Conference Location:
Saturday, May 2 — Stanford Law School, Room 190 (Overflow: Room 180)
Sunday, May 3 — Stanford Law School, Room 290
Introduction
Billy Gao (Stanford Blockchain Club)
Some Perspectives on AI Participation in Governance
Jeff Strnad (Stanford Law School)
From the Shore to the Deep: AI Agents and Uncharted Governance
Bianca Kremer (Zug Institute for Blockchain Research at the University of Lucerne)
Agentic Strategists
Bruce Kogut & Arnab Choudhury (Columbia University)
Why Congressional Action is Still Needed to Clarify Crypto Regulation
Carol Goforth (University of Arkansas School of Law)
Decentralisation Put to the Test: How the ECB, European Commission and FATF approach DeFi in 2026
Marina Markezic (European Ethereum Institute)
Rethinking the “Alegality” of Blockchain
Florence G’Sell (Stanford Cyber Policy Center)
How to Regulate Digital Asset Market Structure? The U.S. Congress, the SEC, and the CFTC
Yuliya Guseva (Rutgers Law School)
Privacy as Constitutional Capacity
Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder)
The Law of Agentic Organizations
Joshua Tan (Metagov/PublicAI)
Decentralized Infrastructure: Network Tokens, Market Structure and Decentralized Governance
David Kerr (Cowrie LLC) & Miles Jennings (a16z)
Alignment is All You Need: The Hidden Fragility of Decentralized Governance
Angela Kreitenweis (Near Foundation)
LEX ARCHITECTURA: Why Self-Governance Requires Sovereign Infrastructure
Agata Ferreira (Institute of Free Technology)
2+ Years of Neural Quorum Governance, Through an AI Lens
Anke Liu (Stellar)
Increasing Security Through Incentives
Alex Netto (Anticapture)
Gov/acc: What Experimentation is Most Needed in Web3 Governance
Eugene Leventhal (Metagov)
Self-Sovereignty in a Changing World: Where Do People Need Ethereum Most Today?
Ori Shimony (Ethereum Foundation) Puja Ohlhaver (Allen Lab, Getting Plurality (Harvard)) Moderator: Joshua Tan (Metagov / Public AI)
Dinner
Hosted by Metagov and Octant
Introduction
Jeff Strnad (Stanford Law School)
The Interplay Between Cryptography and Governance
Dan Boneh (Stanford University)
The Price of Participation: How Retail Traders Lose
Ruizhe Jia (Stanford University MS&E)
The Desirable Properties of Certain Voting Methods in Schelling Point Environments: A Test?
Yann Aouidef (Stanford Open Labs)
What Drives Participation in Digital Governance? Evidence from a Multi-stage Voter Mobilization Experiment
Eliza Oak (Base)
Shadow Centralization: An Allocentric View On Voter Participation In Decentralized Decision-Making
Philipp Reineke (Stanford University)
Attention is All We Have: Context-Sensitive AI Agents
Puja Ohlhaver (Allen Lab, Getting Plurality (Harvard))
From Formal Rights to Engaged Participation: How Informal Governance Amplifies Formal Governance in Organizations
Yuxiang (“Jim”) Liu (Stanford University MS&E)
Decision Markets
Robin Hanson (George Mason University)
Decision Markets as Optimal Decision Oracles
Alex Hajjar (Butter)
Governance Nodes
Leo Glisic (Infinity, Inc.)
Tokens and Post AGI Coordination
Kydo (Eigen Labs)
Economic DAO Governance: A Contestable Control Approach
Jeff Strnad (Stanford University)
Investment Daos Under a Contestable Control Governance Approach
Martin Schmidt (QGOV)
Contestable DAO on-boarding and real live experimentation
Monica Tsang (University of Waterloo)
The Governance of Decentralized Governance
Tony Douglas (Decentralization Research Center)
Onchain Organizations
Graham Novak (Mezzanine Labs)
To be announced
VC Panel