TUM Blockchain Salon 24
Aims
- Exploring core technologies for security, scalability, and privacy in Blockchain systems
- Discussing applications and solutions with requirements met by these core technologies, and to which extent these technologies provide value
- Exchange on methods for assessment of P2P layer, smart-contract security, and cryptographic innovations
- Bridge academia, industry, and students and introduce recent topics from various layers of the Blockchain stack and ecosystems
Topical Scope
- Individual layers of Blockchain Protocols spanning hardware, peer-to-peer network, consensus, execution layers, applications, and ecosystems
- Innovative scalability and privacy technologies, such as zero knowledge proofs
- Design, verification, and implementation of smart contracts logic
- Methods and tools for performance assessment
- Overview of possible optimization solutions and their applicability to blockchain solutions
- Applications and use-cases in Web3.0 and Blockchain Technologies and open challenges
Organization by the Technical University of Munich
- Chair: Georg Carle
- Organizing committee chairs: Kilian Glas, Filip Rezabek, and Richard von Seck
Venue
- Afternoon 16 and Morning 17 May 2024
- TUM-IAS Institute of Advance Studies
- Lichtenbergstraße 2a, 85748 Garching bei München
- also online (Hybrid Event)
Tools
Agenda
(subsequent times are - Central European Summer Time, UTC+2)
Thursday 16.5.2024
Get together - 08:30 - 09:00
Session 1 - 09:00 - 10:30
Topic: Privacy and Security in the Blockchain Technologies
Session Chair: Georg Carle
- Welcome and Introduction: Georg Carle (TUM)
- Jeffrey Burdges (Web3 Foundation): Ethical Identity, Ring VRFs, and Zero-Knowledge Continuations, (pdf, .mp4, YouTube)
- Daniel Hugenroth (University of Cambridge): Building Decentralized Applications for Smartphones: Energy Measurements for Practical Protocol Design, (.mp4, YouTube)
- Laura Ricci (University of Pisa): Supporting Privacy with Zero Knowledge in SSI and Blockchain based Access Control, (pdf, .mp4, YouTube)
Session 2 - 11:00 - 12:30
Topic: Secure Smart Contract Computing
Session Chair: Florian Matthes
- Ingo Weber (TUM): Business Process Execution and Process Mining on Blockchain, (pdf)
- Louis Tremblay Thibault (Zama): Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts using FHE, (pdf, .mp4, YouTube)
- Josef Gattermayer (Ackee Blockchain Security): Wake: Why we built an Open-Source Swiss Knife for Solidity Developers, (.mp4, YouTube)
Session 3 - 12:30 - 13:45
Poster Madness
Session Chair: Kilian Glas (TUM)
Session 4 - 13:45 - 15:00
Topic: Trust & Behavioral Considerations in Decentralized Systems
Session Chair: Filip Rezabek
- Christof Ferreira Torres (ETH Zurich): Rolling in the Shadows: A Closer Look at MEV Extraction Across Layer 2 Rollups
- Bhargav Bhatt (Web3 Foundation): Trustless and Efficient Bridges between PoS Blockchains via Random Sampling, (pdf, .mp4, YouTube)
- Sheng-Nan Li (UZH Blockchain Center): Trust Management of Decentralised Platforms, (.mp4, YouTube)
Session 5 - 15:45 - 16:20
Panel Discussions
Moderator: Eomji Park (TUM/Encode Club)
- Panelists:
- Jonatan Luther-Bergquist (Inflection XYZ)
- Dr. David An (Dracoon Ventures)
- Sjors Witteveen (Lemniscap)
- Topics
- VC Perspective on Web3
- Upcoming Research Challenges
Session 6 - 16:30 - 17:05
Panel Discussions
Moderator: Valentin Zieglmeier (TUM)
- Panelists:
