Monday, July 27, 2026
9:00am
Welcome remarks
SBC Program Chairs
Session 1:   Censorship Resistance session chair: Tim Roughgarden
9:10am
Escaping the Monopolist: An Economic Model of Censorship Resistance in Multi-Proposer Protocols
Aadityan Ganesh (Princeton University), Pranav Garimidi (a16z Crypto), Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots)
9:35am
The Latency Cost Of Censorship Resistance [paper]  
Ittai Abraham (a16z Crypto), Yuval Efron (Ritual), Ling Ren (UIUC)
10:00am
Prefix Consensus For Censorship Resistant BFT [paper]  
Zhuolun Xiang (Aptos Labs), Andrei Tonkikh (Aptos Labs), Alexander Spiegelman (Aptos Labs)
10:25am
Break
Session 2:   The Quantum Threat session chair: Dan Boneh
10:55am
Invited talk: Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies and Quantum Vulnerabilities [paper]  
Ryan Babbush, Google
11:20am
Transitioning a hardware wallet to post-quantum security
Charles Guillemet, CTO of Ledger
11:40am
How to migrate an entire ecosystem
Mira Belenkiy, Circle
12:00pm
Lunch
Session 3:   Consensus I session chair: Ertem Nusret Tas
1:30pm
Forget-IT: Optimal Good-Case Latency For Information-Theoretic BFT [paper]  
Ittai Abraham (a16z Crypto Research), Sourav Das (Category Labs), Yuval Efron (Ritual), Jovan Komatovic (Category Labs)
1:55pm
Timing Games in Responsive Consensus Protocols [paper]  
Kaya Alpturer (Princeton University), Kushal Babel (Category Labs), Aditya Saraf (Cornell University)
2:20pm
MonadBFT: Fast, Responsive, Fork-Resistant Streamlined Consensus [paper]  
Mohammad Jalalzai (Category Labs), Kushal Babel (Category Labs), Jovan Komatovic (Category Labs), Tobias Klenze (Category Labs), Sourav Das (Category Labs), Fatima Elsheimy (Yale University), Mike Setrin (Category Labs), John Bergschneider (Category Labs), Babak Gilkalaye (Category Labs)
2:45pm
Hydrangea: Optimistic Two-Round Partial Synchrony with Improved Fault Resilience [paper]  
Nibesh Shrestha (Supra Research), Aniket Kate (Supra Research / Purdue University), Kartik Nayak (Duke University)
3:10pm
Break
Session 4:   Batch Threshold Decryption session chair: Chrysa Stathakopoulou
3:45pm
Partial Fractions Techniques: Foundations and Efficient Batch Threshold Encryption [paper1]   [paper2]  
Dan Boneh (Stanford University), Charanjit S. Jutla (IBM Research), Rohit Nema (Stanford University), Arnab Roy (Mysten Labs), Ertem Nusret Tas (a16z Crypto Research)
4:10pm
TrX: Encrypted Mempools in High Performance BFT Protocols [paper]  
Rex Fernando (Aptos Labs), Guru Vamsi Policharla (Commonware), Andrei Tonkikh (Aptos Labs), Zhuolun Xiang (Aptos Labs)
4:35pm
Weighted Batched Threshold Encryption with Applications to Mempool Resilience [paper]  
Amit Agarwal (Category Labs), Kushal Babel (Category Labs), Sourav Das (Category Labs), Babak Gilkalaye (Category Labs), Arup Mondal (Ashoka University), Benny Pinkas (Bar Ilan University), Peter Rindal (Category Labs), Aayush Yadav (George Mason University)
5:00pm
End of day one
5:00pm
Reception
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Session 5:   Bitcoin Bridges and Proof of Work session chair: Srivatsan Sridhar
9:00am
WIP: Efficient Bitcoin Bridges via Garbled Circuits
Robin Linus Woll (Stanford University and ZeroSync), Ioannis Alexopoulos (TU Wien), Lukas Aumayr (University of Edinburgh & Common Prefix), Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien and Common Prefix), Matteo Maffei (TU Wien)
9:25am
BABE: Verifying Proofs on Bitcoin Made 1000x Cheaper [paper]  
Sanjam Garg (University of California, Berkeley), Dimitris Kolonelos (UC Berkeley), Mikhail Sergeevitch (Babylon Labs), Srivatsan Sridhar (Byzantine Research), David Tse (Byzantine Research)
9:50am
Ark: Offchain Transaction Batching in Bitcoin [paper]  
Pim Keer (TU Wien), Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien and Common Prefix), Matteo Maffei (TU Wien), Marco Argentieri (Ark Labs), Andrew Camilleri (Ark Labs)
10:15am
Break
Session 6:   New Consensus Paradigms session chair: Aniket Kate
10:45am
Space Fabric: A Satellite-Enhanced Trusted Execution Architecture [paper]  
Filip Rezabek (SpaceComputer and Technical University of Munich), Dahlia Malkhi (UCSB and SpaceComputer), Amir Yahalom (SpaceComputer)
11:10am
The Economics of Proof-of-Useful-Work [paper]  
Rafael Pass (Pearl Research Labs, Cornell Tech, Technion)
Session 7:   Lightning talks session chair: Nusret Tas
11:35am
Lightning talks
Short 3 minute talks by the participants. No registration needed. Speakers can optionally email up to three slides to the session chair, Nusret Tas, by Monday at midnight.
