
infrastructure summit #2
DEFI
DEFI

Discussions
Discussions
There's nothing like a market crash & global pandemic to expose the weak points of legacy financial systems.
5 Min Conference Kickoff w/ Dystopia Labs [Do Not Skip This]
Dystopia Labs
Why Bitcoin's Decentralized Financial System Is Important For Human Rights
Alex Gladstein
Operating LocalBitcoins: Learnings From Providing Peer-To-Peer Access In 150+ Countries
LocalBitcoins
Trends In Bitcoin Development: A Quick Overview With A BTC Dev
Summa
How Bitcoin Moves Value In and Out Of Closed Economies (Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela)
Open Money Initative
Comparing Privacy Protocols For Linkability: Taproot and Beyond
QuiCash
Blockstack's Proof Of Transfer Mining: Payout In $BTC
Blockstack
DeFi's hyperbitcoinization: Bringing Bitcoin to Ethereum with Cross-Chain Bridges
Keep Project
Concourse Open
The Internet of Finance by DeFi Pulse
What the Fi is DeFi: Terminology & Concepts
SheFi
What's Possible With EigenTrust For DeFi: lightweight credit scores, under-collateralized loans, etc.
Celo
Poking Around The ETH Playground: Let's Prototype DeFi Apps!
Ethereum
Using Money Legos: DeFi Composability With A Focus On Safety
Opyn
Constructing DeFiZap: Learnings On Designing For Extreme Composability
Zapper
How To Build A Front-End From DeFi Legos
Zapper
How To Use Contract Based Accounts To Create Your Own DeFi Protocol (Without Having To Write A Smart Contract)
Authereum
Tellor
Oracle Landscape Snapshot: How Decentralized Are These Feeds? (And Why DeFi Users Should Care)
UMA
How To Build Synthetic Tokens Without An On-Chain Price Feed
A Trusted Price Feed For DeFi: Workshop On Using The Coinbase Oracle
Coinbase Custody
Attack Matrix & Security: Thinking Through Oracle Construction
Coinbase & MakerDao
Opyn
Exploring DeFi Options with the CEO of Opyn
Live Auditing & Security Best Practices with ConsenSys Diligence
ConsenSys Dilligence
Staking For Dummies: Everything You Need To Know On The Basics Of Staking
StakeFish
Workshop: How To Build A Trading Bot On The Melon Protocol
Avantgarde Finance
How To Use On-Chain Data & APIs To Track & Understand Whale Behavior
DDEX
The Key Management Landscape: Innovations
Tangem
Framework On How To Think Through A Technical Audit (Before You Even Write A Line Of Code)
Aztec
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce To Speak On Crypto Regulation & Policy
Hester Peirce
Now Is The Time For The Digital Dollar: Thoughts From A Former Central Banker
Celo
TD Ameritrade: Leaning Into Digital Assets, Guided By The Voice Of The Client
TD Ameritrade
Crypto Was Made For Crises: Covid-19’s Potential To Spark New Wave Of Adoption
The Defiant
Panel: Marrying Real World Assets To Blockchain
MakerDao, Centrifuge, Circle
Celo
Simulating The Risk Of Stablecoins
PayDrop
Crypto Investigations from a Former FBI Agent: Silk Road & More
0x Workshop: Consuming Liquidity In Decentralized Applications With 0x API
0x Protocol
Workshop: Hands On With The dYdX BTC Perpetual
dYdX Protocol
Workshop: How To Measure And Incentivize Liquidity
Hummingbot
IDEX 2.0: A Case Study On Pragmatic Decentralization
IDEX
Risk Management - From Traditional Markets To DeFi
Unslashed
DEX Universe for Dummies by 1inch.exchange
1inch.exchange
Using UMA and Balancer Pools to Create Perpetual Synthetic Tokens
UMA & Balancer
Constant Function Market Makers: Pushing Uniswap & Friends To Do More Things w/ Lower Fees
Gauntlet
Liquidity Hacking 101 - How to Launch and Fund A Successful Automated Market Maker
Bancor
Workshop: How To Use Wyre's API For Compliance & Payments
Wyre
Optimistic Virtual Machine: Layer 2 for Money Legos
Optimism
A Deep Dive Into Uniswap V2
Uniswap
The Future Of Stablecoins
Celo
What We Need To Do To NOT have DeFi be WeGetPwn'dEverydayFi
MyCrypto
Workshop: Generalizing Flash Loans
OmiseGO
The How and Why of Prize Linked Savings on Ethereum
PoolTogether
On-Chain Governance With Tokenless Voting
Synthetix
The Power of Cross-Chain DeFi Applications
Polkadot
Exploring Layer-2 Scalability For Dapps: Interchain Messaging, BLS Rollups, & More
Skale Labs
