Blockchain Fundamentals
Technical Reading Group
A 7-session introduction to key technical topics in the blockchain space, through presentations and paper readings.
Alternate Thursdays 6:30 - 8:30pm*
5th April - 12th July 2018
Zilliqa Office
thebridge, #01-03 Ascent Building
2 Science Park Drive, Singapore 118222
(Next to Kent Ridge MRT)
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Format
Zilliqa office, thebridge, #01-03 Ascent Building
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1
30-min Presentation or Video
A presenter (usually the author of the paper) will summarize key ideas and concepts in the paper. Conference video may be played if author cannot attend in person.
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2
45-min Breakout Discussion Groups
Session will break out into smaller discussion groups to go over papers critically with an eye to research extensions or critiques.
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3
15min: Presentations and Sharing
Quick, rapid-fire sharing of discussion findings with the community.
Schedule
Please print your own copy of papers. All papers are required readings prior to attending the session as you will be expected to contribute.
5 April 2018
General Overview
COM2-04-02 Executive Classroom
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Presenter: TBD
Readings:
- [PDF] SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies, J Bonneau, A Miller, J Clark, A Narayanan, JA Kroll, EW Felten, Security and Privacy (SP), 2015 IEEE Symposium on, 104-121
19 April 2018
Incentives
Zilliqa Office,
thebridge, #01-03 Ascent Building
(Next to Kent Ridge MRT)
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Presenter: Kenneth Tiong, Daniel Ong
Readings:
- [PDF] Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable, I Eyal, EG Sirer, Eighteenth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC'14)
- [PDF] The Miner’s Dilemma, Ittay Eyal, Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland)
- [PDF] On Power Splitting Games in Distributed Computation: The Case of Bitcoin Pooled Mining, L Luu, R Saha, I Parameshwaran, P Saxena, A Hobor
3 May 2018
Break (No session)
Readings:
- None! Enjoy the week off :)
17 May 2018
Scaling
Zilliqa Office,
thebridge, #01-03 Ascent Building
(Next to Kent Ridge MRT)
Presenter: Jia Yaoqi, Zilliqa, CTO
Readings:
- [PDF] On scaling decentralized blockchains, K Croman, C Decker, I Eyal, AE Gencer, A Juels, A Kosba, A Miller, ... International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 106-125
- [PDF] OmniLedger: A Secure, Scale-Out, Decentralized Ledger via Sharding, E Kokoris-Kogias, P Jovanovic, L Gasser, N Gailly, E Syta, B Ford
- [PDF] A secure sharding protocol for open blockchains, L Luu, V Narayanan, C Zheng, K Baweja, S Gilbert, P Saxena, Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications
31 May 2018
Decentralization
Zilliqa Office,
thebridge, #01-03 Ascent Building
(Next to Kent Ridge MRT)
Presenter: Loi Luu, Kyber, CEO
Readings:
- [PDF] Nonoutsourceable scratch-off puzzles to discourage bitcoin mining coalitions, A Miller, A Kosba, J Katz, E Shi, Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications
- [PDF] SMART POOL: Practical Decentralized Pooled Mining., L Luu, Y Velner, J Teutsch, P Saxena, IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 2017, 19
14 June 2018
Smart Contract Security
Zilliqa Office,
thebridge, #01-03 Ascent Building
(Next to Kent Ridge MRT)
Presenter: Aashish Kolluri
Readings:
- [PDF] Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale, I Nikolic, A Kolluri, I Sergey, P Saxena, A Hobor
- [PDF] ZEUS: Analyzing Safety of Smart Contracts, S Kalra, S Goel, M Dhawan, S Sharma, NDSS
- [PDF] Enter the Hydra: Towards Principled Bug Bounties and Exploit-Resistant Smart Contracts, L Breidenbach, P Daian, F Tramer, A Juels
28 Jun 2018
Traceability
Zilliqa Office,
thebridge, #01-03 Ascent Building
(Next to Kent Ridge MRT)
Presenter: Amrit Kumar, Zilliqa, Head Research
Readings:
- [PDF] A Traceability Analysis of Monero’s Blockchain, A Kumar, C Fischer, S Tople, and P Saxena
- [PDF] An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain, M Möser, K Soska, E Heilman, K Lee, H Heffan, S Srivastava, K Hogan, J Hennessey, A Miller, A Narayanan, N Christin
12 July 2018
Partitioning & Series Conclusion
Zilliqa Office,
thebridge, #01-03 Ascent Building
(Next to Kent Ridge MRT)
Presenter: Prof. Prateek Saxena
Readings:
- [PDF] Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies, M Apostolaki, A Zohar, L Vanbever, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
- [PDF] Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin's Peer-to-Peer Network, E Heilman, A Kendler, A Zohar, S Goldberg, USENIX Security Symposium, 129-144
Venue
Zilliqa Office
thebridge, #01-03 Ascent Building
2 Science Park Drive, Singapore 118222
Venue may be subject to change, please check this page for latest details.