| Tuesday, October 6, 2026 [Workshop] |
| 1:00pm - 1:30pm |
Workshop Registration
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| 1:30pm - 5:00pm |
DeTaP 2026 — 1st Workshop on Decentralisation: Theory and Practice
Organisers: Christina Ovezik and Mojtaba Tefagh (University of Edinburgh) · co-located with AFT 2026
- Invited and contributed talks, with dedicated time for open discussion
Defining and measuring decentralisation; governance; legal tests and liability; trade-offs against efficiency, scalability and accountability; case studies and comparisons with other fields
- Cross-disciplinary participation from cryptography, distributed systems, economics and law
No proceedings: work in progress and work published or submitted elsewhere are equally welcome
- Free to attend; separate registration required as places are limited
blockchain-technology-lab.github.io/DeTaP
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| 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
Welcome reception
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| Wednesday, October 7, 2026 [Protocols and systems] |
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Registration and setup
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| 9:00am - 9:15am |
Opening remarks
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| 9:15am - 10:15am |
Session Keynote Talk: Dr. Raphael Auer
Chair: Aggelos Kiayias
- Understanding Stablecoins: Uses, Technologies, and Incentives.
Raphael Auer (Bank of International Settlements)
Abstract. What are the economic uses cases for stablecoins, how do they differ from banks, and what are the implications of periodic departures from par? This talk offers a perspective grounded in evidence on their uses, technologies, and incentives. It first examines cross-border flows to understand transactional and speculative demand for stablecoins. It then stocktakes their technological architectures. Finally, it explores when making deposit-like claims tradable can be good for liquidity provision.
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| 10:15am - 10:45am |
Refreshments
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| 10:45am - 11:45am |
Session 1: Cryptographic Protocols
Chair: Andreas Veneris
- BitVM: Quasi-Turing Complete Computation on Bitcoin
Lukas Aumayr (University of Edinburgh, Common Prefix), Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien, Common Prefix), Robin Linus (Stanford University, ZeroSync), Matteo Maffei (TU Wien, CDL-BOT), Andrea Pelosi (TU Wien, University of Pisa, University of Camerino), Christos Stefo (TU Wien), Alexei Zamyatin (BOB)
- Privacy-Preserving Inclusion Lists
Zhengwei Tong (Duke University), Saba Eskandarian (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Kartik Nayak (Duke University)
- SoK: Cryptographic Key Recovery for Cryptoasset Custody and Financial Technologies
Francisco Javier Becerra Sanchez (University of Luxembourg), Antonio Ken Iannillo (University of Luxembourg), Radu State (University of Luxembourg)
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| 11:45am - 12:25pm |
Session 2: Consensus Protocols
Chair: Andreas Veneris
- Gatling: Rapid-Fire Consensus from Parallel Composition
Giulia Scaffino (TU Wien & Common Prefix), Max Resnick (Anza), Joachim Neu (a16z Crypto Research)
- The Consensus Number of Untraceable Cryptocurrencies
Christian Cachin (University of Bern, Institute of Computer Science), David Lehnherr (University of Bern, Institute of Computer Science), Juan Villacis (University of Bern, Institute of Computer Science), François-Xavier Wicht (University of Bern, Institute of Computer Science)
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| 12:25pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch
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| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
Session 3: Proof-of-Stake Protocols
Chair: Christoph Schlegel
- Reserve Depletion and Security Runway in Proof-of-Stake Systems
Paolo Penna (IOG), Manvir Schneider (Cardano Foundation)
- The Cost of Secure Restaking vs Proof-of-Stake
Akaki Mamageishvili (Offchain Labs), Benny Sudakov (ETH Zurich)
- StakeNote: A Proof-of-Stake Protocol for CryptoNote Payments
Bernardo David (IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) and Common Prefix), Dimitris Karakostas (Common Prefix)
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Refreshments
