Research

bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2022-10

Checking Bitcoin balances privately

Sep 27, 2022

Samir Menon

Research Privacy enhancements Cryptography

Research Covenants Scripts addresses

Bitcoin R&D Panel

May 07, 2022

Jeremy Rubin, Gloria Zhao, Andrew Poelstra

mit-bitcoin-expo/mit-bitcoin-expo-2022

Lightning privacy

Feb 17, 2022

Sergei Tikhomirov

Lightning Research Security Topology

chaincode-labs/chaincode-podcast

Block Building

Feb 01, 2022

Clara Shikhelman

Research Mining Bitcoin core

chaincode-labs/chaincode-podcast

Nadav Kohen, Ben Carman

Research Dlc Coinjoin

Research Anonymity networks

CJDNS

Mar 16, 2021

Caleb DeLisle, Adam Ficsor, Lucas Ontivero

Research Dual funding Privacy problems Lightning Ptlc Taproot Soft fork activation

Sydney Socratic Seminar

Feb 23, 2021

Lloyd Fournier, Anthony Towns

sydney-bitcoin-meetup

Socratic Seminar

Aug 12, 2020

P2p Research Threshold signature Sighash anyprevout Altcoins

chicago-bitdevs

CoinSwaps

Jun 15, 2020

Coinswap Research

Research Lightning Security problems Privacy problems

A Quantitative Analysis of Security, Anonymity and Scalability for the Lightning Network

May 09, 2020

Sergei Tikhomirov

lightning-hack-day

Anonymous Credentials

Apr 14, 2020

Jonas Nick

Research Privacy enhancements Cryptography Bls signatures

Atomic Multi-Channel Updates with Constant Collateral in Bitcoin-Compatible Payment-Channel Networks

Feb 21, 2020

Matteo Maffei

Research Lightning

Research Security problems Ethereum

Beyond 51% attacks

Feb 20, 2020

Vitalik Buterin

Competitive equilibria between staking and on-chain lending

Feb 20, 2020

Tarun Chitra

Research Proof of stake

Proof-of-Stake Longest Chain Protocols Revisited

Feb 20, 2020

David Tse

Research Privacy problems Altcoins

Linking Anonymous Transactions via Remote Side-Channel Attacks

Feb 19, 2020

Florian Tramer

Opening Remarks

Feb 18, 2020

Shin'ichiro Matsuo

coordination-of-decentralized-finance-workshop/2020-stanford

Regulatory Pain Points

Feb 18, 2020

Ryosuke Ushida

Research Regulation

coordination-of-decentralized-finance-workshop/2020-stanford

Coinshuffle++ (Part 2)

Feb 11, 2020

Tim Ruffing

Research Coinjoin Privacy enhancements Cryptography

Research Coinjoin Privacy enhancements Cryptography

CoinShuffle++ (Part 1)

Feb 04, 2020

Tim Ruffing, Adam Ficsor, Lucas Ontivero, Raphael, Max Hillebrand

CoinShuffle

Jan 20, 2020

Aviv Milner, Adam Fiscor, Lucas Ontivero, Max Hillebrand

Research Coinjoin

SNICKER

Jan 13, 2020

Adam Gibson

Research Coinjoin

Knapsack Mixing

Jan 06, 2020

Aviv Milner, Felix Maurer, Lucas Ontivero, Adam Fiscor

Research Coinjoin

Current state of P2P research in Bitcoin /Erlay

Nov 13, 2019

Gleb Naumenko

Research P2 p

london-bitcoin-devs

Knowledge Aggregation And Propagation

Oct 06, 2019

Bryan Bishop

Research Bitcoin core

Research Threshold signature

The Quest for Practical Threshold Schnorr Signatures

Oct 06, 2019

Tim Ruffing

A2L: Anonymous Atomic Locks for Scalability and Interoperability in Payment Channel Hubs

Research Lightning Adaptor signatures

Pedro Moreno-Sanchez

Atomic Multi-Channel Updates with Constant Collateral in Bitcoin-Compatible Payment-Channel Networks

Pedro Moreno-Sanchez

Research Lightning

Plasma Cash: Towards more efficient Plasma Constructions

Research Sidechains Proof systems

Georgios Konstantopoulos

Proof-of-Verification for Proof-of-Work: Miners Must Verify the Signatures on Bitcoin Transactions

