Searcher 2026: Market Making, MEV and Exchanges in 2026
With new exchanges and new players in the game, many things have changed despite the bear market moods.
Join us as we kickstart Cannes in a lighter social all-day by the poolside - we bring institutional friends, traders, exchanges, market makers and MEV searchers together to share alpha, enjoy delicious food from our on-sites chefs, and meet like-minded personalities offline for once.
We're proud to be co-hosting and sponsored by a number of friends:
Tplus | https://tplus.cx/ | @tplus_cx
Tplus is a decentralized full-service exchange - a high performance venue offering access to all products and liquidity, matched-book-margin enabled leverage, and cryptographic privacy and integrity guarantees.
PropellerHeads | https://propellerheads.xyz | @PropellerSwap
PropellerHeads: We design markets and build infrastructure to decentralize the trade supply chain.
Mobius | https://mob.exchange | TBA
Mobius is an on-chain sole prime brokerage for multi-venue perp trading and yield. Users deposit collateral once, lenders supply stablecoins, and borrowers use credit to trade across multiple perp venues or run automated delta-neutral vault strategies that rebalance positions to generate attractive yield.
Metric | TBA | @metricxyz
Metric is a new primitive for on-chain market making on EVM. Pools anchor to real-world prices instead of discovering them, delivering hyper-efficient execution for majors and RWAs. It's PMM-as-a-service, bring your own pricing logic and inherit routing through every major aggregator from day one.
Eureka Labs | https://eurekalabs.xyz | @EurekaBuilder
Eureka Labs is a next-generation Ethereum block builder focused on turning block construction into an active layer for execution, credit, and market infrastructure. By developing new primitives at the builder level, Eureka enables capital-efficient trading, advanced MEV strategies, transaction privacy, and programmable execution guarantees. The protocol expands what can be done within a single block, unlocking new classes of applications and strategies that were not previously possible on-chain.
Schedule
31st March 2026
10am - 11:15am: Arrival
11:15am - 11:45am: Talk 1 - Mobius: How to build Unified Margin across Perp DEXs and DeFi
11:45am - 12:15pm: Talk 2 - Propeller Heads: The Future of DeFi Trading
12:15pm - 12:45pm: Talk 3 - Eureka Builder: Secrets Block Builders Won’t Tell You
12:45pm - 1:30pm: Panel - What’s Next for Trading, RWAs and MEV? With Markus (tplus), Katia (Bebop), Mick (Metric) & Markus (PropellerHeads)
1:30pm - 3pm: Lunch served on-site from our chefs
3pm - 6pm: Networking and End
There’ll be canapés and drinks throughout, with a lot of people to meet!
We also have Flashbots running a Research Salon at the villa from 6pm onwards (https://luma.com/d63lj086) for those still in research mode and wanting to dive deeper: from propAMMs to LP optimisations.
Location
We've managed to secure one of the most hard-to-get locations in Cannes, a 10 minute drive from Palais des Festivals (Main Conference Hall).