Exploring the frontiers of blockchain technology and decentralized systems
Welcome to the Decentralised Science (DeSci) Seminar series hosted by Sydney Blockchain. This seminar series brings together leading researchers and practitioners in the fields of blockchain technology, cryptography, and decentralized systems. Our goal is to foster knowledge exchange, stimulate innovative ideas, and promote collaboration in the rapidly evolving landscape of decentralized science.
Each seminar features a distinguished speaker presenting cutting-edge research or insights on topics ranging from blockchain security and multi-party computation to smart contract testing and decentralized asset management. Join us to explore the frontiers of DeSci and engage in thought-provoking discussions with experts from around the world.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 May 2025 | Jason Milionis | Columbia University | The Early Days of the Ethereum Blob Fee Market |
| 23 May 2025 | Aditi Partap | Stanford University | Traceable Verifiable Random Functions |
| 20 May 2025 | Arpita Patra | Indian Institute of Science | The Communication Complexity Landscape of Information-theoretic MPC |
| 16 May 2025 | Jiashuo Zhang | Peking University | On the Use and Misuse of Ethereum Cryptographic APIs |
| 2 May 2025 | Shruti Sekar | IIT Bombay | zkSaaS: Zero-Knowledge SNARKs as a Service |
| 28 April 2025 | Hans Schmiedel | USYD | Constant latency and finality for dynamically available DAG |
| 11 April 2025 | Junkai Liang | Peking University | SoK: Understanding zk-SNARKs |
| 28 March 2025 | Kite Liu | Uniswap Labs | What Drives Liquidity on Decentralized Exchanges? Evidence from the Uniswap Protocol |
| 21 March 2025 | Yan Ji | Chainlink Labs | PROF: Protected Order Flow in a Profit-Seeking World |
| 14 March 2025 | Hao Chung | CMU | Mechanism Design for Decentralized Systems |
| 07 March 2025 | Aniket Kate | Purdue | Building Secure Distributed Computing System for blockchains, by blockchains |
| 28 February 2025 | Zhe Ye | UC Berkeley | Specular: Towards Secure, Trust-minimized Optimistic Blockchain Execution |
| 25 October 2024 | Ke Wu | UMich | Coin Toss: Game-Theoretic Fairness and Privacy |
| 18 October 2024 | Fan Zhang | Yale | Decentralization of Ethereum's Builder Market |
| 11 October 2024 | Mingxi Ye | Sun Yat-sen University | The Oracle Problem in Smart Contract Testing |
| 4 October 2024 | Taro Tsuchiya | CMU | Blockchain Amplification Attack |
| 27 September 2024 | Clément Canonne | USYD | Distributed Inference and the Use of Public Randomness in Testing and Learning |
| 20 September 2024 | Thomas Hardjono | MIT | Decentralized Asset Registries |
| 6 September 2024 | Aviv Yaish | Yale | Barriers to Collusion-resistant Transaction Fee Mechanisms |
| 30 August 2024 | Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan | USYD | New Ideas for Secure And Fair Multi-Party Computation |
| 23 August 2024 | Liyi Zhou | USYD | Redefining Blockchain Security |
| 16 August 2024 | Hanwen Feng | USYD | Decentralization at the cost of Representation: A New Distributed Key Generation Protocol Breaking the Cubic Communication Barrier |