The ACM conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT) is a premier venue for presenting the latest developments in technologies related directly and indirectly to novel financial infrastructure such as cryptocurrencies and their applications, blockchains, and exchanges.

Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of relevant systems.

We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions. Proceedings will be published with open-access by the ACM.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

Blockchains and blockchain technologies
Consensus protocols
Permissioned blockchains
High-performance transaction processing
Centralized and decentralized exchanges
Mechanism design for blockchains
Threat models and attacks
Game-theoretic analysis of blockchains
Cryptoassets
Client and network security
Security analysis of operational systems
Custody solutions
Anonymity and privacy
Metrics, measurements, and network forensics
Proof-of-work, -stake, -burn, and alternatives
Smart contracts and applications
Smart contract security: formal analysis, correct by design, security frameworks
Scalability issues and solutions
User studies
Technical repercussions of economic, legal, ethical, regulatory, and societal aspects
Transaction graph analysis
Financial markets
Relationship to traditional payment systems
Fraud detection and financial crime prevention
Case studies (e.g., of adoption, attacks, forks, scams, etc.)
Applications of blockchain and cryptocurrencies
Censorship resistance
Quantum-resistant cryptography, quantum algorithms and quantum cryptography in financial technologies
Hardware to aid financial technologies