Ethereum Research Funding Forum
Dive into the future of Ethereum research and innovation at Ethereum Research Funding Forum, a one-day forum brought to you by Blockchain Builders, the Initiative of CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3), Ethereum Ecosystem Fund (EEF), Ethereum Foundation’s Academic Secretariat, and the Decentralization Research Center.
We’re incredibly grateful for the generous support of our forum event sponsors:
Uniswap Foundation, Google Cloud, cyber•Fund, Bitmart, Vishwa, Pier Two
and our overall EthNY sponsors:
Nethermind, Zircuit, ZKSync, Chainlink, Securitize, Altlayer, Wormhole, DFG Group, Octant, Cambrian, Open Ledger, RockSolid, Self, Halliday, Inco, UXLink, 0G
The forum is designed to facilitate conversations between Academia, Industry, and Research Funding Organizations.
Please find the complete agenda below:
8:00 Check-in and Breakfast
09:00 Intro and Welcome, Shyam Sridhar, Academic Secretariat, Ethereum Foundation
09:15 Applied privacy in ethereum, Jonathan Alexander, CTO, OpenZepplin
09:30 Policy and impact on the evolution of ethereum and blockchain, Connor Spelliscy, Executive Director, Decentralization Research Center
09:45 Institutional infrastructure anchored on Ethereum (l2/etc), Krzysztof Urbański, Head of Governance, L2BEAT
10:00 Break
10:15 Hardening Ethereum's Security Stack with Formal Verification, Chair of Software Systems, CEO, School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, Certora
10:30 Ethereum Thesis, Artem Kotelskiy, Head of Crypto Research, cyber•Fund
10:45 Eigenlayer, Sreeram Kannan, Chief Executive Officer, and Associate Professor, Eigenlayer & University of Washington
11:00 Arbitrum, Harry Kalodner, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Offchain Labs
11:15 MEV, its early history (Flash Boys 2.0) and academic research approaches to mitigating it, Mahimna Kelkar, Research Scientist/soon-to-be Assistant Professor, Offchain Labs/Purdue University
11:30 Oracles & privacy-preserving oracle systems, Fan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Yale University
11:45 Open Problems in Cross-Chain Liquidity Nathan Leung, Co-Founder, Vishwa
12:00, How AMMs compare to Limit Order Books as mechanisms for trading, Joel Hasbrouck, Kenneth G. Langone Professor of Business, Professor of Finance, NYU Stern
12:15 Price improvement through OFAs (e.g., Uniswap X), Brad Bachu, Research Scientist, Protocols Team, Uniswap Labs
12:30 TBD, Andreas Park, Professor of Finance, University of Torronto
12:45 Block Builder Centralization, Mallesh Pai, Lay Family Associate Professor, Sr. Director of Research, Rice University & Consensys
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Moon-shots and Blue Skies Research for the Future, Tina Zhen, Co-Founder and Steward, Flashbots
15:00 Break
15:15 Multiple Concurrent Leader: Why and How, Pranav Garimidi, Research Analyst, a16z
15:30 The Economics of Slashing, Andy Lewis-Pye, Professor, Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics
15:45 Impact of Decentralisation on the End User, Matt Weinberg, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Princeton University
16:00 Incentives in DePIN Applications, Jason Milionis, PhD Student, Columbia University
16:15 Break
16:30, Public Goods for Institutions, Devan Mitchem, Global Product & Partnerships, Web3 at Google
16:45 TBD, Eric Bai, Founding Partner, Cipholio Ventures
17:00 Future of Ethereum - Group Discussion
17:30, Closing Remarks
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We're super excited to create the coordination fabric around research that can weave together the best minds from academia and industry.