AFT'22 Program
Days/times subject to change. Last update Sept. 8, 2022
Monday, Sept 19, 2022
9:00 am: Welcome + Breakfast/Coffee
10:00 am: Session A
Session Chair: Maurice Herlihy
- Parallel Proof-of-Work with Concrete Bounds, Patrik Keller (Universität Innsbruck), Rainer Böhme (Universität Innsbruck)
- Payment Channel Networks without Blockchain Synchrony, Oguzhan Ersoy (TU Delft), Jérémie Decouchant (TU Delft), Satwik Prabhu Kumble (TU Delft), Stefanie Roos (TU Delft)
- Lightning Network Economics: Channels, Clara Shikhelman (Chaincode Labs), Gur Huberman (Columbia University), Paolo Guasoni (Dublin City University)
11:00 am: 10' break
11:10 am: Decentralized Research Panel [Panel]
- Reshma Shaikh, Springer Nature
- Erik van Winkle, DeSci Labs
- Lily Hansen-Gillis, LabDAO
- Eugene Leventhal, Smart Contract Research Forum (moderator)
12:10 pm: Lunch
1:15 pm: Keynote (Seny Kamara, Brown University; MongoDB)
1:45 pm: Lightning Talks
2:15 pm: Announcements
2:30 pm: Student Paths into Blockchain [Panel]
- Vlada Pertrusenko, MIT Bitcoin Club
- Alistair Hughes, Harvard
- Jeremy Koch, Northeastern University
- Youssef Haidar, Northeastern University
- James Lovejoy, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (moderator)
3:30 pm: Session B
Session Chair: Ranier Böhme
- SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Sam Werner (Imperial College London), Daniel Perez (Imperial College London), Lewis Gudgeon (Imperial College London), Ariah Klages-Mundt (Cornell University), Dominik Harz (Imperial College London), William Knottenbelt (Imperial College London)
- SoK: Preventing Transaction Reordering Manipulations in Decentralized Finance Lioba Heimbach (ETH Zurich), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)
- SoK: Blockchain Governance, Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh and IOG), Philip Lazos (IOHK)
- Understanding Flash-Loan-based Wash Trading, Rundong Gan (University of Guelph), Le Wang (University of Guelph), Xiangyu Ruan (University of Guelph), Xiaodong Lin (University of Guelph)
Tuesday, Sept 20, 2022
9:00 am: Opening + Breakfast/Coffee
10:15 am: Session C
Session Chair: Joachim Neu
- Risks and Returns of Uniswap V3 Liquidity Providers, Lioba Heimbach (ETH Zurich), Eric Schertenleib (ETH Zurich), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)
- The Economics of Automated Market Makers, Robin Frtisch (ETH Zurich), Samuel Käser (ETH Zurich), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)
- 11:10 am: 10' break
- Probabilistic Indistinguishability and the Quality of Validity in Byzantine Agreement, Guy Goren (Technion), Yoram Moses (Technion), Alexander Spiegelman (Aptos)
- Longest Chain Consensus Under Bandwidth Constraint, Joachim Neu (Stanford University), Srivatsan Sridhar (Stanford University), Lei Yang (MIT CSAIL), David Tse (Stanford University), Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT)
11:45 pm: OpenCBDC Workshop
- Sam Stuewe, MIT DCI
12:10 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm: Session D
Session Chair: Rida Bazzi
- Atomic cross-chain exchanges of shared assets, Krishnasuri Narayanam (IBM Research), Venkatraman Ramakrishna (IBM Research - India), Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy (IBM Research - India), Sandeep Nishad (IBM Research)
- Transferable Cross-Chain Options, Daniel Engel (Brown University), Yingjie Xue (Brown University)
- Information Dispersal with Provable Retrievability for Rollups, Joachim Neu (Stanford University), Kamilla Nazirkhanova (Stanford University), David Tse (Stanford University)
- Analysing and Improving Shard Allocation Protocols for Sharded Blockchains, Runchao Han (Monash University and CSIRO-Data61), Jiangshan Yu (Monash University), Ren Zhang (Nervos)
