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Coindesk writes about on-chain voting vulnerability and `Dark Dao' research by IC3. Blog post here: .
@phildaian
@secparam
@AriJuels
The 'Dark DAO' Threat: Vote Vulnerability Could Undermine Crypto Elections
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Stay tuned for a powerful new oracle technology from Ari Juels's group, coming out next Tuesday.
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IC3 Co-Director
@AriJuels
was interviewed for the
@cryptoteensnyc
podcast! He discussed academic blockchain research, his career path,
@cornell_tech
,
@chainlink
2.0, the need for broader participation in blockchain, and more!
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New on _Hacking, Distributed_, new IC3 solution to a key problem in Filecoin
@MineFilecoin
: "One File for the Price of Three: Catching Cheating Servers in Decentralized Storage Networks":
@EthanCecchetti
@secparam
@AriJuels
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Registration is still open for the 2021 IC3 Blockchain Camp (virtual, July 25-31)!
Featuring talks by
@VitalikButerin
,
@el33th4xor
,
@stonecoldpat0
,
@SergeyNazarov
, and many more (open to all) and a hackathon (IC3 members)
Registration and details at
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Mind-blowing session at IC3
#Blockchain
Camp Day 3!🚀
@avalabsofficial
CEO Emin Gün Sirer
@el33th4xor
aka IC3 former co-director, unveiled an exciting concept of bringing
#AI
Revolution to Blockchain. Imagine the power of a potential game-changer in the making!
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Check out the new DECO research series from our industry partner
@chainlinklabs
. Our IC3 researchers Lorenz Breidenbach
@ethlorenz
and Fan Zhang
@0xFanZhang
are proud contributors to this insightful research. 🥳
#IC3
#blockchain
#DECO
#Chainlink
DECO enables users to prove something is authentic without revealing the underlying data, unlocking new primitives for smart contracts without compromising privacy.
Read the first blog in the new DECO research series:
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Check out Deco, a new privacy-preserving oracle protocol by Fan Zhang
@bl4ck5unxx
and others at IC3. Visit .
@sgoldfed
@AriJuels
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🎙️Take a sneak peak at IC3's latest Founders in Web3 interview with Emin Gün Sirer
@el33th4xor
, CEO of Ava Labs
@AvaLabs
@avax
and former IC3 Co-Director. Gün highlights IC3’s founding vision as a global blockchain research hub where "Just Good Researchers Doing Good Research"…
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The next IC3 Meetup will be Wed, March 18th from 6-9 PM hosted by
@chainlink
in NYC
@grimmelm
will present "All Smart Contracts Are Ambiguous"
@EdFelten
will also present on Arbitrum and off-chain computations
Learn more and get your (free) ticket at:
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In case you missed it,
@AriJuels
will be working with
@chainlink
to bring Town Crier to the next stage of development!
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🚨 New IC3 blog post 🚨
"Making Decentralized Identity Possible with CanDID"
by Deepak Maram (
@mskd96
) and Harjasleen Malvai
🧵
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Submarine Sends and Chainlink. Nice Google Cloud blog post about oracles features IC3 research and IC3 industry partner: .
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CanDID will be presented at
@RealWorldCrypto
2021 in the Anonymity session, which starts in 10 minutes!
CanDID is a collaboration between researchers from
@initc3org
and
@jpmorgan
.
Work by:
@mskd96
, Harjasleen Malvai,
@0xFanZhang
,
@nerlajl
, Alexander Frolov,
@relyt29
,
@TyLobban
,
@cmoyall
,
@AriJuels
, and
@socrates1024
.
See the full paper:
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IC3 Co-Director
@AriJuels
discussed payment privacy and digital dollars with
@GregoryJBarber
for
@WIRED
.
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Digital payments have a hard time staying private. Every swipe and transfer leaves a trail.
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📣 Please register to join us for the 2021 IC3 Blockchain Camp (virtual, July 25-31)!
Featuring talks by
@VitalikButerin
,
@el33th4xor
,
@stonecoldpat0
,
@SergeyNazarov
, and many more (open to all) and a hackathon (IC3 members)
Registration and details at
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Check out presentations by Ari Juels (
@AriJuels
), Emin Gun Sirer (
@el33th4xor
), and Dawn Song (
@dawnsongtweets
) on Saturday!
