CryptoEconomics Security Conference (CESC) is the leading venue showcasing the latest developments in academic and commercial research related to the economic security aspects of blockchain protocols, including game theory, incentive design, mechanism design and market design along with other topics related to crypto-economics security in premissionless peer-to-peer protocols.

Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation.

Proceedings will not be published.





Schedule

Submission deadline: June 7, 2020 (Closed)



Author notification: July 1, 2020

Conference: July 9, 2020

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

Distributed Systems Architecture & Cryptography

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) & Long-Term Financial Stability

Cryptocurrencies & the Velocity of Money

New Types of Legal and Economic Institutions

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Risks

Cryptocurrency Credit Markets

Political Economy of Blockchain Governance

Cryptoeconomic Traffic Analysis of Networks

Blockchains and Blockchain Technologies

Threat Models and Attacks

Network Security and Network Attacks

Sharding, State Channels & Other Scalability Solutions

Game Theory

Incentive, Mechanism and/or Market Design

Consensus Mechanisms



Stablecoins

Token Engineering



Network Effects

Security Analysis of Operational Systems

Anonymity and Privacy

Proof-of-Work, -Stake, -Burn, and Alternatives

User Studies

Technical Repercussions of Economic, Legal, Ethical, Regulatory, and Societal Aspects

Case studies (e.g., of Adoption, Attacks, Forks, Scams, etc.)





Instructions for Paper Submission

All submissions are required to be original work; submitters must clearly document overlap from previously published work and/or simultaneously submitted papers from any of the authors. Neglecting to indicate and explain overlap is grounds for rejection. Simultaneous submission of the same paper to another venue with proceedings is acceptable. Please contact the program committee for further clarification or any questions regarding paper submission policy.



Anonymous Submission

All papers must be submitted in a form appropriate for anonymous review. Accordingly, no author names or affiliates should be included on the title page, papers should avoid disclosing their identity in the text. Reference to previous works should be done in the third-person. Only in the rare case that a third-person reference is unfeasible should you blind the reference. Works published as technical reports or in online repositories are not in violation of this policy. Papers that are not appropriately anonymized are subject to rejection without review. Please contact the program committee for further clarification or any questions regarding anonymous submission policy.



Conflict of Interest

Human Subjects and Ethical Considerations

Disclose whether or not research obtained appropriate approval or waiver from each authors’ institutional ethics review board if applicable.

Explain actions that were taken to ensure the ethical and respectful treatment of participants and anyone else who may have been affected by an experiment.

Page Limit and Formatting

During the submission process, information regarding conflicts of interest of the paper’s authors with program committee members will be requested. It is the sole responsibility of all authors of a paper to disclose any and only their potential conflicts of interest with program committee members.Any submissions that describe experiments conducted on human subjects, that analyze data obtained from human subjects, or in any way put human subjects at risk or impact a human's financial situation in existing systems are required to do the following:Author’s whose submissions deal with vulnerabilities (i.e., software vulnerabilities in a particular program or design weaknesses in a specific hardware system) must explain in detail actions already taken or planned to be taken to address these vulnerabilities (i.e., disclosing vulnerabilities to the vendors). This also applies to any submissions that deal with personal identifiable information or sensitive data. If a paper raises serious ethical and/or legal concerns, it is subject to rejection on these grounds.Submissions can be full papers, work-in-progress, one-page summaries or presentation slides. Papers for submission may includeof text with unlimited pages for references and appendices.All submissions will be automatically examined for conformance to these requirements. Failure to comply with the formatting requirements and page limits are grounds for immediate rejection.