Token Engineering Breakout

Why this session

EthCC[9]'s first edition showed how much a room of protocol designers, engineers, and researchers can get done once they sit down together to frame a real problem and form a team around it — that opening stretch was the highlight of the track.

For EthCC[10] we're keeping that kickoff intact and giving teams the rest of the conference to carry it further, instead of asking one room to hold three hours of working time.

Format

1. Kickoff Huddle

   Day 1 · 2–3 hours, on-site

   Short problem pitches from project teams (problem statements are shared in advance, so pitches go straight to the interesting parts), live team formation, and a design-sprint kickoff — each team leaves with a concrete starting point.

2. Async Working Period

   Between Day 1 and Day 3

   Teams keep going at their own pace — hallway sessions, side meetings, wherever suits them — logging progress in the shared coordination channel so momentum stays visible and others can drop in.

3. Final Round of Presentations

   Day 3 of 3 · on the TERSE day · 1 hour

   10 minutes per team: results, prototypes, models, or open questions, whatever stage the work reached. This slot happens inside the TERSE academic day (Day 3), so the breakout's results land in front of the same room as the research program instead of trailing off separately — see the TERSE session below.

How to get involved

• Presenting a problem? Propose it as a project below — that's the only thing that needs a form ahead of time.
• Joining a team? Browse the proposed topics below and sign up on that topic's own page — that's how we know which group to count you in for.

Propose a topic RSVP on Luma — link TBD Join the coordination channel

Proposed topics

• Leverage & Collateral Efficiency in Prediction Markets

  Prediction markets lock full notional collateral per claim by default — how should a protocol size collateral, and what leverage does that imply, once claims have real correlation structure?

  Submitted by Krzysztof Paruch (Token Engineering Labs)

  Read the full problem statement, resources & sign up →

Recap

EthCC[9] recap · Wed April 1, 2026 · Cannes

The first edition ran as a single 3-hour room: teams picked a real, unresolved mechanism or system design problem and worked it live with people who'd actually implement it.

• Bancor — Mark Richardson

  General bonding curve theory and its necessary approximation in fixed-point systems

• Optimum — Slobodan Sudaric-Hefner

  Creating a market for latency

• Token Engineering Labs — Krzysztof Paruch

  Market microstructure optimization of prediction markets

Full recap on LinkedIn → Recap on X →

EthCC[10] recap will be added here after the event — check back after April 11–15, 2027.