Decentralised Science (DeSci) Seminar

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.

Seminar Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
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