Blockchain Experts Swap Insights at CryptoEconomics Workshop

Blockchains and the applications they support raise new challenges for economics, computer science, and game theory.

At the 2023 Columbia CryptoEconomics (CCE) Workshop, held December 6-7, practitioners, researchers, and academics gathered at the University’s Manhattanville campus to discuss challenges, recent progress, and opportunities in the economics of blockchain protocols. In keynote presentations, contributed talks, and panel discussions, leading experts discussed topics including proposer-builder separation, MEV, layer 1 security rehypothecation/restaking, and roll-ups.

The workshop, which was co-hosted by the Briger Family Digital Finance Lab at Columbia Business School, Columbia Engineering, and the Ethereum Foundation, underscored Columbia’s commitment to interdisciplinary research that seeks impact beyond the walls of the University. 

“We advocate for the convergent collaboration among academics, practitioners, and industry,” said Shih-Fu Chang, dean of Columbia Engineering and Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor of Engineering, in his opening remarks. 

“As interest in the crypto space waxes and wanes, support at various universities has come and gone,” said co-organizer Tim Roughgarden, professor of computer science at Columbia Engineering and the head of research at a16z Crypto. “Columbia has been fairly unique among its peer institutions by having unflagging support for the advancement of this technology and the science behind it.”

Details about the event and a full lineup are available here.

Full recordings of all sessions are available here.