Mini Track Chair:
The rapid maturation of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies is reshaping how value is created, recorded and exchanged, with tokenization, crypto-assets, smart contracts and decentralized finance moving from experimental niches into mainstream business, financial and public sector processes. These technologies promise greater transparency, efficiency and disintermediation, yet they also raise new risks for organizations, investors and public authorities: market volatility, fraud and illicit finance, tax evasion, consumer protection gaps, and governance structures that often escape traditional mechanisms of accountability. At the same time, the regulatory landscape is changing fast. Frameworks such as the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and the new tax transparency rules for crypto-asset service providers (DAC8) are redefining the conditions under which blockchain-based business models can operate. The central objective of this mini-track is to offer a managerial, economic and regulatory perspective on how businesses, financial institutions and public authorities can harness the potential of blockchain while ensuring trust, compliance and responsible innovation. It welcomes contributions addressing blockchain-enabled business models, the tokenization of real-world assets, digital finance and DeFi, central bank digital currencies, the taxation and auditing of crypto-assets, regulatory supervision and compliance, and the broader implications of distributed ledger technologies for corporate governance, financial reporting and public administration.
Contributions in this framework can include but not limited within the following topics:
Ilan Alon
is Professor of Business Administration and Economics at Ariel University, Israel, and Research Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Emerging Markets. His research focuses on crypto economics, blockchain, digital assets, Web3, and global cryptocurrency adoption. With over 250 publications, 19,000 citations, and an h-index of 72, he is a highly cited international scholar bridging economics, business, and emerging technologies.
Sorin Cristian Nita
teaches economics and business administration at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE), covering blockchain basics, risk, investments and digital transformation. He is an active voice in the blockchain community, speaking regularly at industry and academic conferences. Alongside his academic role he is a fiscal risk and anti-fraud specialist with more than 15 years of experience across consulting, banking and public administration. Over the past eight years he has worked in Romania’s Ministry of Finance and the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF). He currently works within ANAF’s anti-fraud structure, where he leads the crypto-assets division.
