TL;DR 2024: The Latest in DeFi Research 2024 Columbia University New York, New York, NY, United States, May 16-17, 2024 |
Conference website | https://www.tldresear.ch/conference |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tldr2024 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 16, 2024 |
Submission deadline | February 16, 2024 |
The Latest in DeFi Research (TLDR) Conference aims to bring together academics, engineers, and practitioners to advance the state of DeFi. The conference will showcase new theoretical results, empirical analyses, and software implementations related to the DeFi ecosystem.
For more information about us, check out www.tldresear.ch/conference
Important dates:
- Talk submission deadline: 1/31/2024
- Final acceptance notification: 2/28/2024
- Conference dates: 5/16/2024 - 5/17/2024
Proceedings and submission at other conferences
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
Submission types
Paper.
Technical papers make a novel theoretical contribution or provide new empirical analysis related to one of the topics of interest. Works-in-progress are also accepted—especially those that introduce novel areas for future research.
Software.
Implementations showcase original software related to one of the topics of interest. These submissions may be new analysis tools or implementations of DeFi protocols (e.g., mechanisms proposed in research papers).
Topics of interest
We encourage contributions related to DeFi and the associated infrastructure and governance. Specific topics include but are not limited to:
DeFi
- 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
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)
Governance
- Voting mechanisms
- Analysis of DAOs
- Incentives in decentralized governance
Submission instructions
Format: technical paper.
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 talk in a PDF format.
Format: software.
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 talk in a PDF format.
Submission site: easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tldr2024
Organizing Committee
Conference chairs
Ciamac Moallemi, Columbia Business School
Tarun Chitra, Gauntlet
Program Committee
Xin Wan, Uniswap Labs (DeFi Chair)
Theo Diamandis, MIT (Infrastructure Chair)
Sarah Allen (Governance Chair)