Welcome to Fintech Tuesday hosted by Copenhagen Fintech, where we combine the knowledge of industry stakeholders together with the newest research within the technical sciences.

This Fintech Tuesday will be about Decentralized Finance, popularly known as DeFi. For this, we have invited some of the most highly regarded researchers and people within the area to present their groundbreaking solutions, current research and industry insights.

Join us for an afternoon of some of the greatest research, applications and minds within DeFi and the crypto space and explore its future potentials for the fintech sector.

Program:

Welcome & Introduction by Copenhagen Fintech

Research Perspective: Bernardo Machado David, Associate Professor, ITU

Bernardo is an expert cryptographer and blockchain researcher, focusing on how to secure decentralized exchanges to reduce risk of fraud and increase security.

His presentation today will focus on "Adding Privacy and Avoiding Market Manipulation in AMMs (Automated Market Makers) and DEXes (Decentralized Exchanges)"

Start-up Perspective: Mark Dencker, Head of Blockchain, DigiShares

Mark Dencker is both Head of Blockchain at DigiShares and author of the book "Software is Feeding the World" . At DigiShares he works on creating the decentralized exchange (DEX) RealEstate.Exchange together with Balancer, a leading DeFi organization.

Research/Industry Perspective: Bas Spitters, Associate Professor, Aarhus University & Scientific Advisor, Concordium

Bas Spitters is a researcher at Aarhus University, with highly regarded knowledge within blockchain solutions, and will focus on programming languages and formal verification for this talk, focused on business applications. Outside of his research he works as a scientific advisor for the blockchain infrastructure unicorn Concordium.

Start-up Perspective: Wil Barnes, CEO & Co-Founder, Jet Protocol

Wil Barnes is a blockchain engineer turned CEO & Co-Founder of the borrowing and lending company Jet Protocol, working on Solana. Jet Protocol received more than $10 million in funding in 2021 from several investors, including blockchain pioneer fund Paradigm.