2:20 pm: 10'Break
2:30 pm: Announcements
3:00 pm: Blockchain Law, Policy, and Regulation
- Ran Canetti, Boston University
- Shlomit Wagman, Harvard Berkman-Klein Center (former Director-General of the Israel AML and Terror Financing Authority)
- Kai Ramaswamy, A16Z (Former head of FATF)
- Hugo Krawczyk, Algorand Foundation
- Elaine Shi, Carnegie Mellon
4:00pm: Keynote (Tim Beiko, Ethereum Foundation)
6:30 pm: AFT '22 Banquet@ Algorand Headquarters (Sponsored by Algorand)
Special Guest: Algorand Founder Silvio Micali
399 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Wednesday, Sept 21, 2022
9:00 am: Welcome + Breakfast/Coffee
10:00 am: Session E
- Wiser: Increasing Throughput in Payment Channel Networks with Transaction Aggregation, Samarth Tiwari (Centrum Wiskunde \& Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Michelle Yeo (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien), Iosif Salem (TU Berlin), Krzysztof Pietrzak (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin & University of Vienna)
- Block Double-Submission Attack: Block Withholding Can Be Self-Destructive, Suhyeon Lee (School of Cybersecurity, Institute of Cyber Security and Privacy (ICSP), Korea University), Donghwan Lee (Cyber/Network Technology Center, Agency for Defense Development; School of Cybersecurity, Korea University), Seungjoo Kim (School of Cybersecurity, Institute of Cyber Security and Privacy (ICSP), Korea University)
- Bitcoin’s Latency–Security Analysis Made Simple, Dongning Guo (Northwestern University), Ling Ren (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- 11:00 am: 10' break
- Measuring the Adoption and Actual Privacy of Decentralized CoinJoin Implementations in the Bitcoin Ecosystem, Rainer Stütz (Austrian Institute of Technology), Johann Stockinger (TU Vienna), Bernhard Haslhofer (Complexity Science Hub Vienna), Matteo Maffei (TU Wien)
11:30 am: Keynote (Tim Roughgarden, A16Z; Columbia University)
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm: Session F
- Parallel Contests for Crowdsourcing Reviews: Existence and Quality of Equilibria, Georgios Birmpas (Sapienza University of Rome), Lyudmila Kovalchuk (Input Output HK, National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"), Philip Lazos (IOHK), Roman Oliynykov (IOHK and V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University)
- Blockchain Nash Dynamics and the Pursuit of Compliance, Dimitris Karakostas (University of Edinburgh), Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh and IOHK), Thomas Zacharias (University of Edinburgh)
- Blockchains: Mining & Staking Optimal Resource Allocation, Yunming Xiao (Northwestern University), Sarit Markovich (Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management), Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Northwestern University)
- D-KODE: Distributed Mechanism to Manage a Billion Discrete-log Keys, Easwar Mangipudi (Purdue University), Aniket Kate (Purdue University)
2:20 pm: 10' break
2:30 pm: Privacy in FinTech [Panel]
- Peter Van Valkenburg, CoinCenter
- Madars Virza, MIT
- Marta Belcher, Protocol Labs
- Alex Jung, MIT DCI (moderator)
3:30 pm: Central Bank Digital Currencies [Panel]
- Tommaso Mancini Griffoli, Head of the IMF CBDC team
- Danny Russell, Bank of England
- Dinesh Shah, Bank of Canada
- Neha Narula, Director, MIT Digital Currency Initiative (moderator)
4:30 pm: Environmental Impacts of Cryptocurrencies [Panel]
- Daniel Aronoff, MIT
- Troy Cross, Reed College; Bitcoin Policy Institute
- Sam Stuewe, MIT DCI
- Lillie Huang, MIT DCI (moderator)
Sponsors
We are grateful for the generous support of AFT'22 sponsors:
Dinner Reception (Banquet) Sponsor
Gold Sponsor
Conference Sponsors
