Programme 2024

Programme

Time	Title	Speaker
9:00-9:45	Registration/Tea & Coffee
9:45-10:00	Welcome	William Knottenbelt
10:00-11:00	Keynote Session	Thomas Thiery
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:20	TS 1: Mechanism Design
	The Cost of Permissionless Liquidity Provision in Automated Market Makers	Julian Ma and Davide Crapis
	From Niche to Mass Adoption: Taking Native Staking Mainstream	Demetris Kyriacou, William Knottenbelt and Jacob George
12:20-12:30	Short Break
12:30-13:00	TS 2 (Part I): DeFi and Cryptocurrencies
	FCA: Areas of Focus	Pavle Avramovic
	Profiting off the High Correlation of Cryptocurrency Pairs Using Statistical Arbitrage	Maxwell Dann and Ilias Kotsireas
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Keynote Session	Garrick Hileman
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-16:35	TS 2 (Part II): DeFi and Cryptocurrencies
	The DeFi Ecosystem Game: Proof-Via-Simulations	Eliad Hoch
	Forecasting Realised Volatility: Implied and GARCH Volatility in Bitcoin, Gold, Oil Markets	Toshiko Matsui and William Knottenbelt
	Velocity, Holding Time and Lifespan of Cryptocurrency in Transactions	Yu Zhang, Mostafa Chegenizadeh and Claudio Tessone
16:35-16:40	Short Break
16:40-17:40	Keynote Session	Christoph Schlegel
19:00-20:30	Drinks Reception

Time	Title	Speaker
9:00-10:00	Tea/Coffee
10:00-11:00	Keynote Session	Tara Annison
11:00-11:20	Coffee Break
11:20-12:10	Best Paper Award Session
	Liquid Staking Tokens in Automated Market Makers	Krzysztof Gogol, Robin Fritsch, Johnnatan Messias, Malte Schlosser, Benjamin Kraner and Claudio Tessone
	Tiered Mechanisms for Blockchain Transaction Fees	Aggelos Kiayias, Elias Koutsoupias, Philip Lazos and Georgios Panagiotakos
12:10-12:15	Short Break
12:15-12:55	TS 3: Regulation of Crypto-assets
	Global Trends in Cryptocurrency Regulation: An Overview	Xihan Xiong and Junliang Luo
	An Analysis of the MiCA Regulation and Its Impact for the Blockchain-based Economies	Cristina Carata & William Knottenbelt
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:50	TS 4: Applications of Blockchain
	AI Needs Blockchain: Trustless Solutions to Failures in Machine to Colloidal Market	John Conley
	AdChain: Decentralized Header Bidding	Behkish Nassirzadeh, Albert Heinle, Stefanos Leonardos, Anwar Hasan and Vijay Ganesh
14:50-15:20	Coffee Break
15:20-16:15	TS 5: Stablecoins
	Collateral Portfolio Optimization in Crypto-Backed Stablecoins	Bretislav Hajek, Daniel Reijsbergen, Anwitaman Datta and Jussi Keppo
	Global Taxonomy of Stablecoins	Christophe Lebrun, Oetske Leroux-Fankhauser, Natkamon Tovanich, Thibault Vatter and Arnaud Gaudinat
	A Stablecoin for the Eswatini Nation	Adrian Koch
16:15-16:20	Short Break
16:20-17:20	Keynote Session	Michael Petch
19:00-20:00	Drinks Reception
20:00-22:00	Conference Dinner

Time	Title	Speaker
9:00-10:00	Tea/Coffee
10:00-11:00	Keynote Session	Antonio Moreno
11:00-11:05	Short Break
11:05-11:55	TS 6: Protocols and Smart Contracts
	Multi-Agent Privacy-Preserving Micro-Payment Verification for Offline Resource-Constrained Devices using Smart Contracts	Mostafa Chegenizadeh, Sina Rafati Niya and Claudio Tessone
	Stackelberg Attack on Protocol Fee Governance	Alex Hajjar
11:55-12:00	Short Break
12:00-13:05	TS 7: Cryptoeconomics
	Quantifying Arbitrage in Automated Market Makers: An Empirical Study of Ethereum ZK Rollups	Krzysztof Gogol, Johnnatan Messias, Deborah Miori, Benjamin Livshits and Claudio Tessone
	Discrete & Bayesian Transaction Fee Mechanisms	Yotam Gafni and Aviv Yaish
	Robbed Withdrawal	Ze Chen, Ruichao Jiang, Javad Tavakoli, and Yiqiang Zhao
13:05-13:20	Closing Ceremony
13:20-14:30	Farewell Lunch

MARBLE 2024