Stanford Input-Output Research Hub

Mini-Conference

Date: Sunday, July 26, 2026, 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm.

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

Host: IORH Steering Committee

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)

Talk Title: Consensus under Adversary Majority

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

Talk Title: Social Choice Approaches to Blockchain Consensus

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

Talk Title: Passlog: Authentication Logging with Public State

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

Talk Title: Enabling Bare-Metal Smart Contracts with Deterministic Client

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

Talk Title: Recoverability: A Formal Foundation for Attack Mitigation and Recovery

2:30 -2:45 pm: David Tse

Talk Title: 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 )

Talk Title: Optimum Design of Automated Market Makers

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

Talk Title: Authenticating Reality in the Post-Photographic Age

3:35 – 3:55 pm: Aviad Rubinstein (PI)

Talk Title: Single-Item Auctions with a Monopolist Intermediary

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

Talk Title: Private Delegation for Blockchain Governance

4:15 – 4:35 pm: Moses Charikar (PI)

Talk Title: Certificates for Overrepresentation in Approval-Based Multiwinner Voting

4: 35 - 4:55 pm: Khizar Qureshi ( PI: Markus Pelger )

Talk Title: Microstructure of Cryptocurrency Markets: Men vs. Machine

4:55 – 5:15 pm: Xinmeng Zeng (PIs: Ruizhe Jia & Markus Pelger)

Talk Title: Who Loses and Why? Market Microstructure of Perpetual Future

5:15 – 5:25 pm: Steve Nam (PI)

Talk Title: Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy

The conference is open to the general public.