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Join us for "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World" presented by
@0xFanZhang
on July 7th 2-3 PM ET!
He will discuss oracles, secret sharing, and decentralized identity.
Register to attend at
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Please RSVP to join us for an IC3 and
@chainlink
virtual meetup!
@_mahimna
will present the problem of transaction ordering in consensus protocols and a new class of protocols achieving order-fairness, liveness, and consistency.
Thu, Oct 15, 2-3 PM ET
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The next IC3 New York Meetup will be 11/21 hosted by
@chainlink
.
@paddypisa
will be presenting a technical deep dive into off-chain protocols. Get your (free) ticket at
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🥳A monumental moment for
@CelestiaOrg
as Celestia Mainnet marks the debut of
#ModularEra
. Proud to mention that the Co-founder and CEO of Celestia,
@musalbas
, is an IC3 alum and former PhD at UCL, mentored by our faculty, Prof. Sarah Meiklejohn. The future is bright, and our…
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Please register to join us for a presentation by
@aklamun
of "(Un)Reasonable Design of Stablecoins."
April 29th, 12 PM ET, hosted by
@chainlink
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CanDID is a collaboration between researchers from
@initc3org
and
@jpmorgan
.
Work by:
@mskd96
, Harjasleen Malvai,
@0xFanZhang
,
@nerlajl
, Alexander Frolov,
@relyt29
,
@TyLobban
,
@cmoyall
,
@AriJuels
, and
@socrates1024
.
See the full paper:
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A recording of "Connecting Blockchains to the Real World" presented by
@0xFanZhang
is now available!
He discusses oracles, secret sharing, and decentralized identity.
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Big news: IC3's
@initc3org
Town Crier oracle transitioning to Chainlink! One of a number of IC3 technologies shaping today's blockchain ecosystem.
Announced at
#DevCon4
, Chainlink acquires Town Crier, leading trusted hardware-based oracle system, from Cornell Tech and IC3.
@cornell_tech
#smartcontracts
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Registration is open: IC3-Etheruem Crypto Boot Camp in Ithaca July 12-18. Join
@socrates1024
@VitalikButerin
@AriJuels
(see 2016 Boot Camp Award photo) and
@paddyucl
@secparam
@ittayeyal
@dawnsongtweets
& many more at
@Cornell
...
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New IC3 research: "Forsage: Anatomy of a Smart-Contract Pyramid Scheme"
by Tyler Kell (
@relyt29
), Haaroon Yousaf (
@Haaroony
), Sarah Allen (
@4SarahAllen
), Sarah Meiklejohn, Ari Juels (
@AriJuels
)
Full paper:
1/8
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*Session 6D: Web Security, 2:30-3:45 PM ET*
DECO: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles for TLS
by
@0xFanZhang
,
@mskd96
, Harjasleen Malvai,
@sgoldfed
,
@AriJuels
full paper:
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We are excited to announce the Science of Blockchain Conference 2022 (SBC'22, formerly called the Stanford Blockchain Conference), held by
@CBRStanford
and
@initc3org
and co-chaired by
@danboneh
and
@AriJuels
!
See more at
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Presentation of DECO: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles for TLS by
@0xFanZhang
@mskd96
Harjasleen Malvai
@sgoldfed
@AriJuels
at
#realworldcrypto
this morning
More information:
DECO facilitates privacy-preserving proofs about TLS data to oracles and can be used for these smart contracts
#realworldcrypto
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Confirmed IC3 researchers for Friday's /r/ethereum AMA currently include Ari Juels
@AriJuels
, Patrick McCorry
@paddypisa
, Andrew Miller
@socrates1024
, and Emin Gun Sirer
@el33th4xor
. We look forward to your questions!
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Registration is open for the Science of Blockchain Conference 2022 (SBC'22, formerly called the Stanford Blockchain Conference), held by
@CBRStanford
and
@initc3org
and co-chaired by
@danboneh
and
@AriJuels
!
See more and register at
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New Post: PROF: Fair Transaction-Ordering in a Profit-Seeking World. IC3 faculty member Ari Juels and PhD students Kushal Babel, Yan Ji, and Mahimna Kelkar propose a new way to escape the dark forest of MEV.
