The Science of Blockchain Conference 2026
(SBC'26)

The conference focuses on technical innovations in the blockchain ecosystem, and brings together researchers and practioners working in the space. We aim to foster collaboration among the different communities working on blockchain protocols, cryptography, distributed systems, secure computing, and crypto-economics.

The conference is co-organized by IC3,    the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research (CBR),  and   UC Berkeley RDI.

The talks and papers from the previous events in this conference series are available here:   2025,   2024,   2023,   2022,   2020,   2019,   2018,   2017.  

Conference Dates:   July 27 - 29, 2026.

Venue: Arrillaga Alumni Center (326 Galvez St), Stanford University. Map.

Registration: Attendance is free, but please register by July 13, 2026, if you plan to attend either in person or remotely.

Accommodations: Some hotels close to Stanford are the Sheraton Palo Alto, the Stanford Terrace Inn, and others listed at Stanford's lodging guide.

Attending remotely: The talks will be streamed live and the recordings will be made available after the conference.

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Affiliated workshops

A number of workshops will take place before the main conference. Check below for details on location, topics, and more.

• SBC DAO Workshop. Thursday, July 30, 2026.
• MEV Workshop. Thursday, July 30, 2026.

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Program

The program will be available by early June 2026.

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Call for papers

Important Dates

• Talk submission deadline: March 13, 2026, 11:59pm PT
• Final acceptance notification: May 13, 2026
• Conference: July 27 - 29, 2026

Proceedings and Submission at other Conferences

SBC is not archival and does not have proceedings. It is allowed to submit work which has been published at or submitted to another conference or a journal.

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Organizing Committee

• Program Chairs

• Dan Boneh, Stanford University, CBR
• Ari Juels, Cornell Tech, IC3
• Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University
• Dawn Song, UC Berkeley, RDI

• Program Committee

• Aggelos Kiayias,   University of Edinburgh and IOG
• Alin Tomescu,  Aptos Labs
• Andrew Lewis-Pye,  London School of Economics
• Aniket Kate,  Supra Research / Purdue University
• Ari Juels,  Cornell Tech, IC3
• Ariel Gabizon,  Aztec Labs
• Arnab Roy,  Mysten Labs
• Arthur Gervais,  University College London (UCL)
• Aviv Zohar,  The Hebrew University
• Balaji Palanisamy,  University of Pittsburgh
• Benedikt Bünz,  NYU/Espresso Systems
• Charalampos Papamanthou,  Yale University and Lagrange Labs
• Christian Cachin,  University of Bern, Switzerland
• Chrysoula Stathakopoulou,  Chainlink Labs
• Ciamac Moallemi,  Columbia University / Paradigm / Uniswap Labs
• Clara Schneidewind,  MPI-SP
• Dan Boneh,  Stanford University
• David Tse,  Stanford University
• Davide Crapis,   Ethereum Foundation
• Deepak Maram,  Mysten Labs
• Dionysis Zindros,  Common Prefix
• Ertem Nusret Tas,   a16z crypto
• Fan Zhang,  Yale and IC3
• Ghassan Karame,  Ruhr University Bochum
• Giulia Fanti,  Carnegie Mellon University
• Ittai Abraham,  Intel Labs
• Jérémie Decouchant,  Delft University of Technology
• Jeremy Clark,  Concordia University
• Joachim Neu,  a16z Crypto Research
• Joseph Bonneau,  New York University
• Kartik Nayak,  Duke University / Espresso Systems
• Ling Ren,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Lioba Heimbach,  Category Labs
• Liyi Zhou,  University of Sydney
• Luca Zanolini,  Ethereum Foundation
• Mallesh Pai,  Tempo Labs, Rice University
• Mario Larangeira,  Institute of Science Tokyo and IOG
• Patrick McCorry,  Arbitrum Foundation
• Pranav Garimidi,  a16z crypto
• Roger Wattenhofer,  Anza & ETH Zurich
• Srivatsan Sridhar,   Byzantine Research
• Sourav Das,  Category Labs
• Tanusree Sharma,  Pennsylvania State University
• Ted Yin,  UC Santa Barbara and Lyquor Labs
• Tim Roughgarden,  a16z crypto & Columbia University
• Vero Estrada-Galiñanes
• Will Scott,  Protocol Labs
• Yupeng Zhang,  University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
• Zeta Avarikioti,  TU Wien & Common Prefix