zkSync: DeFi Scalability For Turbulent Times
Matter Labs
Liquidation & Chaos: How zKRollup DEXs Can Save the ETH Network From Clogging
Loopring
Set Protocol
Set Protocol: Deep Dive Into Strategies Employed By Set Social Traders
Polkadot
7 reasons DeFi is broken, #5 will blow your mind
Stake Capital, Iqlusion, Aave
Theoretical Use Of Flash Loans & Attacks With Interoperability
Paraswap, Totle, Kyber
Exploring Requirements: What Is Needed For A DEX To Thrive On A Layer-1
PieDao
DAOs as social layer of DeFi protocol
An Introduction to Polkadot for DeFi
Polkadot
Polkadot
Parachain Economics
UNICEF
UNICEF on Building for Impact: Blockchain in Emerging Markets
Avantgarde Finance, Bitgo, Coindesk
Panel: How DeFi & CeFi Are Innovating To Attract Market Makers (With Faster Settlement)
Avantgarde Finance
Market-Making Observations: From The Goldman Trading Floor To DeFi
Crypto Insurance: Learnings From The bZx Flash Event & Black Thurs w/ Nexus Mutual
Nexus Mutual
MolachDao, Compound, & MakerDao
Governance Panel with MolachDao, Compound, and MakerDao
Workshop: Pushing Web3 Into Mobile
Alice
Celo, Polychain, Multicoin Capital
Panel: Investing In Impact In Emerging Markets
Leveraging User Insights Across The Stack
Celo
Binance
Freedom from Fiat
Wyre
A Data-Driven Look At BTC Liquidity Around The World with Wyre
.WTF Joint Event
The Future Of Mining
BTC
BTC Halving 101 with Ryan Selkis
BTC
Fact Versus Myth: The Realities Of BTC Mining With The Former Head of PR at BITMAIN
.WTF Joint Event
DeFi Redefined: Bitcoin Core Dev vs. Keeper of the Networks
Lightning Network
Workshop: How To Set Up A Node For Routing On The Lightning Network
CoinMetrics
The Grasshopper and the Antminer: What We Can Learn From Bitcoin's Nonce Distribution
Blockstack
Deep Dive on Proof of Transfer
Matrixport
How BTC Miners Can Make Use Of Derivatives For Risk Management
Tendermint
Trustlessness is Overrated: Undercollateralized Lending through Web of Trusts
Outlier Ventures
Tackling The Liquidity Crisis In India
Tellor
Settlement Prices, Finality, & Fallbacks: Best Practices For Using Price Feed Oracles In Your Smart Contract
Vega
Workshop: How Blockchains Can Mitigate Against Front Running For On-Chain Order Book DApps
VeeDo: STARK-Powered VDFs for Randomness, Timelocks and More
Starkware
Red Flags to Watch For in DeFi and Emergence of Community Standards
.WTF Joint Event
Security Success Stories in DeFi (with the CEO of Trail Of Bits)
Trail Of Bits
Black Swans and Roundabouts: Navigating Resources In Restless Times
Pepo
Startup Showcase - Kickoff
Experiment
Zapper: Startup Pitch
Zapper: VC Panel #1
Zapper: VC Panel #2
QuiCash: Startup Pitch
QuiCash: VC Panel #1
QuiCash: VC Panel #2
Dedge Exchange: Startup Pitch
Dedge Exchange: VC Panel #1
Dedge Exchange: VC Panel #2
Experiment
Startup Showcase - Concludes
MetaCartel, 1kx, Ric Burton
People's Potential & Protocol Politics
Cryptio
Compliant & Accounting-Ready Bookkeeping System for Decentralized Finance
Cointracker
How To File Your Crypto Taxes (And Maximize Savings)
FisherBroyles
Checklist on Legal Considerations for DeFi Projects
Fairmint
Fundraising In Crypto During A Recessions: Leverage Future Revenue To Raise Funds
IPFS / Protocol Labs
Breaking New Ground On Our Web3 Upgrade Path With IPFS
Gitcoin, Uniswap, Hashed
How Important Is Open Source & Decentralization At Different Stages Of Your DeFi Product Lifecycle
Tales From The Field - Building A Decentralized ISP in Abuja, Nigeria
Althea
Paydrop
Who is Supporting the Future of the Decentralized Workforce?
Under The Hood Of A Coin Mixer: Technical Tradeoffs & Design Decisions
Enigma
Building DeFi with the Truffle Suite
Truffle Suite
Mastering the Mempool: How Understanding the Inner Workings of In-Flight Transactions Unlocks New Vistas for Front-End & Back-End Devs Alike
BlockNative
Dharma
Abstracting Away Crypto: Learnings From Building Dharma's New Social Payments Application
Dragonfly Capital
Aggregation Theory In DeFi: Sharpening DeFi's FAANGs
StakerDao
Using A DAO To Launch & Manage Financial Assets On Multiple Chains
ETH 2.0 Update with Prysmatic Labs
Prysmatic Labs
SPONSORS














Bitcoin SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE
Alex Gladstein
"Why Bitcoin’s Decentralized Financial System Is Important For Human Rights"
Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation


JeremyRubin
Alex Bosworth
Alejandro Machado
James Prestwich
Chun Wang
Muneeb Ali
Karim Helmy
Leo Zhang
Carolyn Reckhow
Consultant at CoinMetrics; Founder of Timelock, LLC
Founder at Anicca Research
BTC Core Developer; Advisor at Layer1; Co-Founder of Scaling Bitcoin
Co-Founder & Operator of f2pool; Founder of stake.fish
CEO and Co-Founder, Blockstack
Lightning Infrastructure Lead
Co-Founder of the Open Money Initiative
Founder of Summa; Bitcoin Dev
Head of BD @ Thesis @Keep (tBTC); ex-Head of Operations @ Casa







Sebastian Sonntag
Michael Dunworth
Xan Ditkoff
Cynthia Wu
Jason Choi
Nishant Sharma
Shayan Eskandari
Boaz Sobrado
CEO of LocalBitcoins
CEO of Wyre
Growth Partner at Blockstack
Contributor to the Open Money Initiative; PHD Candidate
Head of Custodyat Matrixport (a platform launched by the co-founder of BITMAIN)
Head of Research, Spartan Capital; Founder of BlockCrunch
Former PR Director at Bitmain; Founder & Partner at BlocksBridge Consulting
Contributor to the Open Money Initiative; Founder of WhyNotCuba.com








DeFi & Emerging MarketsSPEAKERS
KEYNOTE
Sep Kamvar
Co-Inventor of EigenTrust; Co-Founder of cLabs
What's Possible With EigenTrust For DeFi:

lightweight credit scores, under-collateralized loans, and more
LukeYoungblood
Fabian Gompf
AustinGriffith
Amir Bandeali
Marek Olszewski
Sunayna Tuteja
Felix Feng
Jun Soo (JK) Kim
Taylor Monahan
Gavin McDermott
Founder & CEOof Set Protocol
Exec at Coinbase Custody; CEO of Blockscale
Ethereum Foundation; Creator of Burner Wallet & ETH.BUILD
Engineering & Research at IDEO Co-Lab; Founding Engineer at Bitgo
Co-Founder & CTO of 0x Protocol
VP at Parity Technologies
Founder &CEO of MyCrypto
Co-Founder & CTO at cLabs
Head of Digital Assets & DLT at TD Ameritrade
Operations atstake.fish










Ryan Selkis
MonaEl Isa
Can Kisagun
Alex Wearn
Rene Reinsberg
Ameen Soleimani
AntonioJuliano
Ben Jones
HesterPeirce
Alex Gluchowski
Co-Founder & CEO ofMatter Labs
Summoner of MolochDAO; CEO at SpankChain
SEC Commissioner
Co-Founder & CEO at Messari
Co-Founder of Melonport; Former VP of Equities Trading at Goldman Sachs
Cofounder and CPO of Enigma
Founder of dYdX
Mad Scientist at Optimism
Founder & CEOof IDEX
Co-Founder & CEO at cLabs










Jason Truppi
Zaki Manian
Nodar Janashia
Klaus Kursawe
Markus Franke
AparnaKrishnan
MichaelFeng
Bowen Wang
Mable Jiang
Leighton Cusack
Co-Founder of DeFiZap
Co-Founder & CTO of Opyn; Thiel Fellow; Former Blockchain at Berkeley
Principal at Multicoin Capital
CEO of Paydrop; Former FBI Cybersecurity
Co-Founder of iqlusion; Former Tendermint
Vega, Blockchain Researcher
CEO & Co-Founder of Hummingbot
Co-Founder of PoolTogether
COO at DDEX
Partner at cLabs: Economics










Noah Zinsmeister
RobertLeshner
Jack O'Holleran
Bill Laboon
Chandan Lodha
ScottLewis
Sergio Mello
Julien Bouteloup
Zubin Singh Koticha
Camila Russo
CEO & Co-Founder of Skale
CEO of Tangem; Cold Storage On A Card
Founder & CEO of Stake Capital
Co-Founder & CEO of Opyn; Former Blockchain at Berkeley
Chiefess at The Defiant. Writing a book on Ethereum with @HarperCollins.
Engineering Lead at the Uniswap Exchange
Founder & CEO of Compound
Technical Edu at Web3 Foundation
Co-Founder Concourse Open Community
Co-Founder of CoinTracker









