Conference

Keynote title

Antitrust in the Decentralized Economy: What Is Old, What Is New, What Is Necessary?

Abstract

The talk with discuss how blockchain markets and the actors inside them have grown to a point where dominant companies emerge and may act anticompetitively. This creates a need for antitrust policy in decentralized markets. The talk with present how antitrust policy can be adapted for those markets.

Bios

Konstantinos is a Professor of Competition Law and Regulation at the University of Glasgow, UK. His research and teaching focus on digital markets, blockchain, and high-tech industries in general. His monograph Antitrust in the Decentralised Economy published by Oxford University Press in 2025 is the first comprehensive application of competition law and policy in blockchain and fintech markets. He has policy experience in various positions. In 2020, he was appointed to the Lawmaking Commission convened by the Greek government on the modernisation of competition law in Greece, and more recently, he advised the Saudi Arabia government on competitiveness in the domestic fintech market and has also served as a Special Scientific Advisor to the Hellenic Competition Commission and has delivered training to judges and government officials in the frame of programmes run by the EU, OECD, and the governments of Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and Greece. His work has been funded by various institutions including ESRC, EU, the Fulbright Foundation, the Onassis Foundation, the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, and the Swedish Competition Authority, as well as Facebook and Google. In 2025 he was a Visiting Professor at CUPL (Beijing) teaching Data Law. In 2023, he was shortlisted for the Concurrence writing awards in the ‘General Antitrust’ category for my work on the goals of EU competition law. He holds an S.J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, an LL.M. from Harvard University, and an LL.B. and LL.M. from Aristotle University.