Program

Last update: September 22nd, 2024. The program for the Economics of Payments XIII conference is here.

Sunday, September 22
18:00 - 20:00	Registration + Icebreaker Reception
	Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna

Monday, September 23
08:30 - 09:00	Registration + Setup

09:00 - 09:15	Opening Remarks
	Bernhard Haslhofer (Complexity Science Hub), Rainer Böhme (University of Innsbruck), Lucianna Kiffer (IMDEA Networks)
09:15 - 10:30	Session 1: Consensus
	Chair: Lucianna Kiffer (IMDEA Networks) Accountable Secret Leader Election Miranda Christ (Columbia University), Walter McKelvie (Columbia University), Kevin Choi (New York University), Joseph Bonneau (New York University, a16z Crypto), Tal Malkin (Columbia University) BoLD: Fast and Cheap Dispute Resolution Mario M. Alvarez et al. (Offchain Labs, Inc.) CFT-Forensics: High-Performance Byzantine Accountability for Crash Fault Tolerant Protocols Weizhao Tang (Carnegie Mellon University), Peiyao Sheng (Princeton University), Ronghao Ni (Carnegie Mellon University), Pronoy Roy (Carnegie Mellon University), Xuechao Wang (HKUST), Giulia Fanti (Carnegie Mellon University), Pramod Viswanath (Princeton University)

10:30 - 11:00	Refreshments

11:00 - 12:30	Session 2: Auditing
	Chair: Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University) Cross Ledger Transaction Consistency for Financial Auditing Vlasis Koutsos (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) , Xiangan Tian (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Dimitrios Papadopoulos (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Dimitris Chatzopoulos (UC Dublin) Proof of Diligence: Cryptoeconomic Security for Rollups Peiyao Sheng (Witness Chain), Ranvir Rana (Witness Chain), Senthil Bala (Witness Chain), Himanshu Tyagi (Witness Chain), Pramod Viswanath (Witness Chain) Analyzing and Benchmarking ZK-Rollups Stefanos Chaliasos (Imperial College London), Itamar Reif (Astria), Adria Torralba-Agell (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Jens Ernstberger (TU München), Assimakis Kattis, Benjamin Livshits (Imperial College London) DeFiAligner : Leveraging Symbolic Analysis and Large Language Models for Inconsistency Detection in Decentralized Finance Rundong Gan (University of Guelph), Liyi Zhou (University of Sydney), Le Wang (University of Guelph), Kaihua Qin (Yale University), Xiaodong Lin (University of Guelph)

12:30 - 14:00	Lunch

14:00 - 15:00	Session 3: Blockchain Foundations
	Chair: Christian Cachin (University of Bern) A Circuit Approach to Constructing Blockchains on Blockchains Ertem Nusret Tas (Stanford University), David Tse (Stanford University), Yifei Wang (Stanford University) Blockchain Space Tokenization Giorgos Panagiotakos (IOG), Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh), Elias Koutsoupias (University of Oxford), Philip Lazos (Jump Trading) Optimal RANDAO Manipulation in Ethereum Kaya Alpturer (Princeton University), S. Matthew Weinberg (Princeton University)

15:00 - 15:30	Refreshments

15:30 - 16:30	Session 4: Payment Channels
	Chair: Joseph Bonneau (New York University) Bribe & Fork: Cheap PCN Bribing Attacks via Forking Threat Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien, Common Prefix), Pawel Kedzior (University of Warsaw), Tomasz Lizurej (University of Warsaw), Tomasz Michalak (University of Warsaw, IDEAS NCBR) Payment Censorship in the Lightning Network Despite Encrypted Communication Charmaine Ndolo (TU Dresden), Florian Tschorsch (TU Dresden) Musketeer: Incentive-Compatible Rebalancing for Payment Channel Networks Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien), Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin), Samarth Tiwari (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam)

17:00 - 18:30	Business Meeting (internal)
	Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna

18:00 - 20:00	Guided Tour

Tuesday, September 24
09:00 - 10:30	Session 5: Cryptographic Building Blocks
	Chair: Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien) Systematization of Knowledge: Zero-Knowledge Range Proofs Miranda Christ (Columbia University), Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University, Mysten Labs), Konstantinos Kryptos Chalkias (Mysten Labs), Deepak Maram (Mysten Labs), Arnab Roy (Mysten Labs), Joy Wang (Mysten Labs) Privacy Comparison for Bitcoin Light Client Implementations Arad Kotzer (Technion), Ori Rottenstreich (Technion) CrudiTEE: A Stick-and-Carrot Approach to Building Trustworthy Cryptocurrency Wallets with TEEs Lulu Zhou (Yale University), Zeyu Liu (Yale University), Fan Zhang (Yale University), Michael K. Reiter (Duke University) Cornucopia: Distributed Randomness Beacons at Scale Miranda Christ (Columbia University), Kevin Choi (New York University), Joseph Bonneau (New York University, a16z Crypto)

