Discover the 2024 EthCC Token Engineering Track Program, curated by Token Engineering Academy!
Join us in Brussels for this year’s most exciting token engineering community gathering on July 10 at the EthCC Token Engineering Track!
TE Academy is back with curating our second-annual EthCC Token Engineering Track program, this year featuring 15 sessions! With an impressive 6 hours of premium token engineering content, this will be a day you won’t want to miss. Come join us and be part of token engineering history made together in Brussels — discover our program below and block your calendars!
Still need an EthCC ticket? You’re in luck! We’re giving away 2 free EthCC tickets (worth 500€ each!) — find our giveaway details here and enter by 23:59 UTC on Thursday, June 20, for the chance to win!
2024 EthCC Brussels Token Engineering Track Program
Token Engineering 2024 — The State of Discipline (10:00–10:20 CET)
The day will begin with an overview of the token engineering discipline by TE Academy Founder Angela Kreitenweis. Token Engineering combines software engineering, mechanism design and social choice theory, complex systems engineering, and more. Since 2018, this new domain has evolved significantly. Angela will discuss the most important topics in token engineering today — a great start to the program!
Category 1: Measuring Success
This category provides better metrics to understand system health.
Industry Standards for Token Supply (10:20–10:40 CET)
During this talk, MattyTokenomics from Legion will cover how token allocation, vesting, and supply reporting are highly non-standardized, resulting in insufficient transparency and disclosure for token holders to make informed decisions. This talk will conclude by proposing new metrics and industry standards.
Fixing Objectively Bad Models in LP Performance Evaluations (10:40–11:15 CET)
Following, Mark Richardson, Carbon Project Lead, will present a talk aiming to positively impact the industry by moving away from dangerous wish-thinking and towards a more honest and open discussion about DeFi and its protocols. Mark will present a model for evaluating LP performance that is generalizable to any liquidity protocol and free from bad assumptions.
Category 2: Driving Token Utility & Demand
This category will feature outstanding mechanism design case studies to grow token utility and demand.
Token Incentive Models for a Key Management Network (11:15–11:35 CET)
Robert Koschig, Researcher at 1kx, will cover the network’s actors, functions, challenges, and solutions, including simulation outputs. Highlights include adjusting rewards for fiat costs, implementing a freemium model for dApps and a novel pricing mechanism for institutional partners, and ensuring node thresholds for security.
Zero to Millions in Months: TE for Ocean Predictoor (11:35–11:55 CET)
Ocean Protocol Founder Trent McConaghy’s talk describes a simple token engineering meta-pattern: set up a game, make it easy to play, incentivize, and optimize. This pattern was applied in the design and rollout of Ocean Predictoor, enabling users to run AI-powered prediction or trading bots on crypto price feeds to earn money. As a result, Predictoor has grown exponentially, reaching millions in daily volume.
Social Choice, Parameter Selection and Optimization (11:55–12:30 CET)
Adim CTO Kris Paruch will introduce new results in multi-stakeholder decision-making and system optimization, sharing a technique to find optimal parameters for systems with conflicting goals. This method accounts for trade-offs. He will show how a DAO can rank goals and select parameter ranges using Social Welfare and Social Choice concepts, with stakeholder preferences as inputs in token systems.
Category 3: Incentive Optimization
This category will introduce new approaches to monitor and optimize incentive spending.
Protocol Owned Liquidity: Liquidity Mining 2.0 (13:40–14:15 CET)
Protocols are currently massively overspending on liquidity mining incentives without seeing adequate returns. Instead of spreading these incentives broadly, protocols could use them to provide liquidity directly. Gauntlet’s Head of Applied Research, Gabe Pohl-Zaretsky, will outline the inefficiency of past liquidity mining, how protocol-owned liquidity can solve this, and a solution Gauntlet is developing to manage this transition.
Point System Design and Learnings (14:15–14:35 CET)
Interested to hear about interventions that have propelled network growth and outline key areas for further research, paving the way for more informed and effective incentive designs in the ecosystem? Attend OpenBlock Labs Co-founder Paul Sengh’s talk to gain deep insights into the art and science of crypto incentives that could redefine how protocols drive growth and engagement.
