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2024 NTU Blockchain Symposium

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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

Details

Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Drive, LT2A, Singapore

Nanyang Drive 65
637460 Singapore
Singapore

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