Monero Konferenco (“MONEROKON”) strives to provide a high-quality conference that brings together global scientists, researchers, and subject-matter experts to present state-of-the-art developments in their respective fields. In addition to presentations that addresses the science, engineering, and the mathematics of blockchain technology, we are also keen to receive multidisciplinary submissions that touch on the wider implications of this emerging technology in relation to art, sociology, psychology, politics, philosophy, ecology, and law.

Along with 20-minute presentations, we welcome 60-minute self-organized panel discussions with 3-6 panelists, 60-minute workshops, and artworks - posters, paintings, art installations, digital media - related to the general themes of privacy, security, and/or censorship resistance.

Submissions will be categorized into three tracks: (i) Security, (ii) Privacy, and (iii) Decentralization.

Topics of Interest

May include, but not limited to:

Security

• Economics of coin tail emission vs. post-emission fee market
• Spam attacks and transaction fees
• Node DDoS prevention
• Node sybil attacks
• Selfish mining attacks
• Difficulty adjustment algorithms
• Post-quantum cryptography

Privacy

• Web3 privacy projects
• Unique privacy-preserving cryptographic methods
• Novel implementations of zero-knowledge cryptographic schemes
• Anonymous network layers/mix networks
• Applied statistics in traceability and decoy selection algorithms
• Use of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) in Blockchain Analytics
• Transaction de-anonymization techniques
• Cryptocurrency Laws and Regulations
• Human Rights and the Blockchain
• Privacy issues with layer 2 solutions
• Privacy-preserving smart contracts
• Privacy-preserving Proof-of-Stake

Decentralization

• Cross-chain interoperability
• Atomic swaps
• Multisignature wallets
• Decentralized Exchanges (DEX)
• Novel distributed consensus protocols
• Environmental sustainability of consensus mechanisms
• Pool mining centralization
• Full node distribution
• Scalability issues with blockchain size
• Blockchain pruning
• Blockchain governance models
• Secure multi-party computation
• Distributed Blockchain Storage Solutions
• P2P Networks

Venue

Second Culture, 475/43, Dělnická, 170 00 Praha 7, Czechia

Key Dates

Submission deadline: 24 March 2025 @ 17:00 CET

Proposal review phase: 24-30 March 2025

Notice of Acceptance by: 31 March 2025

Event Dates: 20-22 June 2025

Contact us

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Submission Guidelines

Proposal may evaluate social constructs, present empirical finds, describe challenges and solutions, present new methods, schemes, models and/or highlight a research gap of a given topic. Workshops should have an interactive element and geared towards introducing learners to practical skills, techniques, or ideas.

Please refrain from submitting proposals that are promotional in nature. Proposals related to other cryptocurrency projects should focus on the high-level technical aspects of the project.

You can enter proposals until 2025-03-24 17:00 (Europe/Prague), 2 months, 3 weeks from now.