1^st Workshop on Prediction Markets (PREDICT’27)

A Workshop Associated with Financial Crypto 2027
12 February 2027
Accra Beach Hotel & Spa
Barbados

Key Dates

Submissions close at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC−12).

Call For Papers

We encourage submissions on all aspects of prediction markets, including but not limited to:

• Prediction market design and mechanisms
• Centralized, decentralized, and hybrid prediction markets
• Market scoring rules, automated market makers, and liquidity provision
• Information aggregation, information solicitation, and forecasting
• Market formation, event selection, and contract specification
• Pricing, trading, liquidity, and market microstructure
• Incentives and strategic behavior
• Arbitrage, price discovery, and market efficiency
• Manipulation, adversarial behavior, and market integrity
• Privacy and security in prediction markets
• Outcome resolution, oracles, and dispute mechanisms for prediction markets
• Governance and dispute resolution
• Off-chain trading, order matching, and settlement
• Futarchy and prediction-market-based decision making
• Empirical studies, datasets, and measurement of prediction markets
• Prediction markets for elections, politics, and public policy
• AI forecasting, automated trading, and AI agents in prediction markets
• Applications and emerging uses of prediction markets

Contribution Types

Research paper

15 pages in LNCS format excluding references and appendices. Anonymous submission evaluated through a traditional double-blinded peer-review. The final paper will be published in LNCS after the conference.

Short research paper

8 pages in LNCS format excluding references. Anonymous submission evaluated through a traditional double-blinded peer-review. Short papers will be evaluated with a focus on novelty and potential for sparking participants' interest and future research avenues. The final paper will be published in LNCS after the conference.

Systemization of knowledge (SoK) paper

20 pages in LNCS format excluding references and appendices. Anonymous submission evaluated through a traditional double-blinded peer-review. An SoK must provide an added value beyond a literature review, such as novel insights, identification of research gaps, or challenges to commonly held assumptions. The final paper will be published in LNCS after the conference.

Research talk

1 page description of the talk with the speaker’s bio. May include attachments. Submissions for talks are not anonymous. They will be peer-reviewed without feedback to the contributor (or minimal feedback). There will be no resulting publication in LNCS (however the list of presentations will be noted in the chairs’ report in the LNCS volume). We welcome talks about research papers published at other venues.

Submission Information

Submission deadline: 24 November 2026, 23:59 AoE (UTC−12)
Submission portal: TBD
Author notification: 22 December 2026
Camera-ready deadline: TBD

The submission link and remaining instructions will be posted here when available.