Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024
9:00am
Welcome remarks
SBC Program Chairs
Session 1:   Infrastructure security session chair: Fan Zhang
9:10am
invited: Permissionless Validation Using the BoLD Protocol [video]  
Ed Felten (Arbitrum)
9:40am
Mitigating Smart Contract Attacks in the Real World [video]  
Chaofan Shou (UC Berkeley)
10:10am
Understanding Ethereum Mempool Security under Asymmetric DoS by Symbolized Stateful Fuzzing [video]  
Yibo Wang (Syracuse University), Yuzhe Tang (Syracuse University), Wanning Ding (Syracuse University), Kai Li (San Diego State University), Zhihua Yang (Syracuse University)
10:40am
Break
Session 2:   Cryptography session chair: Sourav Das
11:10am
Proxying is Enough: Security of Proxying in TLS Oracles and AEAD Context Unforgeability [video]  
Zhongtang Luo (Purdue University), Yanxue Jia (Purdue University), Yaobin Shen (Xiamen University), Aniket Kate (Purdue University / Supra Research)
11:40am
Distributed Randomness using Weighted VRFs [video]  
Sourav Das (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Benny Pinkas (Aptos Labs, Bar Ilan University), Alin Tomescu (Aptos Labs), Zhuolun Xiang (Aptos)
12:10pm
Accountability for Misbehavior in Threshold Decryption via Threshold Traitor Tracing [video]  
Dan Boneh (Stanford University), Aditi Partap (Stanford University), Lior Rotem (Stanford University)
12:40pm
Lunch
Session 3:   Consensus I session chair: Christian Cachin
2:00pm
The Economic Limits of Permissionless Consensus [video]  
Eric Budish (University of Chicago), Andrew Lewis-Pye (London School of Economics), Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University & a16z crypto)
2:30pm
The Espresso Sequencing Network: HotShot Consensus, Tiramisu Data-Availability, and Builder-Exchange [video]  
Ellie Davidson (Espresso Systems), et al.
3:00pm
Break
Session 4:   Efficient SNARKs session chair: Dan Boneh
3:30pm
SoK: What don’t we know? Understanding Security Vulnerabilities in SNARKs [video]  
Stefanos Chaliasos (Imperial College London), Jens Ernstberger (Technical University of Munich), David Theodore (Ethereum Foundation), David Wong (zkSecurity), Mohammad Jahanara (Scroll Foundation), Benjamin Livshits (Imperial College London)
4:00pm
zkLogin: Privacy-Preserving Blockchain Authentication with Existing Credentials [video]  
Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason U. and Mysten Labs), Kostas Kryptos Chalkias (Mysten Labs), Yan Ji (Cornell), Jonas Lindstrom (Mysten Labs), Deepak Maram (Mysten Labs), Ben Riva (Mysten Labs), Arnab Roy (Mysten Labs), Mahdi Sedaghat (COSIC, KU Leuven), and Joy Wang (Mysten Labs)
4:30pm
State of Stwo [video]  
Eli Ben-Sasson (StarkWare)
5:00pm
LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Applications to Succinct Proof Systems [video]  
Binyi Chen (Stanford University), Dan Boneh (Stanford University)
5:30pm
End of day one
5:30pm
Reception
7:00pm
Evening meetups
Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024
Session 5:   Wallets session chair: Alin Tomescu
9:00am
Complete Knowledge: Preventing Encumbrance of Cryptographic Secrets [video]  
Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell University and Cornell Tech), Kushal Babel (Cornell Tech), Philip Daian (Cornell Tech), James Austgen (Cornell Tech), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation), Ari Juels (Cornell Tech)
9:30am
Uncovering Impact of Mental Models towards Adoption of Multi-device Threshold Crypto-Wallets [video]  
Easwar Vivek Mangipudi (Supra Research), Udit Desai (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Mohsen Minaei (Visa Research), Mainack Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Aniket Kate (Purdue University / Supra Research)
10:00am
invited: MPC for custody at Coinbase [video]  
Yehuda Lindell (Coinbase)
10:30am
Break
Session 6:   DeFi I session chair: Giulia Fanti
11:00am
Suboptimality in DeFi [video]  
Aviv Yaish (The Hebrew University), Maya Dotan (The Hebrew University), Kaihua Qin (Imperial College London, Berkeley RDI), Aviv Zohar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Arthur Gervais (UCL)
11:30am
Multidimensional Blockchain Fees are (Essentially) Optimal [video]  
Guillermo Angeris (Bain Capital Crypto), Theo Diamandis (MIT), Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia Univ.)
