As DeFi matures, more design questions sit in the microstructure layer:
→ Transaction ordering
→ Fee mechanisms
→ Gas metering
→ Block building
→ Geography
These infrastructure decisions shape execution quality, congestion, MEV, and credible decentralization
D² is dedicated to research on how protocols work, why they behave the way they do, and how they can be designed better
The schedule is now live, with talks spanning:
→ DeFi Microstructure
→ Perpetual Futures & Derivatives
→ Mechanism Design
→ Prediction Markets
→ AMMs