Columbia CryptoEconomics (CCE) Workshop 2025 | Day 1

The Forum at Columbia University - 605 W 125th Street, New York, NY

Wednesday, December 10 - Thursday, December 11

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)

Hosts: 

• 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)