Mid-Chain Conference: Blockchain & Decentralized Economics
The Mid-Chain Conference on Blockchain and Decentralized Economics will be held on Monday, October 26, 2026, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel.
The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue between academia and industry, and to highlight innovative theoretical, empirical, and applied work.
We welcome contributions from computer science, economics, and related disciplines, including (but not limited to) decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain protocols, decentralized markets, governance and DAOs, cryptographic mechanisms, empirical blockchain analysis, and applied research from industry.
Twelve research talks. One day, one room. With Yehuda Lindell, Noam Nisan, Julien Prat, Rafael Pass, Yonatan Sompolinsky, and Aviv Zohar.
The event is powered by Masterkey VC, sponsored by 3MI Labs, and we thank our media partners CryptoJungle, Blockchain B7, Web3 Devs Underground, The Israeli Crypto Forum, and FinTech Week Tel Aviv.
CONFIRMED TALKS
A SPECIAL PANEL: Yehuda Lindell
* Noam Nisan - On the Welfare of EIP-1559 with Patient Bidders
* Julien Prat - Reputation in delegated staking protocols
* Rafael Pass - An Economic Analysis of Proof of Useful Work
* Yonatan Sompolinsky - Opening the Strategic Pandora Box: A Novel Framework for Smart Contracts
* Aviv Zohar - AetherWeave: Sybil-Resistant Robust Peer Discovery with Stake
* Ilan Komargodski - Proofs of Useful Work from Arbitrary Matrix Multiplication
* Nimrod Talmon - Metric-Based Voting: Designing Rules for Ecosystem Resource Allocation
* Dror Goldberg - Caveats and opportunities from monetary history
* Roi Bar-Zur - Elastic Restaking Networks
* Yotam Gafni - Centralization and Stability in Formal Constitutions
* Bar Hoter - Enhancing Food Security with Blockchain: a Web3 application for national food system resilience
* Michael Sutton - The DAG KNIGHT Protocol: A Parameterless Generalization of Nakamoto Consensus
* Plus a poster session over lunch and a special panel to close the day.
PROGRAMME
08:45 Welcome and opening remarks
09:00 Julien Prat
10:00 Session 1 - Talmon, Hoter, Goldberg
11:15 Coffee
11:30 Session 2 - Komargodski, Pass, Bar-Zur
12:45 Lunch and poster session
13:45 Session 3 - Gafni, Zohar
15:00 Session 4 - Sompolinsky, Sutton
15:45 Coffee
16:00 Noam Nisan
17:00 Special panel with Yehuda Lindell
DETAILS
Monday, October 26, 2026, 08:45 - 18:00, Senate Hall, Building 71, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, David Ben-Gurion Blvd 1, Be'er Sheva.
Free. Registration is approval-based.
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