The 5th Crypto Asset Lab Conference

CAL2024: The 5th Crypto Asset Lab Conference

Investments, Economics, and Regulation for Bitcoin and Crypto-Assets

We are delighted to announce the 5th Crypto Asset Lab Conference on January 23-24, 2025.

The conference, also known as CAL2025, is proudly presented by the European Commission-Joint Research Centre, Università Milano Bicocca, Digital Gold Institute, MUSA and DeTOKoDE.

CAL 2024 is a hybrid event, welcoming both in-person attendees at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy), and remote participants. Remote participants will receive a web streaming link to join the event virtually.

Conference Theme and Topics

The conference focuses on bitcoin, crypto-asset, and CBDC, with a special interest in liquidity management, investment, banking, finance, financial services, monetary theory, and regulation.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Regulatory approaches for crypto-assets and CBDCs
• The impact of crypto-assets and CBDCs for cross-border payments and settlement
• RegTech for crypto-asset supervision
• Crypto-asset service providers: regulation and management
• Monetary policy implications of crypto-assets and CBDCs
• Stablecoins
• Online/offline uses of stablecoins and CBDCs
• The accounting treatment of crypto-assets and CBDCs
• Balance sheet effect and liquidity implications on financial institutions
• The use of crypto-assets in capital raise
• Risk management frameworks and practice for crypto-assets, stablecoins, and CBDCs
• Smart contracts and distributed ledgers
• Permissioned and permissionless distributed ledgers
• Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
• Legal, ethical, and societal aspects of decentralized finance
• Non-fungible tokens (NFT)
• Security and utility tokens
• DAOs: accountability and governance
• The Bitcoin protocol and extensions
• Proof-of-work, -stake, -burn, -authority
• Distributed consensus protocols
• Economics and/or game theoretic analysis of crypto-asset protocols
• Second layer application
• Blockchain and cryptography applications
• Security and privacy challenges
• Forensics and monitoring

Program

See the conference website.

CAL2025 Organizing Committee

Program Chairs

• Ferdinando Ametrano, Digital Gold Institute and Università Milano-Bicocca
• Paola A. Bongini, Università Milano-Bicocca

General Chair

• Francesca Mattassoglio, Università Milano-Bicocca

Program Committee

• Lucia Alessi - DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission
• Filippo Annunziata - Università Bocconi
• Simone Cortese - UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies
• Gianna Figà-Talamanca - Università di Perugia
• Gianfranco Forte - Università Milano-Bicocca
• Paolo Giudici - Università di Pavia
• Daniele Marazzina - Politecnico di Milano
• Francesca Mattassoglio - Università Milano-Bicocca
• Paolo Pagnottoni - Università di Pavia
• Ricardo Pérez-Marco - CNRS, Université de Paris
• Marco Petracco Giudici - DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission
• Gina Pieters - University of Chicago
• Carla Reyes - Southern Methodist University
• Sandra Ro - Global Blockchain Business Council
• Monica Rossolini - Università Milano-Bicocca
• Stefan Scharnowski - University of Mannheim
• Antonella Sciarrone Alibrandi - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
• Maarten van Oordt - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam