| Monday, October 23 |
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| 09:30-10:30 |
Breakfast |
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| 10:30-10:40 |
Welcome Remarks |
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| 10:40-12:00 |
Session 1: Consensus |
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Chair: Patrick O'Grady
  Time is Money: Strategic Timing Games in Proof-of-Stake Protocols Caspar Schwarz-Schilling (Ethereum Foundation), Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest University), Thomas Thiery (Ethereum Foundation), Jennifer Pan (Jump Crypto), Nihar Shah (Jump Crypto), Barnabé Monnot (Ethereum Foundation)- Security Analysis of Filecoin’s Expected Consensus in the Byzantine vs Honest Model Xuechao Wang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sarah Azouvi (Protocol Labs), Marko Vukolić (Protocol Labs)
- Decentralization Cheapens Corruptive Majority Attacks Stephen Newman (Princeton University)
- Post-Quantum Single Secret Leader Election (SSLE) From Publicly Re-randomizable Commitments Dan Boneh (Stanford University), Aditi Partap (Stanford University), Lior Rotem (Stanford University)
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| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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| 13:30-14:30 |
Session 2: Transaction Ordering I |
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Chair: Bernardo David
- Practical Large-Scale Asynchronous Total-Order Broadcast with Proof of Stake Orestis Alpos (University of Bern), Christian Cachin (University of Bern), Simon Holmgaard Kamp (Aarhus University), Jesper Buus Nielsen (Aarhus University)
- Tailstorm: A Secure and Fair Blockchain for Cash Transactions Patrik Keller (Universität Innsbruck), Ben Glickenhaus (UMass Amherst), George Bissias (UMass Amherst), Gregory Griffith (Bitcoin Unlimited)
- Condorcet Attack Against Fair Transaction Ordering Mohammad Amin Vafadar (University of Alberta, Canada), Majid Khabbazian (University of Alberta, Canada)
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Break |
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| 15:00-15:40 |
Session 3: Transaction Ordering II |
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Chair: Tarun Chitra
- FairPoS: Input Fairness in Permissionless Consensus James Hsin-yu Chiang (Aarhus University), Bernardo David (IT University of Copenhagen), Ittay Eyal (Technion), Tiantian Gong (Purdue University)
- Buying Time: Latency Racing vs. Bidding for Transaction Ordering Akaki Mamageishvili (Offchain Labs), Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell University), Jan Christoph Schlegel (City, University of London), Edward Felten (Offchain Labs)
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| 15:40-16:00 |
Break |
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| 16:00-17:00 |
Rump Session/Lightning talks |
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Chair: Joseph Bonneau
Submit talk proposals here by 15:00 on October 23
- Byzantine Consensus Under Dynamic Participation with a Well-Behaved Majority Giuliano Losa (Stellar Development Foundation)
- MEV Makes Everyone Happy under Greedy Sequencing Rule Mengqian Zhang (NYU)
- Shared Sequencing as a Noisy Contest Christoph Schlegel (City University of London)
- Two Recent Results on Threshold Signatures Ling Ren (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Naysayer Proofs Joseph Bonneau (a16z crypto and NYU)
- Fourier Analysis and MEV: Love at first sight? Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet)
- PROF: Protected Order Flow for Fair Transaction-Ordering in a Profit-Seeking World Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell Tech)
- Timelock.zone - a public service for encryption to the future, One-step consensus in weakly Byzantine environments Alex Kampa (Aragon ZK Research)
- Optimal market making in DeFi without the use of oracles Viraj Nadkarni (Princeton University)
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| Tuesday, October 24 |
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| 09:30-10:30 |
Breakfast |
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| 10:40-12:00 |
Session 4: Auctions |
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Chair: Chenghan Zhou
- Designing Multidimensional Blockchain Fee Markets Theo Diamandis (MIT), Alex Evans (Bain Capital Crypto), Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet), Guillermo Angeris (Bain Capital Crypto)
- The Centralizing Effects of Private Order Flow on Proposer-Builder Separation Tivas Gupta (MIT), Mallesh Pai (Rice University), Max Resnick (Unaffiliated)
- When Bidders Are DAOs Maryam Bahrani (a16z crypto), Pranav Garimidi (a16z crypto), Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University & a16z crypto)
- Censorship Resistance in On-Chain Auctions Elijah Fox (Duality Labs), Mallesh Pai (Rice University), Max Resnick (Unaffiliated)
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| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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| 13:30-14:30 |