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| 3:30pm - 4:30pm |
Session 4: Parallel Execution and State Contention
Chair: Kaihua Qin
- Approximation and Hardness Results for the Parallel-Block Construction Problem
Arivarasan Karmegam (IMDEA Networks Institute), Alexandru Popa (University of Bucharest), Lucianna Kiffer (IMDEA Networks Institute), Antonio Fernández Anta (IMDEA Software & Networks Institutes)
- Not All Reads Are Conflicts: A Write-Only Analysis of the Sui Blockchain
Haygen Tsoi (University College London (UCL)), Alberto Sonnino (Mysten Labs and University College London (UCL)), Philipp Jovanovic (Mysten Labs and University College London (UCL))
- SAMM: Sharded Automated Market Maker
Hongyin Chen (Technion), Amit Vaisman (Technion), Ittay Eyal (Technion)
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| 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
Business meeting (open to all attendees)
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| Thursday, October 8, 2026 [Markets, mechanisms, and MEV] |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Session 5: Automated Market Makers and Liquidity
Chair: Akaki Mamageishvili
- Defensive Rebalancing in Networks of Automated Market Makers
Sam Devorsetz (Brown University CS), Maurice Herlihy (Brown University CS)
- Multi-Currency AMMs for Decentralized FOREX Markets: Feasibility and Optimal Design
Reina Ke Xin Li (University of Toronto), Andreas Park (University of Toronto), Andreas Veneris (University of Toronto), Srisht Fateh Singh (University of Toronto)
- Uniform-Loss Automated Market Making for Prediction Markets
Ciamac C. Moallemi (Columbia University), Dan Robinson (Paradigm), Brian Zhu (Columbia University)
- ParlayMarket: Automated Market Making for Parlay-Style Joint Contracts
Ranvir Rana (Kaleidoscope Blockchain Inc.), Viraj Nadkarni (Princeton University), Niusha Moshrefi (Princeton University), Pramod Viswanath (Princeton University)
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Refreshments
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| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
Session 6: Mechanism Design
Chair: Aris Filos-Ratsikas
- On Sybil-Proof Mechanisms
Minghao Pan (Caltech), Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots), Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Akaki Mamageishvili (Offchain Labs)
- Belief-Aware Pivotal Mechanism for DAO Committees
Nuno Braz (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa), Diogo Poças (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa), Miguel Correia (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)
- Optimal Reward Allocation via Proportional Splitting *
Lukas Aumayr (University of Edinburgh and Common Prefix), Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien and Common Prefix), Dimitris Karakostas (Common Prefix), Karl Kreder (Dominant Strategies), Shreekara Shastry (Dominant Strategies)
* Rescheduled from Session 10.
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Session 7: Auctions for Transaction Ordering
Chair: Carmine Ventre
- Competing Auctions in Intermediated Markets
Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots), Minghao Pan (Caltech), Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots)
- Just-in-Time Resale in an Ahead-of-Time Auction for Faster Execution
Burak Öz (Flashbots), Akaki Mamageishvili (Offchain Labs), Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Ali Taslimi (Entropy Advisors)
- Towards Decentralized Searcher Competition in MEV Markets
Roozbeh Sarenche (COSIC, KU Leuven), Yunwen Liu (COSIC, KU Leuven)
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| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Refreshments
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| 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Session 8: MEV Incentives and Countermeasures
Chair: Ittay Eyal
- SoK: Encrypted Mempools Through the MEV Lens
Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach (Flashbots / Imperial College London)
- RANDAO Manipulation in the Presence of MEV
Kaya Alpturer (Princeton University), Nicholas Hope (Talarion), S. Matthew Weinberg (Princeton University)
- To Wait or To Probe: Arbitrage Competition on High-Throughput Blockchains
Fei Wu (King's College London), Burak Öz (Flashbots)
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| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Rump session (See for call for contributions!)
