Overview

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, systemic reward, 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:

• Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
• Behavioural Finance
• Cryptoeconomics
• Tokenomics
• Decentralised Exchanges (DEX)
• Economic and Monetary Aspects of Cryptocurrencies
• Non-Fungible Token (NFTs)
• Digital Asset Management
• Smart Contract Design and Security
• Novel Financial Instruments
• Risk and Resilience in (Decentralized) 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
• 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 Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work that is not currently being reviewed by another conference, workshop, or journal.

We invite submission of posters and full papers. All submissions must use the Ledger LaTeX templates provided here. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process. CfC-SMART24 uses a double-blind review process; author names and affiliations should not appear in the submission and authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities or institutional affiliation. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be rejected without review.

For poster submissions, extended abstracts should be limited to no more than 2 pages and should include at least one figure. Full papers may include up to 8 pages, excluding references and appendices. Appendices will not be considered as part of the review process.

Please submit all manuscripts through the EasyChair portal.

Conflict of Interest

Authors and Programme Committee members are required to indicate any possible conflict of interest. Potential conflicts of interest include:

• Advisor-advisee relationships, at any time;
• Professional collaborations, employer/employee relationships, or co-authorship within the past 5 years;
• Current institutional conflicts;
• or close personal relationships.

For accepted manuscripts, at least one author must attend. For questions about content, formatting, or submission details, please contact the organising committee at shengnan.li@uzh.ch.

Publication

All accepted submissions may be published in post-conference proceedings.

• Proceedings will be made available via arXiv.
• Accepted papers that appear in the proceedings will be indexed via DBLP.
• Selected full papers may be invited for submission to a special issue of the Ledger Journal.