2nd Edition of the TUM Blockchain Salon
May 16th, 2024
Aims
- Exploring core technologies for security, scalability, and privacy in Blockchain systems
- Discussing applications and solutions with requirements met by these core technologies, and to which extent these technologies provide value
- Exchange on methods for assessment of P2P layer, smart-contract security, and cryptographic innovations
- Bridge academia, industry, and students and introduce recent topics from various layers of the Blockchain stack and ecosystems
Topical Scope
- Individual layers of Blockchain Protocols spanning hardware, peer-to-peer network, consensus, execution layers, applications, and ecosystems
- Innovative scalability and privacy technologies, such as zero knowledge proofs
- Design, verification, and implementation of smart contracts logic
- Methods and tools for performance assessment
- Overview of possible optimization solutions and their applicability to blockchain solutions
- Applications and use-cases in Web3.0 and Blockchain Technologies and open challenges
Organisation by the Technical University of Munich
- Chair: Georg Carle
- Organizing committee chairs: Kilian Glas, Filip Rezabek, and Richard von Seck
Venue
- 16 and 17 May 2024
- TUM-IAS Institute of Advance Studies
- Lichtenbergstraße 2 a, 85748 Garching bei München
- also online (Hybrid Event)
Tools
- There will be a Zoom session for each day of the Blockchain Salon.
- May 16
- May 17
Program
Thursday 16.5.2024
Get together - 08:30 - 09:00 CEST
Session 1 - 09:00 - 10:30 CEST
Topic: Privacy and Security in the Blockchain Technologies
Session Chair: Georg Carle
- Welcome and Introduction: Georg Carle (TUM)
- Jeffrey Burdges (Web3 Foundation): Ethical Identity, Ring VRFs, and Zero-Knowledge Continuations
- Jeffrey Burdges (Web3 Foundation): Ethical Identity, Ring VRFs, and Zero-Knowledge Continuations
- Daniel Hugenroth (University of Cambridge): Building Decentralized Applications for Smartphones: Energy Measurements for Practical Protocol Design
- Laura Ricci (University of Pisa): Supporting Privacy with Zero Knowledge in SSI and Blockchain based Access Control
Session 2 - 11:00 - 12:30 CEST
Topic: MEV & Secure Smart Contract Computing
Session Chair: Florian Matthes
- Ingo Weber (TUM): Business Process Execution and Process Mining on Blockchain
- Louis Tremblay Thibault (Zama): Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts using FHE
- Josef Gattermayer (Ackee Blockchain Security): Wake: Why we built an Open-Source Swiss Knife for Solidity Developers
Session 3 - 12:30 - 13:45 CEST
Poster Madness - Introduction of Posters
Presentation of posters during the break
Session Chair: Kilian Glas (TUM)
Session 4 - 13:45 - 15:00 CEST
Topic: Trust & Behavioral Considerations in Decentralized Systems
Session Chair: Filip Rezabek
- Christof Ferreira Torres (ETH Zurich): Rolling in the Shadows: A Closer Look at MEV Extraction Across Layer 2 Rollups
- Bhargav Bhatt (Web3 Foundation): Trustless and Efficient Bridges between PoS Blockchains via Random Sampling
- Sheng-Nan Li (UZH Blockchain Center): Trust Management of Decentralised Platforms
Coffee Break
Session 5 - 15:45 - 16:20 CEST
Panel Discussions
Moderator: Eomji Park (TUM/Encode Club)
- Panelists:
- Jonatan Luther-Bergquist (Inflection XYZ)
- Dr. David An (Dracoon Ventures)
- Sjors Witteveen (Lemniscap)
- Topics (tentative)
- VC Perspective on Web3
- Upcoming Research Challenges
Session 6 - 16:30 - 17:05 CEST
Panel Discussions
Moderator: Valentin Zieglmeier (TUM)
- Panelists:
- Josef Gattermayer (Ackee Blockchain Security)
- Oliver Hörr (Hats Finance)
- Christof Ferreira Torres (ETH Zurich)
- Topics (tentantive)
- Security tooling for EVM
- Developers profession
Session 7 - 17:15 - 18:30 CEST
Blockchain Optimization and Interoperability Approaches
Session Chair: Sebastian Steinhorst
- Markus Legner (Mysten Labs/ETH Zurich): Modern Blockchains and Next-Generation Internet Architectures: Opportunities and Synergies
- Richard von Seck (TUM): Permissioned Consensus in the Lens of Network Transport
- Zeta Avarikioti (TU Vienna&Common Prefix): Blink: A PoW Light Client with Constant Communication
Closing of the 1st Day
Friday 17.5.2024
Get together - 08:30 - 09:00 CEST
Session 8 - 09:00 - 10:30 CEST
Topic: New Trends in Blockchain
Session Chair: Georg Carle
