CryptoEconomics Security Conference 2018

by Blockchain at Berkeley

Description

Blockchain technology has imbued digital economies with unique characteristics needed to share value in a trustless manner. However, the security of these new economies, their transactions, and incentives for participation must continually evolve to allow for further adoption and to garner trust in the underlying technology.

To assist in this exploration, Blockchain at Berkeley is hosting the Crypto-Economics Security Conference (CESC), a conference that will bring together researchers and practitioners in the blockchain industry to discuss and showcase novel research in this exciting field. More information can be found at the conference website: http://cesc.io/

CESC 2017 Speakers:

• Zerocash: Addressing Bitcoin’s privacy problem by Alessandro Chiesa
• Proofs-of-delay and randomness beacons in Ethereum by Benedikt Bünz
• On Space-Scare Economy In Blockchain System by Dmitry Meshkov
• A scalable verification solution for blockchains by Jason Teutsch
• Scalable and Efficient Distributed Ledgers by Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias
• Price Manipulation in the Bitcoin Ecosystem by Neil Gandal
• Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness by Philipp Jovanovic
• A Smart Contract for Boardroom Voting with Maximum Voter Privacy by Patrick McCorry
• On Power Splitting Games in Distributed Computation by Ratul Saha
• On the Necessity of a Prescribed Block Validity Consensus: Analyzing Bitcoin Unlimited Mining Protocol by Ren Zhang
• Keepers – Workers that Maintain Blockchain Networks By Ryan Zurrer
• What is a token? – A transaction cost economics approach to the foundations of cryptoeconomics by Sinclair Davidson
• Escrow Protocols for Cryptocurrencies by Steven Goldfeder
• Tortoise & Hares Consensus: the Meshcash Framework for Incentive-Compatible, Scalable Cryptocurrencies by Tal Moran
• Cryptoeconomics in Casper by Vlad Zamfir
• Bitcoin Mining Pools: A Cooperative Game Theoretic Analysis By Yoad Lewenberg