From fc26general at ifca.ai  Tue Jan 20 11:54:43 2026
From: fc26general at ifca.ai (FC26 General Chairs)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:54:43 +0100
Subject: [fc-announce] Call for Participation: FC26 (registration open,
 hotel cutoff date approaching)
Message-ID: <1cdc8d1098dd3ffd12101b0497b8ec4e@unipay.nl>

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 (FC26)
March 2-6, 2026, St. Kitts Marriott Resort, St. Kitts
https://fc26.ifca.ai/
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international
forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and
debate regarding information assurance, with a specific focus on
commercial contexts.? The conference covers all aspects of securing
transactions and systems.

The goal of the conference is to bring security and cryptography
researchers and practitioners together with economists, bankers,
implementers and policy-makers.? Intimate and colourful by tradition,
the FC program features varied events each?year, including invited
talks, academic presentations, technical demonstrations and more.

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AVAILABLE ONLINE

We have assembled a vibrant program featuring technical presentations
of 42 full papers and 4 short papers, selected by rigorous peer review
from 247 submissions.? For full details please visit
https://fc26.ifca.ai/program.html

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WORKSHOPS

Six affiliated workshops will be held in conjunction with the
conference:

CAAW'26: 5th International Workshop on Cryptoasset Analytics

CoDecFin'26: 7th Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance

DeFi'26: 5th Workshop on Decentralized Finance

Fairness'26: 2nd Workshop on Recent Advances in Fairness in
Distributed Applications

Voting'26: 11th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting
Schemes

WTSC'26: 10th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts

There will be a tutorial on Redactable Blockchains.

More details on the workshops can be found at:
https://fc26.ifca.ai/workshops.html

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REGISTRATION

Registration information is available at:
https://fc26.ifca.ai/registration.html

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CONFERENCE HOTEL

A block of rooms at the conference hotel are available for conference
attendees at a negotiated group rate.? Participants are encouraged to
book their room ASAP to avoid disappointment.

Information on room rates and reservations is available at:
https://fc26.ifca.ai/accommodation.html

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TRAVEL

Information about airlines, airport transfers, and entry requirements
is available at:
https://fc26.ifca.ai/travel.html

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STUDENT GRANTS

Information about student?stipends can be found at:
https://fc26.ifca.ai/stipends.html

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This conference is organized annually by the International Financial
Cryptography Association / Stichting Financial Cryptography.

Additional information about the conference can be found at:
https://fc26.ifca.ai/
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