Program - 5th Workshop on Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Best Paper Award

The Uniswap Foundation is proud to sponsor the Best Paper Award, which will be presented during the closing ceremony.

💵 Up to $3,000 recognition prize to support conference travel (Designing DeFi or another agreed-upon venue), including flights, registration, and lodging.
🧠 Up to $15,000 follow-on research grant opportunity for continued work, awarded at UF's discretion based on research progress and future plans.

Workshop Schedule

March 6, 2026 • Antigua Room

08:30–09:00 Registration (St. Lucia Room)

09:00–10:30 Session 1: Opening & AMMs

09:00–09:15 Opening Remarks • Workshop Chairs

09:15–09:40 Cost of Manipulation in AMM-Based Oracles

Sebastian Mueller, Nordine Moumeni and Adel Messaoudi

09:40–10:05 Quantifying Sub-Optimality in Routing for Automated Market Makers

Weiye Xi and Ciamac Moallemi

10:05–10:30 Mapping Public and Private JIT Liquidity Dynamics in Ethereum's Builder Ecosystem

Koshi Ota and Davide Rezzoli

10:30–11:00 Break

11:00–12:30 Session 2: Keynote & Markets

11:00–11:45 Keynote

Matt Liston

Matt is a pioneer in the field of decentralized prediction markets. Starting in 2013 with a vision for prediction markets and autonomous agents, he co-founded Augur, the first protocol of its kind on Ethereum, followed by Gnosis, where he served as founding CSO. Matt has played a central role in defining the mechanics of the industry, co-authoring the Gnosis White Paper. Today, he is advancing the next generation of this technology by building a confidential cooperative forecasting system.

11:45–12:05 Market Efficiency in Prediction Markets - A Comparison with Derivatives

Michele Fabi, Lorenzo Schoenleber, Vittorio Ruffo and Roberto Marfè

12:05–12:30 Redemptions and Runs: Information Structures in Stablecoin Markets

Brian Zhu

12:30–14:00 Lunch (La Cucina Restaurant)

14:00–15:30 Session 3: Protocol & Smart Contracts

14:00–14:20 Mitigating Flash Crashes in DeFi

Preston Vander Vos

14:20–14:45 SoK: Fully-homomorphic encryption in smart contracts

Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Daniel Aronoff, Adithya Bhat, Mohsen Minaei, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Robert Townsend and Nicolas Zhang

14:45–15:10 On Sybil-proofness in Restaking Networks

Tarun Chitra, Paolo Penna and Manvir Schneider