The authors thank all the people who stepped up to help with this special section. The authors are grateful to the editor-in-chief of Management Science, David Simchi-Levi, for his guidance and to Toni Riley for exceptional editorial assistance. The conference event would not have happened without enormous effort and support from the Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research (CBER) Forum, Cornell FinTech Initiative, and University of Toronto FinLab. Finally, thanks go to the following people, as well as all the anonymous referees, who have kindly offered consultation and advice to the special issue coeditors throughout the process: Terrence August, Volodymyr Babich, Snehal Banerjee, Shai Bernstein, Peter Bossaerts, Sean Cao, Jiri Chod, Ric Colacito, Jean-Edouard Colliard, Peter Cramton, Erick Delage, Daniel Ferreira, Neil Gandal, Vincent Glode, Itay Goldstein, Hanna Halaburda, Martin Haugh, Zhiguo He, Sabrina Howell, Ming Hu, Wei Jiang, Kose John, Andrew Karolyi, Alfred Lehar, Yukun Liu, Michael Ludkovski, Igor Makarov, Andrey Malenko, Ciamac Moallemi, Sriram Narayanan, Valeri Nikolaev, Maureen O’Hara, Andreas Park, Julien Prat, Fahad Saleh, Linda Schilling, Antoinette Schoar, Gustavo Schwenkler, Andrei Simonov, Christophe Spaenjers, Ke Tang, Gerry Tsoukalas, Tunay Tunca, Selale Tuzel, Yizhou Xiao, Baozhong Yang, and Mao Ye.
