The 8th Workshop on
Coordination of Decentralized Finance
(CoDecFin) 2027
In Association with Financial Cryptography 2027
February 12, 2027
Accra Beach Hotel & Spa
Barbados
Date and Venue
- Date: February 12, 2027
- Venue: Accra Beach Hotel & Spa, Barbados
Call for papers/contributions
We call for papers on technology and operational issues related to decentralized finance and permissionless blockchain, and future directions to solve these issues, specifying the 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. TBA
The review process is "double-blind" review. Please don't include author names and affiliations.
Topics of papers/presentations include, but are not limited to:- Identity, privacy, and key management
- Centralized custody and decentralized custody
- Post Quantum Cryptography Migration
- Cyber Security and Information Sharing
- Governance of Security Supply Chain
- Governance sustainability (e.g. vs censorship resistance)
- Application of PETS (ZKP and MPC) to blockchain
- Privacy Enhanced Authentication
- Forensics and On-chain Analysis
- Illicit Activities
- Maturity definitions and assessment criteria
- Standardization and R&D direction of Digital Asset, stable coins and CDBC
- Preventing the use of crypto-assets in ransomware attacks
- Scaling Cryptocurrency and Regulatory Challenges, and mainstream adoption
- Common understandings of "Regulatory Goals"
- FATF: AML and privacy
- Security of exchanges and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols
- Regulatory challenges of decentralized finance protocols
- Risk and resilience in cryptocurrency financial systems
- Harmonization of automated systems, human intervention, and regulation
- Non-Fungible Tokens and Soul-Bounded Tokens
- Standards: Technical, Regulatory
- Regulation of exchanges and consumer protection
- Interoperability among existing financial infrastructure, permissionless ledgers, and CBDCs
- Governance of protocols, implementations, DEXs & DAOs
- Wallet governance
- 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
- Energy consumption and environmental impact of consensus algorithms
Key Dates
- Submission Due Date: November 30, 2026
- Notification: December 21, 2026
- Workshop: February 12, 2027
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