Greetings! Welcome to the IC3 Newsletter.
This is an outreach to keep the blockchain community aware of IC3 innovations, events, news, publications, and other service to the community.
UPCOMING IC3 EVENTS
Join us for the 5th Annual IC
3 Blockchain Camp!
Due to Covid-19, this annual 7-day experience will be virtual. Our Camp technical committee of Surya Bakshi, Tyler Kell and Patrick McCorry is preparing another unique immersive weeklong coding and learning experience.
In addition to the tech talks, panels and projects, we are planning VR-enabled social activities, games, chat rooms, birds-of-a-feather discussions, and more.
Panels include Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), Production-Ready Software, ZKP vs. Fraud Proofs, and Blockchains for Social Good.
We will offer two overlapping tracks: a presentation track and a coding track.
The schedule was set based upon nominal awake hours across our campuses, i.e., the presentation program starts at 9am in Berkeley and ends at midnight in Haifa. Coding teams will work asynchronously, so don't let your time zone dissuade you from joining a team!
Option 1:
The coding track includes all presentations, virtual social activities, and participation in
a weeklong coding project on a 5 - 10 person team. This is limited to IC3 sponsors, faculty, staff, students. In the coding track, you can expect to engage with leaders in the blockchain community - faculty, architects, developers, students.
Option 2:
The presentation track will be open to the public with many of the daily talks and panels the participants in the coding track join.
For examples of what to expect, and testimonials by leaders in the blockchain community, please see the summary of the
2019 Blockchain Camp.
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Tyler Kell, Patrick McCorry
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and Surya Bakshi
2020 Blockchain Camp - Technical Committee
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Register for this presentation
by Fan Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Cornell University, advised by Prof. Ari Juels. His research interest is in building secure systems that empower and protect their users from insecure and centralized infrastructure by leveraging cryptography, blockchains, and trusted execution environments (TEEs).
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THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BLOCKCHAINS (TPBC 2020), July 15, 11AM EDT
Incentive Attacks on Smart Contracts and Blockchains by Prof. Ittay Eyal, Technion and IC3 Associate Director
See also talks by Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, EPFL and IC3 (presentation title TBA) and Ittai Abraham, VMware Research. Please see the
TPBC conference site for additional info, the schedule of online talks, and registration.
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COMMUNITY IMPLEMENTATIONS
Oasis Labs Launches the Amber Network
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n June 17, 2020 by IC3 faculty Prof. Dawn Song, UC Berkeley, and her collaborators
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he Amber Network is a release candidate for the Oasis Network Mainnet.
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IC3 at RECENT CONFERENCES
41st IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON SECURITY & PRIVACY, May 18-20, 2020
Jiaheng Zhang (UC Berkeley), Tiancheng Xie (UC Berkeley), Yupeng Zhang (Texas A&M University), Dawn Song (UC Berkeley)
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Prof. Dawn Song, UC Berkeley, Oasis Labs, and IC3
was awarded 3 Test-of-Time Awards for publications in 2000, 2003 and 2005.
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CONSENSUS 2020, May 11-15, 2020
This year's
speakers
included several IC3 sponsors and faculty (alphabetically): Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum), Ria Bhutoria and Amanda Fabiano (Fidelity), Sergey Nazorov (Chainlink), Prof. Emin Gün Sirer (Cornell, Ava), and Prof. Dawn Song (UC Berkeley, Oasis).
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THIRD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF BLOCKCHAIN 2020, May 1, 2020
Ethan Cecchetti (Cornell University), Siqiu Yao (Cornell University), Haobin Ni (Cornell University), Andrew Myers (Cornell University)
Keynote: The Journey to Libra Blockchain Core and Beyond
Dahlia Malkhi (Research Lead at Novi)
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RESEARCH PREPRINTS
RECENT BLOGS
by Itay Tsabary, Matan Yechieli, and Ittay Eyal on June 22, 2020
In this post, we outline the attack and its analysis, and the MAD-HTLC solution.
by Benjamin Chan and Elaine Shi on May 14, 2020
In this post, we described an extraordinarily simple blockchain protocol called Streamlet. Consensus is a complex problem and has been studied since the 1980s. More recently, blockchain research has spawned many new works aiming for performance and ease-of-implementation. However, simple, understandable protocols remain elusive, and that's where Streamlet comes in.
IC3 in the NEWS - May-June 2020
(please see our
Press
page for additional mentions of IC3 in the News)
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Please feel free to contact us for more info on these items.
Best,
Jim Ballingall
Executive Director
The Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3)
Copyright © 2017-2020 The Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3)
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The
IC3 2019 Fall Retreat
attendees gathered (above) for a group photo at the end of the day
at in the
JPM Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY. The Retreat included IC3 faculty and students from Cornell, Cornell Tech, ETH Zurich, EPFL, UC Berkeley, UCL, UIUC, and the Technion.
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