The 2nd international workshop of Crypto(graphy) for Real-World Assets (CRWA, affiliated with Asiacrypt 2026) brings together cryptographers, blockchain engineers, and financial technologists to address the unique challenges of tokenizing traditional assets. As the financial industry increasingly adopts blockchain technology, new cryptographic solutions are essential to ensure security, privacy, and regulatory compliance in tokenized asset ecosystems.
CRWA'26 focuses on practical cryptographic implementations for high-value, long-lifecycle financial instruments including bonds, equities, commodities, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The workshop emphasizes real-world deployment challenges, regulatory requirements, and the intersection of traditional finance with decentralized technologies.
Topics of Interest
We welcome both theoretical cryptographic advances and their practical applications in cryptocurrency and real-world asset tokenization scenarios. Contributions may focus on novel cryptographic primitives, protocol innovations, system implementations, or deployment experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Cryptographic designs for central-bank digital currencies (limits, revocation, offline cash)
Selective-disclosure credentials and shielded stablecoin designs
Proof-of-reserve and transparent asset backing
ZK-SNARK/STARK constructions for transparent yet compliant payments
MPC and FHE for institutional wallets, proof-of-reserve, and on-chain KYC/AML
Signatures and commitments suitable for long-term monetary assets
Post-quantum cryptography for high-value, long-lifecycle assets
Verifiable off-chain computation
Succinct bridging, multi-hop atomic swaps, and channel-based micro-payments
Threshold cryptography for key management
Cryptographic tools enabling policy enforcement without trusted intermediaries
Privacy-preserving smart contracts
and more...
Call for Papers/Presentations
CRWA'26 invites submissions on cryptographic methods for real-world asset tokenization. Submissions may describe new theory, protocols, systems, work in progress, published work, or practice-oriented insights — including non-publishable but technically interesting ideas.
Submissions may be a short abstract (up to 3 pages, excluding references) or a full paper. All submissions should include:
Title
Author(s) and affiliation(s)
Name(s) of the expected presenter(s)
A brief summary of the talk content
Optional: full paper
Submissions must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Presentation slots will be 15–25 minutes depending on the number of accepted submissions.
Submission portal: crwa26
Non-archival: This workshop has no formal proceedings. Accepted presentations will be listed on the workshop website, allowing future submission to archival venues.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: October 21, 2026
Notification: Nov 3, 2026
Workshop date: December 7, 2026
Technical Committee
Akaki Mamageishvili (Offchain Labs)
Chen-Da Liu-Zhang (HSLU & Web3 Foundation)
Duc V. Le (Circle)
Hanwen Feng (University of Canterbury)
Jonathan Heiss (TU Berlin)
Manvir Schneider (Cardano Foundation)
Rujia Li (Tsinghua U.)
Runchao Han (Babylon)
Tako Boris Fouotsa (University of Manchester)
Yu Shen (PolyU)
Qin Wang (CSIRO, Organiser)
Zhipeng Wang (University of Manchester, Organiser)