Call for Papers: Crypto Asset Lab Conference 2025

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We are pleased to invite you to the 5th CryptoAsset Lab Conference (CAL2025) to be held on 16-17 January 2025 at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
The CryptoAsset Lab Conference is a joint research initiative by the Department of Management and Law-University of Milan-Bicocca, the Digital Gold Institute and the JRC-European Commission.

This conference brings together an international group of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the latest advances, challenges, and opportunities in crypto-assets and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

The event is the 5th edition of the CAL conference, please check our website for information about previous events: cryptoassetlab.org. The conference provides a forum for presenting new ideas and discussing the future direction of the crypto-asset ecosystem and we look forward to welcoming you into our interdisciplinary community of crypto-assets scholars.

We invite submissions on a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, the following macro themes:


Alternative and decentralised finance

o The accounting treatment of crypto-assets
o The use of crypto-assets in capital raise
o Security and utility tokens
o Balance sheet effect and liquidity implications on financial institutions
o DAOs: accountability and governance
o Non-fungible tokens (NFT)
o Web3 Investment Products & Ecosystem Growth
o Risk management frameworks and practice for crypto-assets, stablecoins, and CBDCs
o Alternative and decentralized corporate finance
o Big data in DeFi
o Opportunities for SMEs and startups


Central Bank Digital Currencies and stablecoins

o Regulatory approaches for crypto-assets and CBDCs
o The impact of crypto-assets and CBDCs for cross-border payments and settlement
o Monetary policy implications of crypto-assets and CBDCs
o Online/offline uses of stablecoins and CBDCs
o The accounting treatment of crypto-assets and CBDCs
o Digital Asset Settlement, Clearing and Payments


Defi regulation, environmental, social, and governance impact

o RegTech for crypto-asset supervision
o Crypto-asset service providers: regulation and management
o Legal, ethical, and societal, environmental aspects of decentralised finance
o Decentralized exchanges (DEX) vs Centralized Exchanges 

o Environmental sustainability of crypto-assets and their markets
o Financial stability and crypto-assets

Security, Privacy, and Monitoring

o Security and privacy challenges
o Forensics and monitoring
o Media attention to Defi


Technologies and Protocols of Crypto-Assets

o The Bitcoin protocol and extensions
o Proof-of-work, -stake, -burn, -authority
o Distributed consensus protocols
o Smart contracts and distributed ledgers
o Permissioned and permissionless distributed ledgers
o Economics and/or game theoretic analysis of crypto-asset protocols
o Second layer application
o Artificial Intelligence in crypto-assets
o Blockchain in Global Finance
o Efficiency issues of crypto-assets

 

Paper Submission


Authors are invited to submit their papers in English no later than November 15, 2024 to papers@cryptoassetlab.org. For PhD students, please indicate your student status when submitting the paper. Accepted papers will be notified by December 2, 2024. A special session of the Conference will be dedicated to their presentations. For general information, please contact info@cryptoassetlab.org.


Registration deadlines and fees


The deadline to register is 20 th December 2024. To attend the conference (in person or remotely), get your ticket from Eventbrite

Prices are:
● PhD students: €75
● General – in person- admission: €150
● General – remotely- admission: €90


Our Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion


To facilitate the attendance of colleagues with limited possibilities to join us in person, the CAL Conference has adopted a hybrid mode since 2020. If you wish to join virtually, please indicate so during the submission process.

 

Conference Organizing Committee

Program Chairs
o Ferdinando Ametrano, Digital Gold Institute and UniversitĂ  Milano-Bicocca
o Paola A. Bongini, UniversitĂ  Milano-Bicocca
General Chair
o Concetta Ingrassia, Digital Gold Institute
o Francesca Mattassoglio, UniversitĂ  Milano-Bicocca
Program Committee
o Lucia Alessi - DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission
o Filippo Annunziata - UniversitĂ  Bocconi
o Simone Cortese - University of West London
o Luca Fantacci - UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Milano
o Gianna FigĂ -Talamanca - UniversitĂ  di Perugia
o Gianfranco Forte - UniversitĂ  Milano-Bicocca
o Yuliya Guseva - Rutgers Law School
o Daniele Marazzina - Politecnico di Milano
o Edoardo Martino - Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics
o Francesca Mattassoglio - UniversitĂ  Milano-Bicocca
o Paul Momtaz - TUM School of Management
o Paolo Pagnottoni - UniversitĂ  degli Studi dell'Insubria
o Ricardo Pérez-Marco - CNRS, Université de Paris
o Marco Petracco Giudici - DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission
o Gina Pieters - University of Chicago
o Carla Reyes - Southern Methodist University
o Sandra Ro - Global Blockchain Business Council
o Monica Rossolini - UniversitĂ  Milano-Bicocca
o Stefan Scharnowski - University of Mannheim
o Antonella Sciarrone Alibrandi - UniversitĂ  Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
o Maarten van Oordt - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
o Silvio Vismara - UniversitĂ  di Bergamo

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