Monday, Aug. 28, 2023
9:00am
Welcome remarks
SBC Program Chairs
Session 1:   Automated Market Making session chair: Dan Robinson
9:10am
Automated Market Making and Arbitrage Profits in the Presence of Fees [video]  
Jason Milionis (Columbia University), Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia University), Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University & a16z Crypto)
9:40am
Finding the Right Curve: Optimal Design of Constant Function Market Makers [video]  
Mohak Goyal (Stanford University), Geoffrey Ramseyer (Stanford University), Ashish Goel (Stanford University), David Mazières (Stanford University)
10:10am
WARP: An Efficient Decentralized Exchange Algorithm [video]  
Joseph Poon and Christopher Jeffrey
10:40am
Break
Session 2:   Mempool attacks and defenses session chair: Joachim Neu
11:10am
WIP: Towards the Comprehensive Understanding of Ethereum Mempool DoS Security [video]  
Yibo Wang (Syracuse University), Kai Li (Syracuse University), Wanning Ding (Syracuse University), Yuzhe Tang (Syracuse University)
11:40am
The Blockchain Imitation Game [video]  
Kaihua Qin (Imperial College London), Stefanos Chaliasos (Imperial College London), Liyi Zhou (Imperial College London), Ben Livshits (Imperial College London), Dawn Song (UC Berkeley RDI), Arthur Gervais (University College London)
12:10pm
Lunch
Session 3:   Proof of stake consensus session chair: Dahlia Malkhi
1:30pm
Time is Money: Strategic Timing Games in Proof-of-Stake Protocols [video]  
Caspar Schwarz-Schilling (Ethereum Foundation), Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest University), Thomas Thiery (Ethereum Foundation), Jennifer Pan (Jump Trading), Nihar Shah (Jump Tradin), Barnabe Monnot (Ethereum Foundation)
2:00pm
Goldfish: No More Attacks on Proof-of-Stake Ethereum [video]  
Francesco D'Amato (Ethereum Foundation), Joachim Neu (Stanford University), Ertem Nusret Tas (Stanford University), David Tse (Stanford University)
2:30pm
Designing a DV Protocol for Decentralized PoS Consensus [video]  
Oisin Kyne (Obol)
3:00pm
Break
Session 4:   Efficient SNARKs From Folding Schemes session chair: Dan Boneh
3:30pm
HyperNova: Recursive arguments for customizable constraint systems [video]  
Abhiram Kothapalli (Carnegie Mellon University), Srinath Setty (Microsoft Research)
4:00pm
Protostar: Generic Efficient Accumulation/Folding for Special Sound Protocols [video]  
Benedikt Bunz (Stanford University, Espresso Systems), Binyi Chen (Espresso Systems)
4:30pm
Invited: future directions in STARKs [video]  
Eli Ben-Sasson
5:00pm
End of day one
5:20pm
Reception
7:00pm
Evening meetup at HanaHaus in Palo Alto.   Hosted by Delendum. Please register.
7:00pm
Evening meetup at Park James Hotel.   Please register for the event.
Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023
Session 5:   Consensus session chair: David Tse
9:00am
Sprints: Intermittent Blockchain Mining [video]  
Michael Mirkin (Technion), Lulu Zhou (Yale University), Ittay Eyal (Technion), Fan Zhang (Yale University)
9:30am
TrustBoost: Boosting Trust among Interoperable Blockchains [video]  
Peiyao Sheng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Xuechao Wang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sreeram Kannan (University of Washington), Kartik Nayak (Duke University), Pramod Viswanath (Princeton University)
10:00am
Recent Latest Message Driven GHOST: Balancing Dynamic Availability With Asynchrony Resilience [video]  
Francesco D'Amato (Ethereum Foundation), Luca Zanolini (University of Bern)
10:30am
Break
Session 6:   New Cryptographic primitives session chair: Ari Juels
11:00am
Post-Quantum Single Secret Leader Election (SSLE) From Publicly Re-randomizable Commitments [video]  
Dan Boneh (Stanford University), Aditi Partap (Stanford University), Lior Rotem (Stanford University)
11:30am
Invited: Data Availability Sampling: Theory and Practice in 2023 [video]  
Dankrad Feist (Ethereum Foundation)
Session 7:   Lightning talks session chair: Ben Fisch
12:00pm
Lightning talks [video]  
Short 5 minute talks by the participants
12:30pm
Lunch
Session 8:   Privacy session chair: Mahdi Zamani
2:00pm
Building MPC Wallets at Coinbase [video]  
Yehuda Lindel (Coinbase)
2:30pm
UTT: Decentralized Ecash with Accountable Privacy [video]  
Alin Tomescu (Aptos), Adithya Bhat (Purdue University), Benny Applebaum (Tel Aviv University and VMware), Ittai Abraham (Intel), Guy Golan Gueta (VMware Research), Benny Pinkas (Aptos Labs and Bar Ilan University), Avishay Yanai (VMware Research)
3:00pm
Derecho: Privacy Pools with Proof-Carrying Disclosures [video]  
