Program

Last update: October 7, 2025. While the papers accepted are set, note that times may still be subject to change.

Tuesday, October 7
9:00am - 4:00pm	Secure Blockchain Initiative Summit (by invitation)

5:00pm - 7:30pm	Registration + Welcome Reception
	The Café Carnegie

Wednesday, October 8
08:30am - 09:00am	Registration + Setup

09:00am - 09:15am	Opening Remarks
	Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon University) and Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien)
09:15am - 10:15am	Keynote
	Speaker: Teresa Goody Guillén (BakerHostetler)

10:15am - 10:45am	Refreshments

10:45am - 12:30pm	Session 1: Cryptography and Privacy in Blockchains
	Chair: Nusret Tas (a16z Crypto Research) Cache Timing Leakages in Zero-Knowledge Protocols Shibam Mukherjee (Graz University of Technology, Know Center), Markus Schofnegger (Fabric Cryptography), Christian Rechberger (Graz University of Technology, TACEO) Zero-knowledge Authenticator for Blockchain: Policy-private and Obliviously Updateable Kostas Kryptos Chalkias (Mysten Labs), Deepak Maram (Mysten Labs), Arnab Roy (Mysten Labs), Joy Wang (Mysten Labs), Aayush Yadav (George Mason University) Fast, private and regulated payments in asynchronous networks Maxence Brugeres (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique Paris, Forvis Mazars), Victor Languille (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique Paris, EDF), Petr Kuznetsov (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique Paris), Hamza Zarfaoui (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique Paris) Proxying Is Enough: Security of Proxying in TLS Oracles and AEAD Context Unforgeability Zhongtang Luo (Purdue University), Yanxue Jia (Purdue University), Yaobin Shen (Xiamen University), Aniket Kate (Purdue University and Supra Research) Blockchain Governance via Sharp Anonymous Multisignatures Wonseok Choi (DGIST), Xiangyu Liu (Purdue University and Georgia Tech), Vassilis Zikas (Georgia Tech)

12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch

2:00pm - 3:00pm	Session 2: AMM
	Chair: Hao Chung (Layerzero Labs) Modeling Loss-Versus-Rebalancing in Automated Market Makers via Continuous-Installment Options Srisht Fateh Singh (University of Toronto) Reina Ke Xin Li (University of Toronto) Samuel Gaskin (University of Toronto) Yuntao Wu (University of Toronto) Jeffrey Klinck (University of Toronto) Panagiotis Michalopoulos (University of Toronto) Zissis Poulos (York University) Andreas Veneris (University of Toronto) Mechanism Design for Automated Market Makers T-H. Hubert Chan (HKU), Ke Wu (CMU and UMich), Elaine Shi (CMU) Strategic Analysis of Just-in-Time Liquidity Provision in Concentrated Liquidity Market Makers Bruno Llacer Trotti (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)), Weizhao Tang (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)), Rachid Elazouzi (Avignon University), Giulia Fanti (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)), Daniel Sadoc Menasche (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ))

3:00pm - 3:30pm	Refreshments

3:30pm - 4:30pm	Session 3: Measurements
	Chair: Giulia Fanti (CMU) Money in Motion: Micro-Velocity and Usage of Ethereum’s Liquid Staking Tokens Benjamin Kraner (University of Zurich), Luca Pennella (University of Trieste), Nicolò Vallarano (University of Zurich), Claudio J. Tessone (University of Zurich) Inflation Expectation and Cryptocurrency Investment Will Cong (Cornell SC Johnson), Pulak Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Jiasun Li (George Mason University), Qihong Ruan (Cornell University), Artem Streltsov (Cornell University) Cryptocurrency Exchange Listings Jiasun Li (George Mason University), Mei Luo (Tsinghua University), Muzhi Wang (Central University of Finance and Economics), Zhe Wei (Shantou University)

5:00pm - 6:30pm	Business Meeting (open to all attendees)
	(Same conference room)

Thursday, October 9
09:00am - 10:30am	Session 4: Consensus I
	Chair: Aviv Yaish (Yale University) How Much Public Randomness Do Modern Consensus Protocols Need? Joseph Bonneau (New York University), Benedikt Bünz (New York University), Miranda Christ (Columbia University), Yuval Efron (Columbia University) Composable Byzantine Agreements with Reorder Attacks Jing Chen (Tsinghua University), Jin Dong (Beijing Academy of Blockchain and Edge Computing), Jichen Li (Tsinghua University), Xuanzhi Xia (Tsinghua University), Wentao Zhou (Tsinghua University) Optimistic Message Dissemination Chen-Da Liu-Zhang (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts & Web3 Foundation), Christian Matt (Primev), Søren Eller Thomsen (Partisia) Beyond Optimal Fault-Tolerance Andrew Lewis-Pye (London School of Economics), Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University and a16z crypto)

