Register for Nanyang Blockchain Conference 2026

Day 1, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026 (Tentative)

08:30 am

Registration

09:00 am

Welcome Remarks

09:10 am

Keynote Lecture: Creating and Monetizing Speed in Blockchain
Prof. Muriel Medard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Optimum, USA)

10:15 am

Tea Break & Poster (40 min)

Session 1: (Invited Talk)：Security and Trusted Systems

10:45 am

V-PASS: Sybil-Resistant Pseudonym Self-Provisioning for V2X
Prof. Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech, USA)

11:15 am 

Emerging Ways to Front-Run and Launder Cryptocurrency Transactions
Assoc. Prof. Min Suk Kang (KAIST, South Korea)

11:50 am

Lunch

Session 2: Security & Privacy

01:00 pm

Deploying a Municipal Trust Anchor: Dual-Blockchain Architecture for Decentralized Identity in Semarang (#10)
Ester Gracia (GaneshaIT), Andersen (GaneshaIT), Alika Cynthia Clarissa (GaneshaIT), John (Jong) Choi (MarkAny)

01:15 pm

Lattice-Based Data Integrity Auditing with Blockchain for Edge Computing (#11)
Xiuling Zhang (ChangChun Finance College)

01:30 pm

HasciDB: A Database for Identifying Crypto Sybil Airdrop Hunters (#38)
Adeline Wen (University of Washington), Chunyang Li (University of Washington), Shutong Qu (University of Washington), Leon Leng (University of Washington), Wei Cai (University of Washington)

01:45 pm

Delphi: Iterative Discovery and Exploit Synthesis for Smart Contract Security (#43)
Haoyong Lu (National University of Singapore), Longqin Zhang (National University of Singapore), Ryan Zhao (National University of Singapore), Mac Ren (Agnos Labs), Hanzhang Qin (National University of Singapore)

02:00 pm

The Anonymity Gap: Understanding Real Privacy in Shielded UTXO-Based Protocols for DeFi (#49)
Hanze Guo (University College London), Stefanos Chaliasos (University College London), Yebo Feng (Nanyang Technological University), Jiahua Xu (University College London)

02:15 pm

Short Break (10 min)

Session 3: Interoperability and Consensus

02:25 pm

A Notary-Based PvP Reference Architecture for Multi-CBDC Corridors: Design, Implementation, and a Path to Trust Minimization (#9)
Vijak Sethaput (University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce), Supachate Innet (University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce)

02:40 pm

The Price of Interoperability: Exploring Cross-Chain Bridges and Their Economic Consequences (#19)
Yiyue Cao (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)), Mingzhe Zheng (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)), Lin William Cong (Nanyang Technological University), Siguang Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)), Xuechao Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))

02:55 pm

When Staking Rewards Compound: Measuring the Impact of Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade (#26)
Mohammed Benseddik (University of Zurich), Benjamin Kraner (University of Zurich), Claudio J. Tessone (University of Zurich)

03:10 pm

CoBRA: A Universal Strategyproof Confirmation Protocol for Quorum-Based Proof-of-Stake Blockchains (#31)
Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien and Common Prefix), Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias (Mysten Labs), Ray Neiheiser (ISTA), Christos Stefo (TU Wien)

03:25 pm

Tea Break (30 min)

Session 4: (Invited Talk): Blockchain Systems and Ecosystems

03:55 pm

Blockchain Frameworks for Trusted Data Management, Provenance Tracking, and Interoperable Material Reuse
Prof. Rajiv Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK)

04:25 pm

Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice
Prof. Raymond Choo (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

04:55 pm

Panel Discussion 1

5:25 pm

End of day 1

Day 2, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026 (Tentative)

8:30 am

Registration

9:00 am

Keynote Lecture: Experimenting with Financial Markets
Prof. Peter Bossaerts (University of Cambridge, UK)

10:00 am

Tea Break (30 min)

Session 5 (Invited Talk): Crypto Finance and Market Design

10:30 am

Blockchain Solutions to Information Sharing Dilemmas: Theory and Experiment
Asst. Prof. Leo Bao (Monash University, Australia)

11:00 am

Scarcity as a Systematic Risk Factor in Cryptocurrency Markets: Evidence from a Four-Factor Asset Pricing Model
Assoc. Prof. Huy Pham (RMIT University Vietnam, Vietnam)

10:30 am

The Making of Dominant Currencies: Evidence in DeFi
Assoc. Prof. Jiahua Xu (University College London, UK)

12:00 pm

Lunch

Session 6: AI & Governance

01:00 pm

OnChainAgent: LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems for Autonomous Operations on the Ethereum Mainnet (#51)
Jiashun Wang (Shanghai University of International Business and Economics), Zhi Yang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), Guangyan Gan (Nanyang Technological University), Hanzhang Qin (National University of Singapore), Liwen Zhang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), Lin William Cong (Nanyang Technological University)

01:15 pm

ClawCoin: An Agentic AI-Native Cryptocurrency for Decentralized Agent Economies (#36)
Shaoyu Li (Virginia Tech), Chaoyu Zhang (Virginia Tech), Hexuan Yu (Virginia Tech), Y. Thomas Hou (Virginia Tech), Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech)

01:30 pm

DLT-Corpus: A Large-Scale Text Collection for the Distributed Ledger Technology Domain (#46)
Walter Hernandez Cruz (University College London and Exponential Science), Peter Devine (University of Edinburgh), Nikhil Vadgama (University College London and Exponential Science), Paolo Tasca (University College London and Exponential Science), Jiahua Xu (University College London and Exponential Science)

01:45 pm

Do Small Shareholders Have a Voice? Deliberation, Delegation, and Value in DAO Governance (#50)
Yichen Luo (University College London), Jiahua Xu (University College London), Qiaozhi Ye (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), Kathy Yuan (London School of Economics)

02:00 pm

ChainMind: Blockchain-Based Accountability Framework for LLM-Powered DeFi Agents (#20)
Kefan Liu (Nanyang Technological University)

02:15 pm

Short Break (10 min)

Session 7: DeFi Markets

02:25 pm

Dynamic Graph Rewiring in Decentralized Exchange Networks: Testing the MEV Fragmentation Hypothesis with On-Chain Data (#2)
Nitish Kumar (Timeswap / Hourglass Technologies Ltd.), Sindhu Shirigoudar (Accenture)

02:40 pm

From Passive Yield to Active Utility: A Quantitative Analysis of USDC Velocity and DeFi Capital Migration under the GENIUS Act (#23)
Yihan Guo (Nanyang Technological University), Yuan Zhang (Bitstein Pte. Ltd.)

02:55 pm

Optimal Trading Speed on Blockchain (#29)
Ruizhe Jia (Stanford University), Shihao Yu (Singapore Management University)

03:10 pm

Profit Sharing Automated Market Makers (#37)
Himanshu Shankar (Nanyang Technological University), Vaibhav Jindal (Independent Researcher), Anshal Shukla (Independent Researcher)

03:25 pm

Tea Break (30 min)

Session 8: TEMS Award Talk

03:55 pm

Cross-Chain Interoperability: A Decade of Innovation and the Road Ahead
Prof. Shiping Chen (UNSW & UTS, Australia)

04:10 pm

Redbelly, a blockchain for the real world
Prof. Vincent Gramoli (The University of Sydney, Australia)

04:25 pm

Seven Years in Blockchain Security: Bitter Lessons from MEV to AI
Dr. Liyi Zhou (The University of Sydney, Australia)

04:40 pm

Dr. Yuanzheng Zhang (The University of Sydney, Australia)

04:55 pm

Panel Discussion 2

05:25 pm

End of Conference & Closing Remarks