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🔊 Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet & Robot Ventures) will be presenting on "Perpetual Demand Lending Pools" at TLDR 2025! → Grab your tickets: thelatestindefi.org/schedule

🚨 TLDR 2025 kicks off next week! Join us for this year's exciting program schedule: → Talks on DeFi, DEXs, Infrastructure, Governance & Lending → Poster sessions by TLDR Fellows → Lightning talks (sign up on day 1!) Limited tickets remaining: thelatestindefi.org/schedule

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

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.

TLDR Conference started strong with an opening ceremony featuring Raffi Sapire ciamac moallemi danning.eth⚡️🤖 Burak Öz Lily 💫

✨ Playing 'guess the graph' during Georgios Konstantopoulos's keynote talk!

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

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

✨The Latest in Defi Research

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

okay The Latest in Defi Research is proof you can design IRL events with deep knowledge transfer without panels & parties Georgios Konstantopoulos with a banger keynote 👏🏼

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/ Wenhao Wang → Denial-of-service attacks on ZK-rollup TFMs w/ TLDR fellow Stefanos Chaliasos

I enjoyed Agostino Capponi’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

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🧵

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

day 1 takeaway: The Latest in Defi Research 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 Georgios Konstantopoulos

We loved seg'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!)

Back from The Latest in Defi Research 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,