About the Workshop
In an era marked by rapid changes and unpredictable challenges, the concept of stability stands as a cornerstone across diverse disciplines — ranging from natural sciences and engineering to social sciences. The Stability Workshop aims to serve as a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore, discuss, and innovate on the multifaceted and broadly construed aspects of stability.
In this first edition, the focus is on blockchain technologies, smart contracts and their applications, such as cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance. These technologies and applications emerged as a reaction to the Global Financial Crisis and offered hope of a more stable foundation for the world economy. And, yet, to fully realize their potential and achieve widespread adoption, much work remains to be done. We seek to break silos across competing blockchains and promote a fruitful flow of information to speed up the research and development of these emerging technologies and applications.
Call for Papers
We invite high-quality original papers on the theme of stability, with a focus on blockchains, cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance and economics, including but not limited to the following topics:
- Stablecoins
- Fiat-backed stablecoins
- Crypto-backed stablecoins
- Unbacked stablecoins
- Stablecoin protocols
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
- Decentralized Identity
- Staking
- (Automated) market making
- Liquidity pools
- Stable liquidity pools
- Prediction markets
- Tokenomics
- Volatility of cryptocurrencies
- Stabilization of native cryptocurrencies
- Stability, sustainability and security of oracles
- Lending and borrowing
- Real-world asset tokenization
- Smart contract security
- Formal specification and verification of protocols
- Programming languages for smart contracts
- Regulatory aspects of stablecoins
- Governance and regulation of decentralized finance
- Blockchain sustainability
- Blockchain scalability approaches and their stability
- Cryptography and privacy for social stability
- Incidents of financial and economic instability
Submitted papers must not be simultaneously submitted to another conference or journal.
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Depending on the number and quality of submissions, we may seek publication in a special issue of a journal.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline
23rd of July 2025
Notification of Acceptance
7th of August 2025
Camera-Ready Submission
7th of September 2025
Workshop Date
7th of October 2025
All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Program Committee
Workshop Chair
Dr. Bruno Woltzemlogel Paleo
The Stable Order
Program Committee Members
Dr. Javier Álvarez Cid-Fuentes
Rootstock
Ohad Asor
Tau
Reginaldo Beraba
Mysten Labs, Sui
Ignacio Calderon de la Barça
Wolfram Blockchain Labs (Canada)
Prof. Claudio Di Ciccio
Utrecht University (Netherlands)
Prof. Marta Chavarría Romero
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
Dr. Hongzhou Chen
CKB Eco Fund
Alexander Chepurnoy
Ergo
Prof. Bernardo David
IT-University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Prof. Murdoch Jamie Gabbay
Heriot-Watt University and Eharo (UK)
Prof. Matthias Güdemann
Munich University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
Dr. Dmytro Kaidalov
Cardano
Dr. Karl Kreder
Quai
Prof. Mario Larangeira
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Prof. Kristijan Lenac
University of Rijeka (Croatia)
Prof. Timer Libal
Enidia AI and University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Prof. Juliana de Melo Bezerra
Brazilian Air Force's Aeronautics Institute of Technology (Brazil)
Leon Molchanovsky
BGIN and HSBC (England, UK)
Prof. Ali Nejadmalayeri
University of Wyoming (USA)
Prof. Roman Oliynykov
Cardano and V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine)
Prof. Serguei Popov
IOTA and University of Porto (Portugal)
Prof. Giselle Reis
CMU (Qatar)
Prof. Fahad Saleh
University of Florida (USA)
Dr. Marcelo Salhab Brogliato
Hathor Network
Prof. Alfred Taudes
Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria)
Prof. Simon Thompson
University of Kent (UK) and Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)
Dr. Mihaela Ulieru
SingularityNET and Impact Institute for the Digital Economy (USA)
Dr. Hernán Vanzetto
Informal Systems, Cosmos
Prof. Philip Wadler
University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK)
Dr. Shai Wyborski
Kaspa
Paper Submission Instructions
Paper Format
Papers must be submitted in PDF format.
Ideally, papers should be prepared using LaTeX and using the LIPIcs style.
Please contact the organizers, if you need or would like to use different tools or styles.Length
Papers should be up to 20 pages in length, excluding references.
Short papers are welcome.Paper Types
The following types of papers are welcome: theoretical papers, empirical papers, system descriptions, protocol descriptions, systematizations of knowledge (SoK), case studies. For other types of papers, please contact the organizers.
Submission System
All papers must be submitted through the EasyChair conference management system.
Originality
Submissions must be original work and must not be under review at another venue at the time of submission.
Templates and Resources
Workshop Program
The detailed program will be announced after the paper acceptance notifications. Below is the preliminary schedule.
7th of October 2025
Opening Remarks
Workshop Chairs
Session 1: Talks
TBA
Coffee Break
Session 2: Talks
TBA
Registration
Registration for the workshop is free.
To register, please email workshop@stability.nexus.
Participation in AFT from 8th to 10th of October is optional.
To register for AFT, visit AFT's Registration.
If you may need a visa to attend the workshop, please contact the organizers.
If you would like to participate in the workshop but, for any reason, you are unable or unwilling to come to CMU, USA, on the 7th of October, please contact the organizers.
Venue
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA
Carnegie Mellon University is located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, easily accessible by public transportation and within walking distance of many hotels.
Contact Us
For any questions regarding the workshop,
please contact the organizing committee: