Will Cong

I will be delivering a keynote at #ChainScience2023: Blockchain Big Data for Forensic Finance and Understanding Inclusion and Interoperability. Join me and other experts in blockchain to explore the latest developments in the field by registering at chainscience.org

I will be delivering a keynote at #ChainScience2023, where theoretical insights inform practical applications and real-world challenges inspire new research! Join me and other leading experts in blockchain to explore the latest developments in the field.

Here's what @sekreps (Director, Cornell Brooks School Tech Policy Institute) and @SusanJoseph1786 (Director, Fintech Institute) think about recent events in cryptocurrency. youtube.com/watch?v=xt-Ptj…

This event is by invitation-only for in-person attendees, but is open to the public virtually. If you are interested in attending virtually, please register at newyorkfed.org/research/confe…

I'll be presenting a paper on "Inclusion and Democratization Through Web3 and DeFi? Initial Evidence from the Ethereum Ecosystem" (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…) at the 3rd NY Fed Conference on FinTech.

4th International Conference on Blockchain Economics Security and Protocols, December 12-13, 2022, Paris, France hosted by LIP6, Sorbonne University tokenomics-conference.lip6.fr

Glad to serve on the program committee for Conference Tokenomics 2022. Please submit your work and forward the information to people who might be interested.

For instance, corporations in the United States are the preferred target of #ransomware gangs, accounting for over 50% of worldwide #cyberattacks.

In particular, the anonymity of wallet ownership permits cybercrime organizations to scale their operations. We assemble a diverse set of public, proprietary, and hand-collected data, including dark web conversations, and using blockchain forensics and other investigative tools.

My new paper providing "An Anatomy of Crypto-Enabled Cybercrimes," with @camharvey, Daniel Rabetti, and Zong-Yu Wu. (Link: lnkd.in/dVj3sue9).

If you are interested, please join via Zoom: 880 4630 2096 PW: 023972 Spoiler: Einstein and Hawking guest appearance in slides.

I am presenting a new paper "Uncommon Factors for Bayesian Asset Clusters" (jointly with Gavin Guanhao Feng, Jingyu He, and Junye Li) later today 9pm at a forum webinar at Xiamen University Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics,and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Research and scientific inquiry do not stop at publication, and we would love to hear from you if you have comments and suggestions on this paper and big data and digital economy in general.

Our paper, "Endogenous Growth under Multiple Uses of Data" is in print in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Although we received valuable comments from several world-leading scholars such as Liyan Yang and Shota Ichihashi, the paper did not get feedback from broader audience at more conferences or seminars. (We had to withdraw after acceptance at WFA since the paper was forthcoming).

We were lucky that the paper was invited to the journal in only the 2nd conference we present at, and had a quick publication.

We build on our earlier work studying dynamic non-rivalry in a data economy, to incorporate possible cross-sector data non-rivalry and endogenize the growth of the economy.

A new article on regulation and crypto asset classification in the February 2022 issue of the CPI TechREG Chronicle. Glad to see Christian Catalini and Scott Kominers's insightful article on platform competition and web3. competitionpolicyinternational.com/cryptocurrency…

My comments in an White House Examiner article by Haisten, after the White House released statement about stepping in for regulation. washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-hou…