The 5th Workshop on
Coordination of Decentralized Finance
(CoDecFin) 2024

In Association with Financial Cryptography 2024

March 8, 2024

Curacao Marriott Beach Resort
Willemstad, Curaçao

Date and Venue

  • Date: March 8, 2024
  • Venue: Curacao Marriott Beach Resort, Willemstad, Curaçao

Call for papers/contributions

We call for papers/contributions on technology and operational issues related to Energy Consumption and Consensus Algorithm with specifying background the author(s) have.

(i) regular papers (15 pages LNCS format excluding references and appendices)

(ii) short papers (8 pages LNCS format in total)

Submission process is conducted by using EasyChair. Link to the submission site.

The review process is "double-blind" review. Plesae don't include author names, and affliations.

Topics of papers/presentations include, but are not limited to:
  • Identity, privacy, and key management
  • Centralized custody and decentralized custody
  • Non Fungible Token ands Soul Bounded Tokens
  • Application of PETS (ZKP and MPC) to blockchain
  • Standardization and R&D direction of Digital Asset and CDBC
  • Preventing the use of crypto-assets to ransomware attack
  • Scaling Cryptocurrency and Regulatory Challenges, and mainstream adoption
  • Common understandings on "Regulatory Goals"
  • FATF: AML and privacy
  • Security of exchanges and decentralized financeFi protocols
  • Regulatory challenges of decentralized finance protocols
  • Risk and resilience in cryptocurrency financial systems
  • Harmonization of automated systems, human intervention and regulation
  • Standards: Technical, Regulatory
  • Regulation of exchanges and consumer protection
  • Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
  • Interoperability among existing financial infrastructure, permissionless ledgers and CBDCs
  • Governance of protocols, implementations, DEXs & DAOs
  • Wallet governance
  • Energy consumption and environmental impact of consensus algorithms
  • Relationship between consensus algorithms and nature as securities

Key Dates

  • Submission Due Date: December 15, 2023
  • Notification: January 12, 2024
  • Workshop: March 8, 2023
  • Julien Bringer, Kallistech
  • Feng Chen, University of British Columbia
  • Victor Garcia, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
  • Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis
  • Carole House, Georgetown University, and the chair of the technology advisory group at CFTC
  • Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Virginia Tech/Georgetown University (Chair)
  • Kanta Matsuura, The University of Tokyo
  • Steven Nam, Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy
  • Jarek Nabrzyski, The University of Notre Dame
  • Roman Danziger Pavlov, SafeStead Inc.
  • Robert Schwentker, DLT Education and BSafe.network
  • Yonatan Sompolinsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, DAGlabs
  • Ryosuke Ushida, JFSA
  • Robert Wardrop, University of Cambridge Judge Business School
  • Aaron Wright, Cardozo Law School
  • Anton Yemelyanov, Base58 Association