Register for Nanyang Blockchain Conference 2026

Friday, Aug. 21, 2026

0830-0900

Registration

0900-0910

Welcome Remarks: Prof. Phee Soo Jay, Louis (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

0910-1010

Keynote Lecture: Creating and Monetizing Speed in Blockchain
Prof. Muriel Medard (Optimum, USA)

1015-1050

Tea Break & Poster

Session 1 (Invited Talk): Security and Trusted Systems (Chair: Prof. Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University)

1055-1125

From Verifiable Credentials to Pseudonym Self-Provisioning in Vehicular PKI
Prof. Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech, USA)

1125-1155

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

1200-1300

Lunch

Session 2: Cryptography and Security (Chair: Asst. Prof. Wei Dong, Nanyang Technolgoical University)

1300-1315

Deploying a Municipal Trust Anchor: Dual-Blockchain Architecture for Decentralized Identity in Semarang (#10)

1315-1330

Lattice-Based Data Integrity Auditing with Blockchain for Edge Computing (#11)

1330-1345

HasciDB: A Database for Identifying Crypto Sybil Airdrop Hunters (#38)

1345-1400

Delphi: Iterative Discovery and Exploit Synthesis for Smart Contract Security (#43)

1400-1415

The Anonymity Gap: Understanding Real Privacy in Shielded UTXO-Based Protocols for DeFi (#49)

1415-1425

Short Break(10min)

Session 3: Interoperability and Consensus (Chair: Prof. Junghee Lee, Korea University)

1425-1440

A Notary-Based PvP Reference Architecture for Multi-CBDC Corridors: Design, Implementation, and a Path to Trust Minimization (#9)

1440-1455

The Price of Interoperability: Exploring Cross-Chain Bridges and Their Economic Consequences (#19)

1455-1510

When Staking Rewards Compound: Measuring the Impact of Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade (#26)

1510-1525

CoBRA: A Universal Strategyproof Confirmation Protocol for Quorum-Based Proof-of-Stake Blockchains (#31)

1525-1545

Tea Break(20min)

Session 4 (Invited Talk): Blockchain Systems and Ecosystems (Chair: Assoc. Prof. Yi Li, Nanyang Technological University)

1545-1615

Building Trustworthy and Interoperable Blockchain Data Ecosystems
Prof. Rajiv Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK)

1615-1645

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

1650-1720

Panel discussion 1: Digital Money in Transition: Markets, Institutions, and the Future of Finance (Moderator: Dr. Ernie Teo, Nanyang Technological University)

Asst. Prof. Huy Pham, Mr. Gavin Wang, Mr. Alvin Yu, Mr. JingYi Phuang

End of Day 1

Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026

0830-0900

Registration

0900-1000

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

1000-1030

Tea Break

Session 5 (Invited Talk): Crypto Finance and Market Design (Chair: Assoc. Prof. Te Bao, Nanyang Technological University)

1030-1100

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

1100-1130

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)

1130-1200

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

1200-1205

Trophy Presentation (speaker)

1205-1300

Lunch

Session 6: DeFi Markets (Chair: Prof. Rui Tan, Nanyang Technological University)

1300-1315

Dynamic Graph Rewiring in Decentralized Exchange Networks: Testing the MEV Fragmentation Hypothesis with On-Chain Data (#2)

1315-1330

From Passive Yield to Active Utility: A Quantitative Analysis of USDC Velocity and DeFi Capital Migration under the GENIUS Act (#23)

1330-1345

Optimal Trading Speed on Blockchain (#29)

1345-1400

Profit Sharing Automated Market Makers (#37)

1400-1415

EPIC: Economic Profit Chain Inference via Graph-Augmented Code Analysis (#32)

1415-1425

Short Break

Session 7: AI & Governance (Chair: Asst. Prof. Yong Wang, Nanyang Technological University)

1425-1440

OnChainAgent: LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems for Autonomous Operations on the Ethereum Mainnet (#51)

1440-1455

ClawCoin: An Agentic AI-Native Cryptocurrency for Decentralized Agent Economies (#36)

1455-1510

DLT-Corpus: A Large-Scale Text Collection for the Distributed Ledger Technology Domain (#46)

1510-1525

Do Small Shareholders Have a Voice? Deliberation, Delegation, and Value in DAO Governance (#50)

1525-1555

Tea Break(30min)

Session 8: IEEE TEMS Award Talk (Chair: Assoc. Prof. Tianwei Zhang, Nanyang Technological University)

1555-1610

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

1610-1625

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

1625-1640

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

1640-1655

Breaking the Cross-Shard Bottleneck: Dynamic Transaction Allocation for Scalable Sharded Blockchains
Dr. Yuanzhe Zhang (The University of Sydney, Australia)

1700-1730

Panel discussion 2: Decentralized Intelligence: Autonomy, Accountability, and Trust (Moderator: Asst. Prof. Wei Cai, University of Washington)

Prof. Wenjing Lou, Prof. Jiahua Xu, Prof. Min Suk Kang, Mr. Ming Wu

1735-1745

Closing remarks: Prof. Yonggang Wen (Director of CCTF, NTU, Singapore)

End of conference