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MidChain
De-Fi Conference

Hosted By Ben Gurion University Of The Negev

              October 26  |  BGU Campus  |  Senate Hall

The Mid-Chain Conference is a premier academic–industry summit dedicated to blockchain, decentralized systems, and economics.
The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue between computer scientists, cryptographers, economists, develpoers and other researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry, and to highlight innovative theoretical, empirical, and applied work.

With confirmed keynotes from Prof. Julien Prat, limited spots to 150 of the brightest minds in the field, including leading faculty members, researchers, and builders.

 

Mid-Chain 2026 Conference Organizing Committee:

 

Tomer Ashur — 3MI Labs

Nir Chemaya — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)

Ittay Eyal — Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Moran Koren — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)

Evgeny Lyandres — Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University

Or Sattath — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)

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Keynote speakers

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Program

Oct. 26, 2026

Welcome and opening remarks

08:45

Julien Prat - Reputation in delegated staking protocols

09:00

Session 1 : 
Nimrod Talmon - Metric-Based Voting: Designing Rules for Ecosystem Resource Allocation
Bar Hoter - Enhancing Food Security with Blockchain: Developing a Web3 Application to Strengthen National Food System Resilience
Dror Goldberg - Caveats and opportunities from monetary history

10:00

Coffee break

11:15

Session 2 : 
Ilan Komargodski - Proofs of Useful Work from Arbitrary Matrix Multiplicationֿ
Rafael Nat Josef Pass - An Economic Analysis of Proof of Useful Work
Roi Bar- Zur - Elastic Restaking Networks

11:45

Lunch break, Poster Session

13:00

Session 3 : 
Yotam Gafni - Centralization and Stability in Formal Constitutions
Shai Wybroski - Post-quantum migration AFTER Q-day
Aviv Zohar- AetherWeave: Sybil 
Resistant Robust Peer Discovery with Stake


 

14:00

Noam Nisan - On the Welfare of EIP-1559 with Patient Bidders

15:15

Coffee break

16:15

Special Panel - featuring Yehuda Lindell

16:30

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