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Blockchain, as a source of decentralized trust, is forming the underlying infrastructure for a variety of applications such as payments, decentralized finance (DeFi), the decentralized web (Web3), NFTs, and even cryptography protocols. Given how blockchains relate to such a wide variety of applications and to so many areas of computer science and economics, there is a lot to learn and understand how this field evolves. With Blockchains + X, we will conduct a series of workshops each focusing on some subset of topics.
Workshop 1: Blockchains + Trusted Execution Environments
Our first workshop focuses on research and practice at the intersection of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and Blockchains. Trusted hardware provides us with a source of trust rooted in hardware, and they find applications in the design of consensus protocols, mitigating MEV, and well perhaps even improving cryptography protocols. Is the use of trusted hardware too strong of an assumption? Doesn’t it trivialize the problem? Isn’t it broken?
We will have a series of talks from industry and academia focusing on some of the topics discussed above and perhaps shedding some light on answering some of these questions too!
Speakers
- Mic Bowman, Intel
- Matt Green, Johns Hopkins University
- Natacha Crooks, UC Berkeley
- Heidi Howard, MSR Cambridge
- Andrew Miller, UIUC
- Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Flashbots
- Ittay Eyal, Technion
- Nick Hynes, Oasis Labs
- Guy Zyskind, Secret Network
Program
(All times in Eastern Time)
3rd April | |
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10.00 AM - 10.15 AM | Introduction |
10.15 AM - 10.45 AM | Natacha Crooks |
10.45 AM - 11.15 AM | Heidi Howard |
11.15 AM - 11.45 AM | Mic Bowman |
11.45 AM - Noon | Break |
Noon - 12.30 PM | Panel |
12.30 PM - 1.00 PM | Matt Green |
1.00 PM - 1.30 PM | Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach |
4th April | |
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10.05 AM - 10.15 AM | Introduction |
10.15 AM - 10.45 AM | Nick Hynes |
10.45 AM - 11.15 AM | Andrew Miller |
11.15 AM - 11.45 AM | Panel |
11.45 AM - Noon | Break |
Noon - 12.30 PM | Ittay Eyal |
12.30 PM - 1.00 PM | Guy Zyskind |
Organizers
Kartik Nayak, Duke
Ittai Abraham, VMware Research
Aniket Kate, Purdue