Kanta Matsuura

Research Lightweight client Privacy enhancements

Applying Private Information Retrieval to Lightweight Bitcoin Clients

Sep 11, 2019

Research Op checktemplateverify

BIP: OP_SECURETHEBAG

Sep 11, 2019

Jeremy Rubin

Developing secure Bitcoin contracts using BitML

Sep 11, 2019

Stefano Lande

austin-bitcoin-developers

Socratic Seminar 2

Aug 22, 2019

Research Hardware wallet

Watchtowers

Apr 06, 2019

Conner Fromknecht

Research Lightning Lnd

boltathon

Handel: Practical Multi-Signature Aggregation for Large Byzantine Committees

Feb 01, 2019

Nicolas Gailly

Research Cryptography Bls signatures

Research Adaptor signatures

Building Mimblewimble/Grin, an implementation for privacy and scalability

Jan 30, 2019

Quentin Le Sceller

Quisquis: A New Design for Anonymous Cryptocurrencies

Jan 30, 2019

Prastudy Fauzi

SybilQuorum: Open Distributed Ledgers Through Trust Networks

Jan 30, 2019

Alberto Sonnino

Research Proof of stake

Research Security problems Topology Lightning

Topological Analysis of the Lightning Network

Jan 15, 2019

Istvan Andras Seres

breaking-bitcoin/2019

Unchained Capital Socratic Seminar

Jan 05, 2019

Research Taproot

misc

The State of Atomic Swaps

Oct 07, 2018

Thomas Eizinger

Research Htlc Adaptor signatures

Research Threshold signature Bls signatures

Compact Multi-Signatures For Smaller Blockchains

Oct 06, 2018

Dan Boneh

Research Lightweight client

Improving SPV Client Validation and Security with Fraud Proofs

Oct 06, 2018

Mustafa Al-Bassam

Research Multisignature Privacy enhancements Lightning

Multi-Hop Locks for Secure, Privacy-Preserving and Interoperable Payment-Channel Networks

Oct 06, 2018

Giulio Malavolta, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Matteo Maffei

Research Schnorr signatures Adaptor signatures

Schnorr Signatures For Bitcoin: Challenges and Opportunities

Jan 31, 2018

Pieter Wuille

blockchain-protocol-analysis-security-engineering/2018

Incentives and Trade-offs in Transaction Selection in DAG-based Protocols

Nov 05, 2017

Yonatan Sompolinsky

Research Mining

Weak-Signal Radio Communications For Bitcoin Network Resilience

Nov 05, 2017

Nick Szabo, Elaine Ou

BlockSci: a Platform for Blockchain Science and Exploration

Nov 04, 2017

Harry Kalodner

Research Developer tools

Research Privacy enhancements Lightning

BOLT Anonymous Payment Channels for Decentralized Currencies

Nov 04, 2017

Ian Miers

Research Privacy enhancements Coinjoin

ValueShuffle: Mixing Confidential Transactions

Nov 04, 2017

Tim Ruffing

Research Security problems

Hunting Moby Dick, an Analysis of 2015-2016 Spam Attacks

Sep 09, 2017

Antoine Le Calvez

breaking-bitcoin/2017

Scalable Smart Contracts Via Proofs And Single Use Seals

Feb 03, 2017

Peter Todd

blockchain-protocol-analysis-security-engineering/2017

Ivy: A Declarative Predicate Language for Smart Contracts

Jan 26, 2017

Dan Robinson

blockchain-protocol-analysis-security-engineering/2017

On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains

Oct 09, 2016

Arthur Gervais

Research Security problems Security enhancements Ethereum

Research Lightning Routing

Flare: An Approach to Routing in Lightning Network

Oct 08, 2016

Pavel Prihodko

Research Privacy enhancements

TumbleBit: An Untrusted Bitcoin-Compatible Anonymous Payment Hub

Oct 08, 2016

Ethan Heilman, Leen AlShenibr

Dan Boneh

Aug 01, 2016

Dan Boneh

bitcoin-developers-miners-meeting-2016

Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (IBLT) and weak block propagation performance

Dec 06, 2015

Kalle Rosenbaum, Rusty Russell

Research Bandwidth reduction

scalingbitcoin/hong-kong-2015

Sharding the Blockchain

Sep 13, 2015

Vlad Zamfir

Systematizing Knowledge

Sep 13, 2015

Andrew Miller

Research Privacy enhancements Contract protocols

Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts

Sep 12, 2015

Ranjit Kumaresan

Security Of Diminishing Block Subsidy

Sep 12, 2015

Miles Carlsten

Research Mining

Research Lightweight client Privacy enhancements

Key Tree Signatures

Aug 24, 2015

Pieter Wuille

Research Cryptography

sf-bitcoin-meetup

A Tale of Two Trees: One Writes, and Other Reads, Scaling Oblivious Accesses to Large-Scale Blockchains

Duc V. Le

A Wishlist For Verifiable Computation

Michael Walfish

simons-institute

Accumulators for blockchains

Benedikt Bünz

Alternatives To Block Size As Aggregate Resource Limits

Mark Friedenbach

Aurora: Transparent Succinct Arguments for R1CS

Alessandro Chiesa

Automatic Detection of Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts

Mooly Sagiv

Research Security

Bitcoin Block Propagation and IBLT

Rusty Russell

P2p Research

Bitcoin Core V0.17

John Newbery

london-bitcoin-devs

Bitcoin Load Spike Simulation

Conner Fromknecht, Nathan Wilcox

Blockchain Testbed

Ittay Eyal, Emin Gun Sirer

Research Developer tools

Casper the Friendly Ghost: A 'Correct-by-Construction' Blockchain Consensus Protocol

Vlad Zamfir

Research Mining Fee management

Competitive Fee Market Urgency

Marshall Long

Concurrency And Privacy With Payment Channel Networks

Pedro Moreno-Sanchez

Research Lightning

Research Privacy enhancements Proof systems

Cryptography Audit

John Woeltz

Research Libsecp256k1

grincon/2019

DECO: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles for TLS

Fan Zhang

Dex: Deterministic Predicate Expressions for Smarter Signatures

Peter Todd

w3-blockchain-workshop-2016

Efficient Distributed Key Generation for Threshold Signatures

Mahnush Movahedi

Research Threshold signature

Elastic Block Caps

Meni Rosenfeld

Research Fee management

Enhancing Bitcoin Security and Performance with Strong Consistency via Collective Signing

Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias

Research Cryptography

Ethereum 2.0 and beyond

Vitalik Buterin

Finding Bugs Automatically in Smart Contracts with Parameterized Specifications

Mooly Sagiv

Research Security

Flash Boys V2

Ari Juels

Research Lightweight client

Flyclient: Super Light Client For Cryptocurrencies

Benedikt Bünz

Research Security Contract protocols

Formal verification: the road to complete security of smart contracts

Martin Lundfall

Research Cryptography Quantum resistance

Fractal: Post-Quantum and Transparent Recursive Proofs from Holography

Nick Spooner

decentralized-financial-architecture-workshop

G20 Discussion

Shin'ichiro Matsuo

Research Regulation

Group Updates.Md

rebooting-web-of-trust/2019-prague

Improvements to Bitcoin

Mark Friedenbach, Jonas Schnelli, Andrew Poelstra, Joseph Poon

Research Lightning Wallet

mit-bitcoin-expo/mit-bitcoin-expo-2016

Jute: New Braiding Techniques to Achieve Significant Scaling Gains

David Vorick

Research Mining

Lessons For Bitcoin From 150 Years Of Decentralization

Arvind Narayanan

mit-bitcoin-expo/mit-bitcoin-expo-2016

Lower Bounds for Off-Chain Protocols: Exploring the Limits of Plasma

Stefan Dziembowski

Research Sidechains

Security Research Cryptography

Matsuo

Shin'ichiro Matsuo

w3-blockchain-workshop-2016

Mixicles: Simple Private Decentralized Finance

Ari Juels

Motoko, the language for the Internet Computer

Joachim Breitner

Multi Party Channels In The Utxo Model Challenges And Opportunities

Olaoluwa Osuntokun

Near Misses

Ethan Heilman

Security Research

New and Simple Consensus Algorithms for ThunderCore’s Main-Net

Elaine Shi

Prism - Scaling bitcoin by 10,000x

Lei Yang

Prism: Scaling Bitcoin to Physical Limits

Vivek Bagaria

Research Adaptor signatures

Privacy Preserving Multi Hop Locks

Pedro Moreno-Sanchez

Proof of necessary work: Succinct state verification with fairness guarantees

Assimakis Kattis

Proof of Necessary Work: Succinct State Verification with Fairness Guarantees

Assimakis Kattis

bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2015-02

R&D Goals & Challenges

Patrick Murck, Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields

Research Bitcoin core

Scalable RSA Modulus Generation with Dishonest Majority

Megan Chen

Security problems Research Mining

Security and Attacks on Decentralized Mining Pools

Alexei Zamyatin

breaking-bitcoin/2019

Security Assumptions

Andrew Poelstra

Security Research Cryptography

scalingbitcoin/hong-kong-2015

Self Reproducing Coins As Universal Turing Machine

Alexander Chepurnoy

Snarks And Their Practical Applications

Eran Tromer

simons-institute

Streamlet: Textbook Streamlined Blockchain Protocols

Benjamin Chan

The GHOSTDAG protocol

Aviv Zohar

The optimistic VM

Karl Floersch

Research Adaptor signatures Threshold signature

Threshold Scriptless Scripts

Omer Shlomovits

Tight Proofs of Space and Replication

Ben Fisch

Research Security problems Altcoins

Transparent Dishonesty: front-running attacks on Blockchain

Shayan Eskandari

Transparent SNARKs from DARK compilers

Ben Fisch

TxProbe: Discovering bitcoin's network topology using orphan transactions

Sergi Delgado-Segura

Topology Research

scalingbitcoin/hong-kong-2015

Validation Cost Metric

Jonas Nick

Research Scalability

Zerolink Sudoku - real vs perceived anonymity

Yuval Kogman