Program
The program will be available by early June 2026.
Call for papers
Submission site
PDF submissions can be submitted at https://sbc26.hotcrp.com/
Important Dates
- Talk submission deadline: March 13, 2026, 11:59pm PT
- Final acceptance notification: May 13, 2026
- Conference: July 27 - 29, 2026
Proceedings and Submission at other Conferences
SBC is not archival and does not have proceedings. It is allowed to submit work which has been published at or submitted to another conference or a journal.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Cryptography
- New cryptographic primitives for blockchains
- Novel applications of cryptography to blockchains
- Post-quantum security
- Encrypted mempools and encrypted transactions
Distributed Systems
- Design and analysis of blockchain consensus protocols
- Additional components of blockchain architecture (rollups, out-of-protocol block production, etc.)
- Advances in the networking layer and transaction dissemination
Incentives, Mechanism Design, and Cryptoeconomics
- Transaction pricing
- Validator incentives
- Economics and market structure of block production
- Monetary policy and issuance
- MEV
- Systemic risk and resilience in crypto financial systems
Privacy
- Zero knowledge proofs and other methods for privacy on a public blockchain
- Privacy using homomorphic encryption
- Technologies for reconciling privacy and compliance
Formal Methods and Programming Languages
- Secure programming languages for blockchain protocols & smart contracts
- Formal verification of consensus-critical code and other blockchain components
Infrastructure
- Secure scaling
- Secure oracles
Hardware
- HSMs, TEEs, and other specialized hardware
- Hardware wallets and similar
Testing and Deployment
- Testing methodologies (simulation, experiment design, testnets)
- Measurement and analysis of production systems
- Production system upgrade strategies
Attacks and Threat Modeling
Do Not Submit
The conference is generally not intended for price analysis of cryptocurrency markets or other investor related topics. Nor is it a venue for legal considerations of owning or using cryptocurrency. We request proposals that are engineering or scientific in nature only.
Submission Types
Technical Paper
A detailed technical proposal that describes a novel contribution to the theory or practice of blockchain engineering or science, especially relating to engineering risk and/or security. Any submission not prefixed with WIP or SOK will be assumed to be of this type.
WIP - Work In Progress
A promising but early stage idea generally not ready for publication, but which could benefit from constructive feedback from a technical audience attuned to bleeding edge developments. This category is ideal for high-risk high-return ideas that may be novel or impactful if successful, but which are too early in development for their viability to be assured. SBC aims to be a supportive venue for such talks. Please prefix the title with WIP: to clearly denote this submission type.
SOK - Systemization of Knowledge
A talk that organizes and presents existing knowledge to better facilitate education and exploration of the topic. Examples include surveying promising research directions, comparing alternate approaches (for example, the many cryptographic signature schemes or consensus protocols used by different blockchains), presenting evidence for a position, or integrating knowledge from other disciplines. Please prefix the title with SOK: to clearly denote this submission type.
Submission Instructions
- Please submit your talk at https://sbc26.hotcrp.com/. Please use Portable Document Format (.pdf).
- Submissions can be any length but the Program Committee will only review and decide on the first twelve (12) pages. We strongly recommend a minimum of six (6) pages and that it contain enough technical detail for the program committee to effectively evaluate the proposal. Insufficient detail will result in a resubmission request or rejection.
- Papers can optionally be anonymized. The authors can decide to optionally anonymize the submission by omitting the author names in the pdf. Author names will be recorded in either case in HotCRP but not displayed to the reviewers.
- If you have any conflict of interest with a member of the program committee, please note it in the designated section of the HotCRP submission form.
Organizing Committee
Program Chairs
- Dan Boneh, Stanford University, CBR
- Ari Juels, Cornell Tech, IC3
- Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University
- Dawn Song, UC Berkeley, RDI
Program Committee
- Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh and IOG
- Alin Tomescu, Aptos Labs
- Andrew Lewis-Pye, London School of Economics
- Aniket Kate, Supra Research / Purdue University
- Ari Juels, Cornell Tech, IC3
- Ariel Gabizon, Aztec Labs
- Arnab Roy, Mysten Labs
- Arthur Gervais, University College London (UCL)
- Aviv Zohar, The Hebrew University
- Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh
- Benedikt Bünz, NYU/Espresso Systems
- Charalampos Papamanthou, Yale University and Lagrange Labs
- Christian Cachin, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Chainlink Labs
- Ciamac Moallemi, Columbia University / Paradigm / Uniswap Labs
- Clara Schneidewind, MPI-SP
- Dan Boneh, Stanford University
- David Tse, Stanford University
- Davide Crapis, Ethereum Foundation
- Deepak Maram, Mysten Labs
- Dionysis Zindros, Common Prefix
- Ertem Nusret Tas, a16z crypto
- Fan Zhang, Yale and IC3
- Ghassan Karame, Ruhr University Bochum
- Giulia Fanti, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ittai Abraham, Intel Labs
- Jérémie Decouchant, Delft University of Technology
- Jeremy Clark, Concordia University
- Joachim Neu, a16z Crypto Research
- Joseph Bonneau, New York University
- Kartik Nayak, Duke University / Espresso Systems
- Ling Ren, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Lioba Heimbach, Category Labs
- Liyi Zhou, University of Sydney
- Luca Zanolini, Ethereum Foundation
- Mallesh Pai, Tempo Labs, Rice University
- Mario Larangeira, Institute of Science Tokyo and IOG
- Patrick McCorry, Arbitrum Foundation
- Pranav Garimidi, a16z crypto
- Roger Wattenhofer, Anza & ETH Zurich
- Sourav Das, Category Labs
- Tanusree Sharma, Pennsylvania State University
- Ted Yin, UC Santa Barbara and Lyquor Labs
- Tim Roughgarden, a16z crypto & Columbia University
- Vero Estrada-Galiñanes
- Will Scott, Protocol Labs
- Yupeng Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Zeta Avarikioti, TU Wien & Common Prefix
Sponsors
We are grateful to all the sponsors who make this conference possible. The founding members of the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research (CBR) are:
Additional funding for the conference is provided by: