Stanford Blockchain Governance Summit
Event Date: Friday May 9th and Saturday May 10th.
Join us at Stanford Law School for the second annual Stanford Blockchain Governance Summit. Building on our successful inaugural event in 2024, the 2025 summit will explore crucial developments in DAO frameworks, regulatory approaches, and the intersection of AI with blockchain governance over two immersive days.
Event Location: Stanford Law School, FIR Classroom Building, Room 290.
Room 290 is located at the west side of Cooley Courtyard. Once you enter the building, please go upstairs to the second floor to find Room 290. More details here: https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/page/room-290
Parking
Please note that we have not reserved parking specifically for this event. Stanford has a system of Visitor Parking, and Wilbur Lot Parking Garage is one of the main parking facilities that is next to the Law School.
Agenda:
Day 1 – Friday, May 9
8:30am – 9:20am · Coffee & Registration
9:20am – 9:30am · Opening Remarks – Jay Yu & Billy Gao
9:30am – 10:00am · Jeff Strnad (Stanford) – An Epistemic View of Delegation, Participation, and Decentralization in DAO Governance
10:00am – 10:20am · Vaughn McKenzie-Landell (Butter) – Scaling the World Computer: A Bet on Futarchy
10:20am – 10:40am · Clément Leseage (Kleros) – Reimagining Governance Through Prediction Markets
10:40am – 11:00am · Break
11:00am – 11:20am · Proph3t (MetaGov) – Futarchy 101
11:20am – 12:00pm · Miles Jennings (a16z) & David Kerr (Cowrie) – Domestic Structuring for Token Governance Projects
12:00pm – 12:20pm · Andy Hall (Stanford) – A Constitution in the Sky: How to Adapt Democracy to the Digital World
12:20pm – 1:20pm · Lunch
1:20pm – 2:00pm · Panel: Marina Markezic (EUCI), Carol Goforth (U Arkansas) | Mod: Constance Choi – Crypto Regulation: Current and Future, U.S. and Europe
2:00pm – 2:20pm · James Wigginton (Orrick) – An SEC Safe Harbor for DAO Memberships
2:20pm – 2:40pm · Yuliya Guseva (Rutgers) – Decentralized Markets, Self-Regulation, and Information
2:40pm – 3:00pm · Anja von Rosenstiel (Boston University) – Decentralization and DAOs in a Regulated Data Economy
3:00pm – 3:20pm · Agata Ferreira, Silke Kumpf – TBD
3:20pm – 3:40pm · Break
3:40pm – 4:00pm · Martin Schmidt (Q Foundation) – Enforcement of Subjective Rules in Decentralized Systems
4:00pm – 4:20pm · William George (Kleros) – Resistance of governance mechanisms to 51%-type attacks
4:20pm – 4:40pm · Eric Alston (U Colorado, Boulder) – The External Validity of Blockchain Governance: Automated Penalties and Digital Constitutionalism
4:40pm – 5:00pm · Paper Imperium (GFX Labs) – Investing by DAOs: Why They Shouldn't – But How To Be Safer When They Do.
5:00pm – 5:20pm · Matt Fiebach (Entropy / Arbitrum DAO) – DAOs Are A Business: Structure. Strategy. Sustainability.
Day 2 – Saturday, May 10
8:30am – 9:20am · Coffee & Registration
9:00am – 9:15am · Opening Remarks – Jay Yu & Billy Gao
9:15am – 9:40am · Dan Boneh (Stanford) – Some Recent Developments in DAO Voting
9:40am – 10:00am · Austin Bennett (Stanford & Circle) – Going Parabolic: Analyzing Sybil Resistance in Quadratic Voting Mechanisms
10:00am – 10:20am · Puja Ohlhaver – Governance in a Networked: The Price of Attention and Cost of Influence
10:20am – 10:40am · Illia Polosukhin (NEAR) - Upgrading Blockchain Governance with AI
10:40am – 11:00am · Break
11:00am – 11:20am · Guillaume Mathias (Ledger) – Blueprint for Safe Blockchain Interactions Without Compromise
11:20am – 11:40am · Lavande (Optimism) – Making Governance Decisions using Futarchy
11:40am – 1:00pm · Lunch
1:00pm – 1:20pm · Kirk Hutchison (Morpho Labs) – Minimum Viable Governance
1:20pm – 1:40pm · Alex Netto (Anticapture) – Anticapture: Governance Security Beyond Code
1:40pm – 2:00pm · Leo Glisic (Maitri) – Enhancing Governance with Reputation Systems: A New Look
2:00pm – 2:20pm · Kydo (Eigenlayer) – Decentralized Uber: A Case Study of User-owned Network Effect
2:20pm – 2:40pm · Philipp Reineke (Stanford) – Decentralization in Organizations
2:40pm – 3:00pm · Break
3:00pm – 3:20pm · Cameron Dennis (NEAR) – NEAR House of Stake: An Approach of Governance
3:20pm – 3:40pm · Raf Solari (Tally) – The State of Governance Today
3:40pm – 4:00pm · Nathan Schneider (U Colorado, Boulder) – Online Governance Surfaces and Attention Economies
4:00pm – 4:40pm · Panel: Derrick Cui (Berkeley), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Chris Ahn (Haun Ventures), Jay Yu (Pantera) | Mod: Tesvara Jiang (Stanford) – The Role of Venture Capital in Blockchain Governance
5:00pm – 7:00pm · Closing Pizza Party at Treehouse