
Call For Papers
The Mid-Chain Conference on Blockchain and Decentralized Economics, to be held on March 16, 2026, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel, invites submissions for research presentations at the intersection of blockchain, decentralized systems, and economics.
We welcome contributions from computer science, economics, and related disciplines, including (but not limited to) decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain protocols, decentralized markets, governance and DAOs, cryptographic mechanisms, empirical blockchain analysis, and applied research from industry.
The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue between academia and industry, and to highlight innovative theoretical, empirical, and applied work. Selected papers will be presented alongside keynote talks by Dahlia Malkhi and Julien Prat.
Important Dates:
Paper submission: February 6 (notification: February 20).
Tomer Ashur, Nir Chemaya, Ittay Eyal, Moran Koren, Evgeny Lyandres, and Or Sattath
Conference Organizing Committee, Mid-Chain 2026
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