News
March 18th, 2025: Tentative program released.
January 21st 2025: Submission deadline extended to January 24, 2025, 23:59 AoE.
November 1st, 2024: Important dates added.
October 21st 2024: Call for Papers has been published.
Introduction
The 4th International Cryptoasset Analytics Workshop (CAAW) brings together researchers from different academic disciplines to present their newest findings related to cryptoassets and their ecosystems; learn about novel analytics methods spanning all layers (P2P network, consensus, on-chain, off-chain); and discuss open challenges and possible future directions. Since cryptoasset analytics has become relevant across disciplines, we envision this workshop as an interdisciplinary venue, also connecting to cross-cutting issues related to law, ethics, privacy, and security.
The program of CAAW 2025 workshop (co-located with Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2025) features a mix of invited talks and a selection of peer-reviewed research contributions. Workshop topics range from empirical studies, over analytics methods and tools, to case studies, datasets, and cross-cutting issues like legal or ethical aspects. Scientists and professionals from all disciplines and sectors are invited to share their knowledge and experience in this niche intersection of Cryptoassets and Analytics through this workshop, as well as in the future iterations of CAAW.
Tentative Workshop Program
CAAW 2024 is a half-day workshop — 18 April 2025, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm (JST) — co-located with Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2025.
Session 1: Scalability Solutions, Inscriptions & Oracles
18 April 2025 | 1:30 pm - 3:10 pm (JST)
Session Chair: TBA
- 1:30 pm - 1:35 pm : Introduction to the Workshop by the Program Co-Chairs
- 1:35 pm - 1:55 pm : Keynote 1 — Title TBA, by Paolo Tasca
- 1:55 pm - 2:10 pm : Paper Presentation — On the Lifecycle of a Lightning Network Payment Channel, by Florian Grötschla, Lioba Heimbach, Severin Richner, and Roger Wattenhofer
- 2:10 pm - 2:25 pm : Paper Presentation — The Writing is on the Wall: Analyzing the Boom of Inscriptions and its Impact on EVM-compatible Blockchains, by Johnnatan Messias, Krzysztof Gogol, Maria Inês Silva, and Benjamin Livshits
- 2:25 pm - 2:40 pm : Paper Presentation — Price Oracle Accuracy Across Blockchains: A Measurement and Analysis, by Robin Gansäuer, Hichem Ben Aoun, Jan Droll, and Hannes Hartenstein
- 2:40 pm - 2:55 pm : Paper Presentation — A Public Dataset for the ZKsync Rollup, by Maria Inês Silva, Johnnatan Messias, and Benjamin Livshits
- 2:55 pm - 3:10 pm : Paper Presentation — Early Observations of Based Rollups: A Case Study of Taiko, by Jan Gorzny, Phillip Kemper, and Martin Derka
- 3:10 pm - 3:30 pm : Coffee Break
Session 2: DeFi Markets, Liquidity & Arbitrage Strategies
18 April 2025 | 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm (JST)
Session Chair: TBA
- 3:30 pm - 3:55 pm : Keynote — Bringing DeFi to Bitcoin, by Dr. Owen Vaughan
- 3:55 pm - 4:10 pm : Paper Presentation — What Drives Liquidity on Decentralized Exchanges? Evidence from the Uniswap Protocol, by Brian Zhu, Dingyue Liu, Xin Wan, Ciamac Moallemi, Gordon Liao, and Brad Bachu
- 4:10 pm - 4:25 pm : Paper Presentation — Liquidity Fragmentation or Optimization? Analyzing Automated Market Makers Across Ethereum and Rollups, by Krzysztof Gogol, Manvir Schneider, Benjamin Livshits, and Claudio Tessone
- 4:25 pm - 4:40 pm : Paper Presentation — Quantifying Price Improvement in Order Flow Auctions, by Brad Bachu, Xin Wan, and Ciamac Moallemi
- 4:40 pm - 4:55 pm : Paper Presentation — Short Paper: Atomic Execution is Not Enough for Arbitrage Profit Extraction in Shared Sequencers, by Maria Inês Silva and Benjamin Livshits
- 4:55 pm - 5:00 pm : Concluding Remarks by the Organizers
Accepted Papers
On the Lifecycle of a Lightning Network Payment Channel
Florian Grötschla, Lioba Heimbach, Severin Richner, and Roger Wattenhofer
The Writing is on the Wall: Analyzing the Boom of Inscriptions and its Impact on EVM-compatible
Blockchains
Johnnatan Messias, Krzysztof Gogol, Maria Inês Silva, and Benjamin Livshits
Price Oracle Accuracy Across Blockchains: A Measurement and Analysis
Robin Gansäuer, Hichem Ben Aoun, Jan Droll, and Hannes Hartenstein
A Public Dataset for the ZKsync Rollup
Maria Inês Silva, Johnnatan Messias, and Benjamin Livshits
Early Observations of Based Rollups: A Case Study of Taiko
