January 12, 2024, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Organised by the UZH Blockchain Center
Important Dates
The CfC St. Moritz Academic Research Track will be co-located with the 6th Crypto Finance Conference and will take place on January 12, 2024, at the Suvretta House in St. Moritz, Switzerland
Extended Deadline: 24.11.23
Author Notification: 15.12.23
Camera-ready: 05.01.24
Programme
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the authors and co-authors for their valuable submissions, which have significantly contributed to the success of this conference.
| Sr No. | Topic | Speaker(s) |
| 1. | Keynote 1 | Lin William Cong |
| 2. | Contributed Talk 1 Leveraging Social Media Sentiments and Ethical Signals for NFT Valuation | Luyao Zhang, Yutong Sun, Yutong Quan, Jiaxun Cao, Kyrie Zhou and Xin Tong |
| 3. | Contributed Talk 2 Shared Sequencing and Latency Competition as a Noisy Contest | Akaki Mamageishvili and Jan Christoph Schlegel |
| 4. | Contributed Talk 3 Identifying Arbitrage Paths and Loops on Decentralized Exchanges | Yu Zhang, Tao Yan, Jianhong Lin, Benjamin Kraner and Claudio Tessone |
| 6. | Keynote 2 | Leemon Baird |
| 7. | Contributed Talk 4 Impermanent Loss Conditions: An Analysis of Decentralized Exchange Platforms | Matthias Hafner and Helmut Dietl |
| 8. | Contributed Talk 5 Cross-border Exchange of CBDCs using Layer-2 Blockchain | Krzysztof Gogol, Johnnatan Messias, Malte Schlosser, Benjamin Kraner and Claudio Tessone |
| 9. | Contributed Talk 6 Market Neutral Liquidity Provision | Basile Maire Marcus Wunsch |
| 10. | Poster 1 Blockchain Effect in Public Services: The Risk-benefit Analysis in Terms of Land Registries | Ipek Atac |
| 11. | Poster 2 Deep Learning-Based Multimodal Forecasting for Cryptocurrency Trends | Yihang Fu, Mingyu Zhou and Luyao Zhang |
| 12. | Poster 3 Transforming Healthcare Information Systems through the Integration of Blockchain | Dongfang Wu, Chenkai Wu and Luyao Zhang |
| 13. | Poster 4 The Impact of Incidents on Crypto Markets: An Analysis of CeFi and DeFi Trust Mechanism | Xintong Wu, Yutong Quan, Wanlin Deng and Luyao Zhang |
| 14. | Poster 5 Switzerland Towards a Leading Power Promoting Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Interoperability | Carlos Alberto Durigan Junior, Claudio Juan Tessone and Fernando José Barbin Laurindo |
| 15. | Poster 6 DeFi Yield Curve and Interest Rate Swaps: A Pricing Model and Bootstrapping Strategy | Mauricio Hernandes and Iain Clark |
| 16. | Poster 7 Towards a Blockchain-based Ecosystem for Museums | Yunxiu Zhou and Claudio Tessone |
| 17. | Poster 8 Early Detection of Scam Cryptocurrencies With AI | Gleb Kurovskiy and Natalia Rostova |
| 18. | Poster 9 The Involvement of Contributors in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) Governance | Stefan Kitzler, Stefano Balietti, Pietro Saggese, Bernhard Haslhofer and Markus Strohmaier |
| 19. | Poster 10 Uniswap Daily Transactions Indices by Network | Nir Chemaya, Lin William Cong, Emma Jorgensen, Dingyue Liu and Luyao Zhang |
| 20. | Poster 11 An Economic Framework to Evaluate AMM Designs | Davide Crapis and Julian Ma |
| 21. | Poster 12 A Decentralized Identity Bridge for Usable Blockchain-backed Self-Sovereign Identity | Felix Hoops and Florian Matthes |
| 22. | Poster 13 Incentive Non-Compatibility of Optimistic Rollups | Daji Landis |
| 23. | Poster 14 Designing a Blockchain-based Data Market and Data Pricing | Ingrid Bauer-Hänsel, Qianyu Liu, Claudio J. Tessone and Gerhard Schwabe |
| 24. | Poster 15 Analysing Reward Dynamics and Decentralisation in Ethereum 2.0 | Tao Yan, Sheng-Nan Li, Benjamin Kraner, Luyao Zhang and Claudio J. Tessone |
| 25. | Poster 16 Enforcement of Royalties and Information Production in the NFT Market | Natalia Rostova, Alexey Khazanov and Gleb Kurovskiy |
| 26. | Poster 17 Token-Incentivized Participatory Sensing with DePIN | Michael Chiu, Mahajan Sachit, Mark C. Ballandies and Uros Kalabic |
| 27. | Poster 18 Proof-of-Stake Protocols Modelling: An Extensible Framework for Incentives Design | Sheng-Nan Li, Jiahua Xu, Paolo Tasca and Claudio J. Tessone |