@KushalBabel
@iseriohn42
@AriJuels
@_mahimna
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Crypto-technology, properly executed, will be an extinction-level event for some companies, and a giant opportunity for many others.
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Tomorrow is the /r/ethereum AMA! Ari Juels
@AriJuels
, Andrew Miller
@socrates1024
, Emin Gun Sirer
@el33th4xor
, and Patrick McCorry
@paddypisa
are looking forward to your questions!
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Video from the November IC3 NYC Meetup presented by
@chainlink
is now available!
@paddypisa
presented a technical deep-dive into off-chain protocols
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Nice article on role of
@initc3org
's Town Crier and Chainlink
@chainlink
oracle ecosystem. Smart contracts without oracles are “like a city with no electricity.”
The MIT Technology Review highlights how blockchain smart contracts can have a real world impact with Chainlink technology. Here’s to a future of connected contracts!
@techreview
@mike_orcutt
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IC3 Co-Director
@AriJuels
appeared on
@HashingItOutPod
! He discussed teaching blockchain science in universities, the future of blockchain, NFTs, smart contracts, DeFi,
#sbc22
, and more
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Was great to see Christine and JPM colleagues at the IC3 Retreat on May 10
JP Morgan's New DLT Lead: We're Not Done With Blockchain Innovation
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IC3's 5th Annual Blockchain Camp will be held virtually from July 26th-August 1st! We will have team coding projects for IC3 members and an exciting lineup of tech talks and panels open to all!
Learn more and register at
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You can watch all the presentations from IC3 researchers at
#SBC20
5:55:42
@Vervious
presents Streamlet
7:52:09
@0xFanZhang
presents DECO
8:22:50
@AriJuels
presents Mixicles (work done as
@chainlink
technical advisor)
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"Design choices for central bank digital currency: policy and technical considerations" is published on
@BrookingsInst
!
The authors explore design challenges, technical solutions, and opportunities created by central bank digital currency.
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New IC3 blog post: Complete Knowledge
by James Austgen,
@KushalBabel
,
@VitalikButerin
,
@phildaian
,
@AriJuels
,
@_mahimna
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Recordings from the 2021 IC3 Blockchain Camp are now available!
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IC3's Blockchain Camp is this week!
Team coding projects for IC3 members start tomorrow📣
Presentations open to all start on Monday📣
Registration is still open at
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🎙 Exciting moment at
#SmartCon
! Our co-director
@AriJuels
outlines the MEV problem and illustrates the potential of Protected Order-Flow (PROF) in achieving fair transaction ordering.
#BLOCKCHAIN
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Day 3 at IC3
#Blockchain
Camp off to an incredible start! 🔥 Ariah
@aklamun
from
@GyroStable
delivered valuable insights on how to design resilient oracles.
#Gyroscope
#DeFi
#stablecoin
#oracles
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New IC3 Blog Post- Order-Fair Consensus: Reducing MEV at the Consensus Layer
by
@_mahimna
This is the first in a series of posts discussing MEV, transaction-order manipulation, and order-fairness.
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The presentation track of the 2021 IC3 Blockchain Camp begins today!
Featuring talks by
@aklamun
,
@NoahZinsmeister
,
@lilioneviola
,
@4SarahAllen
,
@Haaroony
,
@phildaian
,
@_mahimna
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New IC3 blog post by
@lilioneviola
,
@sbellem
,
@badcryptobitch
,
@socrates1024
The authors show how to provide privacy for smart contracts in a general purpose way using MPC as a sidechain.
They demo by using MPC for a confidential AMM.
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We are thrilled to see the IC3 report "Design choices for central bank digital currency: Policy and technical considerations" contributing to the broader cbdc discussion!
Here's a 🧵 of recent cbdc resources.
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It's the final day of the 2021 IC3 Blockchain Camp Presentation Track!
Today features
@AriJuels
,
@el33th4xor
,
@HatforceSec
,
@relyt29
,
@sourav1547
, Yunhao Zhang, Hongbo Zhang,
@EdwardMehrez
, Florian Suri-Payer,
@dawnsongtweets
,
@AndrewCMyers
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Sad to see the IC3 Boot Camp end, but we were happy to have this wonderful group attend this year! See you all next year!
