EC24 Workshop on Blockchains and Decentralized Finance

  1. Overview
  2. Schedule (July 8, 2024)
  3. Call for talks
  4. Organizers

Overview

      Location: Yale School of Management, Forum (Room 1400)

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols have grown to manage nearly $100 billion of assets as of 2024. These protocols aim to build transparent, permissionless, and non-custodial financial systems. Examples of such systems include automated market makers, which facilitate exchange of digital tokens, decentralized lending protocols, which allow for permissionless borrowing, and on-chain auctions.

The design and analysis of these systems raises several important questions that sit at the core of economics and computation: How secure are these systems? What are the incentives of the various participants? How can these protocols be designed optimally? These questions have been formulated and studied by the EC community under several research umbrellas, including selfish mining, constant function market makers, and miner extractable value (MEV).

This non-proceedings half-day workshop aims to promote research on distributed ledger-based financial protocols and economic mechanisms.

Keynotes

Important Dates

Schedule (July 8, 2024)

      Location: Yale School of Management, Forum (Room 1400)

Infrastructure (8:30am - 10:00am)

Break (10am - 10:30am)

Decentralized Finance & Applications (10:30am - 12pm)

Lunch (12pm - 1pm)

Poster Session (1pm - 2pm)

Call for talks

We encourage both theoretical and empirical work that provides new insights related to existing protocols, or that propose new designs for new protocols. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Please submit in a single column format with size 12pt font. Reviewers will carefully evaluate the first 15 pages of each submission (including cover page, figures, tables; excluding references and appendices). Longer papers are accepted but may not be read in their entirety when making decisions. The cover page must contain the paper’s title, the names, affiliations, and email addresses of the authors, and a one or two paragraph abstract which concisely summarizes the paper’s contributions. Please submit your papers in a PDF format on this Google form.

Organizers

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