Advances in Financial Technologies

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

Blockchains and blockchain technologies

Consensus protocols

Permissioned blockchains

High-performance transaction processing

Centralized and decentralized exchanges

Threat models and attacks

Cryptoassests

Client and network security

Security analysis of operational systems

Custody solutions

Anonymity and privacy

Metrics, measurements, and network forensics

Proof-of-work, -stake, -burn, and alternatives

Smart contracts and applications

Smart contract security: formal analysis, correct by design, security frameworks

Scalability issues and solutions

User studies

Technical repercussions of economic, legal, ethical, regulatory, and societal aspects

Transaction graph analysis

Financial markets

Relationship to traditional payment systems

Fraud detection and financial crime prevention

Case studies (e.g., of adoption, attacks, forks, scams, etc.)

Applications of blockchain and cryptocurrencies

Censorship resistance

Quantum-resistant cryptography, quantum algorithms and quantum cryptography in financial technologies

Hardware to aid financial technologies