The Science of Blockchain Conference 2025
(SBC'25)

The conference focuses on technical innovations in the blockchain ecosystem, and brings together researchers and practioners working in the space. We aim to foster collaboration among the different communities working on blockchain protocols, cryptography, distributed systems, secure computing, and crypto-economics.

The conference is co-organized by IC3,    the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research (CBR),  and   UC Berkeley RDI.

The talks and papers from the previous events in this conference series are available here:   2024,   2023,   2022,   2020,   2019,   2018,   2017.  

Conference Dates:   Aug. 4 - 6, 2025.

Venue: Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union Building, U.C. Berkeley, Map.

Affiliated workshops

A number of workshops will take place before the main conference. Check below for details on location, topics, and more.

• SBC DAO Workshop. Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025.
• Summit on Decentralization and AI. Sunday, August 3, 2025.
• Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS) at SBC 2025. Sunday, August 3, 2025.
• Science and Engineering of Consensus. Sunday, August 3, 2025.
• MEV-SBC 25. Thursday, August 7, 2025.

Program >>>    Live Stream    <<<

Organizing Committee

• Program Chairs

• Dan Boneh, Stanford University, CBR
• Ari Juels, Cornell Tech, IC3
• Dawn Song, UC Berkeley, RDI

• Program Committee

• Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh and IOG
• Alin Tomescu, Aptos Labs
• Andrew Lewis-Pye, London School of Economics
• Aniket Kate, Purdue University / Supra Research
• Ari Juels, Cornell Tech, IC3, Chainlink Labs
• Ariel Gabizon, Aztec Labs
• Arnab Roy, Mysten Labs
• Arthur Gervais, University College London
• Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh
• Benedikt Bünz, NYU, Espresso Systems
• Charalampos Papamanthou, Yale University and Lagrange Labs
• Christian Cachin, University of Bern
• Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Chainlink Labs
• Ciamac Moallemi, Columbia University / Paradigm
• Clara Schneidewind, MPI-SP
• Dahlia Malkhi, UCSB
• Dan Boneh, Stanford University
• Davide Crapis, Ethereum Foundation
• Dawn Song, UC Berkeley
• Deepak Maram, Mysten Labs
• Dionysis Zindros, Common Prefix
• Fan Zhang, Yale University
• Ghassan Karame, Ruhr University Bochum
• Giulia Fanti, CMU
• Ittai Abraham, Intel
• Ittay Eyal, Technion
• Jérémie Decouchant, Delft University of Technology
• Jeremy Clark, Concordia University
• Joachim Neu, a16z Crypto Research
• Joseph Bonneau, NYU & a16z crypto
• Justin Drake, Ethereum researcher
• Kartik Nayak, Duke University/Espresso Systems
• Ling Ren, University of Illinois
• Liyi Zhou, The University of Sydney
• Mario Larangeira, Institute of Science Tokyo/Input Output Global
• Patrick McCorry, Arbitrum Foundation
• Sourav Das, UIUC
• Tanusree Sharma, Pennsylvania State University
• Ted Yin, UCSB / Lyquor Labs
• Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University & a16z crypto
• Vero Estrada-Galiñanes
• Will Scott, PLN
• Yupeng Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
• Zeta Avarikioti, TU Wien & Common Prefix