenomics

November 19 2020
Hosted by Kose John (NYU Stern)

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Jiasun Li
(George Mason University)

Digital Tokens and Platform Building

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Ye Li
(Ohio State University)
 

Token-based Platform Finance

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Simon Mayer
(Erasmus University)

Token-Based Platforms and Speculators

Blockchain for Supply Chains

October 15 2020
Hosted by Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest University)

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Volodymyr Babich
(Georgetown University)


Distributed Ledgers and Operations: What Operations Management Researchers Should Know About Blockchain Technology

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Yao Cui
(Cornell University)

 Value and Design of Traceability-Driven Blockchains

Empirical Patterns in Cryptoasset Markets

September 17 2020
Hosted by Lin William Cong (Cornell University)

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Evgeny Lyandres
(Tel Aviv University)

ICO Success and Post-ICO Performance

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Amin Shams
(Ohio State University)
 

The Structure of Cryptocurrency Returns

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Donghwa Shin
(University of North Carolina)

Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Schemes

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