A monthly seminar focusing on the latest research and ideas in the blockchain space. This seminar series is co-hosted with the Future of Digital Currency Initiative.
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Streaming/recordings: Some talks are streamed via Zoom, and/or
their recordings can be found on YouTube.
November 28, 2023, 4:15pm PT
TBD
Dahlia Malkhi, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom
December 5, 2023, 4:30pm PT
TBD
Sisi Duan, Tsinghua University
Location: Zoom
December 12, 2023, 4:15pm PT
TBD
TBD, Ripple
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom
October 5, 2023, 4:15pm PT
Lasso: An Engineering Overview
Sam Ragsdale, a16z crypto
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom -- Recording
September 26, 2023, 4:15pm PT
Consensus in blockchains: Overview and recent results
Christian Cachin, University of Bern
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom -- Recording
August 17, 2023, 4:00pm PT
A Framework for Practical Anonymous Credentials from Lattices
Ngoc Khanh Nguyen
Location: Gates 259 and Zoom -- Recording
August 3, 2023, 4:00pm PT
Distributed Broadcast Encryption from Bilinear Groups
Dimitris Kolonelos
Location: Gates 259 and Zoom -- Recording
July 27, 2023, 4:00pm PT
ACORN: Efficient, Input Validated Secure Aggregation
Baiyu Li
Location: Gates 259 and Zoom -- Recording
July 13, 2023, 4:00pm PT
Threshold Signatures from Inner Product Argument: Succinct, Weighted, and Multi-threshold
Sourav Das, UIUC
Location: Gates 259 and Zoom
June 29, 2023, 4:00pm PT
zkSaaS: Zero-Knowledge SNARKs as a Service
Sruthi Sekar, UC Berkeley
Location: Gates 259 and Zoom
May 26, 2023, 10:30am PT
A deep dive into optimizing Multi-Scalar Multiplication
Niall Emmart, Yrrid
April 25, 2023, 4:15pm PT
Revisiting the Federated Byzantine Agreement Model
Giuliano Losa, Stellar
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom -- Recording
April 18, 2023, 4:15pm PT
Decoupling Interoperability Layers & Scaling Interchain Deployments
Sergey Gorbunov, U. of Waterloo & Axelar
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom -- Recording
April 11, 2023, 4:15pm PT
Telepathy: Verifying Ethereum Consensus with zk-SNARKs
John Guibas, Succinct Labs
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom
February 14, 2023, 11am PT
Lido’s Dual Governance proposal: case study in incentive engineering
Vasiliy Shapovalov, Lido
Location: Zoom -- Recording
December 13, 2022, 4:15pm PT
Proof-of-Solvency: security models, privacy guarantees and the future
Craig Newbold, Proven
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom -- Recording
December 6, 2022, 4:15pm PT
Constructions in Chialisp
Bram Cohen
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom -- Recording
November 29, 2022, 4:15pm PT
Scroll design, architecture, and challenges
Ye Zhang, Scroll
Location: Zoom (see link above) -- Recording
November 18, 2022, 1pm PT
Scaling Decentralized Trust through Databases
Natacha Crooks, UC Berkeley
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom
November 3, 2022, 4:15pm PT
What can we learn from four years of attacks on Decentralized Finance?