10:30am - 11:00am	Refreshments

11:00am - 12:30pm	Session 5: Consensus II
	Chair: Jing Chen (Tsinghua University) Nakamoto Consensus from Multiple Resources Mirza Ahad Baig (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Christoph U. Günther (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Krzysztof Pietrzak (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) Fully-Fluctuating Participation in Sleepy Consensus Yuval Efron (Columbia University), Joachim Neu (a16z Crypto Research), Toniann Pitassi (Columbia University) From Permissioned to Proof-of-Stake Consensus Jovan Komatovic (Category Labs), Andrew Lewis-Pye (London Schoool of Economics (LSE)), Joachim Neu (a16z Crypto Research), Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University and a16z Crypto Research), Ertem Nusret Tas (Stanford University) Two-tier Black-box Blockchains and Application to Instant Layer-1 Payments Michele Ciampi (The University of Edinburgh), Yun Lu (University of Victoria), Rafail Ostrovsky (University of California, Los Angeles), Vassilis Zikas (Georgia Institute of Technology)

12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch

2:00pm - 3:00pm	Session 6: Incentives and Tokenomics
	Chair: Guillermo Angeris (Bain Capital) Selfish Mining under General Stochastic Rewards Maryam Bahrani (Ritual), Michael Neuder (Ethereum Foundation), S. Matthew Weinberg (Princeton University) Pool Formation in Oceanic Games: Shapley Value and Proportional Sharing Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh and IOG), Elias Koutsoupias (University of Oxford), Evangelos Markakis (Athens University of Economics and Business & IOG), Panagiotis Tsamopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business) Single-token vs Two-token Blockchain Tokenomics Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh, IOG), Philip Lazos (Unaffiliated), Paolo Penna (IOG)

3:00pm - 3:30pm	Refreshments

3:30pm - 4:30pm	Session 7: Mechanism Design for Fees and Markets
	Chair: Vangelis Markakis (Athens Univ. of Economics & Business and IOG) Transaction Fee Market Design for Parallel Execution Bahar Acilan (ETH Zurich), Andrei Constantinescu (ETH Zurich), Lioba Heimbach (ETH Zurich), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich) Multidimensional Blockchain Fees are (Essentially) Optimal Guillermo Angeris (Bain Capital), Theo Diamandis (MIT), Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia University) The Exchange Problem Mohit Garg (Indian Institute of Science), Suneel Sarswat (National Institute of Securities Markets)

4:30pm - 5:30pm	Rump Session
	Chair: Jiasun Li (George Mason University)

6:00pm - 8:30pm	Conference Dinner
	Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

Friday, October 10
09:30am - 10:30am	Session 8: Empirical Analysis and MEV
	Chair: Aniket Kate (Supra Research and Purdue University) Measuring CEX-DEX Extracted Value and Searcher Profitability: The Darkest of the MEV Dark Forest Fei Wu (King's College London), Danning Sui (Flashbots), Thomas Thiery (Ethereum Foundation), Mallesh Pai (Consensys) Unraveling the Probabilistic Forest: Arbitrage in Prediction Markets Oriol Saguillo (IMDEA Networks), Lucianna Kiffer (IMDEA Networks), Vahid Ghafouri (Oxford), Guillermo Suarez (IMDEA Networks) Optimistic MEV in Ethereum Layer 2s: Why Blockspace Is Always in Demand Ozan Solmaz (ETH Zurich), Lioba Heimbach (ETH Zurich), Yann Vonlanthen (ETH Zurich), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)

10:30am - 11:00am	Refreshments

11:00am - 12:30pm	Session 9: Scalability and Interoperability
	Chair: Lucianna Kiffer (IMDEA Networks) Efficient Parallel Execution of Blockchain Transactions Leveraging Conflict Specifications Parwat Singh Anjana (Supra Research), Matin Amini (University of Southern California), Rohit Kapoor (Supra Research), Rahul Parmar (Supra Research), Raghavendra Ramesh (Supra Research), Srivatsan Ravi (University of Southern California and Supra Research), Joshua Tobkin (Supra Research) Ticket to Ride: Locally Steered Source Routing for the Lightning Network Sajjad Alizadeh (University of Alberta), Majid Khabbazian (University of Alberta) Trustless Bridges via Random Sampling Light Clients Bhargav Nagaraja Bhatt (Web3 Foundation), Alistair Stewart (Web3 Foundation), Fatemeh Shirazi (Web3 Foundation) 4-Swap: Achieving Grief-Free and Bribery-Safe Atomic Swaps Using Four Transactions Kirti Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Vinay J. Ribeiro (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Susmita Mandal (Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology)

12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch

2:00pm - 3:00pm	Session 10: Cryptocurrency Markets and Adoption
	Chair: Lioba Heimbach (Category Labs) Cuttlefish: A Fair, Predictable Execution Environment for Cloud-hosted Financial Exchanges Liangcheng Yu (Microsoft Research and University of Pennsylvania), Prateesh Goyal (Microsoft Research), Ilias Marinos (Nvidia), Vincent Liu (University of Pennsylvania) pvpAMM: A perpetual market for unbalanced long-short positions Zhenhang Shang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Zhenyu Zhao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Kani Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) On-Chain Decentralized Learning and Cost-effective Inference for DeFi Attack Mitigation Abdulrahman Alhaidari (University of Pittsburgh), Balaji Palanisamy (University of Pittsburgh), Prashant Krishnamurthy (University of Pittsburgh)

03:00pm - 03:15pm	Closing Remarks
	Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon University) and Zeta Avarikioti (TU Wien)

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