Timeline
Applications Open
Jan 15, 2024
Submission Deadline
Feb 16, 2024
Acceptance Notification
Mar 22, 2024
Conference dates
May 16-17, 2024
DeFi Track Topics
We welcome contributions focused on DeFi, its underlying infrastructure, and governance. Our topics of interest are broad and include, but are not limited to the following.
Infrastructure
- Interactions between applications and consensus (e.g., MEV)
- Economics of cross-chain and rollup interoperability
- Transaction fee markets (e.g., for traditional or for zero knowledge proof-based systems)
- Intent-based architectures
- Block building and associated mechanism design (e.g., auctions)
DeFi Applications
- Automated market maker design
- Liquidity provision in decentralized exchanges
- Lending and perpetual protocols
- Staking protocols (e.g., restaking)
- Empirical analyses of protocols
- Implementations of DeFi mechanisms
Governance
- Voting mechanisms
- Analysis of DAOs
- Incentives in decentralized governance
How to submit a Paper
TLDR is non-archival and does not have proceedings. You are welcome to submit work which has been published at or submitted to another conference or journal.
Paper Submissions
Please use a single column format with size 12pt font. Reviewers will carefully evaluate the first 15 pages of each submission (including cover page, figures, tables; excluding references and appendices). Longer papers are accepted but may not be read in their entirety when making decisions. The cover page must contain the paper’s title, the names, affiliations, and email addresses of the authors, and a one or two paragraph abstract which concisely summarizes the paper’s contributions. Please submit your papers in a PDF format.
Software Submissions
Please submit both a link to your code (ideally open source and hosted on a platform such as GitHub) and a report. The report should be single column format with size 12pt font. Include a cover page with the software’s title, the names, affiliations, and email addresses of the authors, and a one or two paragraph abstract which concisely summarizes the software’s features. The report should also include interesting technical aspects of the software, if a new protocol, or interesting analysis obtained by using the software. Please submit your report in a PDF format.
Organizing Commitees
conference chairs
Ciamac Moallemi
Columbia Business School
Tarun Chitra
Gauntlet, Robot Ventures
Infrastructure Track Chair
Theo Diamandis
PhD student at MIT and researcher at Bain Capital Crypto
DeFi Track
Chair
Chair
Xin Wan
Uniswap Labs
Governance Track
Chair
Chair
Sarah Allen
Flashbots, IC3
Program committee
Austin Adams
Uniswap Labs, Researcher
Guillermo Angeris
Head of research at Bain Capital Crypto
Anonymous
Applied PBS Researcher
Kevin Pang
SYMBOLIC CAPITAL PARTNERS
Brad Bachu
Uniswap Labs, Researcher
Maryam Bahrani
A16z crypto, Researcher
Ben Chan
Cornell University, PhD
Tarun Chitra
Gauntlet, Robot Ventures
Will Cong
Cornell University, Professor
Davide Crapis
Ethereum Foundation, Researcher
Soubhik Deb
EigenLayer, Researcher
Theo Diamandis
MIT, PhD student and Bain Capital Crypto, researcher
Matheus Xavier Ferreira
Harvard University, Lecturer
Franck Gabriel
University Claude Bernard Lyon, Professor
Pranav Garimidi
A16z Crypto, Research Analyst
Arthur Gervais
University College London, Professor
Khaled Grira
Aave Labs, Quantitative Researcher
Ruizhe Jia
Columbia university,
PhD student
PhD student
Assimakis (Aki) Kattis
New York University
Ariah Klages-Mundt
Superluminal Labs
Uri Klarman
Bloxroute, CEO
Gordon Liao
Circle, Chief Economist
Daniel Luo
HK Polytechnic, Professor
Sarit Markovich
Kellogg School of Management, Professor
Daniel Marzec
SUAVE, Research Engineer
Jason Milionis
Columbia University
Barnabe Monnot
Robust Incentives Group, Ethereum Foundation
Mike Neuder
Ethereum Foundation, Researcher
Alex Nezlobin
DEX Practitioner, Stealth Mode
Mallesh Pai
Rice University, Professor
julien prat
crest, economist
Anonymous trader
head of trading
Dan Robinson
Paradigm Ventures, Head of Research
Tim Roughgarden
Columbia University, Professor
Fahad Saleh
Wake Forest University, Professor
Raphaela Sapire
Uniswap Foundation
Manvir Schneider
Cardano, Researcher
Levi Sledd
Hyperoracle, ZK Circuit Engineer
Philipp Strack
Yale University, Professor
Danning Sui
Flashbots
Mark Toda
Uniswap Labs, Protocol Engineer
Gerry Tsoukalas
Boston University, Professor
Bita ABOLFATHI
Uniswap Foundation
Anthony Lee Zhang
Booth School of Business, Professor
Liyi Zhou
Decentralized Intelligence AG, Co-Founder
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