Venue: LT2A, North Spine Level 1, Nanyang Technological University, 65 Nanyang Dr, Singapore 637460
Day 1 - Friday, Sep. 20, 2024
08:30 am Registration
09:00 am Welcome remarks: Prof. Yonggang Wen (Professor, Director of NTU-CCTF)
Session 1: DeFi (Chair: Prof. Te Bao)
09:10 am Quantitative Investments in Decentralized Finance
Prof. Evgeny Lyandres - Tel Aviv University, Israel
09:40 am Security Challenges and Opportunities in Decentralized Finance
Prof. Karthik Pattabiraman - University of British Columbia, Canada
10:10 am An Economic Model of a Decentralized Exchange with Concentrated Liquidity
Assoc. Prof. Fahad Saleh - University of Florida, USA
10:40 am Break (25 mins)
Session 2: Security 1 (Chair: Prof. Tianwei Zhang)
11:05 am Large-scale Nakamoto-Style Blockchains don't Necessarily Offer Better Security
Prof. Ghassan Karame - Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
11:35 am Understanding Ethereum Mempool Security under Asymmetric DoS by Symbolized Stateful Fuzzing
Assoc. Prof. Yuzhe Tang - Syracuse University, USA
12:05 pm Lunch Time (1hr 35mins)
Session 3: Consensus and Networks (Chair: Prof. Wei Zhang)
01:40 pm Refinement-based Safety and Liveness Proofs for Consensus Protocols: LiDO and Beyond
Prof. Zhong Shao - Yale University, USA
02:10 pm Role of Blockchain in Spectrum Sharing and Mobile Networks
Prof. Wenjing Lou - Virginia Tech, USA
02:40 pm The Data Socket - A Canonical Construct for Web 3 and the Coding to Enable It
Prof. Muriel Medard - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
03:10 pm Break (25 mins)
Session 4: Smart Contracts (Chair: Prof. Yi Li)
03:35 pm Defeating Business-Logic Smart Contract Exploits
Assoc. Prof. Cyrille Artho - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
04:05 pm Unique Challenges for Smart Contract Security
Asst. Prof. Fan Long - University of Toronto, Canada
04:35 pm Panel discussion 1
Topic: Blockchain Finance: Economic Opportunities and Risks
Moderator: Prof. Te Bao
Panelists: Prof. Evgeny Lyandres, Prof. Zhiguo He, Prof. Karthik Pattabiraman, Assoc. Prof. Yizhou Xiao, Assoc. Prof. Fahad Saleh
05:05 pm End of day one
Day 2 - Saturday, Sep. 21, 2024
08:30 am Registration
Session 5: Cryptography and Privacy (Chair: Prof. Feida Zhu)
09:00 am Quantum-Safe Cryptography for Blockchain
Prof. Joseph Liu - Monash University, Australia
09:30 am Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Technical Perspective
Prof. AU Man Ho Allen - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
10:00 am Efficient Verifiable Fully Homomorphic Encryption via Ring-R1CS
Asst. Prof. Jiapeng Zhang - University of Southern California, USA
10:30 am Break (25 mins)
Session 6: Security 2 (Chair: Prof. Dusit Niyato)
10:55 am A Verifiable Credential-Based Trust Propagation Protocol for Personal Issuers in Self-Sovereign Identity Platforms
Prof. Salil Kanhere - The University of New South Wales, Australia
11:25 am Unveiling the Hidden Weaknesses: Safeguarding Blockchain Ecosystems
Prof. Daniel Xiapu Luo - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
11:55 am Lunch (1hr 25mins)
Session 7: Economics (Chair: Prof. Te Bao)
01:00 pm An Economic Model of Consensus on Distributed Ledgers
Prof. Zhiguo He - Stanford University, USA
01:50 pm How Short-Tenor Perpetual Futures Solved Crypto’s Noise Trader Problem
Assoc. Prof. Yizhou Xiao - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
02:20 pm Break (25 mins)
Session 8: Regulation and Application (Chair: Dr Ernie Teo)
02:45 pm Blockchain in the Luxury Goods Industry: Institutional, Strategic, and Organizational Considerations
Prof. Nir Kshetri - University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA
03:15 pm Blockchain: An Enabler for Smart Nations
Prof.Raymond Choo - University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
03:45 pm Keynote Lecture: Vitalik Buterin (Co-founder of Ethereum, Chair of NTU-CCTF Advisory Committee)
04:45 pm Panel discussion 2
Topic : Future Trends: What’s Next for Web3 and AI?
Moderator: Dr Ernie Teo
Panelists: Prof. Zhong Shao, Prof. Wenjing Lou, Ms.Mia Mai, Mr.Fang Kuai, Ms.Doro Unger-Lee, Mr. Nangeng Zhang
05:10 pm Closing remarks: Prof. Tianwei Zhang (Associate Director of NTU-CCTF) & End of conference