Stanford Blockchain Governance Summit

​Welcome to the Stanford Blockchain Governance Summit! Join us for Stanford Blockchain’s inaugural, invite-only in-person conference dedicated to exploring the future of decentralized governance of blockchain protocols, hosted on April 12th on Stanford’s campus.

​From decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to regulatory challenges, this summit will feature perspectives from pre-eminent researchers, operators, and investors on how to establish, maintain, and regulate decentralized processes of decision-making in blockchain protocols.

​Address: 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Location: The conference will be located at Stanford Law School, F.I.R. Hall Room 290 (The SLS Classroom Building), 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

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Schedule
Note: Free food will be served.

​9:00am - 9:20am : Breakfast and Registration

​9:20am - 9:30am : Yann Aouidef & Jay Yu - Opening Speech

​9:30am - 10:00am : Prof. Jeff Strnad, Stanford Law School - “Economic DAO Governance: A Contestable Control Approach”

​10:00am - 10:40am : Lavande Optimisim, Matthew Fiebach Arbitrum, Manmit Singh Starknet, Panel - Optimism Arbitrum Starknet - “Governance of Layer 2 Protocols”

​10:40am - 11:00am : Florence Guillaume, Neuchâtel University - LexTech - “Wrapped DAOs”

​11:00am - 11:20am : Federico Ast, Kleros & Proof of Humanity - “Oracles and Decentralized Identity”

​11:20pm - 12:00pm : Glen Weyl, RadicalXChange / Morshed Mannan, Blockchain Gov - “DAO Frameworks and Ecosystems”

​12:00pm - 12:20pm : Eric Alston, Colorado University - “Distributed Network Governance: Constitutions, Uncertainty and Conflict”

​12:20pm - 1:00pm : Lunch

​1:00pm - 1:20pm : Juan Benet, Protocol Labs - “Inadequate Global Economies and R&D”

​1:20pm - 2:00pm : Panel - Josh Ephraim, Paradigm / James Rathmell, Haun Capital - “The Role of Institutional Investors in DAOs”

​2:00pm - 2:20pm : Cameron Dennis, NEAR Protocol - “NDC Election Framework V2”

​2:20pm - 2:40pm :  Nicholas Egan, Gauntlet - “Activating the Uniswap Fee Switch”

​2:40pm - 3:00pm : Kevin Owocki, Gitcoin - “Gitcoin Governance”

​3:00pm - 3:20pm : Primavera de Filippi (zoom), Cersa/CNRS/Harvard/BlockchainGov - “Governance On-Chain”

​3:20pm - 4:00pm : Panel - Philipp Reineke, Stanford PhD Candidate; Mohammad Rasouli, Stanford Alumni; Era Qian, AGI : “The Intersection Between Blockchains and AI”

​4:00pm - 4:20pm : Silke Noa Elrifai, Stanford Law School - “Backstop mechanisms in DAO Governance”

​4:20pm - 4:40 : Juan, MakerDAO : “Governance Frameworks in MakerDAO”

4:40 pm - 8:00pm : Pizza Party and Social Mixer @ TreeHouse

​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.