The CBER Webinar series is sponsored by Columbia University's Center for Digital Finance and Technologies. These are monthly events that run from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM ET, typically on the first Thursday of the month. We do not conduct events during the summer nor winter.

May 8, 2025

Justin Drake

Ethereum Foundation

bitcoin security + preconf-centric ethereum

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Hosted by Campbell Harvey (Duke University)

April 3, 2025

Eli Ben-Sasson

Starkware

How ZK Rollups Solve The Blockchain Trilemma

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Hosted by Joel Hasbrouck (NYU Stern)

March 6, 2025

Andrea Canidio

CoW Protocol

Blockchain Trade Intent Auctions: Current and New Designs

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Hosted by Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

November 7, 2024

Commissioner Hester Peirce

Securities and Exchange Commission

Fireside Chat

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Hosted by Joshua T. White (Vanderbilt University)

October 3, 2024

Antoinette Schoar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

What’s at Stake? Competition in Crypto Staking

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Hosted by Barnabé Monnot (Ethereum Foundation)

September 5, 2024

Mike Neuder

Ethereum Foundation

Separating MEV and Staking Rewards: Ethereum Mechanism Design

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Hosted by Campbell Harvey (Duke University)

May 2, 2024

Davide Crapis

Ethereum Foundation

Scaling Ethereum: EIP 4844 and Beyond

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Hosted by Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

April 11, 2024

Lioba Heimbach

ETH Zurich

Non-Atomic Arbitrage in Decentralized Finance

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Hosted by David Yermack (NYU Stern)

March 7, 2024

Mallesh Pai

Rice University

The Market Microstructure of Ethereum Block Production

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Hosted by Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia University)

November 2, 2023

Barnabé Monnot

Ethereum Foundation

Scaling Ethereum: Rollup Economics

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Hosted by Matt Weinberg (Princeton University)

October 12, 2023

Yesha Yadav

Vanderbilt University

Payments and the Evolution of Stablecoins and CBDCs in the Global Economy

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Hosted by Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

September 7, 2023

Lin William Cong

Cornell University

The Tokenomics of Staking

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Hosted by Leonid Kogan (MIT)

April 6, 2023

Toni Whited

University of Michigan

Will CBDC Disintermediate Banks?

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Hosted by Lin William Cong (Cornell University)

March 2, 2023

Catherine Tucker

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Scaling Smart Contracts via Layer-2 Technologies

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Hosted by Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

December 1, 2022

Ari Juels

Cornell University

Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)

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Hosted by Agostino Capponi (Columbia University)

November 3, 2022

Joshua Gans

University of Toronto

A Solomonic Solution to Ownership Disputes: An Application to Blockchain Front-Running

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Hosted by Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern)

October 13, 2022

Gordon Liao

Circle and Uniswap

Stablecoins and DEXs

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Hosted by Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

September 1, 2022

Quentin Vandeweyer

University of Chicago

Can Stablecoins be Stable?

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Hosted by Zhiguo He (University of Chicago)

May 5, 2022

Raphael Auer

Bank for International Settlements

CBDCs: Motives, Economic Implications and the Research Frontier

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Hosted by Jonathan Chiu (Bank of Canada)

April 7, 2022

Andrew Hinkes

New York University

The Limits of Code Deference

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Hosted by David Yermack (NYU Stern)

March 10, 2022

Agostino Capponi

Columbia University

The Adoption of Blockchain-based Decentralized Exchanges

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Hosted by Andreas Park (University of Toronto)

December 2, 2021

Aggelos Kiayias

University of Edinburgh and IOHK

Rethinking Information Technology from a Decentralisation Perspective

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Hosted by Brett Falk (University of Pennsylvania)

November 4, 2021

Amy Whitaker

New York University

Fractional Equity in Art: Applications of Blockchain

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Hosted by David Yermack (NYU Stern)

October 7, 2021

Tim Roughgarden

Columbia University

Transaction Fee Mechanism Design

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Hosted by Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest University)

September 2, 2021

Robert Townsend

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Delegation of Programmable Contracts to the Private
Sector: Is There a Role for the Public Sector

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Hosted by Zhiguo He (University of Chicago)

June 3, 2021

Eli Ben-Sasson

Starkware

ZK-STARKs: Solving Blockchain Scalability and Privacy

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Hosted by Gur Huberman (Columbia University)

April 1, 2021

Emin Gün Sirer

Cornell University and Avalanche

Open and Programmable Finance

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Hosted by Maureen O'Hara (Cornell University)

March 4, 2021

Itay Goldstein

UPenn Wharton

Initial Coin Offerings as a Commitment to Competition

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Hosted by Lin William Cong (Cornell University)

December 3, 2020

Bénédicte Nolens

Bank for International Settlements

Regulation, Cryptocurrency and CBDC

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Hosted by Zhiguo He (University of Chicago)

November 5, 2020

Emiliano Pagnotta

Imperial College of London

Bitcoin as Decentralized Money: Prices, Mining, and Network Security

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Hosted by Gerry Tsoukalas (UPenn Wharton)

October 1, 2020

Harald Uhlig

University of Chicago

Cryptocurrencies, Currency Competition and the Impossible Trinity

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Hosted by Agostino Capponi (Columbia University)

September 3, 2020

Rod Garratt

University of California, SB

Why Fixed Costs Matter for Proof-of-Work Based Cryptocurrencies

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Hosted by Julien Prat (Ecole Polytechnique)

August 6, 2020

Markus Brunnermeier

Princeton University

The Digitalization of Money

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Hosted by David Yermack (NYU Stern)

July 2, 2020

Christine Parlour

Berkeley Haas

Miner Collusion and the BitCoin Protocol

Hosted by Kose John (NYU Stern)

June 4, 2020

Bruno Biais

HEC Paris

Rationals vs Byzantines in Consensus-based Blockchains

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Hosted by Andreas Park (University of Toronto)