Links to the online video conference will be sent by email to registered attendees. All times are Eastern time zone.
Sunday, Sept 26, 2021
10:00 am: Welcome
10:10 am: Session A - Chair: Qiang Tang
Coalition-Safe Equilibria with Virtual Payoffs, Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh and IOHK), Aikaterini-Panagiota Stouka (University of Edinburgh and IOHK)
Achieving State Machine Replication without Honest Players,Conor McMenamin (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Matteo Pontecorvi (Nokia Bell Labs), Vanesa Daza (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Center for Cybersecurity
A verifiably secure and proportional committee election rule, Alfonso Cevallos (Web 3.0 Technologies Foundation), Alistair Stewart (Web 3.0 Technologies Foundation)
11:10 am: 5' break
11:15 am: Keynote
Elaine Shi (Carnegie Mellon University): (Im)possibility Results for Transaction Fee Mechanism Design
12:30 pm: Session B - Chair: Tim Roughgarden
Dynamic Posted-Price Mechanisms for the Blockchain Transaction-Fee Market, Matheus V. X. Ferreira (Princeton University), Daniel J. Moroz (Harvard University), David C. Parkes (Harvard University), Mitchell Stern (University of California, Berkeley)
Dynamical Analysis of the EIP-1559 Ethereum Fee Market, Stefanos Leonardos (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Barnabe Monnot (Ethereum Foundation), Daniel Reijsbergen (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Stratis Skoulakis (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Georgios Piliouras (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
Composing Networks of Automated Market Makers, Daniel Engel (Brown University), Maurice Herlihy (Brown University)
Monday, Sept 27, 2021
10:00 am Layer-2 Workshop
Host: Patrick McCorry
10:00am - 10:20am - Overview of the layer-2 ecosystem (Patrick McCorry)
10:20am - 10:40am - StarkNet (Eli Ben-Sasson)
10:40am - 11:00am - Arbitrum (Steven Goldfeder)
11:00 - 11:30 - Fire-side chat about rollups (Georgios Konstantopoulos & Steven Goldfeder)
Alex Tabarrok (George Mason University): Two Novel Mechanisms for Funding and Discovering Public Goods
1:30 pm: Session C - Chair: Arthur Gervais
Shard Scheduler: object placement and migration in sharded, account-based blockchains, Michał Król (City, University of London), Onur Ascigil (University College London), Sergi Rene (University College London), Albert Sonnino (Facebook Novi), Mustafa Al-Bassam (LazyLedger), Etienne Rivière (UCLouvain)
Spear: Fast Multi-Path Payment with Redundancy, Sonbol Rahimpour (University of Alberta), Majid Khabbazian (University of Alberta)
The Velvet Path to Superlight Blockchain Clients, Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh), Andrianna Polydouri (University of Athens), Dionysis Zindros (University of Athens)
Tuesday, Sept 28, 2021
10:00 am Session D - Chair: Dionysis Zindros
PHANTOM GHOSTDAG: A Scalable Generalization of Nakamoto Consensus, Shai Wyborski (HUJI, DAGlabs), Yonatan Sompolinsky (HUJI, DAGlabs), Aviv Zohar (HUJI)
Generalizing Weighted Trees: A bridge from Bitcoin to GHOST,Ignacio Amores-Sesar (University of Bern), Christian Cachin (University of Bern), Anna Parker (University of Bern)
Close Latency-Security Trade-off for the Nakamoto Consensus,Jing Li (Google), Dongning Guo (Northwestern University), Ling Ren (UIUC)
On Bitcoin Cash’s Target Recalculation Functions Juan Garay (Texas A&M University), Yu Shen (Texas A&M University)
11:30 am: Keynote
Peter Van Valkenburgh (Coin Center): Cryptocurrency and the Fatal Conceit
12:45 pm Session E - Chair: Foteini Baldimtsi
SoK: Oracles from the Ground Truth to Market Manipulation, Shayan Eskandari (Concordia University), Mehdi Salehi (Concordia University), Wanyun Catherine Gu (Stanford University), Jeremy Clark (Concordia University)
Private Attacks in Longest Chain Proof-of-stake Protocols with Single Secret Leader Elections,Sarah Azouvi (Protocol Labs), Daniele Cappelletti (Politecnico di Torino)
AMR: Autonomous Coin Mixer with Privacy Preserving Reward Distribution,Duc V. Le (Purdue University), Arthur Gervais (Imperial College London)