ChrisWhinfrey
Alessio Delmonti
BenedictChan
Joon Ian Wong
Nathaniel Hindman
Jay Zhou
Mehran Hydary
Lea Schmitt
Stani Kulechov
AntoineScalia
Blockchain Product at UNICEF
Co-founder at Loopring
CTO of Bitgo
Partnerships at Centrifuge
CEO & Co-Founder of Aave; #FlashLoans
CEO of DexLab.io: PieDao, DessertDai, and DexWallet
Managing Director at CoinDesk
Head of Growth at Bancor Foundation
Co-Founder of Cryptio
Co-Founder of Authereum








SunnyAggarwal
RicBurton
MarouaneHajji
ConnorO'Day
Charles St. Louis
Baek Kyoum Kim
Arnaud Schenk
Gonçalo Sá
AnnaCarroll
David Bleznak
COO of Aztec Protocol
Founder of Sikka; Research Scientist at Tendermint; Co-Host Epicenter
Security Engineer at ConsenSys Diligence
Independent Designer who helped Stripe & Ethereum
Product Engineer at Dharma Labs
Venture atHashed
Founder ofUnslashed
Biz Dev at Gitcoin & Meridio
Engineering, Maker Foundation
Founder & CEOof Totle









Andrei Anisimov
Jonas Lamis
Tom Schmidt
Matt Cutler
Allison Lu
Maggie Love
Vance Spencer
Deniz Omer
Mounir Benchemled
Rebecca Rettig
Co-Founder BlockNative
Engineering at Coinbase Custody; a16z Crypto Startup School alum
Co-founder of W3BCLOUD; Founder SheFi
Investing at Dragonfly Capital
Partner. Co-Chair, FinTech & Blockchain Practice Group
Co-Founderof UMA; Former VP at Goldman Sachs
Co-founder at Framework Ventures
Founder and CEO at StakerDAO
Head of Ecosystem Growth @ Kyber Network
Founder ofParaSwap









GuilleAngeris
Kendrick Tan
TinaZhen
Logan Saether
Joel John
Gustav Arentoft
LasseClausen
Asaf Shachaf
Simona Pop
Ruitao Su
Tech Edu at Web3 Foundation
defi.wtf & macro.wtfhoneylemon.markethashedge.io
Researcher & Teaching Assistant at Stanford University
Research at Outlier Ventures
Head of Product at Bancor Foundation
Dev Ops / Engineering @ OmiseGo. Blockchain Dev @ Ethereum Foundation
Chief Engagement Officer at Pepo. ConsenSys Grants board. Co-founder @ethBounties.
Founding Partner of 1kx
Business Development, Maker Foundation
Co-Founder Laminar & Acala - DeFi On Polkadot








Seb Audet
Ezechiel Copic
Nicholas Fett
Joao Reginatto
Adrian Li
Thibauld Favre
FernandoMartinelli
Daniel Pyrathon
Deborah Simpier
CTO at Tellor
Head of Official Sector Engagement at cLabs; Former Director of Central Banks & Public Policy via World Gold Council
CEO of Fairmint
Founder of DefiSnap
Director of Frontend Engineering
Engineer at 0x
Co-Founder & CEO of Althea
VP Product & USDC Product Lead at Circle
Co-Founder & CEO at Balancer Labs









HughKarp
Molly Mackinlay
Niklas Kunkel
Jack Platts
PeterPan
DanMatthew
Nitya Subramanian
Kain Warwick
Operator of Metacartel
Business Development & Partnerships at Web3 Foundation
Founder of Nexus Mutual; Decentralized Insurance
(IPFS) Project Lead & Senior PM
Head of Backend Services, Maker Foundation
Founder of Synthetix
PieDAO & AuditDAO
Partner at cLabs:Product








Kevin Bluer
Catherine Coley
Eli Ben Sasson
Tarun Chitra
GauravShukla
Ben Perszyk
DanGuido
Head of Developer Curriculum & Training at Truffle Suite / ConsenSys
CEO of Binance USA
Co-Founder at QuiCash; EIR at Matter Labs
Head of Portfolio Operations at Polychain Capital
Co-Founder, President & Chairman of the Board at StarkWare
Co-Founder & CEO of
Trail of Bits
Founder & CEO of Gauntlet







Special Thanks
WE COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS WITHOUT YOU
Ric Burton
David Gogal
Remy Lyon
Simona Pop
Erica Kang
Cameron Dennis
TinaZhen
defi.wtf & macro.wtfhoneylemon.markethashedge.io
Independent Designer who helped Stripe & Ethereum
Founder first | Advisor @paperchainio | NYC Curator http://RelayNode.io
Chief Engagement Officer at Pepo. ConsenSys Grants board. Co-founder @ethBounties.
President Of The Blockchain Acceleration Foundation
Founder of KryptoSeoul
Chair of IEEE Blockchain LA





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