12:10pm
Lunch
Session 8:   Zero Knowledge Proofs I session chair: Arnab Roy
1:30pm
Invited talk: AI vs QED: formally verifying the stack, from theory to practice
Alexander Hicks (Ethereum Foundation)
1:55pm
zk-promises: Anonymous Moderation, Reputation, and Blocking from Anonymous Credentials with Callbacks [paper]  
Maurice Shih (University Of Maryland, College Park), Michael Rosenberg (University of Maryland), Hari Kailad (University Of Maryland), Ian Miers (University of Maryland)
2:20pm
Computation-Constraint Discrepancies in Zero-Knowledge Proofs [paper]  
Arman Kolozyan (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy), Bram Vandenbogaerde (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Janwillem Swalens (Nokia Bell Labs), Lode Hoste (Nokia Bell Labs), Stefanos Chaliasos (UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies & zkSecurity), Coen De Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
2:45pm
Arbigraph: Verifiable Turing-Complete Execution Delegation [paper]  
Michael Mirkin (Technion), Hongyin Chen (Technion), Ohad Eitan (Technion), Gal Granot (Technion), Ittay Eyal (Technion)
3:10pm
Break
Session 9:   DeFi session chair: Lioba Heimbach
3:40pm
Quantifying Sub-Optimality in Routing for Automated Market
Weiye Xi (Columbia University), Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia University)
4:05pm
Designing On-Chain Options: Amortizing Perpetual Options [paper]  
Zachary Feinstein (Stevens Institute of Technology), Maxim Bichuch (University at Buffalo)
4:30pm
Risk-Based Auto-Deleveraging [paper]  
Steven Campbell (Columbia University), Natascha Hey (Columbia University), Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia University / Paradigm / Uniswap Labs), Marcel Nutz (Columbia University)
4:55pm
Perils of Parallelism: Transaction Fee Mechanisms under Execution Uncertainty [paper]  
Sarisht Wadhwa (Duke University), Aviv Yaish (Yale University, IC3, Complexity Science Hub Vienna), Fan Zhang (Yale University, IC3), Kartik Nayak (Duke University)
5:20pm
End of day two
6:00pm
Evening events:
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Session 10:   Infrastructure session chair: Gordon Liao
9:00am
Persistent BitTorrent Trackers [paper]  
François-Xavier Wicht (Institute of Computer Science, University of Bern), Zhengwei Tong (Duke University), Shunfan Zhou (Phala Network), Hang Yin (Phala Network), Aviv Yaish (Yale University, IC3, Complexity Science Hub)
9:25am
Resilient Alerting Protocols for Blockchains [paper]  
Marwa Mouallem (Technion, Chainlink Labs, IC3), Lorenz Breidenbach (Chainlink Labs), Ittay Eyal (Technion, IC3), Ari Juels (Chainlink Labs, Cornell Tech, IC3)
9:50am
B-Privacy: Defining and Enforcing Privacy in Weighted Voting [paper]  
Dani Vilardell (Cornell Tech, IC3), Samuel Breckenridge (Cornell Tech, IC3), Andrés Fábrega (Cornell Tech, IC3), Amy Zhao (Ava Labs, IC3), Patrick McCorry (Arbitrum Foundation), Rafael Solaris (Tally), Ari Juels (Cornell Tech, IC3)
10:15am
Break
Session 11:   Attacks and more session chair: Ari Juels
10:45am
Blockspace Under Pressure: An Analysis of Spam MEV on High-Throughput Blockchains [paper]  
Wenhao Wang (Yale University, IC3), Aditya Saraf (Cornell University), Lioba Heimbach (Category Labs), Kushal Babel (Category Labs), Fan Zhang (Yale University, IC3)
11:10am
TxRay: Agentic Postmortem of Live Blockchain Attacks [paper]  
Ziyue Wang (Decentralized Intelligence AG), Jiangshan Yu (The University of Sydney), Kaihua Qin (University of Warwick) , Dawn Song (UC Berkeley), Arthur Gervais (University College London), Liyi Zhou (University of Sydney)
11:35am
Self Protocol: Lessons from Deploying zkPassport at Scale
Marek Olszewski (co-founder self.xyz)
12:00pm
Lunch
Session 12:   Zero-Knowledge Proofs II session chair: Arthur Gervais
1:30pm
Efficiently Provable Approximations for Non-Polynomial Functions [paper]  
Sriram Sridhar (University of California, Berkeley), Shravan Srinivasan (Lagrange Labs), Dimitrios Papadopoulos (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & Lagrange Labs), Charalampos Papamanthou (Yale University & Lagrange Labs)
1:55pm
Flock: Fast Proving for Batch Boolean Computations [paper]  
Benedikt Bünz (NYU), Ron Rothblum (Succinct), William Wang (NYU)
2:20pm
Break
Session 13:   Networking and execution session chair: Dionysis Zindros
2:50pm
Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies [paper]  
Lucianna Kiffer (IMDEA Networks), Lioba Heimbach (Category Labs), Dennis Trautwein (University of Wuppertal), Yann Vonlanthen (Ethereum Foundation), Oliver Gasser (IPinfo)
3:15pm
AetherWeave: Sybil-Resistant Robust Peer Discovery with Stake [paper]  
Kaya Alpturer (Princeton University), Constantine Doumanidis (Princeton University), Aviv Zohar (The Hebrew University)
3:40pm
On Cryptographic Cheap Talk with Smart Contracts
Pavel Hubacek (Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University), Michelle Yeo (Aarhus University and Nanyang Technological University)
4:05pm
Conference ends ... see you next year
4:35pm
Closing party hosted by Chainlink. Sign up here.