Speaking
Gordon Y. Liao is Chief Economist and Head of Research at Circle (NYSE: CRCL), the issuer of USDC, where he leads economic research and R&D — from the design of Arc, a Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoin finance, to capital standards for digital dollars and post-quantum security. He previously served as a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board, led research at Uniswap Labs, and managed fixed-income portfolios at the Harvard endowment. His research appears in the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard.
How payment stablecoins become reserve infrastructure for the digital dollar — from an economist who helped write the capital rules for stablecoin issuers.
What central banks, DeFi protocols, and public companies each get wrong about the other — lessons from working inside all three.
What happens when AI agents can hold and move money — how autonomous transactions drive costs toward zero and redraw the boundaries of firms, payments, and commerce.
The unaddressed vulnerability in blockchain security and the roadmap for post-quantum digital assets.
Invited talk: “Quantum Risk in Blockchain and Crypto”
Invited talk: “The Autonomous Economic Fabric: How Onchain AI is Redefining Economic Boundaries”
Keynote: “The Rise of Stablecoins: Rewiring the Global Financial Grid”
Invited talk: “On-stage interview with Nik De”
Discussion: “Decrypting Crypto: How to Estimate International Stablecoin Flows”
Panel: “Crypto and Tokenization Policy in a New Era — with Hester Peirce (SEC) and Eswar Prasad”
Discussion: “Anatomy of a Run: The Terra Luna Crash”
Invited talk: “AI in the Future of Finance”
Panel: “Moving Money at the Speed of the Internet”
Invited talk: “Beyond Speculation: Payment Stablecoins for Real-time Gross Settlements”
Invited talk: “Payment Stablecoins Colloquium — fireside with Prof. Chris Brummer”
Panel: “FX in a World of Digital Money — roundtable with the IMF and MAS”
Invited talk: “Enabling Liquidity in LSTs and RWAs”
Invited talk: “Beyond Speculation: Payment Stablecoins for Real-time Gross Settlements — Best Paper Award”
Invited talk: “On-Chain Foreign Exchange and Cross-Border Payments”
Keynote: “TradFi, CeFi, DeFi: A Balance Sheet Journey Through Financial Alchemy”
Panel: “Regulating Digital Assets and Payment Stablecoins — with Tobias Adrian (IMF) and Nellie Liang (U.S. Treasury)”
Invited talk: “The Next Evolution of Money — fireside with Niall Ferguson”
Discussion: “Stablecoins and Short-term Funding Markets”
Panel: “Digital Asset Regulation: The Prudential Perspective”
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