Decentralized Finance & Crypto Workshop @ Scuola Normale Superiore
A Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Crypto at the Intersection of Academia and Industry.
- Date: 26/01/2026 - 28/01/2026
- Location: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)
Important Dates
- Paper/Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 2025-12-08
- Notification of Acceptance: 2025-12-20
- Registration Deadline: 2026-01-07
- Fee Payment Deadline: 2026-01-16
About
The Scuola Normale Superiore is proud to host this premier event dedicated to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Crypto, bringing together leading voices from academia and industry to foster collaboration and spark innovation. Alongside discussions on the policy, technology, and market forces shaping the crypto ecosystem, the workshop shines a light on topics such as automated market makers, liquidity provision, and MEV; risk modeling and systemic fragility in DeFi; microstructure of centralized and decentralized exchanges; price discovery and volatility; token governance, NFTs and digital assets; stablecoins and emerging payment rails; and agent-based modeling, econophysics, and network effects in complex crypto systems.
Conference email:Email: sns-defi@gmail.com
Invited Speakers
- Alessandro Balata, Fasanara Capital
- Andrea Barbon, University of St.Gallen
- Andrea Canidio, CoW Protocol
- Fayçal Drissi, Oxford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance
- Sebastian Jaimungal, University of Toronto & Oxford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance
- Antonio Russo, Head of the Cash and Derivatives Market Operations Office (CONSOB) & The talk will be delivered in an individual capacity
- Christof Ferreira Torres, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon
- Michele Treccani, Algorand
Important Dates
- Paper/Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 2025-12-08
- Notification of Acceptance: 2025-12-20
- Registration Deadline: 2026-01-07
- Fee Payment Deadline: 2026-01-16
Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of various sponsors for financial support. In particular, the Workshop is supported by:
- PRIN2022 DD N. 104 of February 2, 2022 ”Liquidity and systemic risks in centralized and decentralized markets”, codice proposta 20227TCX5W - CUP J53D23004130006 funded by the European Union NextGenerationEU through the Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR).
- SoBigData.it receives funding from European Union – NextGenerationEU – National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza, PNRR) – Project: “SoBigData.it – Strengthening the Italian RI for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics” – CUP B53C22001760006 – Prot. IR0000013 – Avviso n. 3264 del 28/12/2021.
