We invite submissions to the 1st Workshop on Decentralisation: Theory and Practice (DeTaP), to be held in association with Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT) 2026.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Definitions and conceptualisations of decentralisation
- Methods for measuring decentralisation
- Critiques and limitations of existing measurement frameworks
- Empirical studies of decentralisation in deployed systems
- Decentralisation of blockchain governance
- Legal tests for decentralisation and their relationship to technical definitions
- Liability and accountability in decentralised systems
- Optimal or “sufficient” degrees of decentralisation
- Trade-offs between decentralisation and other system properties (e.g. efficiency, scalability, accountability)
- Decentralisation of blockchain hardware and infrastructure
- Case studies of endogenous and exogenous events shaping decentralisation
- Causal analysis: drivers of decentralisation and centralisation pressures
- Normative arguments for or against decentralisation
- Decentralisation in other fields vs. blockchain-specific framing
- Historical and non-blockchain case studies of decentralised systems, successful or unsuccessful

Submissions require only a title and abstract describing the proposed talk. Authors may optionally submit a full or short paper alongside the abstract.

The workshop has no proceedings and is intended as a venue for exchanging ideas, therefore work in progress and work that has been published at or submitted to another venue is equally welcome.

Accepted papers may optionally be made available on the workshop's website at the authors' discretion.

Submissions should be made via this form: https://forms.gle/3XGwZN2MbaG3vAZm6