- Josef Gattermayer (Ackee Blockchain Security)
- Oliver Hörr (Hats Finance)
- Christof Ferreira Torres (ETH Zurich)
- Topics
- Security tooling for EVM
- Developers profession
Session 7 - 17:15 - 18:30
Blockchain Optimization and Interoperability Approaches
Session Chair: Sebastian Steinhorst
- Markus Legner (Mysten Labs/ETH Zurich): Modern Blockchains and Next-Generation Internet Architectures: Opportunities and Synergies, (pdf, .mp4, YouTube)
- Richard von Seck (TUM): Permissioned Consensus in the Lens of Network Transport
- Zeta Avarikioti (TU Vienna&Common Prefix): Blink: A PoW Light Client with Constant Communication
Friday 17.5.2024
Get together - 08:30 - 09:00
Session 8 - 09:00 - 10:30
Topic: New Trends in Blockchain
Session Chair: Georg Carle
- Welcome and Introduction: Georg Carle (TUM)
- David Millar-Durrant (NEAR/Pagoda): Chain Signatures and what to do with them, (.mp4, YouTube)
- Arthur Gervais (UCL): (Pre)training and applying LLMs to Blockchain Transactions, (.mp4, YouTube)
- Fran Algaba (Gizatech): Act onchain with AI Agents, (.mp4, YouTube)
- Jan Lauinger (TUM): Transpiling Policies to Secure Computation Circuits, (.mp4, YouTube)
Session 9 - 11:00 - 12:30
Topic: Blockchain Infrastructure & Network Challenges
Session Chair: Richard von Seck (TUM)
- Simone Romano (IoTeX): Building Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs), (.mp4, YouTube)
- Filip Rezabek (TUM): METHODA - Framework for Distributed Systems Evaluations, (pdf, .mp4, YouTube)
- Ognjen Maric (DFINITY Foundation): Fast and Reliable P2P Without Breaking the Memory Budget, (pdf, .mp4, YouTube)
Session 10 - 12:30 - 13:15
Panel Discussions
Moderator: Filip Rezabek (TUM)
- Panelists:
- Anthony Beaumont (Encode Club)
- Georg Carle (TUM)
- Zeta Avarikioti (TU Vienna&Common Prefix)
- Topics
- Synergies between industry and academia
- Web3.0 education
Session 11 - 14:30 - 15:45
Decentralized Identities, Business Logic, and Governance
Session Chair: Ingo Weber
- Lars Hupel (G+D): Digital Euro Update, (pdf, .mp4, YouTube)
- Federico Kunze Küllmer (evmOS/Altiplanic): Enterprise EVMs: How evmOS enables Access Control for Web3 Businesses, (pdf, .mp4, YouTube)
- Felix Hoops (TUM): A Middleware Architecture for Self-Sovereign Identity Authentication and Authorization, (.mp4, YouTube)
- Fabian Stiehle (TUM): Process Channels: A New Layer for Process Enactment Based on Blockchain State Channels, (.mp4, YouTube)
15:45 Wrap-up (Session Chair: Georg Carle)
- Collection of feedback and suggestions for follow-up event
Poster Session
The Blockchain Salon will be accompanied by a poster session of TUM students, Research Associates, and student clubs.
Posters
- Jonas Gebele: Detecting Arbitrages on a First-Come-First-Served Blockchain, (pdf)
- Eber Christer: Scalable Cloud-Based Off-Chain Computation on Data Streams using Trusted Execution Environments, (pdf)
- Tizian Leonhardt: Private Computing on Permissionless Blockchains, (pdf)
- TUM Blockchain Club, (pdf)
- Women in Computer Science, (pdf)
- Jesco Melzer, Till Köbele, Yu Nakai, Furkan Atasay: TUMChainBook: A Data Exploration for Blockchain-based Systems, (pdf)
- David Guzman: Distributed Consensus through Network Support, (pdf)
- Veronika Bauer: Evaluation of SNARK Generation Tools in Private Infrastructure, (pdf)
- Benjamin Kraner: The Emergence of Liquid Staking, (pdf)
- Nicolò Vallarano: An Attack Simulation on Ethereum, (pdf)