Session 7:   Lightning talks session chair: Joachim Neu
12:00pm
Lightning talks [video]  
Short 3 minute talks by the participants (no registration needed)
12:30pm
Lunch
Session 8:   Restaking and data management session chair: Ari Juels
2:00pm
invited: Strong Cryptoeconomic Security for Arbitrary Validation Tasks [video]  
Sreeram Kannan (Eigenlayer)
2:30pm
Atomic and Fair Data Exchange via Blockchain [video]  
Ertem Nusret Tas (Stanford University), István András Seres (Eötvös Loránd University), Yinuo Zhang (UC Berkeley), Márk Melczer (Eötvös Loránd University), Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell University and Cornell Tech), Joseph Bonneau (a16z crypto research & New York University), Valeria Nikolaenko (a16 crypto research)
3:00pm
Kadabra: Adapting Kademlia for the Decentralized Web [video]  
Yunqi Zhang (Ohio State University), Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan (Ohio State University)
3:30pm
Break
Session 9:   MEV session chair: Arthur Gervais
4:00pm
Decentralization of MEV-Boost Auctions [video]  
Sen Yang (Yale University), Fan Zhang (Yale University), Kartik Nayak (Duke University)
4:30pm
WIP: PROF: Protected Order Flow in a Profit-Seeking World [video]  
Kushal Babel (Cornell Tech, IC3), et al.
Session 10:   Crypto Policy session chair: Dan Boneh
5:00pm
invited: a conversation with Chris Dixon
Chris Dixon (A16Z)
5:30pm
End of day two
6:30pm
Evening meetups
Friday, Aug. 9, 2024
Session 11:   New cryptographic primitives session chair: Ertem Nusret Tas
9:00am
Non-interactive VSS using Class Groups and Application to DKG [video]  
Aniket Kate (Purdue University / Supra Research), Easwar Vivek Mangipudi (Supra Research), Pratyay Mukherjee (Supra Research), Hamza Saleem (Supra Research), Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan (University of Sidney)
9:30am
Bitcoin Clique: Channel-free Off-chain Payments using Two-Shot Adaptor Signatures [video]  
Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos (Imperial College London and Common Prefix), Siavash Riahi (TU Darmstadt)
10:00am
Break
Session 12:   DAOs and more session chair: Dawn Song
10:30am
Open Problems in DAOs [video]  
Joshua Tan (Metagov and University of Oxford), et al.
11:00am
WIP: Efficient Block-Auditing for Blockchains [video]  
Jeff Burdges (Web3 Foundation), et al.
11:30am
Lunch
Session 13:   Consensus II session chair: Dionysis Zindros
1:00pm
Optimal Flexible Consensus and its Application to Ethereum [video]  
Joachim Neu (Stanford University), Srivatsan Sridhar (Stanford University), Lei Yang (MIT CSAIL), David Tse (Stanford University and BabylonChain)
1:30pm
Asynchronous Consensus without Trusted Setup or Public-Key Cryptography [video]  
Sourav Das (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Sisi Duan (Tsinghua University), Shengqi Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology), Atsuki Momose (UIUC), Ling Ren (UIUC), Victor Shoup (Offchain Labs)
2:00pm
Nakamoto Consensus under Bounded Processing Capacity [video]  
Lucianna Kiffer (ETH Zurich), Joachim Neu (Stanford University), Srivatsan Sridhar (Stanford University), Aviv Zohar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), David Tse (Stanford University)
2:30pm
Break
Session 14:   DeFi II session chair: Dan Robinson
3:00pm
Cycles Protocol: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Clearing System [video]  
Ethan Buchman (Informal Systems), Paolo Dini (Informal Systems), Shoaib Ahmed (Informal Systems), Andrew Miller (Informal Systems), Tomaz Fleischman (Informal Systems)
3:30pm
Dynamic Transaction Fee Mechanism Design [video]  
Mallesh Pai (Rice University, Consensys), Max Resnick (Consensys)
4:00pm
Rapidash: Atomic Swaps Secure under User-Miner Collusion [video]  
Hao Chung (Carnegie Mellon University), Elisaweta Masserova (Carnegie Mellon University), Elaine Shi (Carnegie Mellon University), Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan (NTT Research)
4:30pm
Conference ends ... see you next year
5:00pm
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