The Best Paper Award Committee considered five Best Paper candidates with excellent review scores. Criteria for selection include originality, rigour, and significance taking consideration of the submitted papers, reviews, and video presentations. All the Best Paper candidates were considered to be of excellent quality by all members of the committee.
The five best paper candidates are:
Privacy and Transparency in CBDCs: A Regulation-by-Design AML/CFT Scheme
Nadia Pocher (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Andreas Veneris (University of Toronto, Canada)
An Empirical Analysis of Pool Hopping Behavior in the Bitcoin Blockchain
Natkamon Tovanich (IRT SystemX, France), Nicolas Soulié (Université Paris-Saclay, Univ Evry, IMT-BS, LITEM, France), Nicolas Heulot (IRT SystemX, France), Petra Isenberg (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria, LRI, France)
Æternum: A Decentralized Voting System with Unconditional Privacy
Christian Killer (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Markus Knecht (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Claude Müller (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Bruno Rodrigues (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Eder John Scheid (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Muriel Franco (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
On the Impact of Attachment Strategies for Payment Channel Networks
Kimberly Lange (Technical University Berlin, Germany), Elias Rohrer (Technical University of Berlin, Germany), Florian Tschorsch (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Anomaly Detection based on Traffic Monitoring for Secure Blockchain Networking
Jinoh Kim (Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA), Makiya Nakashima (Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA), Wenjun Fan (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA), Simeon Wuthier (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA), Xiaobo Zhou (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA), Ikkyun Kim (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Republic of Korea), Sang-Yoon Chang (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA)
The Award for Best Paper Runner Up goes to
An Empirical Analysis of Pool Hopping Behavior in the Bitcoin Blockchain
Natkamon Tovanich (IRT SystemX, France), Nicolas Soulié (Université Paris-Saclay, Univ Evry, IMT-BS, LITEM, France), Nicolas Heulot (IRT SystemX, France), Petra Isenberg (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria, LRI, France)
And the Best Paper Award goes to
Æternum: A Decentralized Voting System with Unconditional Privacy
Christian Killer (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Markus Knecht (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Claude Müller (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Bruno Rodrigues (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Eder John Scheid (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Muriel Franco (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