Empirical Cryptoecon in Decentralized Governance Voting (14:35–14:55 CET)
During her talk, Wenxuan Deng (Moonshot Studio / Avail Project / 20squares.xyz) will present a comparative empirical case study on the veToken model for voting system, showing how financial incentives can lead to higher locking ratio and longer locking time, including big holders, and that market conditions have great impact on voters’ behaviors.
Category 4: New Primitives and Design Principles
This category will feature the latest research on new asset classes and cryptoeconomics primitives.
Soulbound Token Weighted Mechanisms (14:55–15:15 CET)
Kleros Cryptoeconomics Researcher William George will present how Soulbound Tokens can weight crypto-economic mechanisms like Quadratic Funding contributions and user chances in decision-making platforms such as Kleros. He will explore similarities, differences, and common elements of these use cases, as well as resistance to attacks.
Hyper-organic Systems Design for Adaptive DePIN Protocols (15:15–15:35 CET)
Dynamic, not prescriptive. Functions, not schedules. Huddle01 Chief Economist Shruti Appiah’s talk will share how hyper-organic systems design makes economic dynamics free, adaptive, and emergent, enabling DePINs to evolve with demand, supply, and network growth. This approach promotes free markets and healthy competition, with parameters adapting to the system’s evolution.
Category 5: The Future of Token Engineering
Building Simulations that Scale (15:35–15:55 CET)
In this talk, CADLabs Co-Founder and Head Of Engineering Ben Scholtz will present the tricks of the trade for developing fast, reliable, large-scale protocol simulations so that you can focus on design and test all the what-if scenarios you can imagine, from model code optimization to executing your simulations in the cloud.
Automated & Decentralized Risk Management Frameworks (15:55–16:15 CET)
DeFi Economic Risk Management is in its infancy, with billions lost due to poor practices. B.Protocol CEO and Protocol Architect Yaron Velner’s talk will cover current limitations, biases in DAO decision-making, and the need for automated, decentralized frameworks. Showcasing implementations on Morpho Blue, MetaMorpho, and other protocols, this presentation will highlight how embracing novel economic risk frameworks is crucial for a resilient DeFi ecosystem.
New AI asset class enabled by Optimistic Machine Learning (16:15–16:35 CET)
Cathie So (drCathieSo.eth), Chief Scientist at Ora Protocol, will cover IMO and IAO’s (Initial Model/Agent Offering) impact on blockchain and exploring value creation via inferenced assets, highlighting opML’s role in unifying these AI concepts for enhanced efficiency and security.
Managing a Token’s Lifecycle from Day Zero (16:35–17:10 CET)
During this panel discussion moderated by Angela Kreitenweis with speakers Lisa JY Tan (Economics Design), Lukasz Szymanski (Tokenomia.pro), and Nathan Benchimol (Nomiks), the group will delve into the role of a token engineer today and how this role has evolved over recent years.
Who Can You Expect to Meet at our Token Engineering Track?
Similar to our 2023 EthCC Token Engineering Track, you can expect to find top founders, protocol teams, researchers, and token engineering students at this year’s program. Unlimited networking opportunities with the best and brightest token engineers are guaranteed at our track!
“The Token Engineering track at EthCC promises to be filled with talks from top minds applying mathematics, engineering, and AI / data science to design and verification of tokenized ecosystems. It builds on the success of its inaugural track at last year’s EthCC. I’m honored to share our progress with Ocean Predictoor, a novel incentive game for AI-powered time series prediction, which has garnered significant volume since it launch a short time ago.” — Trent McConaghy
“EthCC is among the most useful and intellectually nourishing events of the year. Speaking on TE Academy’s Token Engineering stage provides a rare opportunity to address a room filled with sincere interest and a commensurate level of talent. The caliber of attendees at EthCC far surpasses that of other speaking engagements, and it is an honor to be part of this track curated by TE Academy.” — Dr. Mark Richardson
Please note that you must hold an EthCC ticket to attend the Token Engineering Track talks. Enter to win our free EthCC ticket giveaway by June 20 at 23:59 UTC; otherwise purchase a ticket via the EthCC website.
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