Columbia CryptoEconomics Workshop 2025 (CCE'25)
Economics and incentives are a critical part of the design of modern layer-1 blockchain protocols such as Ethereum. For example, scarce resources like blockspace require careful pricing. Block rewards, transaction fees, and maximal extracted value (MEV) must be shared across the stakeholders in the system, and participants must be incentivized appropriately. Subtle game theory governs the interactions between block builders, block proposers, and end users. Many of these economic and game-theoretic challenges are specific to the blockchain application domain, necessitating new models, new mechanisms, and new analysis frameworks.
This two-day workshop will bring together practitioners, researchers, and academics to discuss challenges, recent progress, and opportunities in the economics of blockchain protocols. The workshop will consist of invited keynote presentations, contributed talks, and panel discussions.
Confirmed Speakers:
Orestis Alpos (Common Prefix)
Ben Berger (Offchain Labs)
Austin Campbell (NYU / Zero Knowledge Consulting)
Andrea Canidio (CoW Protocol)
Panos Chatzigiannis (Visa Research)
Lioba Heimbach (Category Labs)
David Hoffman (Bankless)
Kamilla Kara (Aarhus University)
Cole Kennelly (Volmex Labs)
Kshitij Kulkarni (Succinct)
Andy Lewis-Pye (London School of Economics)
Thomas Li (Courant Institute)
Akaki Mamageishvili (Offchain Labs)
Mike Neuder (Princeton University)
Noam Nisan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Starkware)
Mallesh Pai (Rice University/Tempo)
Tim Roughgarden (Columbia Engineering/a16z crypto)
Joshua Rudolf (Ethereum Foundation)
Alexander Shamis (Subzero Labs)
Clara Shikhelman (Chaincode Labs)
Maria Inês Silva (Ethereum Foundation)
Srivatsan Sridhar (Stanford)
Sarisht Wadhwa (Duke University)
Kyriaki Zioga (Archimedes Research Unit)
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Columbia-Ethereum Research Center on Blockchain Protocol Design
Briger Family Digital Finance Lab at Columbia Business School
Organizers:
Justin Drake (Ethereum Foundation)
Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia Business School/Paradigm)
Barnabé Monnot (Ethereum Foundation)
Mike Neuder (Princeton University)
Tim Roughgarden (Columbia Engineering/a16z crypto)
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"Becoming Immutable: How Ethereum is Made" by Andrea Canidio, CoW Protocol
"TimeBoost: Do Ahead-in-Time Auctions Work?" by Akaki Mamageishvili, Offchain Labs
"Perils of Parallelism: TFMs under Execution Uncertainty" by Sarisht Wadhwa, Duke University
"Sealed-bid on-chain auctions with bid-hiding, censorship-resistance, and participation-efficiency guarantees" by Orestis Alpos, Common Prefix
 "One-dimensional vs. Multi-dimensional Pricing in Blockchain Protocols" by Kyriaki Zioga, Archimedes Research Unit
"The Evolution of Onchain Derivatives" by Cole Kennelly, Volmex Labs
"Bribers, Bribers on The Chain, Is Resisting All in Vain? Trustless Consensus Manipulation Through Bribing Contracts" by Kamilla Kara, Eotvos Lorand University Budapest
"TEE^{BFT}: Pricing the Security of Proof of Cloud" by Alexander Shamis, Subzero Labs
"Can Bitcoin Survive Quantum Computing? An Analysis and Playbook" by Clara Shikhelman, Chaincode Labs
"Implied Impermanent Loss: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Decentralized Liquidity Pools" by Thomas Li, Courant Institute
"LifeXP: Secure, usable and reliable key recovery for Web3 applications" by Panos Chatzigiannis, Visa Research
The Forum, located on the corner of 125th Street and Broadway, is a unique community gathering space that serves as the gateway to Columbia University's developing Manhattanville campus.
Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty, staff, and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the University to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Ethereum and related technologies. The EF is not a company, or even a traditional non-profit. Their role is not to control or lead Ethereum, nor are they the only organization that funds critical development of Ethereum-related technologies. The EF is one part of a much larger ecosystem.