Arthur Gervais
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom -- Recording
October 25, 2022, 4:15pm PT
Comprehensive Security Strategy in Web3
Christian Seifert, Forta
Location: Zoom -- Recording
July 28, 2022, 10am PT (note the unusual time)
Recursive STARKs with Cairo
Avihu Levy and Shahar Papini, Starkware
Location: Gates 498 and Zoom -- Recording
June 7, 2022, 4:15pm
Asynchronous Data Dissemination and its Applications
Sourav Das, UIUC
Location: Gates 498 -- Recording
May 31, 2022, 4:15pm
Testing Cryptocurrency’s Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Karen Nershi, Stanford Internet Observatory
Location: Gates 498 -- Recording
May 27, 2022, 12:00pm (noon)
Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Dynamic Participation
Ling Ren, UIUC
Location: Packard 202 -- Recording
May 24, 2022, 4:15pm
Subspace: A solution to the farmer’s dilemma
Jeremiah Wagstaff, Subspace
Location: Gates 498 -- Recording
May 10, 2022, 4:15pm
RISC Zero: General Purpose Zero-Knowledge Computation
Brian Retford, Risc0
Location: Gates 498 -- Recording
April 26, 2022, 4:15pm
Conservative Design for Threshold Signing Protocols
Yehuda Lindell, Coinbase
Location: Packard 202
April 12, 2022, 4:15pm
Zef: Low-latency, Scalable, Private Payments
Mathieu Baudet is CEO and Founder at Zefchain Labs
Location: Gates 498 -- Recording
May 19, 2021, 3pm
How Celo’s mobile-first technology is being used to create an inclusive financial system
Xochitl Cazador and Tim Moreton
Location: zoom
May 12, 2021, 3pm
Decentralized Finance: A Toolkit for Policy-Makers
Kevin Werbach
Location: zoom
Feb., 7, 2020, 4:15pm
WebAssembly for Assembling the Non-Web.
Andreas Rossberg
Location: Gates 463 A
Jan., 13, 2020, 4:15pm
The evolution of Ouroboros: A proof-of-stake implementation of Nakamoto’s vision.
Vassilis Zikas
Location: Gates 463 A
Oct. 3rd, 2019, 4:15pm
Using Hash Chains as a Source of Time Before Consensus [abstract]
Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana Labs
Location: Allen 101X
August, 13rd, 2019, 4:15pm
Fully Homomorphic NIZK and NIWI Proofs (Paper)
Apoorvaa Deshpande
Location: Gates 463 A
July, 23rd, 2019, 4:15pm
Flexible Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Kartik Nayak
Location: Gates 463 A
July 2nd, 2019, 4:15pm
Foundations of Differentially Oblivious Algorithms
Elaine Shi, Cornell
Location: Gates 463A
June 3rd, 2019, 4:15pm
Zero Knowledge proofs in ethereum; what we are doing, what we want to do
Barry Whitehat
Location: Gates 104
May 8th, 2019, 4:15pm
Prism: Operating Blockchains Near Physical Limits
Vivek Bagaria (Stanford)
Location: Gates 206
Apr. 15, 2019, 4:15pm
Sonic: Zero-Knowledge SNARKs from Linear-Size Universal and Updateable Structured Reference Strings
Mary Maller (UCL)
Location: Allen Center for Integrated Systems (CIS), Room 101X [map]
Feb. 15, 2019, 4:15pm
Interledger: The internet with value
Scott Stuart
Location: Allen Center for Integrated Systems (CIS), Room 101X [map]
Jan. 23, 2019, 4:15pm
Tendermint: Byzantine-fault tolerant state machine replication
Jae Kwon (Tendermint)
Location: Shriram Center 104 [map]
Nov. 29th, 2018, 4:15pm
The chilling effect of Cold-Storage
Diogo Monica (Anchor Labs)
Location: Allen Center for Integrated Systems (CIS), Room 101X [map]
Nov. 8th, 2018, 4-6pm
She256 blockchain event
Location: Allen Center for Integrated Systems (CIS), Room 101X [map]
Oct. 23, 2018, 4:15pm
Security for a $1T wallet
Mike Belshe, BitGo
Location: Allen Center for Integrated Systems (CIS), Room 101X [map]
Sep. 27th, 2018, 4:15pm
Taproot, Graftroot and G'root [slides]
Pieter Wuille
Location: Allen Center for Integrated Systems (CIS), Room 101X [map]
August 8th, 2018, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
RapidChain: Scaling Blockchain via Robust Sharding [slides, paper]
Mahdi Zamani, Visa Research
Location: Allen Center for Integrated Systems (CIS), Room 101X [map]
July 25th, 2018, 4:15pm
Coda: Recursive Composition of SNARKs for a Compact Cryptocurrency
Izaak Meckler, CTO of O(1) labs
Location: Allen Center for Integrated Systems (CIS), Room 101X [map]
July 6th, 2018, 4:15pm
The data availability problem [slides]
Joseph Poon
Location: Gates Computer Science Building, Room 104