| Tuesday, October 6, 2026 [Workshop] |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Workshop Registration
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| 2:00pm - 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 |
Keynote: Dr. Raphael Auer
Chair: Aggelos Kiayias
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| 10:15am - 10:45am |
Refreshments
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| 10:45am - 11:45am |
Session 1: Cryptographic Protocols
Chair: TBD
- BitVM: Quasi-Turing Complete Computation on Bitcoin
Lukas Aumayr, Zeta Avarikioti, Robin Linus, Matteo Maffei, Andrea Pelosi, Christos Stefo, Alexei Zamyatin
- Privacy-Preserving Inclusion Lists
Zhengwei Tong, Saba Eskandarian, Kartik Nayak
- SoK: Cryptographic Key Recovery for Cryptoasset Custody and Financial Technologies
Francisco Javier Becerra Sanchez, Antonio Ken Iannillo, Radu State
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| 11:45am - 12:25pm |
Session 2: Consensus Protocols
Chair: TBD
- Gatling: Rapid-Fire Consensus from Parallel Composition
Giulia Scaffino, Max Resnick, Joachim Neu
- The Consensus Number of Untraceable Cryptocurrencies
Christian Cachin, David Lehnherr, Juan Villacis, François-Xavier Wicht
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| 12:25pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch
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| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
Session 3: Proof-of-Stake Protocols
Chair: TBD
- Reserve Depletion and Security Runway in Proof-of-Stake Systems
Paolo Penna, Manvir Schneider
- The Cost of Secure Restaking vs Proof-of-Stake
Akaki Mamageishvili, Benny Sudakov
- StakeNote: A Proof-of-Stake Protocol for CryptoNote Payments
Bernardo David, Dimitris Karakostas
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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: TBD
- Approximation and Hardness Results for the Parallel-Block Construction Problem
Arivarasan Karmegam, Alexandru Popa, Lucianna Kiffer, Antonio Fernández Anta
- Not All Reads Are Conflicts: A Write-Only Analysis of the Sui Blockchain
Haygen Tsoi, Alberto Sonnino, Philipp Jovanovic
- SAMM: Sharded Automated Market Maker
Hongyin Chen, Amit Vaisman, Ittay Eyal
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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: TBD
- Defensive Rebalancing in Networks of Automated Market Makers
Sam Devorsetz, Maurice Herlihy
- Multi-Currency AMMs for Decentralized FOREX Markets: Feasibility and Optimal Design
Reina Ke Xin Li, Andreas Park, Andreas Veneris, Srisht Fateh Singh
- Uniform-Loss Automated Market Making for Prediction Markets
Ciamac C. Moallemi, Dan Robinson, Brian Zhu
- ParlayMarket: Automated Market Making for Parlay-Style Joint Contracts
Ranvir Rana, Viraj Nadkarni, Niusha Moshrefi, Pramod Viswanath
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Refreshments
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| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
Session 6: Mechanism Design
Chair: TBD
- On Sybil-Proof Mechanisms
Minghao Pan, Bruno Mazorra, Christoph Schlegel, Akaki Mamageishvili
- Belief-Aware Pivotal Mechanism for DAO Committees
Nuno Braz, Diogo Poças, Miguel Correia
- Credible Auctions via MPC Gadgets: Bounding Information Leakage Under Abort
Matheus V. X. Ferreira
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Session 7: Auctions for Transaction Ordering
Chair: TBD
- Competing Auctions in Intermediated Markets
Bruno Mazorra, Minghao Pan, Christoph Schlegel
- Just-in-Time Resale in an Ahead-of-Time Auction for Faster Execution
Burak Öz, Akaki Mamageishvili, Christoph Schlegel, Ali Taslimi
- Towards Decentralized Searcher Competition in MEV Markets
Roozbeh Sarenche, Yunwen Liu
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| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Refreshments
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| 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Session 8: MEV Incentives and Countermeasures
Chair: TBD
- SoK: Encrypted Mempools Through the MEV Lens
Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach
- RANDAO Manipulation in the Presence of MEV
Kaya Alpturer, Nicholas Hope, S. Matthew Weinberg
- To Wait or To Probe: Arbitrage Competition on High-Throughput Blockchains
Fei Wu, Burak Öz
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| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Rump session
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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: TBD
- The Price of Decentralization in Block Building
Burak Öz, Fei Wu, Luis Correia, Sen Yang, Bruno Mazorra, Stefanos Leonardos
- Price of Censorship: Censorship Resistance and Throughput under Rational Concurrent Proposers
Aditya Saraf, Ioannis Kaklamanis, Sarisht Wadhwa, Fatima Elsheimy
- The Execution Dilemma in Pessimistic Blockchains: Profitability XOR Fair Ordering
Artjom Pugatsov, Can Umut Ileri, Jérémie Decouchant
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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: TBD
- Inside Qubic's Selfish Mining Campaign on Monero: Evidence, Tactics, and Limits
Suhyeon Lee, Hyeongyeong Kim
- When Does Being Selfish Pay Off? Temporal Composability and Profitability in Selfish Mining
Colin Finkbeiner, Connor Shaw, Ghada Almashaqbeh
- Optimal Reward Allocation via Proportional Splitting
Lukas Aumayr, Zeta Avarikioti, Dimitris Karakostas, Karl Kreder, Shreekara Shastry
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Session 11: Detecting Adversarial Behavior
Chair: TBD
- Friend or Foe? Anomalous Peers in Monero's P2P Network
Yannik Kopyciok, Stefan Schmid, Friedhelm Victor
- Who Plays to Earn? Detecting Bots in Web3 Games via On-Chain Transactions Analysis
Woncheol Jeong, Sohee Choi, Jiwon Yoon
- Pre-Model Representation Failures in GNN-Based Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection
Birindwa Prisca Hondi, Chinonso Philip Nwishienyi, Charity Wanja Mwaura, Alia Teto, Jema David Ndibwile
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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: TBD
- EVM Workloads in the Wild: Evidence for Multi-Dimensional Gas Metering, State Growth, Delayed Execution, and Parallelism
Lioba Heimbach, Kushal Babel, Jason Milionis
- Price Elasticity of Gas Demand on L1 and L2: Evidence from Ethereum and Arbitrum
Pranay Anchuri, Akaki Mamageishvili
- Who Loses and Why? Market Microstructure of Perpetual Futures
Ruizhe Jia,
Ciamac Moallemi,
Shouqiao Wang,
Xinmeng Zeng
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| 3:00pm - 3:15pm |
Closing remarks
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