- Welcome and Introduction: Georg Carle (TUM)
- David Millar-Durrant (NEAR/Pagoda): Chain Signatures and what to do with them
- Arthur Gervais (UCL): (Pre)training and applying LLMs to Blockchain Transactions
- Fran Algaba (Gizatech): Act onchain with AI Agents
- Jan Lauinger (TUM): Transpiling Policies to Secure Computation Circuits
Session 9 - 11:00 - 12:30 CEST
Topic: Blockchain Infrastructure & Network Challenges
Session Chair: Richard von Seck (TUM)
- Simone Romano (IoTeX): Building Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs)
- Filip Rezabek (TUM): METHODA - Framework for Distributed Systems Evaluations
- Ognjen Maric (DFINITY Foundation): Fast and Reliable P2P Without Breaking the Memory Budget
Session 10 - 12:30 - 13:15 CEST
Panel Discussions
Moderator: Filip Rezabek (TUM)
- Panelists:
- Anthony Beaumont (Encode Club)
- Georg Carle (TUM)
- Zeta Avarikioti (TU Vienna&Common Prefix)
- Topics
- Synergies between industry and academia
- Web3.0 education
Session 11 - 14:30 - 15:45 CEST
Decentralized Identities, Business Logic, and Governance
Session Chair: Ingo Weber
- Lars Hupel (G+D): Digital Euro Update
- Federico Kunze Küllmer (evmOS/Altiplanic): Enterprise EVMs: How evmOS enables Access Control for Web3 Businesses
- Felix Hoops (TUM): A Middleware Architecture for Self-Sovereign Identity Authentication and Authorization
- Fabian Stiehle (TUM): Process Channels: A New Layer for Process Enactment Based on Blockchain State Channels
Wrap-up of the Blockchain Salon
Poster Sessions
The Blockchain Salon will be accompanied by a poster session of TUM students, research associates, and student clubs.
Posters
- Jonas Gebele: Detecting Arbitrages on a First-Come-First-Served Blockchain
- Eber Christer: Scalable Cloud-Based Off-Chain Computation on Data Streams using Trusted Execution Environments
- Tizian Leonhardt: Private Computing on Permissionless Blockchains
- TUM Blockchain Club
- Women in Computer Science
- Jesco Melzer, Till Köbele, Yu Nakai, Furkan Atasay: TUMChainBook: A Data Exploration for Blockchain-based Systems
- David Guzman: Distributed Consensus through Network Support
- Veronika Bauer: Evaluation of SNARK Generation Tools in Private Infrastructure
- Benjamin Kraner: The Emergence of Liquid Staking
- Nicolò Vallarano: An Attack Simulation on Ethereum
Speakers overview
 Research Associate University of Cambridge |
 Research Associate TUM |
 Professor TUM/Fraunhofer |
 Researcher Mysten Labs |
 Researcher Web3 Foundation |
 Research Associate TUM |
 Research Associate TUM |
 Research Associate TUM |
 Research Associate TUM |
| Simone Romano Developer Growth IoTeX |
Lars Hupel Chief Evangelist, CBDC Giesecke+Devrient |
 Postdoctoral Researcher TU Vienna&Common Prefix |
| Fran Algaba Co-founder Gizatech |
Christof Ferreira Torres Postdoctoral Researcher ETH Zurich |
David Millar-Durrant Engineering Manager NEAR/Pagoda |
| Laura Ricci Professor University of Pisa |
Federico Kunze Küllmer Founder evmOS/Altiplanic |
Sheng-Nan Li Postdoctoral Researcher UZH Blockchain Center |
alt=“Simone Romano”> 
alt=“Lars Hupel”> 
alt=“Fran Algaba”> 
alt=“Christof Ferreira Torres”> 
alt=“David Millar-Durrant”> 
alt=“Laura Ricci”> 
alt=“Federico Kunze Küllmer”> 
alt=“Sheng-Nan Li”> Panelists
 Head of Research&Programme Encode Club |
 Head of Research Inflection XYZ |
 Managing Partner Dracoon Ventures |
 CEO and Co-founder Encode Club |
 Professor of NET TUM |
Postdoctoral Researcher TU Vienna&Common Prefix |
 Director of Operations Hats Finance |
Christof Ferreira Torres Postdoctoral Researcher ETH Zurich |
 Tech/Principal Lemniscap |
 Research Associate TUM |
Organizing committee
| Professor of NET TUM |
 Research Associate TUM |
Research Associate TUM |
| Research Associate TUM |
Registration
- Register using this Google form!
- Of note, the number of spots for on-site participations are limited.
- Speakers use seperate form provided by the organizational team.
Venue - Institute of Advanced Studies, Garching Campus of TUM
Address: Lichtenbergstraße 2 a, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
- 16&17 May - Faculty club, fourth floor, posters on the fourth floor
Transport
- Subway U6 - Garching Forschungszentrum
- Possible to arrive with a car - free parking on
- For other inqueries contact the Organizing committee chairs