09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Ethereum Past, Present and Future:
Core Research Dependencies
Vitalik Buterin, Co-Founder, Ethereum
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Hardening Ethereum’s Security Stack
with Formal Verification
Mooly Sagiv, Academic in Computer Science & CEO, OpenZepplin | Certora
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Institutional Infrastructure Anchored on Ethereum's L2s
Krzysztof Urbański, Head of Governance, L2BEAT
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Next-Gen Blockchain:
Empowering Scalability and User Experience with L2s
Harry Kalodner, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Offchain Labs
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Policy and Impact on the Evolution
of Ethereum and Blockchain
Connor Spelliscy, Executive Director, Decentralization Research Center
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Ethereum Thesis
Artem Kotelskiy, Head of Crypto Research, cyber•Fund
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Geographical Diversity - Insights into Asia Market
and User Base for Ethereum's Next Growth Wave
Eric Bai, Co-Founder, Ethereum
11:45 AM - 12:15 AM
Panel | Research Moonshots for Financial Markets
Panelist:
Tarun Chitra, CEO at Gauntlet, Robot Ventures
Phil Daian, Co-Founder & Steward, Flashbots
Hong Kim, CTO at Bitwise, NounsDAO
Gordon Liao, Chief Economist & Head of Research at Circle (remote)
Navigator:
Tina Zhen, Co-Founder and Steward, Flashbots
12:15 AM - 12:30 PM
How AMMs Compare to Limit Order Books
as Mechanisms for Trading
Joel Hasbrouck, Kenneth G. Langone Professor of Business,
Professor of Finance, NYU Stern
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
Price improvement through OFAs e.g. Uniswap X
Brad Bachu, Research Scientist, Protocols Team, Uniswap Labs
12:45 PM - 01:00 PM
CEX-DEX Arb and Block Builder Centralization
Mallesh Pai, Lay Family Associate Professor, Sr. Director of Research, Rice University & Consensys
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
The Economics of Decentralized Lending
Andreas Park, Professor of Finance, University of Torronto
01:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Open Problems in Cross-Chain Liquidity
Nathan Leung, Co-Founder, Vishwa
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
30-min Lunch Break
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Ecosystem Funding Challenges and Opportunities
Panelist:
Hong Kim, CTO at Bitwise, NounsDAO
Chris Haug, PBS Foundation, ZuBerlin
Raffi Sapire, Co-Founder, TLDR Fellowship
Sarah Allen, Research Org Lead, Flashbots & Research Program Manager, IC3
Navigator:
Tina Zhen, Co-Founder and Steward, Flashbots
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Ecosystem R&D Best Practices
Panelist:
Noah Citron, Research Engineer, a16z
Kelvin Fichter, Key Contributor, OPLabs/Optimism
Steve Ellis, Co-Founder, Chainlink Labs
Tomasz Stanczak, Executive Director, Ethereum Foundation
Kartik Talwar, Co-Founder, ETHGlobal
Navigator:
Tina Zhen, Co-Founder and Steward, Flashbots
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM
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, soon-to-be Purdue University
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Multiple Concurrent Leader: Why and How
Pranav Garimidi, Research Analyst, a16z
03:30 PM - 03:45 PM
The Economics of Slashing
Andy Lewis-Pye, Professor, Department of Mathematics,
London School of Economics
03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Revisiting the Primitives of
Transaction Fee Mechanism Design
Matt Weinberg, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Princeton University
04:40 PM - 05:05 PM
MEV Research for the Next 10 Years
Phil Daian, Co-Founder & Steward, Flashbots
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM
Oracles & Privacy-preserving Oracle Systems
Fan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Yale University
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM
Oracles & Privacy-preserving Oracle Systems
Fan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Yale University
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Incentives in DePIN Applications
Jason Milionis, PhD Student, Columbia University
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM
Build Unstoppable Verifiable Agents
Sreeram Kannan, Chief Executive Officer, and Associate Professor,
Eigenlayer & University of Washington
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM
Public Goods for Institutions
Devan Mitchem, Global Product & Partnerships, Web3 at Google
05:15 PM - 05:45 PM
Panel | Research Moonshot for Future of Technology
Panelist:
Gil Rosen, GP, Blockchain Builders; President Stanford Blockchain Accelerator
Devan Mitchem, Global Product & Partnerships, Web3 at Google
Andrew Miller, Flashbots_X, Teleport, Zcash
Sreeram Kannan, Chief Executive Officer, and Associate Professor,
Eigenlayer & University of Washington
Quintus Kilbourn, Researcher, Flashbots
Leighton Cusack, Worldcoin, instigator of PleasrDAO
Navigator:
Tina Zhen, Co-Founder and Steward, Flashbots
AGENDA
Ethereum Research Funding Forum ｜ Wednesday 13 August 2025
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