The Science of Blockchain Conference 2024 focuses on technical innovations in the blockchain ecosystem, and brings together researchers and practioners working in the space.

The main interest is in the application of cryptography, decentralized protocols, formal methods, and empirical analysis, to improve the security and scalability of blockchain deployments.

The conference is co-organized IC3, the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research (CBR), and UC Berkeley RDI.

The talks and papers from the previous events in this conference series are available here: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017.

Program Chairs

Dan Boneh, Stanford University, CBR
Ari Juels, Cornell Tech, IC3
Dawn Song, U.C.Berkeley, RDI
Program Committee

Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh
Alin Tomescu, Aptos Labs
Andrew Lewis-Pye, London School of Economics
Aniket Kate, Purdue University & Supra Research
Arthur Gervais, UCL
Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University
Benedikt Bünz, NYU
Charalampos Papamanthou, Yale University
Christian Cachin, University of Bern
Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Chainlink Labs
Ciamac Moallemi, Columbia University
Dahlia Malkhi, UC Santa Barbara & Chainlink Labs
Dan Robinson, Paradigm
David Tse, Stanford University & BabylonChain
Davide Crapis, Ethereum Foundation
Deepak Maram, Mysten Labs
Dionysis Zindros, Stanford University & Common Prefix
Ertem Nusret Tas, Stanford University
Fan Zhang, Yale University
Giulia Fanti, CMU
Ittai Abraham, Intel
Ittay Eyal, Technion
Jeremy Clark, Concordia University
Joachim Neu, Stanford University
Joseph Bonneau, a16z crypto research & New York University
Justin Drake, Ethereum Foundation
Kartik Nayak, Duke University
Kostas Kryptos Chalkias, Mysten Labs
Ling Ren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Liyi Zhou, Imperial College London
Maofan “Ted” Yin, Hyperbolic
Marko Vukolic, Protocol Labs
Mary Maller, Ethereum Foundation
Patrick McCorry, Arbitrum Foundation
Sourav Das, University of Illinois
Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University & a16z crypto research
Valeria Nikolaenko, a16z crypto research
Will Scott, Protocol Labs
Yupeng Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Zeta Avarikioti, TU Vienna & Common Prefix
Registration: Attendance is free, but please register if you plan to attend either in person or remotely.

Attending remotely: The talks will be streamed live and the recordings will be available after the conference.

Affiliated workshops
A number of workshops will take place before the main conference. Check below for details on location, topics, and more.

StarkWare Scholar Summit Monday, August 5, 2024.
The Science of Proof Monday, August 5, 2024.
Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS) at SBC 2024 Tuesday, August 6, 2024.
2024 SBC DAO Workshop. Tuesday, August 6, 2024.
Science and Engineering of Consensus. Tuesday, August 6, 2024.
MEV-SBC’24. Tuesday, August 6, 2024.
Summit on Responsible Decentralized Intelligence – Future of Decentralization and AI Tuesday, August 6, 2024.
ZK DAY at SBC’24 Tuesday, August 6, 2024.