Token Engineering Breakout Session

Token Engineering Breakout Sessions Live Mechanism & System Design Workshop hosted by Token Engineering Academy, Bancor, UZH Blockchain Center, Token Engineering Labs, EthCC, and knowledge partners IEEE Blockchain, taking place at the main venue of EthCC[9] 2026 in Cannes. A hands-on design workshop for researchers, protocol designers, engineers, and economists working on real decentralized systems. What This Is A structured, collaborative design environment where real protocol challenges are brought into the room and worked on in small, focused groups. Participants will: Engage with concrete mechanism and market design problemsClarify assumptions and constraintsIdentify incentives and strategic interactionsExplore alternative system architecturesSurface trade-offs before they become production risks The emphasis is on live design work — reasoning in public, stress-testing ideas, and refining models collaboratively. How It Works Selected teams present real design challenges they are currently facing. Participants then self-organize into breakout groups to work through those problems in depth. The session concludes with a comparative discussion across groups, identifying shared patterns and recurring design tensions in onchain systems. Who Should Attend Protocol designers building or refining live systemsEngineers working on incentive-driven architecturesEconomists and researchers studying mechanism designBuilders who want to stress-test ideas before deployment