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Cryptoeconomic Systems Conference '20
March 7-8, 2020 :: MIT
Though it had been less than five months since our October ‘19 Summit, CES was ready to go again with our first peer-reviewed conference event. Cryptoeconomic Systems ‘20 took place in Boston on March 7-8, 2020, and was held in cooperation with USENIX, the advancing computing systems association. We gratefully acknowledge sponsorship from the Web3 Foundation, Calibra (now Novi), and Cooley LLP. Huge additional thanks goes to the MIT Bitcoin Club for hosting us alongside the 7th annual MIT Bitcoin Expo!
One primary goal of CES ‘20, as always, was to complement the technical areas of cryptography, protocol engineering, and distributed systems with insights from the domains of economics, law, complex systems, and philosophy. Ultimately, we hope that Cryptoeconomic Systems is the first step towards crystallizing a mature and communal scholarly ecosystem.
CES ‘20 also served as pioneering experiment into interdisciplinary peer review. Based on the feedback of reviewers and ensuing discussions with the editorial team, we selected 26 papers from 80 submissions for CES ‘20. We employed four outcome types with different pathways to publishing in the journal, ranging from an acceptance into Cryptoeconimc Systems to an invitation to develop the work further and submit as an Essay or Comment.
Accepted papers for Cryptoeconomic Systems ‘20 were presented at the conference, and a small number will appear in Volume 1, Issue 1 of Cryptoeconomic Systems.
Content Chairs & Journal Editors-In-Chief:
Andrew Miller (UIUC / IC3)
Neha Narula (MIT DCI)
General Chair:
Wassim Alsindi (MIT DCI)
Program Committee
Robleh Ali (MIT DCI) | Man Ho Allen Au (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) | Sarah Azouvi (University College London) |
Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University) | Balázs Bodó (University of Amsterdam) | Rainer Böhme (University of Innsbruck) |
Ethan Buchman (Interchain Foundation) | Benedikt Bünz (Stanford University) | Christian Cachin (University of Bern) |
Bram Cohen (Chia) | Philip Daian (Cornell Tech / IC3) | Christian Decker (Blockstream) |
Tadge Dryja (MIT DCI) | Rick Dudley (Vulcanize) | Ittay Eyal (Technion / IC3) |
Cyril Grunspan (De Vinci Research Center) | Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern) | Zhiguo He (Chicago Booth) |
Ethan Heilman (Arwen) | Philipp Jovanovic (EPFL / UCL) | Aniket Kate (Purdue University) |
Summer Kim (University of California, Irvine) | Sarah Jamie Lewis (Open Privacy) | Jacky Mallett (Reykjavik University) |
Patrick McCorry (Pisa Research) | Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory) | Tyler Moore (University of Tulsa) |
Pedro Moreno-Sanchez (TU Vienna) | Patrick Murck (Transparent Systems) | Andrew Poelstra (Blockstream) |
Jason Potts (RMIT) | James Prestwich (Summa) | Lane Rettig (Spacemesh) |
Carla Reyes (Michigan State University) | Dan Robinson (Paradigm) | Tim Ruffing (Blockstream) |
Jeremy Rubin (MIT DCI) | Stefanie Roos (TU Delft) | Thibault Schrepel (Utrecht University) |
Alfred Taudes (WU Vienna) | Madars Virza (MIT DCI) | Angela Walch (St. Mary’s Law, UCL CBT) |
Key Dates:
Submission: November 19, 2019 (CLOSED)
Bidding: November 7 - November 28, 2019
Review: November 15 - January 7, 2020
Discussion: January 8 - January 17, 2020
Author notification: January 18, 2020
Camera Ready Version Due: February 3, 2020
Conference: March 7 & 8, 2020
Introduction from CES Editor-in-Chief and DCI Director, Neha Narula