10:30 - 11:00	Refreshments

11:00 - 12:30	Session 6: Mechanisms
	Chair: David Tse (Stanford University) Loss-Versus-Fair: Efficiency of Dutch Auctions on Blockchains Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia University), Dan Robinson (Paradigm) Credible, Optimal Auctions via Public Broadcast Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet), Matheus Ferreira (Harvard University), Kshitij Kulkarni (University of California, Berkeley) Optimizing Exit Queues for Proof-Of-Stake Blockchains: A Mechanism Design Approach Michael Neuder (Ethereum Foundation), Mallesh Pai (Consensys Inc, Rice University), Max Resnick (Consensys Inc) Searcher Competition in Block Building Akaki Mamageishvili (Offchain Labs), Jan Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Benny Sudakov (ETH Zürich)

12:30 - 14:00	Lunch

14:00 - 15:00	Session 7: Measurements
	Chair: Bernhard Haslhofer (Complexity Science Hub) Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auctions and Why? Burak Öz (TU München), Danning Sui (Flashbots), Thomas Thiery (Ethereum Foundation), Florian Matthes (TU München) A Shortfall in Investor Expectations of Leveraged Tokens Mohammadreza Rahimian (Concordia University), Jeremy Clark (Concordia University) Investigating Wrench Attacks: Physical Attacks Targeting Cryptocurrency Users Marilyne Ordekian (University College London), Gilberto Atondo-Siu (University of Cambridge), Alice Hutchings (University of Cambridge), Marie Vasek (University College London)

15:00 - 15:30	Refreshments + Group Picture

15:30 - 16:30	Session 8: Finance
	Chair: Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet) Adaptive Curves for Optimally Efficient Market Making Viraj Nadkarni (Princeton University), Sanjeev R. Kulkarni (Princeton University), Pramod Viswanath (Princeton University) Competitive Policies for Online Collateral Maintenance Ghada Almashaqbeh (University of Connecticut), Sixia Chen (Adelphi University), Alexander Russell (University of Connecticut) Thinking Fast and Slow: Data-Driven Adaptive DeFi Borrow-Lending Market Mahsa Bastankhah (Princeton University), Viraj Nadkarni (Princeton University), Chi Jin (Princeton University), Sanjeev R. Kulkarni (Princeton University), Pramod Viswanath (Princeton University)

16:30 - 17:30	Rump Session
	Chair: Christos Makridis (Send slides to cmakridi@stanford.edu)

19:00 - 23:00	Social Dinner
	Vienna Ballhaus, Berggasse 5, 1090 Wien

Wednesday, September 25
09:00 - 09:15	Welcome to the Economics of Payments XIII Participants

09:15 - 10:30	Session 9: Securing Decentralized Systems (joint session with the Economics of Payments XIII conference)
	Chair: Rainer Böhme (University of Innsbruck) Systematization of Knowledge: Attacks on DAOs Rainer Feichtinger (ETH Zürich), Robin Fritsch (ETH Zürich), Lioba Heimbach (ETH Zürich), Yann Vonlanthen (ETH Zürich), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zürich) Transaction Fee Mechanism Design in a Post-MEV World Maryam Bahrani (a16z Crypto), Pranav Garimidi (a16z Crypto), Tim Roughgarden (a16z Crypto, Columbia University) Profitable Manipulations of Cryptographic Self-Selection are Statistically Detectable Linda Cai (Princeton University), Jingyi Liu (Princeton University), Matt Weinberg (Princeton University), Chenghan Zhou (Princeton University)

10:30 - 11:00	Refreshments

11:00 - 12:00	Session 10: Keynote
	Speaker: Neha Narula (MIT Digital Currency Initiative) System Requirements and Designs for Scalable, Private Digital Cash

12:00 - 13:00	Economics of Payments Registration + Lunch

13:00 - 13:15	Opening Remarks
	Martin Summer (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)

13:15 - 14:00	Economics of Payments Keynote
	Speaker: Charles M. Kahn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

14:00 - 15:30	Panel Discussion: Security and Privacy of Payments
	Moderator: Beat Weber (Oesterreichische Nationalbank) Boris Hemkemeier Director Group Cyber Risk and Information Security, COMMERZBANK AG Charles M. Kahn University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Neha Narula MIT Digital Currency Initiative Natasha de Terán Author, Research Fellow at Warwick Business School

15:30 - 16:00	Refreshments

16:00 - 17:20	Economics of Payments Session 1
	The Use of Financial Apps: Privacy Paradox or Privacy Calculus? Nicole Jonker (De Nederlandsche Bank) Discussant: Kim P. Huynh (Bank of Canada) Fraud Across Borders Devesh Raval (Federal Trade Commission) Discussant: Simonetta Rosati (European Central Bank)

17:20 - 18:30	Conference Break

18:30 - 21:00	Reception and Joint Poster Session of AFT and Economics of Payments

Thursday, September 26
09:00 - 16:00	Workshop on Scalability & Interoperability of Blockchains (SIB)

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