Monday, Aug. 4, 2025
9:00am
Welcome remarks
SBC Program Chairs
Session 1:   Infrastructure security session chair: TBD
9:10am
Blockchain Address Poisoning
Taro Tsuchiya, Jin-Dong Dong (Carnegie Mellon University); Kyle Soska (Independent); Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon University)
9:40am
A Place for Everyone vs Everyone in its Place: Measuring and Attacking the Ethereum Global Network
Chenyu Li (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Ren Zhang (Cryptape and Nervos); Xiaorui Gong (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
10:10am
Deanonymizing Ethereum Validators: The P2P Network Has a Privacy Issue
Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen (ETH Zurich); Juan Villacis (University of Bern); Lucianna Kiffer (IMDEA Networks); Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)
10:40am
Break
Session 2:   Crypto policy and user studies session chair: Ari Juels
11:10am
Invited: TBD
Hester Peirce (Commissioner at the SEC)
11:40am
Exploring User Perceptions of Security Auditing in the Web3 Ecosystem
Molly Zhuangtong huang, Rui Jiang (University of Macau); Tanusree Sharma (Pennsylvania State University); Kanye Ye Wang (University of Macau)
12:10pm
Lunch
Session 3:   Consensus I session chair: TBD
1:30pm
Accountable Liveness
Andrew Lewis-Pye (London School of Economics); Joachim Neu (a16z Crypto Research); Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University & a16z crypto); Luca Zanolini (Ethereum Foundation)
2:00pm
Mysticeti: Reaching the Latency Limits with Uncertified DAGs
Kushal Babel (Cornell Tech ; IC3); Andrey Chursin (Mysten Labs); George Danezis (Mysten Labs & University College London (UCL)); Anastasios Kichidi, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Arun Koshy (Mysten Labs); Alberto Sonnino (Mysten Labs & University College London (UCL)); Mingwei Tian (Mysten Labs)
2:30pm
Permissionless Blockchains from Physical Resources
Mirza Ahad Baig, Christoph U. Günther, Krzysztof Pietrzak (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
3:00pm
Break
Session 4:   Efficient SNARKs session chair: Dan Boneh
3:30pm
Dynamic zk-SNARKs
Weijie Wang (Yale University); Charalampos Papamanthou (Yale University and Lagrange Labs); Shravan Srinivasan (Lagrange Labs); Dimitrios Papadopoulos (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
4:00pm
Mercury: a multilinear Polynomial Commitment Scheme with constant proof size and linear field work
Liam Eagen (Alpen Labs); Ariel Gabizon (Aztec Labs)
4:30pm
GARUDA and PARI: Faster and Smaller SNARKs via Equifficient Polynomial Commitments
Michel Dellepere (Unaffiliated); Pratyush Mishra, Alireza Shirzad (University of Pennsylvania)
5:00pm
End of day one
5:00pm
Reception
6:30pm
Evening meetups
Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025
Session 5:   Measuring decentralization session chair: TBD
9:00am
Voting-Bloc Entropy: A New Metric for DAO Decentralization
Andres Fabrega (Cornell University); Amy Zhao (IC3); Jay Yu (Stanford University); James Austgen (Cornell Tech); Sarah Allen (IC3, Flashbots); Kushal Babel (Cornell Tech, Monad Labs); Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell University); Ari Juels (Jacobs Institute, Cornell Tech)
9:30am
Measuring Blockchain Decentralization
Christina Ovezik (University of Edinburgh); Dimitris Karakostas (University of Edinburgh & Common Prefix); Mary Milad (University of Edinburgh); Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh and IOG); Daniel W Woods (University of Edinburgh)
10:00am
Break
Session 6:   Blobs in ethereum session chair: TBD
10:30am
Data Availability Sampling with Efficient Repair: Definitions and New Constructions
Dan Boneh (Stanford University); Joachim Neu (a16z Crypto Research); Valeria Nikolaenko (A16Z Crypto Research); Aditi Partap (Stanford University)
11:00am
The Early Days of the Ethereum Blob Fee Market and Lessons Learnt
Lioba Heimbach (ETH Zurich); Jason Milionis (Columbia University)
Session 7:   Lightning talks session chair: Joachim Neu
11:30am
Lightning talks
Short 3 minute talks by the participants (no registration needed)
12:00pm
Lunch
Session 8:   Implementations session chair: TBD
1:30pm
Coinbase's cb-mpc Open-Source Library
Arash Afshar, Yi-Hsiu Chen, Yehuda Lindell (Coinbase); Gil Segev (Coinbase and Hebrew University); Valery Osheter, Samuel Ranellucci (Coinbase)
2:00pm
Interactive Multi-Credential Authentication
Deepak Maram (Mysten Labs); Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell University); Ittay Eyal (Technion)
2:30pm
Efficiently-Thresholdizable Batched Identity Based Encryption, and its Applications
Amit Agarwal (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign); Benny Pinkas (Bar-Ilan University); Rex Fernando (Aptos Labs)
3:00pm
Break
Session 9:   Consensus II session chair: TBD
3:30pm
Invited: The Evolving Art of Agreement: Post-Blockchain Theory and Practice of Consensus Protocols
Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh)
4:00pm
No Fish Is Too Big for Flash Boys! Frontrunning on DAG-based Blockchains
Jianting Zhang (Purdue University); Aniket Kate (Purdue University / Supra Research)
4:30pm
SoK: Time to be Selfless?! Demystifying the Landscape of Selfish Mining Strategies and Models
Colin Finkbeiner, Mohamed E. Najd (University of Connecticut); Julia Guskind (Boston University); Ghada Almashaqbeh (University of Connecticut)
5:00pm
Good Things Come To Those Who Wait: Dishonest-Majority Coin-Flipping Requires Delay Functions.
Joseph Bonneau (NYU & a16z crypto); Benedikt Bünz (NYU); Miranda Christ, Yuval Efron (Columbia University)
5:30pm
End of day two
6:30pm
Evening meetups
Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025
Session 10:   Privacy session chair: TBD
9:00am
Jigsaw: Doubly Private Smart Contracts
Sanjam Garg (UC Berkeley); Aarushi Goel (Purdue University); Dimitris Kolonelos (UC Berkeley); Rohit Sinha (Swirlds Labs)
9:30am
Kite: How to Delegate Voting Power Privately
Kamilla Nazirkhanova, Vrushank Gunjur, Pilli Cruz-De Jesus, Dan Boneh (Stanford University)
10:00am
Liquefaction: Privately Liquefying Blockchain Assets
James Austgen (Cornell Tech); Andrés Fábrega, Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell University); Dani Vilardell (Cornell Tech); Sarah Allen (IC3, Flashbots); Kushal Babel (Cornell Tech, Monad Labs); Jay Yu (Stanford University); Ari Juels (Jacobs Institute, Cornell Tech)
10:30am
Break
Session 11:   Bitcoin developments session chair: TBD
11:00am
Invited: Integrating Bitcoin with the rest of the Crypto Economy
David Tse (Stanford University)
11:30am
BitVM2: Bridging Bitcoin to Second Layers
Robin Linus Woll (Stanford University & ZeroSync); Lukas Aumayr (University of Edinburgh & Common Prefix); Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien & Common Prefix); Matteo Maffei (TU Wien & CDL-BOT); Andrea Pelosi (TU Wien, University of Pisa, University of Camerino, Traent & CDL-BOT); Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos (Imperial College London & Common Prefix); Christos Stefo (TU Wien); David Tse (Stanford University); Alexei Zamyatin (BOB)
12:00pm
Lunch
Session 12:   Proof systems: applications session chair: TBD
1:30pm
Tessel: An Optimizing Compiler for Efficient Zero-Knowledge Circuits
Junrui Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara); Jiaxin Song (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Yanning Chen (University of Toronto); Hanzhi Liu, Hongbo Wen, Yanju Chen, Yu Feng (University of California, Santa Barbara)
2:00pm
Efficient Vector Range Proofs and Their Application to PVSS
Dan Boneh, Trisha Datta (Stanford University); Rex Fernando (Aptos Labs); Kamilla Nazirkhanova (Stanford University); Alin Tomescu (Aptos Labs)
2:30pm
Break
Session 13:   Mechanism design session chair: TBD
3:00pm
Pseudo-Equilibria, or: How to Stop Worrying About Crypto and Just Analyze the Game
Alexandros Psomas, Athina Terzoglou (Purdue University); Yu Wei, Vassilis Zikas (Georgia Institute of Technology)
3:30pm
Quantifying the Value of Revert Protection
Brian Z. Zhu (Columbia University); Xin Wan (Uniswap Labs); Ciamac C. Moallemi (Columbia University / Paradigm / Uniswap Labs); Dan Robinson (Paradigm); Brad Bachu (Uniswap Labs)
4:00pm
Incentive-Compatible Recovery from Manipulated Signals, with Applications to Decentralized Physical Infrastructure
Jason Milionis (Columbia University); Jens Ernstberger (Technical University of Munich); Joseph Bonneau (NYU & a16z crypto); Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard University & a16z crypto); Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University & a16z crypto)
4:30pm
Latency Advantages in Common-Value Auctions
Ciamac C. Moallemi (Columbia University / Paradigm / Uniswap Labs); Mallesh M. Pai (Consensys / Paradigm); Dan Robinson (Paradigm)
5:00pm
Conference ends ... see you next year
5:30pm
Closing party hosted by Chainlink.