Jan Gorzny, Phillip Kemper, and Martin Derka
What Drives Liquidity on Decentralized Exchanges? Evidence from the Uniswap Protocol
Brian Zhu, Dingyue Liu, Xin Wan, Ciamac Moallemi, Gordon Liao, and Brad Bachu
Liquidity Fragmentation or Optimization? Analyzing Automated Market Makers Across Ethereum and
Rollups
Krzysztof Gogol, Manvir Schneider, Benjamin Livshits, and Claudio Tessone
Quantifying Price Improvement in Order Flow Auctions
Brad Bachu, Xin Wan, and Ciamac Moallemi
Short Paper: Atomic Execution is Not Enough for Arbitrage Profit Extraction in Shared
Sequencers
Maria Inês Silva and Benjamin Livshits
Keynotes
TBA — Dr. Paolo Tasca
Dr. Paolo Tasca is a Professor at University College London and a digital economist with a
specialisation in distributed systems. He is also the founder of the award-winning UCL Centre for
Blockchain Technologies, ranked seventh best university globally for blockchain and largest academic
research centre in the blockchain field. In addition to his academic achievements, Dr. Tasca is a
seasoned blockchain entrepreneur with several successful exits and has served as a special advisor on
blockchain technologies for a variety of government and industry stakeholders worldwide, including the
United Nations, and several central banks.
Bringing DeFi to Bitcoin — Dr. Owen Vaughan
Dr. Owen Vaughan is a research scientist specialising in blockchain and Web3 technology. He is
passionate about Bitcoin and pushing the boundaries of the technology using modern advances such as ZKPs
and verifiable computation. After leading the nChain R&D team for seven years he is now an independent
specialist.
Call For Papers
This workshop solicits submissions related to cryptoassets and their ecosystems. This includes empirical studies, analytics methods and tools, case studies and use cases, interfaces to web technologies, reusable datasets and cross-cutting issues.
Topics & Themes
Topics and themes of interest include but are not limited to:
- Empirical studies that address various aspects of cryptoassets, blockchains, and related phenomena by measuring them, leading to new insight into system characteristics or user behavior. This includes, for example,
- Cryptoasset networks, compositions, and dependencies
- Smart contract interactions and dependencies
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi) systems like stablecoins, lending protocols, derivatives, and decentralized exchanges
- Transitions between DeFi protocols
- Cross-chain interactions like bridges and atomic swaps
- Layer-2 systems like off-chain networks and rollups
- Analytics methods and tools at are suitable to be reused as part of future analytics processes, set new benchmarks, or significantly simplify basic analytics. Examples include:
- Address clustering techniques
- Anonymization and identification
- Dataset extraction and labeling tools
- Smart contract analysis (e.g., symbolic execution)
- Case studies and use cases that focus on specific actors, protocols, services, or other phenomena that emerge, for example, in the following areas:
- Markets and exchanges
- Virtual Worlds, Blockchain-based Metaverses and Gaming
- Security breaches
- Fraudulent activities
- Cryptoassets and the Web where Web technologies and standards interface with blockchain and technology and cryptoassets. Examples include:
- Interfaces between traditional web payments and cryptoassets
- Adoption and use of cryptoasset-related Web applications
- Impact of cryptoassets on Web security and privacy
- Datasets that are suitable to be reused or may become benchmark datasets against which new methods can be evaluated and compared. Such datasets consist of, e.g.:
- Account labels
- Transaction labels
- Timeframe labels
- Cross-cutting issues that exceed the scope of computer science and pay tribute to the interdisciplinary aspect of cryptoasset analytics, such as:
- Legal and ethical aspects
- Economics and econometrics
- Sustainability
Research Papers & Submission Guidelines
The Cryptoasset Analytics Workshop (CAAW) welcomes submissions of papers documenting novel scientific research relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The review process is double-blind. The submitted document should not include any author names, affiliations, or other identifying information. This may include, but is not restricted to: acknowledgements, self-citations, references to prior work by the author(s) etc. Submissions not complying with this guidance will be desk-rejected.
