Stanford Input-Output Research Hub

Mini-Conference

A place to learn about cutting-edge blockchain research at Stanford

Date: Sunday, July 26, 2026, 1:00 pm - 5:15 pm.

Location: David Packard Bldg. Rm 202 ( second floor).

Host: IORH Steering Committee

(Coffee and snacks will be available before and during the event.)

Program:

1:00 pm: Welcome: David Tse (IORH Steering Committee Chair )

Session 1: Blockchain Infrastructure

Chair: Dionysis Zindros

1:10 – 1:25 pm: Srivatsan Sridhar (PI: David Tse)

Consensus under Adversary Majority.

1:25 – 1:40 pm: Chenghan Zhou (PI: Ashish Goel)

Social Choice Approaches to Blockchain Consensus.

1:40 – 1:55 pm: Ihyun Nam (PI: David Mazieres)

Passlog: Authentication Logging with Public State.

1:55 – 2:10 pm: Zach Yedidia (PI: David Mazieres)

Enabling Bare-Metal Smart Contracts with Deterministic Client.

2:10 – 2:30 pm: Paul Crews (PI: John Mitchell)

Recoverability: A Formal Foundation for Attack Mitigation and Recovery.

2:30 – 2:45 pm: David Tse

BABE: Verifying Proofs on Bitcoin Made 1000x Cheaper.

2:45 – 3:00 pm: Break

Session 2: Blockchain Applications

Chair: David Tse

3:00 – 3:15 pm: Mohak Goyal ( PI: Ashish Goel )

Optimum Design of Automated Market Makers.

3:15 – 3:35 pm: Jonathan Dotan (PI: Tsachy Weissman)

Authenticating Reality in the Post-Photographic Age.

3:35 – 3:55 pm: Aviad Rubinstein (PI)

Single-Item Auctions with a Monopolist Intermediary.

3:55 – 4:15 pm: Kamilla Nazirkhanova (PI: Dan Boneh)

Private Delegation for Blockchain Governance.

4:15 – 4:35 pm: Moses Charikar (PI)

Certificates for Overrepresentation in Approval-Based Multiwinner Voting.

4:35 – 4:50 pm: Khizar Qureshi ( PIs: Markus Pelger & Ruizhe Jia )

Microstructure of Cryptocurrency Markets: Men vs. Machine.

4:50 – 5:05 pm: Xinmeng Zeng (PIs: Ruizhe Jia & Markus Pelger)

Who Loses and Why? Market Microstructure of Perpetual Future.

5:05 – 5:15 pm: Steve Nam (PI)

Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy.

The conference is open to the general public.