| 9:00-9:30 |
Sign-in & Opening Remarks |
|
|
| 9:30-11:30 |
Macro and Cryptoeconomics |
|
|
| 1.1 |
Grand Unifying Theory of Cryptoeconomics |
Shruti Appiah |
Slides Video |
| 1.2 |
Balancing Order and Chaos: Universality in Cryptoeconomics |
Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet Network) |
Slides Video |
| 1.3 |
WTF is Stability? |
Haseeb Qureshi (Dragonfly Capital) |
Slides Video |
| 1.4 |
WTF is Capital: How to Fix Capitalism |
Joel Monegro (Placeholder) |
Slides Video |
| 1.5 |
Does an Economy Actually Work with Rational Actors? - Rationality is Self-Defeating in Permissionless Systems? - Will programmability eventually result in incentive misalignment / conflict between those socializing platform secruity and the application layer? - Obscure Attacks on Protocols |
Charlie Noyes (Paradigm) * Nic Carter (Castle Island Ventures) Zaki Manian (Cosmos) James Prestwich (Summa, tBTC) |
Video |
| 1.6 |
How Has Crypto Changed Economics? |
Don Tapscott (Blockchain Research Institute) |
Slides Video |
| 11:30-13:00 |
Macro Case for Crypto |
|
|
| 2.1 |
Bitcoin as the Flag of Technology |
Balaji S. Srinivasan |
Slides Video |
| 2.2 |
What Kinds of Assets are Cryptocurrencies: An Empirical Evaluation |
Nic Carter (Castle Island Ventures) |
Slides Video |
| 2.3 |
Analyzing Macro Trends and the Impact on Bitcoin |
Matt D'Souza (Blockchain Opportunity Fund) |
Slides Video |
| 2.4 |
Macro Case for Bitcoin - Risk On or Risk Off asset? - Gold vs. Bitcoin - Is Digital Gold counter to Digital Money? - Performance of Asset in Economic Downturn |
Vanessa Grellet (Consensys) * Will Wolf (Polychain) Matt D'Souza (Blockchain Opportunity Fund) Tom Kineshanko (Protos Asset Management) |
Video |
| 13:00-13:30 |
(Lunch Break) |
|
|
| 13:30-14:30 |
A Non-Strawmanned Intro to Fiat |
|
|
| 3.1 |
Like Uber, But For Slavery — The Power of Fiat Money |
Steve Waldman (Interfluidity) |
Slides Video |
| 3.2 |
Lessons from History: Fiat Money and the French Revolution |
Claire Belmont (Celo) |
Slides Video |
| 3.3 |
Unplugging from the Fiat Matrix (Game Theory of Fiat Currency) |
Varun Vruddhula (Hashflow) |
Slides Video |
| 14:30-16:30 |
Experimentations in Monetary Theory |
|
|
| 4.1 |
Overview of Monetary Policy across Each Crypto Economies |
Arjun Balaji (Paradigm) |
Slides Video |
| 4.2 |
Algorithmic Monetary Policy |
John P. Conley (Vanderbilt University, Geeq) |
Slides Video |
| 4.3 |
The Case for Negative Interest Rates |
Marek Olszewski (Celo) |
Slides Video |
| 4.4 |
Fiscal & Monetary Policy Interaction in a Stablecoin Economy |
Nicolas Andreoulis (Terra) |
Slides Video |
| 4.5 |
Staking in Perpetuity: Explorations in Monetary Policy |
Jeremiah Andrews (Blockchain at Berkeley) |
Slides Video |
| 4.6 |
Evolution of Debt in the Crypto Ecosystem |
Brent Xu (Cosmos) |
Slides Video |
| 16:30-19:00 |
Reshaping International Political Economy |
|
|
| 5.1 |
Money in an International Context - Rodrik's Trilemma - Fixing the Euro - What to do about Libra? - Why recreate the Gold Standard? |
Sunny Aggarwal (Cosmos)* Jae Kwon (Cosmos) John P. Conley (Vanderbilt University, Geeq) Baek Kim (Hashed) Steve Waldman (Interfluidity) |
Video |
| 5.2 |
Petro: A Failed Trojan Horse |
Gabriel Jimenez (Petro) |
|
| 5.3 |
Cryptocurrency Adoption in Latin America - Bitcoin in Developing Countries - Do people want USD or Bitcoin? - Government takeover of Petro |
Qiao Wang (Messari) * Jill Carlson (Open Money Initiative) Nevin Freeman (Reserve) Gabrie Jimenez (Petro) Joel Monegro (Placeholder) |
Video |
| 5.4 |
Central Bank Digital Currency |
Dovey Wan (Primitive) |
Slides Video |
| 5.5 |
The Third Party Candidate |
Lily Liu (Independent) |
Slides Video |
| 5.6 |
Geopolitical Game Theory (Panel) - United States vs. China in battle for global hegemony - Petrodollar - How do capital controls affect crypto? - Are we actually nation-state resistant? - Crypto vs Nation States vs Corporations |
Lily Liu (Independent) * Lasse Clausen (1kx) Jae Kwon (Cosmos) Hart Lambur (UMA) Tina Zhen (YellowHatDAO) |
Video |
| 5.7 |
WTF Initiative: Call for Research and Experimentations |
The WTF Collective |
Slides |