#ic3bootcamp
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Thrilled to share that Gyroscope's stablecoin GYD is now live! 🌟 After 3+ years of dedicated effort, GYD is bringing groundbreaking stablecoin innovations to the forefront. Shoutout to the Gyroscope team
@aklamun
@ljfgudgeon
, an impressive IC3 student-led startup emerging from…
The Gyroscope stablecoin GYD is now live.
3+ years in the making, GYD introduces fundamental stablecoin innovations that put risk control on autopilot.
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Join us for day 4 of the 2021 IC3 Blockchain Camp Presentation Track!
Today features Deepak Maram (
@mskd96
), Sergey Nazarov (
@SergeyNazarov
), Mary Maller, Keerthi Moudgal (
@keerthimoudgal
), Stuart Hunter, Ian Miers (
@secparam
)
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IC3's Virtual Blockchain Camp starts in less than 2 weeks!!
We have team coding projects for IC3 members as well as blockchain talks and panels open to all!
July 26th-August 1st
Learn more and register at
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See you tonight in NYC! Please bring your (free) ticket with you.
The next IC3 New York Meetup will be 11/21 hosted by
@chainlink
.
@paddypisa
will be presenting a technical deep dive into off-chain protocols. Get your (free) ticket at
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Massive gas reserve discovered in Ethereum by IC3 researchers? Stay tuned...
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👀IC3 Co-Director
@AriJuels
just unveiled remarkable insights on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and introduced the Sting Framework🛡️ (the security sentinel for TEEs & privacy-preserving systems) at
@a16zcrypto
. Learn more details here:
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👏Up next is our IC3 faculty Andrew Miller
@socrates1024
from UIUC delivering great insights on TEE-based smart contracts and the fascinating research challenges they pose. Exploring IC3’s research on TEEs in threads. Invaluable knowledge shared!
#smartcontract
#TEEs
#Research
"
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The Science of Blockchains Conference (SBC) 2023 website is up and talk submissions are now open. Join us from 28-30 August 2023 at Stanford!
@danboneh
@AriJuels
@CBRStanford
Visit for details.
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Join us at the IC3 Retreat in the Swiss Alps on Feb 14-15 with IC3 colleagues from ETH Zurich and EPFL, plus Cornell, Cornell Tech, UC Berkeley, UCL, UIUC, and the Technion.
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Long-awaited IC3 Town Crier service launched today on the Ethereum public blockchain! Visit to give it a spin!
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Want to hear our Directors
@AriJuels
and
@socrates1024
talk about their research? Both will be at MIT's Cryptoeconomic Systems Summit this weekend!
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Recordings from the IC3 Blockchain Camp are now available!
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Exciting news! IC3 Co-director
@AriJuels
, will be sharing his valuable insights at the Cornell Blockchain Conference 2023. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from IC3 top expert in the field. Get tickets now to secure your spot!
We are excited to introduce Cornell Blockchain Conference 2023’s first lineup of speakers👀🔥
Meet
@AriJuels
, CS Professor at
#CornellTech
, Co-Director at IC3, and Chief Scientist at Chainlink.
🎟️Tickets:
#blockchain
#web3
#crypto
#tech
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Worried that Wall Street might misbehave? IC3 is working on a new kind of fair trade, auditable by and accountable to all.
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Cornell is offering more Cryptocurrency Courses than other Ivy League Universities, IC3 helping pave the way. Check out the article in the Cornell Sun.
@el33th4xor
@AriJuels
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The IC3 Boot Camp is in full swing! Here's
@el33th4xor
going over consensus protocols during this morning's session.
#ic3bootcamp
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New IC3 Blog and Paper: "Paralysis Proofs: How to Prevent Your Bitcoin From Vanishing":
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🤩Had an incredible
#DAO
discussion at IC3
#Blockchain
Camp Day 6! Huge thanks to our panelists:
1⃣️
@kelvinfichter
from
@OPLabsPBC
2⃣️
@hkalodner
from
@OffchainLabs
3⃣️
@yezhang1998
from
@Scroll_ZKP
plus kudos to our amazing moderator Andrew Miller
@socrates1024
👏
#Web3
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The next IC3 Meetup will be Tuesday Feb 18th hosted by
@calibra
in Menlo Park, CA
@dawnsongtweets
will present "Building a Platform for a Responsible Data Economy”
Get your (free) ticket at
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"Tesseract: Real-Time Cryptocurrency Exchange Using Trusted Hardware" is one of the papers accepted to ACM CCS 2019! Congrats to Iddo Bentov,
@AriJuels
, Fan Zhang, Yan Ji,
@phildaian
, and Lorenz Breindenbach!
