Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira (@MatheusVXF) header
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira (@MatheusVXF) profile picture

CS Professor @UVA Past: @Harvard | @Princeton Optimization, AI, Security, Economics 🇧🇷🌈

Charlottesville, VA
Joined February 2013
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
TLDR's 2025 Conference tickets are now available for May 12-13, bringing together academics, engineers & practitioners to advance the state of DeFi research. → Keynotes: @gakonst & @segfaultdoctor → Program Schedule: thelatestindefi.org/schedule → Tickets: bit.ly/tldr-25
15
34
5
80
23,392
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
TLDRs second annual DeFi Research conference will be May 12-13, submissions open today. Will be another packed house. Apply to present through Feb 14.
🔈 Announcing TLDR's 2025 Conference: May 12-13! Submit your research on DeFi, its underlying infrastructure & governance. Our mission is to showcase new theoretical results, empirical analyses & software implementations. Learn more: thelatestindefi.org/conferen…
2
2
29
2,272
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
🔈 Announcing TLDR's 2025 Conference: May 12-13! Submit your research on DeFi, its underlying infrastructure & governance. Our mission is to showcase new theoretical results, empirical analyses & software implementations. Learn more: thelatestindefi.org/conferen…
3
23
10
65
25,539
Excited to co-organize the Oxford-Harvard Conference on Decentralized Finance and Market Microstructure at Oxford University on January 20-21, 2025. Join us for insightful discussions and networking opportunities. More details at sites.google.com/view/oxford…
1
1
9
578
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
Great summary of my paper with @MatheusVXF and @ks_kulk
Just read through the “Credible, Optimal Auctions via Public Broadcast” paper by Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra , Matheus V. X. Ferreira and Kshitij Kulkarni. A summary and my thinking on implications: 🧵 (link to the article in the end)
3
4
13
4,917
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
Super excited to join this incredible team and work with @MatheusVXF! Big thanks to @UniswapFND for the support on this journey!!! 🙌
Replying to @thelatestindefi
Fellow: @Mengqian__ Council: @MatheusVXF Mengqian is a Postdoc at Yale Computer Science. She will be researching novel designs for decentralized markets. Specifically, she'll explore novel AMM designs to improve trading efficiency and mitigate the potential MEV issues therein.
1
5
654
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
Thanks again @UniswapFND for funding my research with the TLDR fellowship! I will work on automated market makers for retail renewable energy markets with @MatheusVXF ☀️🍃✨ Check also the other exciting projects from all the TLDR fellows! @thelatestindefi
TL;DR's Research Fellows tackle the most pressing problems in DeFi research. Congratulations to the 18 TLDR Fellows selected for the 2024-25 cohort! We all gathered to kick off the fellowship this weekend in NYC. Meet them in the thread below:
1
3
17
1,590
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
👏👏👏👏 it's a wrap! @AlonEden8 and I would like to thank all the speakers for their excellent tutorials: @doronravid @ElliotLip @moshebab @EviMicha1 @nsrg_shah @t8el @yaish_aviv @MatheusVXF @Suflaky @Tim_Roughgarden @SimonMauras @DivyarthiMohan Yoav Kolumbus Jon Schneider Uri Feige Ravi Jagadeesan
3
5
29
3,644
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
🚨 ICYMI: RFPs for the next cohort of the TLDR fellowship are open until June 6! Topics Include: - Understanding Risk in Restaking - Sybil Proofness and Collusion Resistance - Pricing state growth - Novel Designs for Decentralized Markets - MEV-Resistant L2 Sequencers - Identifying ZKP Pricing Factors & Auction Mechanisms - Blockspace Futures - Comparing DeFi Trading Platforms Learn more here: tldresear.ch/fellowships
Cat's out of the bag. The TLDR Problem Spaces for 2024-2025 were announced this morning at the TLDR Conference in NYC. Think you're the right person to tackle one of these areas? Apply for our research fellowship. uniswap-0097a1-598da02eea48e…
2
11
5
24
22,247
