Taro Tsuchiya, Jin-Dong Dong (Carnegie Mellon University); Kyle Soska (Independent); Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon University)

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)

Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen (ETH Zurich); Juan Villacis (University of Bern); Lucianna Kiffer (IMDEA Networks); Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)

Hester Peirce (Commissioner at the SEC)

Molly Zhuangtong huang, Rui Jiang (University of Macau); Tanusree Sharma (Pennsylvania State University); Kanye Ye Wang (University of Macau)

Andrew Lewis-Pye (London School of Economics); Joachim Neu (a16z Crypto Research); Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University & a16z crypto); Luca Zanolini (Ethereum Foundation)

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)

Mirza Ahad Baig, Christoph U. Günther, Krzysztof Pietrzak (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)

Weijie Wang (Yale University); Charalampos Papamanthou (Yale University and Lagrange Labs); Shravan Srinivasan (Lagrange Labs); Dimitrios Papadopoulos (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)

Liam Eagen (Alpen Labs); Ariel Gabizon (Aztec Labs)

Michel Dellepere (Ava Labs); Pratyush Mishra, Alireza Shirzad (University of Pennsylvania)

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)

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)

Dan Boneh (Stanford University); Joachim Neu (a16z Crypto Research); Valeria Nikolaenko (A16Z Crypto Research); Aditi Partap (Stanford University)

Lioba Heimbach (ETH Zurich); Jason Milionis (Columbia University)

Short 3 minute talks by the participants (no registration needed)

Arash Afshar, Yi-Hsiu Chen, Yehuda Lindell (Coinbase); Gil Segev (Coinbase and Hebrew University); Valery Osheter, Samuel Ranellucci (Coinbase)

Deepak Maram (Mysten Labs); Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell University); Ittay Eyal (Technion)

Amit Agarwal (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign); Benny Pinkas (Bar-Ilan University); Rex Fernando (Aptos Labs)

Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh and IOG)

Jianting Zhang (Purdue University); Aniket Kate (Purdue University / Supra Research)

Colin Finkbeiner, Mohamed E. Najd (University of Connecticut); Julia Guskind (Boston University); Ghada Almashaqbeh (University of Connecticut)

Joseph Bonneau (NYU & a16z crypto); Benedikt Bünz (NYU); Miranda Christ, Yuval Efron (Columbia University)

Sanjam Garg (UC Berkeley); Aarushi Goel (Purdue University); Dimitris Kolonelos (UC Berkeley); Rohit Sinha (Swirlds Labs)

Kamilla Nazirkhanova, Vrushank Gunjur, Pilli Cruz-De Jesus, Dan Boneh (Stanford University)

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)

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)

David Tse (Stanford University)

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)

Dan Boneh, Trisha Datta (Stanford University); Rex Fernando (Aptos Labs); Kamilla Nazirkhanova (Stanford University); Alin Tomescu (Aptos Labs)

Alexandros Psomas, Athina Terzoglou (Purdue University); Yu Wei, Vassilis Zikas (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Brian Z. Zhu (Columbia University); Xin Wan (Uniswap Labs); Ciamac C. Moallemi (Columbia University / Paradigm / Uniswap Labs); Dan Robinson (Paradigm); Brad Bachu (Uniswap Labs)

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)

Ciamac C. Moallemi (Columbia University / Paradigm / Uniswap Labs); Mallesh M. Pai (Consensys / Paradigm); Dan Robinson (Paradigm)


Monday, Aug. 4, 2025
9:00am	Welcome remarks SBC Program Chairs
Session 1: Infrastructure security session chair: Aniket Kate
9:10am	Blockchain Address Poisoning [video] [paper] 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 [video] [paper] 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 [video] [paper] 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: Financial Privacy in the Digital Age [video] Hester Peirce (Commissioner at the SEC)
11:40am	Exploring User Perceptions of Security Auditing in the Web3 Ecosystem [video] [paper] 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: Dionysis Zindros
1:30pm	Accountable Liveness [video] [paper] 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 [video] [paper] 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 [video] [paper] 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 [video] [paper] 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 [video] [paper] Liam Eagen (Alpen Labs); Ariel Gabizon (Aztec Labs)
4:30pm	GARUDA and PARI: Faster and Smaller SNARKs via Equifficient Polynomial Commitments [video] [paper] Michel Dellepere (Ava Labs); Pratyush Mishra, Alireza Shirzad (University of Pennsylvania)
5:00pm	End of day one
5:00pm	Reception
6:30pm	Evening meetups (list of side events)

Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025
Session 5: Measuring decentralization session chair: Ciamac Moallemi
9:00am	Voting-Bloc Entropy: A New Metric for DAO Decentralization [video] [paper] 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 [video] [paper] 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: Davide Crapis
10:30am	Data Availability Sampling with Efficient Repair: Definitions and New Constructions [video] [paper] 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 [video] [paper] Lioba Heimbach (ETH Zurich); Jason Milionis (Columbia University)
Session 7: Lightning talks session chair: Joachim Neu
11:30am	Lightning talks [video] Short 3 minute talks by the participants (no registration needed)
12:00pm	Lunch
Session 8: Implementations session chair: Alin Tomescu
1:30pm	Coinbase's cb-mpc Open-Source Library [video] [paper] 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 [video] [paper] Deepak Maram (Mysten Labs); Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell University); Ittay Eyal (Technion)
2:30pm	Efficiently-Thresholdizable Batched Identity Based Encryption, and its Applications [video] [paper] 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: Chrysa Stathakopoulou
3:30pm	Invited: The Evolving Art of Agreement: Post-Blockchain Theory and Practice of Consensus Protocols [video] Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh and IOG)
4:00pm	No Fish Is Too Big for Flash Boys! Frontrunning on DAG-based Blockchains [video] [paper] 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 [video] [paper] 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. [video] [paper] Joseph Bonneau (NYU & a16z crypto); Benedikt Bünz (NYU); Miranda Christ, Yuval Efron (Columbia University)
5:30pm	End of day two
6:30pm	Evening meetups (list of side events)

Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025
Session 10: Privacy session chair: Alin Tomescu
9:00am	Jigsaw: Doubly Private Smart Contracts [video] [paper] 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 [video] [paper] Kamilla Nazirkhanova, Vrushank Gunjur, Pilli Cruz-De Jesus, Dan Boneh (Stanford University)
10:00am	Liquefaction: Privately Liquefying Blockchain Assets [video] [paper] 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: Dahlia Malkhi
11:00am	BitVM2: Bridging Bitcoin to Second Layers [video] [paper] 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)
11:30am	Invited: Trustless Vaults: Integrating Bitcoin with the Smart Contracts Economy [video] David Tse (Stanford University)
12:00pm	Lunch
Session 12: Proof systems: applications session chair: Arnab Roy
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 [paper] 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: Joe Bonneau
3:00pm	Pseudo-Equilibria, or: How to Stop Worrying About Crypto and Just Analyze the Game [paper] Alexandros Psomas, Athina Terzoglou (Purdue University); Yu Wei, Vassilis Zikas (Georgia Institute of Technology)
3:30pm	Quantifying the Value of Revert Protection [paper] 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 [paper] 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 [paper] Ciamac C. Moallemi (Columbia University / Paradigm / Uniswap Labs); Mallesh M. Pai (Consensys / Paradigm); Dan Robinson (Paradigm)
5:00pm	Conference ends ... see you next year
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