The Latest in Defi Research

TLDR's 2025 Conference tickets are now available for May 12-13, bringing together academics, engineers & practitioners to advance the state of DeFi research. → Keynotes: @gakonst & @segfaultdoctor → Program Schedule: thelatestindefi.org/schedule → Tickets: bit.ly/tldr-25

Back from @thelatestindefi conference. Great time going over some new research in defi. Takeaways: - Lots of brainpower still on MEV and solving. Whether it's auction structure or path construction, researchers are playing around with designs. Talking to people offline,…

We loved @segfaultdoctor's keynote talk on Building Benevolent Systems! 👏 What ✨ benevolizing ✨ solves: → Centralized system & incentive design risks → Makers are in a lose-lose situations → Backdoor deals harming users → Failed on-chain order books (execution matters!)

What a gorgeous day to chat DeFi! The Axal team had a blast attending day 1 of the @thelatestindefi conference at Columbia Business School in NYC highlight of the day was definitely the data driven, motivating keynote from @gakonst (DEFENSABILITY = EXECUTION SPEED)

day 1 takeaway: @thelatestindefi Is crypto fair? You don't own your node RPC providers front-run. Oracles gate-keep Fiat stables centralize We’re building permissionless systems with permissioned parts. Step it up and build faster Full steam ahead @gakonst

Here are my slides from today's The Latest In Defi Research presentation: The (Crypto) World Is Changing Acceleration Is The New Normal. My TL;DR: 1. The world is changing faster than we can comprehend. 2. Competition is 100x more ruthless. 3. We all need to step up. Slides🧵

I enjoyed @AgostinoCapponi’s talk & how his study showed that for perps: 1. Funding rates are a proxy for aggregate sentiment 2. Funding rates negatively correlate to future returns 3. CeFi funding rates are positively correlated to DeFi TVL growth rates stoked for day2

Really interesting results on The cost of an attack on Scroll (and other roll ups)

⭐️ The infrastructure session is underway! We're learning about: → Economic censorship games in fraud proofs w/ Ben Berger → Prooφ (pronounced profee), a ZKP market mechanism w/ @wanggary142857 → Denial-of-service attacks on ZK-rollup TFMs w/ TLDR fellow @schaliasosvons

okay @thelatestindefi is proof you can design IRL events with deep knowledge transfer without panels & parties @gakonst with a banger keynote 👏🏼

👏 Some highlights from TLDR's second session ↓ → @o_herminator: Synchronized priority auctions for improved MEV capture & orderflow settlement → @AgostinoCapponi: Connecting leverage costs to cryptocurrency demand → @VirajNad: AgileRate for DeFi lending markets

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giving a keynote on building benevolent systems and how technology can be used as a force of good in a highly capitalistic society tmrw HAPPENING PLUG IN

🌟 Session number 1 is complete! → DeFi Arbitrage in Hedged Liquidity Tokens @FictionomicsSIT → No Fish Is Too Big for Flash Boys! by @EtherCS → Dynamic Geometric Mean Market Makers by TLDR Fellow Adam Bouabda

✨ Playing 'guess the graph' during @gakonst's keynote talk!

TLDR Conference started strong with an opening ceremony featuring @RaffiSapire @ciamac @sui414 @boez95 @lobstermindset 💫

Catch my keynote at TLDR tomorrow @ Columbia Business School! Haven't given a DeFi talk in a while, and I am SUPER excited to share what I've learned over the last couple years and where I think the industry is going.

📢 Less than 24 hours until the SOLD OUT second annual TLDR Conference kicks off, and we couldn't be more excited! → Keynotes by @gakonst & @segfaultdoctor → Poster sessions by TLDR Fellows → Lightning talks → A happy hour Join the waitlist: thelatestindefi.org/schedule