Introducing The Token Engineering track and the Unplugged Sessions

ERC20 powers the EVM ecosystem, but how much do you REALLY know about ERC20? Let's look at some weird ERC20 tokens that break your assumptions while still complying with the standard, and then explain the RIGHT way to handle them.

This talk explores how autonomous agents and programmable tokens are redefining value in Web3. It introduces an updated Token Utility Canvas for designing agent-native, self-optimizing systems that replace startups with composable protocol economies.

This session with Robert Koschig, Duncan and Achim Struve, dives deeper into the complexity and resulting flaws of implementation standards like ERC20, and how the rise of agentic networks presents an opportunity to rethink these frictions.

Efficiently matching proof requesters with provers in Ethereum L2 and L3’s remains challenging due to high costs and misaligned incentives. DARA solves this by using a knapsack double auction with dynamic fees, improving efficiency and fairness.

The research presented will show how 10% of validators capture 85% of staking rewards. Inspired by Piketty’s economic theory, this talk introduces a Validator Reputation Model to redesign incentives, improve restacking fairness, and secure staking.

This TE Unplugged session, led by Angela Kreitenweis, is a live roundtable featuring Tanisha Katara and Franklin Delehelle. We’ll dive deeper into incentive design for decentralized infrastructure—exploring systemic fairness, and market efficiency.

An exploration of the technical and economic frameworks needed to bring invoice factoring on-chain. This presentation will examine the challenges and opportunities of tokenizing receivables to create more efficient, accessible debt markets.

Token utility tracking is challenging and requires extensive analysis. Popular token trackers overlook utility, focusing on market data. Join Vasily to learn how to scale token utility analytics with AI and his Token Classification framework.

This TE Unplugged session, led by Mark Richardson, is a live roundtable featuring Vasily Sumanov and Phillip Zahn, diving deeper into engineering tokenized value. We’ll highlight how AI-driven utility classification informs the creation of on-chain financial assets and the need for robust design frameworks.

The academic field of peer prediction proposes crowdsourcing mechanisms such as extracting “surprisingly popular” answers from expert minorities. We explore adapting such ideas to Schelling Point oracles such as Kleros in an attack resistant fashion.

We propose a novel data-driven methodology for pricing derivatives on blockchain transaction fees in protocols that use an EIP-1559-like transaction fee mechanism. Our approach models the base fee process as a Markov chain driven by relative block us

This TE Unplugged session, led by Kris, is a live roundtable featuring experts on decentralized finance and dispute resolution. We’ll explore fee volatility pricing models and the economics of truth-seeking, highlighting links between data, incentives, and governance.