The 2nd Yale Symposium

on Privacy, Accountability, Verification and Economics of Blockchain Systems

Yale University — Friday, April 11th, 2025

This is a one-day event of talks and discussion, organized by Yale’s Applied Cryptography Lab (YACL), and co-organized and supported by the Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY).

Schedule

All talks will take place in room 328 at 17 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511.
TimeSpeakerTitle
08:00am - 09:00am-Breakfast
09:00am - 09:05amBen Fisch (Yale University)Opening Remarks
09:05am - 09:50amTim Roughgarden (Columbia University & a16z crypto)Keynote: Accountable Liveness
10:00am - 10:45amHadas Zeilberger (Yale University)Blaze: Fast SNARKs from Interleaved RAA Codes
11:00am - 11:45amVassilis Zikas (Georgia Tech)CryptoGT: Cryptography and Game Theory for the Analysis of Blockchains
11:45am - 01:00pm-Lunch
01:00pm - 01:45pmLongfei Qiu (Yale University)Formal Verification of Blockchains: Consensus, Mempool, and Beyond
02:00pm - 02:45pmLewis Cohen (Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP)Decentralization and Its Discontents
03:00pm - 03:45pmFahad Saleh (University of Florida)An Economic Model of the L1-L2 Interaction
04:00pm - 04:45pmMatt Weinberg (Princeton University)Analyzing the economic impact of decentralization on users

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