SERIAL '18

Program

• 09:30-10:30 Invited keynote by Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni
• Economic Design of Distributed Protocols in The Blockchain Era


• 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00-12:00 Session 1:
• Towards Solving the Data Availability Problem for Sharded Ethereum - Daniel Sel (Technische Universität München); Kaiwen Zhang (École de technologie supérieure); Hans-Arno Jacobsen (Technische Universität München)
• StreamChain: Do Blockchains Need Blocks? - Zsolt Istvan (IMDEA Software Institute); Alessandro Sorniotti, Marko Vukolic (IBM Research - Zurich)


• 12:00-13:30 Lunch


• 13:30-15:00 Session 2:
• Scaling Byzantine Consensus: A Broad Analysis - Christian Berger, Hans P. Reiser (University of Passau)
• Sol2js: Translating Solidity Contracts into Javascript for Hyperledger Fabric - Ahmad Zafar (ITU); Salman Baset (IBM); Falak Sher, Umar Janjua (ITU)
• Off-chaining Models and Approaches to Off-chain Computations - Jacob Eberhardt, Jonathan Heiss (Information Systems Engineering, TU Berlin)


• 15:00-15:30 Coffee break


• 15:30-16:30 Open discussion