Key Dates

• Talk submission deadline: Feb 6 (AoE)

• Final acceptance notification: Feb 27 (AoE)

• Conference date: Apr 20-23

Submission Server

https://wsc26.hotcrp.com/u/0/

Submission Instructions

Each talk submission should include:

1. An abstract (up to 250 words) summarizing the work.

2. A description of the key technical contribution (up to 250 words).

3. An explanation of why this will make an interesting talk for WSC (up to 250 words), including its relevance and potential impact.

4. A paper in PDF form (preprint, working draft, or published version).

5. (Optional) Information on previous acceptance at a conference or workshop.

6. (Optional) Links to previous talks on this work (e.g., videos or slides).

7. (Optional) Any previous reviews received (e.g., from conferences or journals).

Submission Policy

• Submissions must present original work and accurately acknowledge all prior and related research; work previously accepted or published elsewhere is welcome, as WSC does not have formal proceedings.

• We do not accept talks whose primary focus is token price prediction, trading signals, or investment advice, in order to maintain a research‑oriented, non‑financial‑advice program.

• At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to attend the conference in person and present the talk on site.

Review and Conflict of Interest Policy

Authors must report in the submission site any conflicts with program committee (PC) members. A conflict exists if an author has the same affiliation as a PC member, has ever acted as their PhD supervisor or been supervised by them, has a close personal relationship with them, or has been co‑authors on a paper within the past two years. PC members will not review, read the reviews of, or participate in discussions of submissions they are conflicted with; submissions conflicted with both PC chairs will be handled by a designated “conflict chair.” Reviewers will primarily evaluate whether the submission will make an interesting and technically strong talk for WSC. They are expected only to briefly check that the paper is consistent with the stated key technical contribution and are not required to read the paper in full. Submissions may be anonymous at the authors’ discretion; if authors choose anonymity, the PDF should omit names and affiliations, but all conflicts must still be fully and accurately reported in the submission site.

Topics of Interest

We welcome technically deep Web3 research and systems work, including but not limited to:

• Core protocols and infrastructure (consensus, networking, scalability, data availability).

• Cryptography, security, and privacy (e.g., ZK, MPC, smart contract and protocol security).

• Blockchain systems and scaling (L1/L2, rollups, interoperability, storage and state management).

• Mechanism design and on‑chain markets (protocol economics, MEV, agentic payments, stablecoins, DeFi primitives; excluding token price prediction and trading‑signal work).

• Identity, governance, applications, and public goods (DAOs, wallets, developer tooling, public goods funding, and real‑world impact).

• AI and blockchain (AI‑native protocols, on‑chain agents, AI‑driven tools for security, analysis, and user experience).

• Security, abuse, and forensics in Web3 ecosystems (fraud detection, phishing and scams, transaction graph analysis, monitoring, and incident response).

• Empirical, usability, and policy studies of Web3 systems (measurements, user behavior, legal and regulatory aspects, CBDC and digital payments).