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
📢 A big thanks to the 2024-2025 TLDR Research Council for volunteering their expertise to mentor fellows and advance DeFi research! • Dan Robinson, @danrobinson (Paradigm) • Danning Sui, @sui414 (Flashbots) • Guille Angeris, @angeris (Bain Capital Crypto) • John Adler, @jadler0 (Celestia) • Kshtiji Kulkarni, @ks_kulk (Gauntlet) • Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira, @MatheusVXF (Harvard University) • Mallesh Pai, @malleshpai (Rice University, Consensys) • Pranav Garimidi, @PGarimidi (a16z Crypto) • Raffi Sapire, @RaffiSapire (Uniswap Foundation, TLDR Co-Founder) • Tarun Chitra, @tarunchitra (Gauntlet, Robot, TLDR Co-Founder) • Theo Diamandis, @theo_diamandis (Bain Capital Crypto) • Aki Kattis (New York University) Want the opportunity to work with these researchers? Apply for the TLDR Fellowship by June 6! We’re accepting applications to both generate new research, and for engineers to implement existing research across a range of DeFi topics. Learn more: tldresear.ch/fellowships
1
14
6
77
50,120
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
Super excited for the fellowship! I'll be working with @MatheusVXF, @malleshpai, and @maxresnick on mentoring some amazing fellows [follow them!]: @Suflaky [Collusion in MEV auctions] @0xkrane [Verifiable sequencing rules] @lilyaudits [SUAVE/V4 Hook Impls.] @KaihuaQIN [Depegging of Stablecoins]
TL;DR's Fellowship is designed to support the brightest engineers, students, & academics to innovate & implement DeFi research. 🥇 This year, we're thrilled to have received 107 applications. Out of those, we've selected 10 outstanding fellows. Meet them in the thread below! 🧵
6
9
1
100
20,885
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
We want everyone who is interested in graduate programs in engineering to be able to apply. We do not require the GRE, and new this year, we are waiving the graduate application fee for everyone. Check out all that UVA Engineering has to offer! engineering.virginia.edu/fut… – at Charlottesville, VA
60
6
142
23,223
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
Had a blast talking about cooperative AI & contract/commitment games on the panel with @gordonliao @stephensonhmatt @MatheusVXF it was amazing to see more serious discussions around AI and decentralized infra
Huge thanks to ~1K in-person attendees & 4K+ who joined livestream to our Future of Decentralization, AI & Computing Summit, hosted by @BerkeleyRDI! Check out full program slides&videos including keynotes from Shafi Goldwasser Michael Jordan @berkeley_ai: rdi.berkeley.edu/events/dece…
2
10
2,283
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
Huge thanks to ~1K in-person attendees & 4K+ who joined livestream to our Future of Decentralization, AI & Computing Summit, hosted by @BerkeleyRDI! Check out full program slides&videos including keynotes from Shafi Goldwasser Michael Jordan @berkeley_ai: rdi.berkeley.edu/events/dece…
7
18
6
89
30,847
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
I ❤️ @thelatestindefi council! Dinner last night at the restaraunt @tarunchitra is named after.
1
3
21
2,632
David has been such an amazing mentor. Happy to see he will be able to impact the broader @hseas community!
David C. Parkes will become the next dean of SEAS, effective October 15, 2023. Currently the George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science, Parkes leads research at the interface between economics and computer science. He joined SEAS in 2001. buff.ly/45NTbXO
11
845
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
We had a wonderful session of Blockchains + Economics yesterday with @MatheusVXF @ElaineRShi @Tim_Roughgarden @sreeramkannan @drakefjustin For those of you who missed it, here's a video recording of the talks and the panel: youtube.com/watch?v=AhoPt6SF… with @ittaia @aniketpkate
1
34
1
65
4,512
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira retweeted
Workshop on Blockchains + Economics Tomorrow 10 am ET: blockchainsplusx.github.io/ Register tinyurl.com/bdezkf8r Speakers/panelists @Tim_Roughgarden @ElaineRShi @MatheusVXF @sreeramkannan @drakefjustin Add panel ques: onlinequestions.org/ (12358) w/ @ittaia @aniketpkate
2
28
1
30
3,987