Session 5: Layer 2 |
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Chair: Pedro Moreno-Sanchez
- Non-Atomic Payment Splitting in Channel Networks Stefan Dziembowski (University of Warsaw), Paweł Kędzior (University of Warsaw)
- Vector Commitments with Efficient Updates Ertem Nusret Tas (Stanford University), Dan Boneh (Stanford University)
- Fast and Furious Withdrawals from Optimistic Rollups Mahsa Moosavi (Concordia University & OffchainLabs), Mehdi Salehi (OffchainLabs), Daniel Goldman (OffchainLabs), Jeremy Clark (Concordia University)
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Break |
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| 15:00-16:40 |
Session 6: Privacy |
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Chair: Valeria Nikolaenko
- SoK: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in Finance Carsten Baum (Technical University of Denmark), James Hsin-yu Chiang (Aarhus University), Bernardo David (IT University of Copenhagen), Tore Kasper Frederiksen (Zama)
- Correlated-Output-Differential-Privacy and Applications to Dark Pools James Hsin-yu Chiang (Aarhus University), Bernardo David (IT University of Copenhagen), Mariana Gama (imec-COSIC, KU Leuven), Christian Janos Lebeda (IT University of Copenhagen)
- Pay Less for Your Privacy: Towards Cost-Effective On-Chain Mixers Zhipeng Wang (Imperial College London), Marko Cirkovic (University of Bern), Duc V. Le (Visa Research), William Knottenbelt (Imperial College London), Christian Cachin (University of Bern)
- Privacy-Preserving Transactions With Verifiable Local Differential Privacy Danielle Movsowitz Davidow (Tel-Aviv University), Yacov Manevich (IBM Research, Zürich), Eran Toch (Tel Aviv University)
- Analysis of CryptoNote Transaction Graphs using the Dulmage-Mendelsohn Decomposition Saravanan Vijayakumaran (IIT Bombay)
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| 18:00-21:00 |
Banquet Dinner (at Palmer House)
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| Wednesday, October 25 |
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| 09:30-10:30 |
Breakfast |
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| 10:40-12:00 |
Session 6: DeFi |
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Chair: Pramod Viswanath
- Batching trades on automated market makers Andrea Canidio (CoW Protocol), Robin Fritsch (ETH Zurich)
- F3B: A Low-Overhead Blockchain Architecture with Per-Transaction Front-Running Protection Haoqian Zhang (EPFL), Louis-Henri Merino (EPFL), Ziyan Qu (EPFL), Mahsa Bastankhah (EPFL), Vero Estrada-Galiñanes (EPFL), Bryan Ford (EPFL)
- Liquidity Management Attacks on Lending Markets Alireza Arjmand Shakouri (University of Alberta), Majid Khabbazian (University of Alberta)
- Strategic Liquidity Provision in Uniswap v3 Zhou Fan (Harvard University), Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío (Harvard University & IOHK), Daniel Moroz (Harvard University & Chainlink Labs), Michael Neuder (Ethereum Foundation), Rithvik Rao (Harvard University), David C. Parkes (Harvard University & DeepMind)
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| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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| 13:30-14:30 |
Session 8: Empirical Studies |
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Chair: Francisco Marmolejo
- Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying? Aviv Yaish (The Hebrew University), Aviv Zohar (The Hebrew University)
- User participation in cryptocurrency derivative markets Daisuke Kawai (Carnegie Mellon University), Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon University), Bryan Routledge (Carnegie Mellon University), Kyle Soska (Ramiel Capital), Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Carnegie Mellon University)
- DeFi Lending During The Merge Lioba Heimbach (ETH Zurich), Eric Schertenleib (ETH Zurich), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Break |
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| 15:00-16:00 |
Session 9: Cryptographic Protocols |
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Chair: Christian Cachin
- STROBE: Streaming Threshold Random Beacons Donald Beaver (Jump Crypto), Konstantinos Chalkias (Mysten Labs), Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell University), Lefteris Kokoris Kogias (Mysten Labs & IST Austria), Kevin Lewi (Meta), Ladi de Naurois, Valeria Nikolaenko (a16z crypto), Arnab Roy (Mysten Labs), Alberto Sonnino (Mysten Labs)
- A Security Analysis of the Nova Proof System over a Cycle of Curves Wilson D. Nguyen (Stanford University), Dan Boneh (Stanford University), Srinath Setty (Microsoft Research)
- Proofs of Proof-of-Stake with Sublinear Complexity Shresth Agrawal (Technical University of Munich), Joachim Neu (Stanford University), Ertem Nusret Tas (Stanford University), Dionysis Zindros (Stanford University)
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| 16:00-17:00 |
Business meeting |
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