The 8th Workshop on
Coordination of Decentralized Finance
(CoDecFin) 2027
In Association with Financial Cryptography 2027
February 12, 2027
Accra Beach Hotel & Spa
Barbados
Update
- CoDecFin 2027 Web Site is open (October 31, 2026)
Date and Venue
- Date: February 12, 2027
- Venue: Accra Beach Hotel & Spa, Barbados
Background
On June 8th and 9th 2019, Distributed Ledger Technology-related innovations have been referenced in the Communique at the G20 Finance and Central Bank Meeting in Fukuoka, Japan, referencing the report produced by the Financial Stability Board (FSB).
G20 Communique Section 13 "We welcome the FSB report on decentralized financial technologies, and the possible implications for financial stability, regulation and governance, and how regulators can enhance the dialogue with a wider group of stakeholders.”
FSB Report Decentralised financial technologies: Report on financial stability, regulatory and governance implications; Direct link to the FSB Report document
Blockchain Governance Initiative Network ("BGIN" - pronounced ‘BEGIN’) was initiated on March 10, 2020 after several multi-stakeholder workshops including CoDeFi 2020, an associated workshop with Financial Cryptography 2020. BGIN is a multi-stakeholder discussion network which aims at providing an open and neutral sphere for all stakeholders to deepen common understanding and to collaborate to address issues they face in order to attain sustainable development of the blockchain community.
Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin)
This workshop is designed to identify and discuss technology and operation issues of permissionless blockchain and decentralized finance. As permissionless blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms evolve and mature, there is an urgent need for multi-stakeholders to engage in their planning, development, roll-out, and operation, in order for innovation of a wide variety of financial applications to proliferate and become mainstream. Thus far it has been mainly developer & startup communities which are driving these protocols, platforms, and applications for this new era of computing. New standards, governance mechanisms and design patternsare evolving and need input from a variety of perspectives. There is a growing trend towards decentralized computing systems in which distributed ledger technologies are a fundamental component. These systems are designed to be global computing systems; they will likely form the basis of new financial services and businesses including a distributed Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI). These new financial services and businesses could bring huge benefit to the global financial system, e.g. resiliency over efficiency, and predictability over resiliency. However financial regulators, central banks, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), while recognizing the potential of DLT systems, have also been keenly aware of the challenges in the adoption, and designing for the consumer protections required to balance usability, safety while supporting innovation. While it is likely that many G20 countries will be leading the design and development of these new infrastructures, all cities and countries should be considered and encouraged to participatein the planning.
Discussions of this workshop are expected to contribute to discussions of Blockchain Governance Initiative Network (BGIN), where common documents on blockchain technology and operations are created backed by all stakeholders.
Special area of this year
Though the areas of academic discussion of this workshop are widely open (see the call for paper), from ongoing discussions among stakeholders, we strongly encourage to submit academic papers/research results to provide academic foundation to all stakeholders for following areas. CoDecFin 2027 takes place immediately after publication of the NEDO/METI prize-program call on blockchain security in the quantum era. An opening invited briefing will state what was published; refereed sessions address interpretation and evaluation under that rubric.- Evaluation and crypto agility for post-quantum migration
- Advanced and offline key management
- Security AI agents
- Agent standards and frameworks
- Accountable Wallet and Security Target / Protection Profile (ST/PP)
- Technical metrics for decentralization
- Harmonization among crypto-assets, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits
- AI and blockchain
- L2, bridges, and cross-chain resilience
Note: This workshop does not endorse any specific decentralized finance projects and products. The NEDO/METI prize program is hosted in Japan; CoDecFin is an academic forum and does not select competition winners.
Basic Structure of the Workshop
This workshop is composed of three parts:- An opening invited briefing on the published prize-program call and evaluation overview (shared baseline for the international audience)
- Presentations of academic and practical results on blockchain technology and operations
- A joint invited talk and round table with WTSC
This preliminary information is subject to change.
Organizing and Program Committees (Alphabetical Order)
Program Co-chairs
- Sushmita Ruj, UNSW Sydney
- Mitchell Travers, Soulbis
Program Committee
- James Angel, Georgetown University
- Julien Bringer, Kallistech
- Eric Burger, Virginia Tech
- Craig Costello, Queensland University of Technology
- Chen Feng, University of British Columbia
- Victor Garcia, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
- Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis
- Geoffrey Goodell, University College London
- Ethan Heilman, Cloudflare Research
- Carole House, Georgetown University, and the chair of the technology advisory group at CFTC
- Mario Larangeira, IOHK
- Kanta Matsuura, The University of Tokyo
- Ian Miers, University of Maryland
- Andrew Miller, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame
- Michele Benedetto Neitz, Golden Gate University
- Massimiliano Sala, University of Trento
- Takaya Sugino, JFSA
- Owen Vaughan, nChain
- Robert Wardrop, University of Cambridge Judge Business School
- More PC members to be announced
General Chair
- Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Virginia Tech / Georgetown University
Key Dates
- Submission Due Date: November 30, 2026
- Notification: December 21, 2026
- Workshop: February 12, 2027