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We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions.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