| Bernhard Haslhofer (Complexity Science Hub), Rainer Böhme (University of Innsbruck), Lucianna Kiffer (ETH Zürich)
| 09:15 - 10:30 | Session 1: Consensus | | Chair: tbd
- 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)
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Refreshments |
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| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 2: Auditing | | Chair: tbd
- 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), Akis 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)
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
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| 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)
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Refreshments |
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| 15:30 - 16:30 | Session 4: Payment Channels | | Chair: tbd
- 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)
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| 16:30 - 17:30 | Business Meeting |
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| Guided Tour |
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| Tuesday, September 24 |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session 5: Cryptographic Building Blocks | | Chair: tbd
- 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)
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Refreshments |
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| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 6: Mechanisms | | Chair: tbd
- 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)
- Design of Exit Queues for (Re-)Staking
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)
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
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| 14:00 - 15:00 | Session 7: Measurements | | Chair: tbd
- 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)
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Refreshments |
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| 15:30 - 16:30 | Session 8: Finance | | Chair: tbd
- 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)
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| 16:30 - 17:30 | Rump Session |
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| Social Dinner |
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| Wednesday, September 25 |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome to the Economics of Payments XIII Participants |
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| 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)
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Refreshments |
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| 11:00 - 12:00 | Session 10: Keynote | | Speaker: Neha Narula (MIT Digital Currency Initiative) |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Economics of Payments Registration + Lunch |
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| 13:00 - 13:15 | Opening Remarks | | Martin Summer (Oesterreichische Nationalbank) |
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| 13:15 - 14:00 | Economics of Payments Keynote | | Speaker: Charles W. Kahn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
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| 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 W. Kahn
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Neha Narula
MIT Digital Currency Initiative
- Natasha de Terán
Author, Research Fellow at Warwick Business School
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Refreshments |
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| 16:00 - 17:20 | Economics of Payments Session 1 | | |
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| 12:20 - 18:30 | Conference Break |
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| 18:30 - 21:00 | Reception and Joint Poster Session of AFT and Economics of Payments |
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| Thursday, September 26 |
| Morning | Workshop on Scalability & Interoperability of Blockchains (SIB) |
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| Afternoon | Workshop on Decentralized Financial Stability (DFS) |
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