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TE Academy presents the Token Engineering Research Symposium (TERSE 2026), a dedicated academic forum hosted in collaboration with EthCC, European's largest Ethereum Conference..

TERSE aims to foster thoughtful, educational, and non-promotional discussions on the emergence of token engineering and cryptoeconomics as a formal discipline. Rooted in the Ethereum ecosystem, the TERSE symposium connects academic researchers and crypto practitioners, designed to spark dialogue between theory and practice.

Token Engineering Research Symposium

TERSE 2026

at EthCC[9] in Cannes/FR, Palais des Festivals

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Apply to speak: https://ethcc.io/forms/speakers

PLEASE NOTE:
Apply for Track "31 March 2026: TERSE (Token Engineering Research Symposium Emergence)", and don't forget to include a link to your paper in the description of your presentation!
Applications close on February 20, 2026.

The Program

We invite submissions for academic, research-focused talks.

Contributions may span protocol design, mechanism and incentive design, modeling and analysis, implementation and validation, as well as their intersections with legal, organizational, and business contexts.

Token Engineering is understood here as a systems discipline that integrates economic theory, protocol architecture, data analytics, software engineering, and legal engineering into coherent design and evaluation methodologies.

From protocols, we derive mechanisms, and around these mechanisms, we construct incentive systems to guide emergent behavior toward desired properties such as robustness, fairness, and sustainability. We encourage submissions that explore, formalize, or demonstrate this integrative process, whether through analytical models, simulation and empirical studies, implementation case studies, or cross-disciplinary frameworks.

We welcome both:

Published research that contributes to the peer-reviewed body of literature.
Novel work-in-progress that meets an equivalent standard of academic rigor and clarity.

Scope (non-exhaustive):

Protocol and mechanism design in decentralized systems
Incentive and market design for emergent coordination
Verification, validation, and simulation of tokenized systems
Economic security and governance architectures
Integrations of legal, technical, and economic systems
Empirical or analytical studies of tokenized ecosystems

Apply to speak: https://ethcc.io/forms/speakers

All proposals will be formally reviewed by the Token Engineering Academy based on academic merit. This is a non-marketing forum dedicated to clarity, rigor, and advancing the peer-reviewed body of knowledge in Token Engineering.

Conference Committee

Steering Committee

From left to right:

Kris Paruch — Token Engineer & Cryptoeconomist, Token Engineering Labs; Chairperson, IEEE Blockchain Austria

Robert Koschig — Head of Economics, 1kx Crypto Investments

Angela Kreitenweis — Founder, TE Academy; Governance Researcher at GovXS; Editorial Board, Recerts Journal of Mechanism Design for Public Goods

Mark Richardson — PhD University of Melbourne; Project Lead, Bancor Protocol

Mark Ballandies PostDoc at University of Zurich, Co-founder at WiHi Association, Co-founder and Tokenomics at onocoy

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