We welcome three types of submissions:
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Full Papers: Full paper submissions must not exceed 15 pages in length, *including* references and well-marked appendices.
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Short Papers: Short paper submissions must not exceed 8 pages in length, *including* references and well-marked appendices.
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Posters: Poster submissions must not exceed 3 pages in length (maximum 2 pages for the main paper content + maximum 1 page for appendices).
The papers must be formatted according to the instructions below. Papers not complying to the page limits or not following the formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected.
Submissions will be handled via Easychair, at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caaw25. Please take some time to include appropriate keywords for your submission.
The submitted abstract and keywords will be leveraged to find adequate reviewers for submitted papers. Please write an email to contact@caaw.io, if you have any questions.
Formatting instructions
Submissions must adhere to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.
Submissions for review must be in PDF format. They must be self-contained and written in English. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines, or do not view or print properly, will be rejected without review.
Publication policy
Accepted submissions will be included in the conference proceedings (International Workshops volume) to be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted workshop paper has to register for the workshop. Workshop attendance is only granted for registered participants.
Important dates
- Submission deadline: January 24, 2025 (11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth)
Submission deadline: January 17, 2025 (11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth)- Acceptance notification: February 24, 2025
Acceptance notification: February 16, 2025- Pre-proceedings: March 7, 2025
Pre-proceedings: February 23, 2025- Workshops: April 18, 2025
Committee
Organizing Committee
- Bernhard Haslhofer, Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria
- Friedhelm Victor, TRM Labs, USA
- Jiahua Xu, The DLT Science Foundation and University College London, United Kingdom
Program Committee
- Svetlana Abramova, Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria
- Rachit Agarwal, C3i Hub, IIT Kanpur, India
- Lukas Aumayr, TU Wien, Austria
- Stefano Balietti, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari, Italy
- Andrea Bracciali, University of Turin, Italy
- Carlo Campajola, University College London, United Kingdom
- Andrea Canidio, CoW DAO
- Diego Castejon, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
- Yebo Feng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Robin Fritsch, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Martin Harrigan, South East Technological University, Rep. of Ireland
- Lioba Heimbach, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Walter Hernandez, The DLT Science Foundation and University College London, United Kingdom
- Juraj Hledik, European Commission, Italy
- Aljosha Judmayer, SBA Research, Austria
- Kwok Yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Sheng-Nan Li, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- Christos Makridis, Stanford University, USA
- Riccardo Marchesin, University of Trento, Italy
- Johnnatan Messias, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany
- Malte Möser, Chainalysis, USA
- Vabuk Pahari, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany
- Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Université de Montréal, Canada
- Arash Pourdamghani, TU Berlin, Germany
- Julien Prat, CREST, École Polytechnique, France
- Pietro Saggese, IMT School For Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
- István András Seres, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
- Sandeep Shukla, IIT Kanpur, India
- Natkamon Tovanich, CREST, École Polytechnique, France
- Kentaroh Toyoda, IHPC, Agency for Science and A*STAR SIMTech, Singapore
- Nicolò Vallarano, UZH Universität Zürich, Switzerland
- Dimitrios Vasilopoulos, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
- Saravanan Vijayakumaran, IIT Bombay, India
- Stefan Voigt, København Universitet, Denmark
- Viet Anh Vu, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Christoph Wegener, Leuphana University, Germany
- Cong Wu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Marcus Wunsch, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Aviv Yaish, Yale Univeristy, USA
- Michelle Yeo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Francesco Zola, Vicomtech, Spain
Sponsors and Co-organizers
Contact
Contact the organizers at contact@caaw.io