ConsensusDay **s**21 6-7 October 2021 Virtual ## Day One - 6 October 2021 | | | | --- | --- | | 14:00 UTC | Welcome and Logistics | | | | | --- | --- | | 14:10 UTC | Opening Talk: A Vision for ConsensusLab and Decentralized Computing ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJwPyo2c_7k&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=1)) | | Marko Vukolić (Protocol Labs) | | | | | --- | --- | | 15:00 UTC | Session 1.1 - Sharding | | | | | --- | --- | | 15:00 | MITOSIS: Practically Scaling Permissioned Blockchains ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtVrOZ8AK7c&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=2)) | | Giorgia Azzurra Marson (NEC Labs Europe),
Sebastien Andreina (NEC Labs Europe),
Lorenzo Alluminio (NEC Labs Europe),
Konstantin Munichev (NEC Labs Europe),
Ghassan Karame (NEC Labs Europe) | | | | | --- | --- | | 15:15 | Shard Scheduler: Object Placement and Migration in Sharded Account-based Blockchains ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIqf1hEykc&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=3)) | | Michał Król (City, University of London),
Onur Ascigil (Lancaster University),
Sergi Rene (University College of London),
Albert Sonnino (Facebook Novi),
Mustafa Al-Bassam (Celestia Labs),
Etienne Rivière (UCLouvain) | | | | | --- | --- | | 15:30 | Efficient Fault-Tolerant Cluster-Sending: Reliable and Efficient Communication between Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Clusters ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBWXLuFrD6Q&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=4)) | | Jelle Hellings (McMaster University),
Mohammad Sadoghi (University of California, Davis) | | | | | --- | --- | | 15:45 | RingBFT: Resilient Consensus over Sharded Ring Topology ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HKGQu-zcYU&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=5)) | | Sajjad Rahnama (University of California, Davis),
Suyash Gupta (University of California, Davis),
Rohan Sogani (University of California, Davis),
Dhruv Krishnan (University of California, Davis),
Mohammad Sadoghi (University of California, Davis) | | | | | --- | --- | | 16:00 | Q&A ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rRf-jVOIyU&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=6)) | | | | | --- | --- | | 16:15 UTC | Break | | | | | --- | --- | | 16:30 UTC | Session 1.2 - Scaling and Performance | | | | | --- | --- | | 16:30 | Dandelion: Multiplexing Byzantine Agreements to Unlock Blockchain Performance ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=najq_-HSANw&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=7)) | | Kadir Korkmaz (Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS),
Joachim Bruneau-Queyreix (Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS),
Sonia Ben Mokthar (CNRS - LIRIS),
Laurent Réveillère (Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS) | | | | | --- | --- | | 16:45 | Basil: Breaking up BFT with ACID (transactions) ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ml7kpkfGCg&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=8)) | | Florian Suri-Payer (Cornell University),
Matthew Burke (Cornell University),
Zheng Wang (Cornell University),
Yunhao Zhang (Cornell University),
Lorenzo Alvisi (Cornell University),
Natacha Crooks (UC Berkeley) | | | | | --- | --- | | 17:00 | Kauri: Scalable BFT Consensus with Pipelined Tree-Based Dissemination and Aggregation ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz5fcvrBVmI&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=9)) | | Ray Neiheiser (INESC-ID, IST, U. Lisboa & UFSC/DAS),
Miguel Matos (INESC-ID, IST, U. Lisboa),
Luis Rodrigues (INESC-ID, IST, U. Lisboa) | | | | | --- | --- | | 17:15 | Q&A ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2LX9KvAvxk&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=10)) | | | | | --- | --- | | 17:30 UTC | Session 1.3 - Stronger Security | | | | | --- | --- | | 17:30 | Formal Verification of Blockchain Byzantine Fault Tolerance ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TqNbyPxB1k&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=11)) | | Pierre Tholoniat (Columbia University),
Vincent Gramoli (University of Sydney and EPFL) | | | | | --- | --- | | 17:45 | PoSAT: Proof-of-Work Availability and Unpredictability, Without the Work ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i4iBMSoSHE&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=11)) | | Soubhik Deb (University of Washington),
Sreeram Kannan (University of Washington),
David Tse (Stanford University) | | | | | --- | --- | | 18:00 | No-Commit Proofs: Defeating Livelock in BFT ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydAqqR1z2cM&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=12)) | | Neil Giridharan (UC Berkeley),
Heidi Howard (University of Cambridge),
Alin Tomescu (VMware Research),
Ittai Abraham (VMware Research),
Natacha Crooks (UC Berkeley) | | | | | --- | --- | | 18:15 | Themis: Fast, Strong Order-Fairness in Byzantine Consensus ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRNmkZ3OOo&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=13)) | | Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell Tech),
Soubhik Deb (University of Washington),
Sishan Long (Cornell Tech),
Ari Juels (Cornell Tech),
Sreeram Kannan (University of Washington) | | | | | --- | --- | | 18:30 | Q&A ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CmH65F8G4E&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=14)) | | | | | --- | --- | | 18:45 UTC | Session 1.4 - Mempool and P2P Communication | | | | | --- | --- | | 18:45 | Topic-based Service Discovery for the Ethereum P2P Network ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsx8vK9Or-g&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=15)) | | Michał Król (City, University of London),