Josh Beal (Yale University), Ben Fisch (Yale University)
3:30pm
SGXonerated: Finding (and Partially Fixing) Privacy Flaws in TEE-based Smart Contract Platforms Without Breaking the TEE [video]  
Nerla Jean-Louis (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Yunqi Li (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Yan Ji (Cornell University), Harjasleen Malvai (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Thomas Yurek (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Sylvain Bellemare (Cornell University), Andrew Miller (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
4:00pm
Break
Session 9:   Code Analysis Tools session chair: Arthur Gervais
4:30pm
Program Analysis for High-Value Smart Contract Vulnerabilities: Techniques and Insights [video]  
Yannis Smaragdakis (Dedaub and University of Athens), Neville Grech (Dedaub and University of Malta), Sifis Lagouvardos (Dedaub and University of Athens), Konstantinos Triantafyllou (Dedaub and University of Athens), Ilias Tsatiris (Dedaub), Yannis Bollanos (Dedaub), Tony Valentine (Dedaub and University of Malta)
5:00pm
WIP: Compositional Formal Verification of Zero-Knowledge Circuits [video]  
Alessandro Coglio (Aleo, Kestrel), Eric McCarthy (Aleo, Kestrel), Eric Smith (Kestrel), Collin Chin (Aleo), Pranav Gaddamadugu (Aleo), Michel Dellepere (Aleo)
5:30pm
End of day two
6:00pm
Evening meetup hosted by BitGo. Please register.
Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023
Session 10:   Cryptoeconomics session chair: Ertem Nusret Tas
9:00am
On-chain Foreign Exchange and Cross-border payments [video]  
Austin Adams (Uniswap labs), Gordon Liao (Circle), Mary-Catherine Lader (Uniswap Labs), David Puth (Circle), Xin Wan (Uniswap Labs)
9:30am
Serial Monopoly on Blockchains [video]  
Noam Nisan (Starkware & Hebrew U.)
10:00am
Break
Session 11:   Smart Contract Security session chair: Ling Ren
10:30am
Invited: Uniswap V4 and Future Directions for DEX Research [video]  
Dan Robinson (Paradigm)
11:00am
Smart Contract and DeFi Security: Insights from Tool Evaluations and Practitioner Surveys [video]  
Stefanos Chaliasos (Imperial College London), Marcos Antonios Charalambous (Meta), Liyi Zhou (Imperial College London), Rafaila Galanopoulou (University of Athens), Arthur Gervais (University College London), Dimitris Mitropoulos (University of Athens), Ben Livshits (Imperial College London)
11:30am
Lanturn: Measuring Economic Security of Smart Contracts Through Adaptive Learning [video]  
Kushal Babel (Cornell University and Cornell Tech), Mojan Javaheripi (University of California San Diego), Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell Tech), Yan Ji (Cornell Tech), Farinaz Koushanfar (University of California San Diego), Ari Juels (Cornell Tech)
12:00pm
LedgerHedger: Gas Reservation for Smart-Contract Security [video]  
Itay Tsabary (Technion), Alex Manuskin (Technion), Roi Bar-Zur (Technion), Ittay Eyal (Technion)
12:30pm
Lunch
Session 12:   New Cryptographic Primitives II session chair: Ari Juels
2:00pm
WIP: Batch Merkle Proofs via Recursive SNARKs with Applications to Updatable Zero-Knowledge Proofs [video]  
Charalampos Papamanthou (Lagrange Labs and Yale University), Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh (Lagrange Labs), Rahul Ghangas (Lagrange Labs), Ugur Sen (Lagrange Labs)
2:30pm
Threshold Signatures from Inner Product Argument: Succinct, Weighted, and Multi-threshold [video]  
Sourav Das (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Philippe Camacho (Espresso Systems), Zhuolun Xiang (Aptos), Javier Nieto (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Benedikt Bunz (Espresso Systems), Ling Ren (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
3:00pm
Security Analysis of Filecoin’s Expected Consensus in the Byzantine vs Honest Model [video]  
Xuechao Wang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sarah Azouvi, Marko Vukolić (Protocol Labs)
3:30pm
Break
Session 13:   Payment channels session chair: Dawn Song
4:00pm
Sleepy Channels: Bitcoin-Compatible Bi-directional Payment Channels without Watchtowers [video]  
Lukas Aumayr (TU Wien), Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan (NTT Research), Giulio Malavolta (Max Planck Institute), Pedro Moreno-Sanchez (IMDEA), Matteo Maffei (TU Wien)
4:30pm
Thora: Atomic and Privacy-Preserving Multi-Channel Updates [video]  
Lukas Aumayr (TU Wien), Kasra Abbaszadeh (University of Maryland), Matteo Maffei (TU Wien)
5:00pm
Conference ends ... see you next year
5:30pm
Closing party hosted at Nola in down town Palo Alto. Hosted by Chainlink. Please register here.