| 28. | Poster 19 Divide et conquera: Winning the reward pot of storage incentives | Vahid Heidaripour Lakhani, Kristian Horve Tjessem, Vero Estrada-Galiñanes and Leander Jehl |
| 29. | Poster 20 System Architecture of Liquid Staking Protocols | Krzysztof Gogol, Yaron Velner and Claudio Tessone |
| 30. | Poster 21 Detecting Arbitrages on a First-Come-First-Served Blockchain | Burak Öz, Jonas Gebele and Florian Matthes |
| 31. | Invited Talk 1 Using the Blockchain for Financial Inclusion: Pensions for the Poor | Thorsten Hens |
| 32. | Contributed Talk 7 The Economics of Blockchain Governance: Evaluate Liquid Democracy on the Internet Computer | Yulin Liu and Luyao Zhang |
| 33. | Contributed Talk 8 Do you need a Zero Knowledge Proof? | Jens Ernstberger, Stefanos Chaliasos, Liyi Zhou, Philipp Jovanovic and Arthur Gervais |
| 34. | Invited Talk 2 Regulation of cryptoassets in a Decentralized Environment | Rolf Weber |
Call for Papers
Join us at the CfC St. Moritz Academic Research Track (CfC-SMART24) to explore the challenges, opportunities, and governance of Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and Blockchain ecosystems. This exclusive conference brings together influential opinion leaders, investors, and experts from the traditional finance sector and the crypto industry. We seek original research contributions on topics such as decentralised finance, regulation, risk management, governance mechanisms, and economic incentives within blockchain protocols. The accepted papers will be presented at the conference, providing a unique opportunity to engage with industry leaders and policymakers. Submit your extended abstracts or full papers to be part of this prestigious event shaping the future of finance.
CfC-SMART24 is calling for submissions in the following areas of interest:
- Decentralized finance (DeFi)
- Behavioural finance
- Cryptoeconomics
- Tokenomics
- Economic and monetary aspects of cryptocurrencies
- Non Fungible Tokens
- Novel financial Instruments
- Smart contracts design and security
- Risk and resilience in (Decentralised) financial systems
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
- Fraud detection
- Risk management
- Consensus Protocols
- Blockchain protocols, Proof-of-Work, -Stake, – Authority
- Empirical studies
- AI/ML Application to DeFi
- Digital asset management
- Maximum Extractable Value (MEV)
Other topics in distributed ledger technologies in the spirit of the above will also be considered. Authors are invited to submit submissions describing original, previously unpublished work that is not currently being reviewed by another conference, workshop, or journal.
Keynote Speakers
Conference Organisation
Conference Chairs
- Claudio J. Tessone, University of Zurich
- Thomas Moser, Swiss National Bank
Steering Committee
- Alfred Taudes, Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Pinar Çağlayan Aksoy, Bilkent University
- Fabian Schär, University of Basel
Organising Committee
- Nicolo Stöhr, CfC St. Moritz
- Benjamin Kraner, University of Zurich
- Ece Su Ustun, University of Zurich
Programme Committee
- Shengnan-Li, University of Zurich (Chair)
- Bernhard Haslhofer, Complexity Science Hub Vienna (Co-Chair)
- Nicolò Vallarano, University of Zurich
- Carlo Campajola, University College London
- Matija Piškorec, Rudjer Bošković Institute
- Paolo Tasca, University College London
- Co-Pierre Georg, University of Cape Town
- Burak Öz, Technische Universität München
- Krzysztof Gogol, University of Zurich
- Luyao Zhang, Duke Kunshan University
- Florian Spychiger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Jiahua Xu, University College London
- Pietro Saggese, Complexity Science Hub Vienna
- Krzysztof Paruch, Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Egemen Eren, Bank of International Settlement (BIS)
- André Janssen, Radboud University
- Nilay Dayanc Kuzeyli, New York University
- Lokke Moerel, Tilburg University
- Peter Mezei, University of Szeged
- Marta Infantino, University of Trieste
- Christoph Siebenbrunner, Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Prof. Mateja Durovic, King’s College London
See you next time!!