The 6th Workshop on
Coordination of Decentralized Finance
(CoDecFin) 2025

In Association with Financial Cryptography 2025

April 18, 2025

Hotel Shigira Mirage
Miyakojima, Japan

Date and Venue

  • Date: April 18, 2025
  • Venue: Hotel Shigira Mirage, Miyakojima, Japan

Call for papers/contributions

We call for papers/contributions on technology and operational issues related to Energy Consumption and Consensus Algorithm with specifying 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 the submission site.

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
  • Non Fungible Token ands Soul Bounded Tokens
  • Application of PETS (ZKP and MPC) to blockchain
  • Standardization and R&D direction of Digital Asset and CDBC
  • Preventing the use of crypto-assets to ransomware attack
  • Scaling Cryptocurrency and Regulatory Challenges, and mainstream adoption
  • Common understandings on "Regulatory Goals"
  • FATF: AML and privacy
  • Security of exchanges and decentralized financeFi protocols
  • Regulatory challenges of decentralized finance protocols
  • Risk and resilience in cryptocurrency financial systems
  • Harmonization of automated systems, human intervention and regulation
  • Standards: Technical, Regulatory
  • Regulation of exchanges and consumer protection
  • Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
  • Interoperability among existing financial infrastructure, permissionless ledgers and CBDCs
  • Governance of protocols, implementations, DEXs & DAOs
  • Wallet governance
  • Energy consumption and environmental impact of consensus algorithms
  • Relationship between consensus algorithms and nature as securities
  • Cyber security framework for blockchain ecosystem

Key Dates

  • Submission Due Date: December 31, 2024
  • Notification: January 31, 2025
  • Workshop: April 18, 2025

Organizing and Program Committees (Alphabetical Order)

Program Co-chairs

  • Kanta Matsuura, The University of Tokyo
  • Jarek Nebrzyski, University of Notre Dame

Program Committee

  • Julien Bringer, Kallistech
  • Feng Chen, University of British Columbia
  • Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis
  • Byron Gibson, Program Manager at Stanford Center for Blockchain Research
  • Steven Nam, Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy
  • Michele Benedetto Neitz, Golden Gate University
  • Roman Danziger Pavlov, SafeStead Inc.
  • Robert Schwentker, DLT Education and BSafe.network
  • Yonatan Sompolinsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, DAGlabs
  • Ryosuke Ushida, JFSA
  • Robert Wardrop, University of Cambridge Judge Business School
  • Aaron Wright, Cardozo Law School
  • Anton Yemelyanov, Base58 Association

Genral Chair

  • Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Virginia Tech / Georgetown University