Sergi Rene (University College of London),
Onur Ascigil (Lancaster University),
Etienne Rivière (UCLouvain),
Felix Lange (Ethereum) | | | | | --- | --- | | 19:00 | Narwhal and Tusk: A DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ph4-7vvHk&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=16)) | | George Danezis (Facebook Novi),
Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (Facebook Novi),
Alberto Sonnino (Facebook Novi),
Alexander Spiegelman (Facebook Novi) | | | | | --- | --- | | 19:15 | DETER: Denial of Ethereum Txpool sERvices | | Kai Li (Syracuse University),
Yibo Wang (Syracuse University),
Yuzhe Tang (Syracuse University) | | | | | --- | --- | | 19:30 | Q&A ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD5nBHHyEjU&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=18)) | | | | | --- | --- | | 19:45 UTC | Closing Remarks | ## Day Two - 7 October 2021 | | | | --- | --- | | 14:00 UTC | Welcome and Logistics | | | | | --- | --- | | 14:05 UTC | Opening Talk: The Importance of Consensus R&D Breakthroughs ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSKlU_U5GI&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=19)) | | Juan Benet (Protocol Labs) | | | | | --- | --- | | 14:30 UTC | Panel Discussion: Collaborative Research ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q1rjYafSvA&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=20)) | | Moderator: Karola Kirsanow (Protocol Labs)
Christian Cachin (University of Bern),
Zarko Milosevic (Informal Systems),
Jorge Soares (Protocol Labs),
Dawn Song (Oasis Labs) | | | | | --- | --- | | 15:15 UTC | Session 2.1 - Asynchrony and Asymmetry | | | | | --- | --- | | 15:15 | Protocols with Asymmetric Trust ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD2ElrofJ98&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=21)) | | Christian Cachin (University of Bern) | | | | | --- | --- | | 15:30 | The Dumbo Protocol Family: Making Asynchronous Consensus Practical ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQUMwHWXA9I&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=22)) | | Qiang Tang (University of Sydney) | | | | | --- | --- | | 15:45 | Jolteon and Ditto: Network-Adaptive Efficient Consensus with Asynchronous Fallback ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMHOPzoGnYo&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=23)) | | Rati Gelashvili (Novi Research),
Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (Novi Research & IST Austria),
Albert Sonnino (Novi Research),
Alexander Spiegelman (Novi Research),
Zhuolun Xiang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | | | | | --- | --- | | 16:00 | Q&A ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FemSNwYrwmU&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=24)) | | | | | --- | --- | | 16:15 UTC | Break | | | | | --- | --- | | 16:30 UTC | Session 2.2 - Checkpointing | | | | | --- | --- | | 16:30 | Shades of Finality and Commitchain Scaling ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuGAMOGXVUw&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=25)) | | Bennet Yee (Oasis Labs),
Dawn Song (Oasis Labs),
Patrick McCorry (Infura),
Chris Buckland (Infura) | | | | | --- | --- | | 16:45 | The Availability-Accountability Dilemma and its Resolution via Accountability Gadgets ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnhd8d5abao&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=26)) | | Joachim Neu (Stanford University),
Ertem Nusret Tas (Stanford University),
David Tse (Stanford University) | | | | | --- | --- | | 17:00 | Securing Membership and State Checkpoints of BFT and PoS Blockchains by Anchoring onto the Bitcoin Blockchain ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4SacbLrypc&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=27)) | | Sarah Azouvi (Protocol Labs) | | | | | --- | --- | | 17:15 | Q&A ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRB3LMvq06U&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=28)) | | | | | --- | --- | | 17:30 UTC | Session 2.3 - The Eventual Future | | | | | --- | --- | | 17:30 | Beyond Blockchain: New Directions in Distributed Crypto ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1O4JOUAtfQ&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=29)) | | Victor Grishchenko (N. Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics) | | | | | --- | --- | | 17:45 | Byzantine Eventual Consistency and the Fundamental Limits of Peer-to-Peer Databases ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhVQ2y8rwe0&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=30)) | | Martin Kleppmann (University of Cambridge),
Heidi Howard (University of Cambridge) | | | | | --- | --- | | 18:00 | Tamperproof Provenance-Aware Storage for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAXpCayXaFY&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=31)) | | Danny Adams (Cornell University),
Gloire Rubambiza (Cornell University),
Xinwen Wang (Cornell University),
Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University),
Robbert van Renesse (Cornell University) | | | | | --- | --- | | 18:15 | Permissionless Consensus: To Infinity and Beyond ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV6YVbe8U1Y&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=32)) | | Patrick Lambein-Monette (IRIF, Université de Paris) | | | | | --- | --- | | 18:30 | Q&A ( [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWmS2Cn7fwM&list=PLhuBigpl7lqsq-WnYIHmds7oSqULOQU4x&index=33)) | | | | | --- | --- | | 18:45 UTC | Closing Session / Open Discussion |