Read more here:
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Excited to see the ongoing development of
@GyroStable
by a team including cofounder and IC3 student
@aklamun
! A a super alpha version of the core idea behind Gyroscope's stablecoin system won the IC3 2020 Summer Blockchain Camp Hackathon.
Thrilled to announce a $4.5m raise to launch Gyroscope's resilient stablecoin system on Ethereum.
The round was led by
@placeholdervc
and
@galaxyhq
and included investment from
@Maven11Capital
@archetypevc
@robotventures
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IC3 PhD student Yan Ji
@iseriohn42
(Cornell, advisor:
@AriJuels
) gave a fantastic talk on today at our
#blockchain
camp Day 6.
Interesting perspective of building quasi-decentralized systems to mitigate the inefficiencies of both centralized and
#decentralized
systems.
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IC3 Co-Director
@AriJuels
presented "Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): How Should the Apes Evolve?" at BTS 2022
He discusses:
-the history and technical properties of NFTs
-NFTs in the metaverse
-bots and bot defenses
-fractionalization
and more!
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🎉Just in: thrilled to announce that IC3 has received Retroactive Public Goods Funding from
#Optimism
for exceptional contributions in
#blockchain
education! Our community is grateful for the recognition and will keep striving to create greater public impact.
#blockchaineducation
Huge news: the results of RetroPGF 2 are in! 🌞🌱
This experiment in retroactive public goods funding is driving growth of the Optimism ecosystem by allocating resources to the projects and people that have demonstrated positive impact.
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IC3 Spring Retreat was on May 10 at Cornell Tech, NYC. Attendees gathered for a group photo at the end of the day in the lobby of the Tata Innovation Center.
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#devcon5
is underway! Make sure to say hi to the IC3 members and go see their talks!
@phildaian
@paddypisa
@el33th4xor
@dawnsongtweets
@secparam
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Save the Date! Our next IC3 retreat is scheduled for November 22 at the JPM Chase Metrotech Center in Brooklyn, NY. For more information on the retreat and how to register, see .
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🎙️We interviewed
@aklamun
, IC3 PhD student & Co-founder of
@GyroStable
. He unveils the synergy between academia &
#blockchain
industry and emphasizes DeFi's power. Explore Gyroscope's evolution from IC3 Blockchain Camp project to an impactful real-world application in
#DeFi
. ⬇️
Gyroscope team member
@aklamun
was featured in
@initc3org
's Founders in Web3 series.
Tune in to hear about how Gyroscope's stablecoin was designed and developed, how Gyroscope is being rolled out, and the journey from PhD to co-founding Gyroscope
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Want to learn more about the ambiguity of smart contracts? Then this is an event you don't want to miss!
#CBCS2019
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BDoS: Blockchain Denial-of-Service
by
@mitik2
,
@iseriohn42
, Jonathan Pang,
@aklamun
,
@ittayeyal
, and
@AriJuels
Full paper:
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The new IC3 Research Update is out!
It features work on CBDCs, decentralized identity, anonymous communication, complex smart contracts, and more!
You can read it here:
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Watch the
#SBC20
livestream from 4:30-5 PM PST today for a presentation of DECO by
@0xFanZhang
DECO is a novel privacy-preserving oracle protocol, created by students and faculty at IC3.
Learn more at
Livestream:
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🚨New IC3 blog post🚨
"Using Universal Composability to Implement Off-Chain Payment Channels"
by Jun-You Liu (
@orbxball
), Surya Bakshi (
@suryabakshi
), Shreyas Gandlur (
@rot13x2
), Ankush Das (
@Das8Ankush
), and Andrew Miller (
@socrates1024
)
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New IC3 blog post: Red Flags for Smart Contract Pyramid Schemes in 2021
by
@relyt29
,
@Haaroony
,
@4SarahAllen
, Sarah Meiklejohn, and
@AriJuels
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