CAL2025: The 5th Crypto Asset Lab Conference

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

January, 16 and 17 - Milan (Italy) and online

Sironi Room
Università Milano-Bicocca
Piazza della Scienza
Milano - Italy

The CryptoAsset Lab Conference is a joint research initiative by the Department of Management and Law, Università di Milano-Bicocca, the Digital Gold Institute, and the JRC-European Commission.

This conference brings together an international group of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the latest advances, challenges, and opportunities in crypto-assets and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). We look forward to welcoming you into our interdisciplinary community of crypto-assets scholars.

For general enquires please contact info@cryptoassetlab.org, to be a partner of the conference please contact partners@cryptoassetlab.org.

Attendance

To attend the conference (in person or remote) get your ticket at Eventbrite. Prices are:

  • PhD students: €75
  • in presence: €150 (early birds €120, late-comers €180)
  • remote connection: €90 (early birds €75, late-comers €120)

Call for papers: relevant dates

Conference Theme and Topics

The conference provides a forum for presenting new ideas and discussing the future direction of the crypto-asset ecosystem. It focuses on bitcoin, crypto-asset, and CBDC, with a special interest in liquidity management, investment, banking, finance, financial services, monetary theory, and regulation.

We invite submissions on a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, the following macro themes:

  • Alternative and decentralised finance
    • The accounting treatment of crypto-assets
    • The use of crypto-assets in capital raise
    • Security and utility tokens
    • Balance sheet effect and liquidity implications on financial institutions
    • DAOs: accountability and governance
    • Non-fungible tokens (NFT)
    • Web3 Investment Products & Ecosystem Growth
    • Risk management frameworks and practice for crypto-assets, stablecoins, and CBDCs
    • Alternative and decentralized corporate finance
    • Big data in DeFi
    • Opportunities for SMEs and startups
  • Central Bank Digital Currencies and stablecoins
    • Regulatory approaches for crypto-assets and CBDCs
    • The impact of crypto-assets and CBDCs for cross-border payments and settlement
    • Monetary policy implications of crypto-assets and CBDCs
    • Online/offline uses of stablecoins and CBDCs
    • The accounting treatment of crypto-assets and CBDCs
    • Digital Asset Settlement, Clearing and Payments
  • Defi regulation, environmental, social, and governance impact
    • RegTech for crypto-asset supervision
    • Crypto-asset service providers: regulation and management
    • Legal, ethical, and societal, environmental aspects of decentralised finance
    • Decentralized exchanges (DEX) vs Centralized Exchanges
    • Environmental sustainability of crypto-assets and their markets
    • Financial stability and crypto-assets
  • Security, Privacy, and Monitoring
    • Security and privacy challenges
    • Forensics and monitoring
    • Media attention to Defi
  • Technologies and Protocols of Crypto-Assets
    • The Bitcoin protocol and extensions
    • Proof-of-work, -stake, -burn, -authority
    • Distributed consensus protocols
    • Smart contracts and distributed ledgers
    • Permissioned and permissionless distributed ledgers
    • Economics and/or game theoretic analysis of crypto-asset protocols
    • Second layer application
    • Artificial Intelligence in crypto-assets
    • Blockchain in Global Finance
    • Efficiency issues of crypto-assets

To facilitate the attendance of colleagues with limited possibilities to join us in person, the CAL Conference has adopted a hybrid mode since 2020. If you wish to join virtually, please indicate so during the submission process.

Organizing Committee

  • Program Chairs
    • Ferdinando Ametrano, Digital Gold Institute and Università Milano-Bicocca
    • Paola A. Bongini, Università Milano-Bicocca
  • Program Committee
    • Lucia Alessi - DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission
    • Filippo Annunziata - Università Bocconi
    • Simone Cortese - University of West London
    • Luca Fantacci - Università degli Studi di Milano
    • Gianna Figà-Talamanca - Università di Perugia
    • Gianfranco Forte - Università Milano-Bicocca
    • Yuliya Guseva - Rutgers Law School
    • Daniele Marazzina - Politecnico di Milano
    • Edoardo Martino - Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics
    • Francesca Mattassoglio - Università Milano-Bicocca
    • Paul Momtaz - TUM School of Management
    • Paolo Pagnottoni - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
    • 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
    • Silvio Vismara - Università di Bergamo
  • General Chair
    • Luca Bellardini, Università Milano-Bicocca
    • Concetta Ingrassia, Digital Gold Institute

Gold Partner