The 7th Workshop on
Coordination of Decentralized Finance
(CoDecFin) 2026
In Association with Financial Cryptography 2026
March 6, 2026
St. Kitts Marriott Resort
St. Kitts
Date and Venue
- Date: March 6, 2026
- Venue: St. Kitts Marriott Resort, St. Kitts
Call for papers/contributions
We call for papers on technology and operational issues related to decentralized finance and permissionless blockchain, and future directions to solve these issues, specifying the background the author(s) have.
(i) regular papers (15 pages LNCS format excluding references and appendices)
(ii) short papers (8 pages LNCS format in total)
Submission process is conducted by using EasyChair. [Link to submisison page]
The review process is "double-blind" review. Plesae don't include author names, and affliations.
Topics of papers/presentations include, but are not limited to:- Identity, privacy, and key management
- Centralized custody and decentralized custody
- Post Quantum Cryptography Migration
- Cyber Security and Information Sharing
- Governance of Security Supply Chain
- Governance sustainability (e.g. vs censorship resistance)
- Application of PETS (ZKP and MPC) to blockchain
- Privacy Enhanced Authentication
- Forensics and On-chain Analysis
- Illicit Activities
- Maturity definitions and assessment criteria
- Standardization and R&D direction of Digital Asset, stable coins and CDBC
- Preventing the use of crypto-assets in ransomware attacks
- Scaling Cryptocurrency and Regulatory Challenges, and mainstream adoption
- Common understandings of "Regulatory Goals"
- FATF: AML and privacy
- Security of exchanges and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols
- Regulatory challenges of decentralized finance protocols
- Risk and resilience in cryptocurrency financial systems
- Harmonization of automated systems, human intervention, and regulation
- Non-Fungible Tokens and Soul-Bounded Tokens
- Standards: Technical, Regulatory
- Regulation of exchanges and consumer protection
- Interoperability among existing financial infrastructure, permissionless ledger,s and CBDCs
- Governance of protocols, implementations, DEXs & DAOs
- Wallet governance
- Energy consumption and environmental impact of consensus algorithms
Key Dates
- Submission Due Date: December 31, 2025 (Extended from December 20, 2025)
- Notification: January 26, 2026
- Workshop: March 6, 2026
Organizing and Program Committees (Alphabetical Order)
Program Co-chairs
- Jarek Nebrzyski, University of Notre Dame
- TBA
Program Committee
- James Anegel, Georgetown University
- Julien Bringer, Kallistech
- Eric Burger, Virginia Tech
- Chen Feng, University of British Columbia
- Victor Garcia, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
- Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis
- Carole House, Georgetown University, and the chair of the technology advisory group at CFTC
- Mario Larangeira, IOHK
- Kanta Matsuura, The University of Tokyo
- Michele Benedetto Neitz, Golden Gate University
- Takaya Sugino, JFSA
- Owen Vaughan, nChain
- Robert Wardrop, University of Cambridge Judge Business School
- More PC members to be announced
General Chair
- Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Virginia Tech / Georgetown University