Organizers
Eli Ben-Sasson (StarkWare), Ittay Eyal (Technion), Tal Moran (IDC)
Blockchain research touches on several different areas of computer science, inluding: distributed computation, algorithmic game theory, cryptography and network theory.
The Israel Blockchain Research day is meant to be a periodic meeting place for students and researchers interested in blockchain research within computer science.
Program
Gilad Stern, HUJI: Reaching Consensus for Asynchronous Distributed Key Generation
Shir Cohen, Technion: Not a COINcidence: Sub-Quadratic Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement WHP
Shahar Papini, StarkWare: Cairo - A Turing complete CPU AIR for efficient ZK-STARKs
Aviv Yaish, HUJI: Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?
Maya Dotan, HUJI: Efficient multi dimensional approximate consensus
Roi Bar Zur,Technion: Efficient MDP Analysis for Selfish-Mining in Blockchains
Yaron Kaner, IDC Herzliya: Bitcoin+: Cheap Support for Complex Spending Conditions in a UTXO Ledger
Itay Tsabary, Technion: MAD-HTLC: Because HTLC is Crazy-Cheap to Attack
Saar Tochner, HUJI: Differentially-Private Payment Channels with Twilight