Chair: Bernardo David
- [16:00] Code is Law (or is it?), an Introduction to the Rump Session
Bernardo David
- [16:05] GST (Global Spritzabilization Time)
The thirsty audience
- [16:10] No Rest for the Wicked
Chinonso Philip Nwishienyi
- [16:15] Confessions of a Trusted Third Party
Marc Winstel
- [16:20] Ephemeral BLS keys buy Ethereum consensus time against a quantum attacker
Pranay Anchuri
- [16:25] The Hitchhiker’s South Korean’s Guide to the Galaxy North Korean Hacker Infiltration
Suhyeon Lee
- [16:32] Paying rollup nodes to watch buys sybils, unless each identity has to prove on its own
Pranay Anchuri
- [16:37] SoK: The Artistic Capabilities of CS Researchers
Juan Villacis and François-Xavier Wicht
- [16:42] Selling Privacy in Blockchain Transactions
Giorgos Chionas
- [16:47] Path-Independent Deleveraging Rules
Christoph Schlegel
- [16:50] Sovereign Cryptography: YOSO for Real World Stake Distributions
Andreas Evangelatos
- [16:55] The Be(ar)st Talk Award Ceremony
The opinionated audience
- [17:00] Cheeky Pints at Ye Old White Horse (in the alley with the red umbrellas in front of the venue)
The still thirsty audience
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| 6:30pm - 9:00pm |
Conference dinner
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| Friday, October 9, 2026 [Fairness, attacks, and measurement] |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Session 9: The Price of Fair Access
Chair: Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira
- The Price of Decentralization in Block Building
Burak Öz (Flashbots), Fei Wu (King's College London), Luis Correia (Flashbots), Sen Yang (Yale University), Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots), Stefanos Leonardos (King's College London)
- Price of Censorship: Censorship Resistance and Throughput under Rational Concurrent Proposers
Aditya Saraf (Cornell University), Ioannis Kaklamanis (Yale University, IC3), Sarisht Wadhwa (Duke University), Fatima Elsheimy (Yale University)
- The Execution Dilemma in Pessimistic Blockchains: Profitability XOR Fair Ordering
Artjom Pugatsov (TU Delft), Can Umut Ileri (IOTA), Jérémie Decouchant (TU Delft)
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Refreshments
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| 10:30am - 11:30am |
Session 10: Selfish Mining and Proof-of-Work Rewards
Chair: Antonio Fernández Anta
- Inside Qubic's Selfish Mining Campaign on Monero: Evidence, Tactics, and Limits
Suhyeon Lee (Hashed Open Research), Hyeongyeong Kim (Korea University)
- When Does Being Selfish Pay Off? Temporal Composability and Profitability in Selfish Mining
Colin Finkbeiner (University of Connecticut), Connor Shaw (University of Connecticut), Ghada Almashaqbeh (University of Connecticut)
- Credible Auctions via MPC Gadgets: Bounding Information Leakage Under Abort *
Matheus V. X. Ferreira (University of Virginia)
* Rescheduled from Session 6.
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Session 11: Detecting Adversarial Behavior
Chair: Antonio Fernández Anta
- Friend or Foe? Anomalous Peers in Monero's P2P Network
Yannik Kopyciok (TU Berlin), Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin and Fraunhofer SIT), Friedhelm Victor (TRM Labs)
- Who Plays to Earn? Detecting Bots in Web3 Games via On-Chain Transactions Analysis
Woncheol Jeong (Korea University), Sohee Choi (Korea University), Jiwon Yoon (Korea University)
- Pre-Model Representation Failures in GNN-Based Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection
Birindwa Prisca Hondi (Carnegie Mellon University Africa), Chinonso Philip Nwishienyi (Carnegie Mellon University Africa), Charity Wanja Mwaura (Carnegie Mellon University Africa), Alia Teto (Carnegie Mellon University Africa), Jema David Ndibwile (Carnegie Mellon University Africa)
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch
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| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
Session 12: Empirical Studies of Fees and Trading
Chair: Alberto Sonnino
- EVM Workloads in the Wild: Evidence for Multi-Dimensional Gas Metering, State Growth, Delayed Execution, and Parallelism
Lioba Heimbach (Category Labs), Kushal Babel (Category Labs), Jason Milionis (Category Labs)
- Price Elasticity of Gas Demand on L1 and L2: Evidence from Ethereum and Arbitrum
Pranay Anchuri (Offchain), Akaki Mamageishvili (Offchain)
- Who Loses and Why? Market Microstructure of Perpetual Futures
Ruizhe Jia (Stanford University), Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia University), Shouqiao Wang (Columbia University), Xinmeng Zeng (Stanford University)
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| 3:00pm - 3:15pm |
Closing remarks
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