Research Theme: cryptography

On June 16 and 17 2022, the blockchain@X chair at Ecole Polytechnique organized a unique event in Paris: The Future.s of Money. Many experts and actors from the economic, financial, digital and research worlds gathered around conferences dealing with the future and the digitalisation of money, now accessible to all...

Charles Kahn (University of Illinois) Presenting “Best Before? Expiring Central Bank Digital Currency and Loss Recovery Discussant: Steve Williamson (Western University) Moderator: William Roberds (FRB...

A two-day workshop where academics, central bankers and industry experts will envision the future(s) of money. Recordings of all the talks available HERE Academia: Universities...

CBER Symposium: Digital Currency Competition Description The event will be hosted by Aleh Tsyvinkski (Yale University) and will include the following presentations: “The Coming Battle...

CBER Symposium: Auditing Economic Mechanisms in Blockchain Protocols The event will be hosted by Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern) and will include the following presentations: « Bridging...

The Blockchain & B2B Platforms Chair at Ecole Polytechnique aims to combine academic excellence with institutional and scientific prestige in order to foster innovation in blockchain. Pioneer in its field and supported by Capgemini, Nomadic Labs and Caisse des Dépôts, is proud to have supported the production of this study...

Topic: The Adoption of Blockchain-Based Decentralized Exchanges Abstract: We investigate the market microstructure of Automated Market Makers (AMMs), the most prominent type of blockchain-based decentralized...

This paper studies how transaction fees and seigniorage, equivalent to inflation in the cryptocurrency setting, affect miner incentives and trade congestion. Each cryptocurrency miner chooses how many new transactions to group into the next block of transactions that the miner competes to validate. The successful miner earns (i) transaction fees...

Blockchain & Digital Market Design Seminar - We consider blockchain adoption in a multiple firm market. The blockchain cost per firm decreases with the adoption rate as the cost of verification and recording is distributed...

The Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research (CBER) Forum invites you to submit papers for presentation at the 2nd Annual CBER Conference on May 12th –...