Call for Papers
We invite submissions to the 6th Workshop on Decentralized Finance, held in association with Financial Cryptography 2027. DeFi has moved from anticipating regulation to operating under it: stablecoin legislation is in force, protocol fee mechanisms have been activated on major venues, and tokenized real-world assets now trade on-chain alongside crypto-native instruments.
At the same time, programmable liquidity, dynamic fees, token-launch auctions, and permissioned pools have turned market design into an open, empirically testable research problem, with new challenges for mechanism design, security, and compliance.
This workshop provides a forum for interdisciplinary engagement across cryptography, protocol design, financial economics, AI and machine learning, and legal theory. We welcome theoretical and empirical research, system proposals, legal analyses, and practitioner perspectives. We particularly encourage submissions that explore design trade-offs or propose new frameworks for balancing decentralization with emerging legal and technical expectations.
Submission Types
Paper (up to 15 pages)
Complete research papers presenting novel ideas, systems, or analysis. Format: LNCS, up to 15 pages excluding references and appendices, anonymized for double-blind review.
Poster
When submitting a paper, authors choose one of two options: talk only, or talk or poster. With talk or poster, the program committee may accept the paper as a poster if it is not selected for a talk. No separate submission is needed. All accepted papers, talks and posters alike, are included in the workshop proceedings.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed. All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings.
As at DeFi'26, a Best Paper Award with a follow-on research grant is planned; details will be announced later.
Registering an abstract helps us match papers to reviewers. It doesn't have to be final: you can refine the title and abstract when you submit the full paper, but the paper's topic and scope must stay the same.
Submission: via EasyChair (opening soon)
Format: PDF in LNCS format (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), up to 15 pages excluding references and appendices
Review: double-blind; submissions must be anonymized (see Submission Policies)
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Market design and liquidity
- Hook-based AMM extensions
- Custom curves and dynamic fees
- Hybrid RFQ/AMM designs
- Routing, intents and execution quality
- Dark pools and off-chain execution
Auctions, ordering and MEV
- Auction design in adversarial settings
- Token launches and price discovery
- MEV and priority ordering
- Sequencing policy on L2s and appchains
Credit, leverage and stablecoins
- Lending-integrated AMM liquidity
- Yield-bearing collateral and rehypothecation
- Perpetual DEXs and liquidations
- Prediction-market mechanisms
- Stablecoin design and reserves
Protocol economics and automation
- Protocol fees and buybacks
- Strategy vaults and delegated management
- AI agents as traders and LPs
- AI in protocol governance
Regulation and real-world assets
- Tokenized real-world assets
- Permissioned pools and private KYC/AML
- Institutional and brokerage access
- Design under regulatory constraints
Submission Policies
Anonymous Submission (Double-Blind Review)
DeFi'27 uses double-blind review. Submissions must be anonymized, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious self-references. Papers that are not properly anonymized may be desk-rejected without review. It is acceptable (but not required) for submitted papers to be published online in non-anonymous form, for example on authors' websites or on SSRN, arXiv, or the Cryptology ePrint Archive. Program committee members will be instructed not to actively seek to de-anonymize papers.
Original Submissions
Submitted work must not substantially overlap with work that is currently under review, or has been accepted for publication, at another peer-reviewed conference or workshop with proceedings, or at a journal. We consider double submission serious research fraud and will treat it as such. It is acceptable for papers to appear in non-peer-reviewed formats, such as technical reports or online archives (e.g., SSRN, arXiv, or ePrint). If in doubt, contact the program chairs at defi27@ifca.ai.
Conflicts of Interest
When submitting, authors must declare in EasyChair any conflicts with program committee members. A conflict exists if an author has the same affiliation as a committee member, has ever been their PhD supervisor or been supervised by them, has a close personal relationship with them, or has co-authored a paper with them within the past two years.
Program committee members cannot review, read the reviews of, or take part in discussions of papers with which they are conflicted. Papers conflicted with both program chairs will be handled by another program committee member designated as conflict chair.
Organizing Committee
Ben-Gurion University
Stanford University
Uniswap Labs
Uniswap Labs
Program Committee
Program Chairs
Columbia University
Uniswap Labs
Program Committee Members
Members to be announced.
Contact
For questions or inquiries, please contact the organizers: defi27@ifca.ai