IC3 Winter Retreat 2017

February 23-24, 2017 — San Francisco, CA

IC3 staff and members gather twice per year to discuss the major technical challenges and innovative solutions to widespread blockchain adoption.

Our Sponsor Member Chain hosted this 2-day Retreat at their offices in SF. Note: IC3 offers two levels of membership: Sponsor Member fees are $450k per year. Regular members fees are $150k per year. We opened Day 1 to non-members and students as an Open House with a Reception hosted by Chain.

Adam Ludwin, CEO Chain, addresses the audience in his presentation on “Blockchain Opportunity Areas”.

James Litsios, Head of Development at Digital Asset, describes “Semantically Rich Segmented Blockchains”.

Professors Andrew Miller and Emin Gün Sirer assist Vinay Phegade to set up for his talk.

Vinay Phegade, Chief Security Solution Architect, Intel, provides a detailed update on Intel Software Guard Extentions (SGX).

Binh Nguyen, Blockchain Chief Architect IBM and Marko Vukolic, Research Staff Member, IBM Zurich, provide details on the Hyperledger Fabric Architecture.

Schedule

Session	Speaker	Time
Thursday February 23 – IC3 Open House
Registration		1:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Welcome and Event Preview	Ari Juels and Adam Ludwin	1:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Session 1: Scaling and Consensus	(Chair: Emin Gun Sirer)
Teechan – Overview and Demo	Ittay Eyal	1:45 – 2:05 p.m.
REM: SGX for Consensus	Fan Zhang	2:05 – 2:25 p.m.
Honey Badger BFT – Overview and Demo	Andrew Miller	2:25 – 2:45 p.m.
Sleepy Consensus and Applications	Rafael Pass	2:45 – 3:15 p.m.
Proof of Stake Consensus – Overview and Demo	Phil Daian	3:15 – 3:25 p.m.
Break		3:25 – 3:55 p.m.
Session 2: Smart Contracts and Confidentiality	(Chair: Ittay Eyal)
Ivy: A Predicate Language for Smart Contracts	Dan Robinson	3:55 – 4:20 p.m.
Town Crier: An Authenticated Data Feed – Overview and Demo	Ethan Cecchetti and Fan Zhang	4:20 – 4:45 p.m.
Solidus: Confidential Transactions Reimagined – Overview and Demo	Ethan Cecchetti	4:45 – 5:10 p.m.
Confidential Assets	Dan Robinson	5:10 – 5:30 p.m.
Gyges: Criminal Smart Contracts	Ari Juels	5:30 – 5:50 p.m.
Open House Wrap up	Emin Gun Sirer	5:50 – 6:00 p.m.
Reception	Hosted by Chain	6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Friday Feb 24 – IC3 Staff and Members-only
Breakfast		9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Session 3: Blockchains in Action I	(Chair: Elaine Shi)
The Bosco Permissioned Blockchain: Simple Code, High Throughput	Robbert van Renesse	9:30 – 9:50 a.m.
Proof of Luck SGX Blockchain – Overview and Demo	Warren He, Mitar Milutinovic and Dawn Song	9:50 – 10:10 a.m.
Anonymous Voting on the Ethereum Blockchain	Patrick McCorry	10:10 – 10:30 a.m.
Correct and Secure Smart Contracts	Phil Daian	10:30 – 10:50 a.m.
Zero-Collateral Lotteries in Ethereum and Bitcoin	Andrew Miller	10:50 – 11:10 a.m.
Sealed-Glass Proofs: Using Transparent Enclaves to Prove and Sell Knowledge	Ari Juels	11:10 – 11:30 a.m.
Lunch		11:30 – 12:30 p.m.
Session 4: Industry perspectives – Blockchain Opportunity Areas	(Chair: Andrew Miller)
Hyperledger Fabric Architecture	Binh Nguyen and Marko Vukolic, IBM	12:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Semantically Rich Segmented Blockchains	James Litsios, Digital Asset	1:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Software Guard Extentions (SGX) Update	Vinay Phegade, Intel	1:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Blockchain Opportunity Areas	Adam Ludwin, Chain	2:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Break		2:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Session 5: Blockchains in Action II	(Chair: Ari Juels)
Analysis of Blockchains	Rafael Pass	3:00 – 3:20 p.m.
Falcon Network and the construction of fast wide-area interconnects – Overview and Demo	Soumya Basu	3:20 – 3:45 p.m.
Hybrid Consensus: Efficient Permissionless Consensus	Elaine Shi	3:45 – 4:10 p.m.
Fruitchains: An Incentive Compatible Blockchain	Rafael Pass	4:10 – 4:30 p.m.
Fruitchain Demo	Elaine Shi	4:30 – 4:40 p.m.
Aspen: Service Oriented Sharding	Adem Efe Gencer	4:40 – 5:00 p.m.
Day 2 Wrap up	Ari Juels	5:00 – 5:10 p.m.
Retreat Dinner	Hosted by Chain at Papito	6:00 p.m. – drinks run out