The Latest In Defi Research is a DeFi research fellowship program and conference started in 2023, founded by Raphaela Sapire to advance decentralized finance through new research and new contributors. The Latest In Defi Research's Twitter Score is 61 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #14,016 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
The Latest In Defi Research operates with a mission to evolve DeFi by generating original research and putting existing research into practice through its fellowship and annual conference. Uniswap Foundation has committed up to $3,000,000 over three years to DeFi research associated with the program, and listed The Latest In Defi Research among its research initiatives, reporting 18 new research papers under development through the program in its FY2024 financial summary. The Uniswap Foundation's FY2025 financial summary, published March 31, 2026, continued to list The Latest In Defi Research event hosting among its operating expenditures, confirming active status through 2025.
The Latest In Defi Research fellowships have supported published research covering Ethereum block-building auctions, transaction-fee mechanisms, AMM state growth, and CEX-DEX extracted value and searcher profitability. The 2025 TLDR Conference was held May 12-13, 2025 at the Briger Family Digital Finance Lab at Columbia Business School, focusing on theoretical results, empirical analyses, and software implementations related to DeFi. Conference subject areas span MEV, cross-chain and rollup interoperability, fee markets, intent-based architectures, AMMs, decentralized exchanges, derivatives, lending, staking, governance, prediction markets, and stablecoins.
The Latest In Defi Research's research council draws on people affiliated with Bain Capital Crypto, Robot Ventures, a16z Crypto Research, Paradigm, Gauntlet, Consensys, Flashbots, the Uniswap Foundation, universities, and other blockchain-research organizations. The Latest In Defi Research has accumulated 2,786 followers as of August 2026 and published 326 posts. It has been mentioned by 19 accounts, with 37 total mentions.
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