Powered by blockchains, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has grown to a significant economy covering exchanges, borrowing/lending, margin trading, derivatives, and more. However, the security of DeFi have to date not received much scrutiny or attention. Indeed, both old (buggy smart contracts, key management failures, etc.) and new security problems (bribery attacks, MEV, etc.) rampage and have cost billions of dollars in loss.
The purpose of this workshop is to unite researchers with deep knowledge in the many subfields of DeFi (network, consensus, game theory, programming language, economics and security), to jointly revisit their security and privacy properties. The primary aim of the workshop is to elaborate on how we can protect DeFi users from malicious trading entities and what kind of attacks those could mount. The workshop, therefore, aims to solicit novel works that refine the fundamental tensions between security, priva
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