Links to the online video conference will be sent by email to registered attendees. All times are Eastern time zone.
Wednesday, Oct 21, 2020
10:50 am: Welcome
11:00 am: Consensus
Streamlet: Textbook Streamlined Blockchains, Benjamin Y Chan, Elaine Shi (Cornell University)
Single Secret Leader Election, Dan Boneh, Saba Eskandarian (Stanford University); Lucjan Hanzlik (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Stanford University); Nicola Greco (Protocol Labs)
Wendy, the Good Little Fairness Widget - Achieving Order Fairness for Blockchains, Klaus Kursawe (Vega)
12:10 pm: Economics
How to Pick Your Friends - A Game Theoretic Approach to P2P Overlay Construction, Saar Tochner, Aviv Zohar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Defending Against Malicious Reorgs in Tezos Proof-of-Stake, Michael Neuder, Daniel J. Moroz, Rithvik Rao, David C. Parkes (Harvard University)
Stablecoins: Economic Foundations and Risk-based Models, Ariah Klages-Mundt (Cornell University); Dominik Harz, Lewis Gudgeon (Imperial College London); Jun-You Liu, Andreea Minca (Cornell University)
1:20 pm: Invited Speaker
Dahlia Malkhi (Novi and Libra): The Technical Road to Libra and Beyond
DeFi Protocols for Loanable Funds: Interest Rates, Liquidity and Market Efficiency, Lewis Gudgeon, Sam Maximilian Werner, Daniel Perez, William J. Knottenbelt (Imperial CollegeLondon)
Efficient MDP Analysis for Selfish-Mining in Blockchains, Roi Bar Zur (Technion); Ittay Eyal (Technion, VMware); Aviv Tamar (Technion)
12:10 pm Implementation
A Gas-Efficient Superlight Bitcoin Client in Solidity, Stelios Daveas (University of Athens); Kostis Karantias (IOHK); Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh,IOHK); Dionysis Zindros (University of Athens, IOHK)
SmartOTPs: An Air-Gapped 2-Factor Authentication for Smart-Contract Wallets, Ivan Homoliak (Brno University of Technology & Singapore University of Technology and Design); Dominik Breitenbacher, Ondrej Hujnak (Brno University of Technology); Pieter Hartel (University of Twente); Alexander Binder, Pawel Szalachowski (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement, Mathieu Baudet (Facebook Novi); George Danezis, Albert Sonnino (Facebook Novi / University CollegeLondon)
1:20 pm Consensus II
Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement in Incomplete Networks, Ye Wang, Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)
Winkle: Foiling Long-Range Attacks in Proof-of-Stake Systems, Sarah Azouvi (University College London); George Danezis (Facebook Calibra/University CollegeLondon); Valeria Nikolaenko (Facebook Calibra)
Friday, October 23, 2020
11:00 am Attacks
Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network, Jona Harris, Aviv Zohar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Counting Down Thunder: Timing Attacks on Privacy in Payment Channel Networks, Elias Rohrer, Florian Tschorsch (Technical University of Berlin)
Route Hijacking and DoS in Off-Chain Networks, Saar Tochner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Aviv Zohar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem);Stefan Schmid (Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna)