The Crypto and Blockchain Economic Research (CBER) Forum and Circle are proud to announce the CBER-Circle Insight Prize. This prize honors a significant contribution to the crypto and blockchain economics literature and entails a monetary award of 10,000 USDC, provided generously by Circle. The winners are selected by an independent selection committee appointed by the CBER organizers.
CBER-Circle Insight Prize
2024
CBER-Circle Insight Award Winner
"Tokenomics: Dynamic Adoption and Valuation"
Lin William Cong (Cornell University), Ye Li (University of Washington) and Neng Wang (CKGSB)
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Selection Committee
Agostino Capponi (Columbia University), Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern School of Business), Gordon Liao (Circle), Evgeny Lyandres (Tel Aviv University) and Andreas Park (University of Toronto)
2023
CBER-Circle Insight Award Winner
"Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges"
Philip Daian (Cornell University), Steven Goldfeder (Cornell University), Tyler Kell (Cornell University), Yunqi Li (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Xueyuan Zhao (Carnegie Mellon University), Iddo Bentov (Cornell University), Lorenz Breidenbach (ETH Zurich) and Ari Juels (Cornell University)
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Selection Committee
Joshua Gans (University of Toronto), Gordon Liao (Circle), Christin Parlour (University of California Berkeley), Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University) and David Yermack (NYU Stern School of Business)