Yet another public research unconference in the open with the brilliant super-coders. Comment

Date: Saturday, Aug 7, 2021
Time: 12:00 - 17:30 ET / 9:00 - 14:30 PT / 16:00 - 21:30 UTC
Conference link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/reorg-wtf-summit
Format: defi.wtf meets MEV Roast
Previous WTF event: MEV.wtf
MEV research grants: MEV Fellowship Grants

Special thanks to Flashbots Research, IC3, Dystopia Labs.

12:00 - 12:20 ET | Types of blockchain reorgs on various consensus algorithms (20min)Speaker: Georgios Konstantopoulos
Resources: Blogpost | Slides (to-be-updated)


12:20 - 12:35 ET | EVM-based 51% attack: an analysis (20min)Speaker: Yaz Khoury
Resoureces: Slides


12:35 - 12:50 ET | L2 fast finality and reorgs (15min)Speaker: Samuel Shadrach
Resoureces: Slides (to-be-updated)


12:50 - 13:10 ET | Reorgs in PoS and multi-agent selfish mining (20min)Speaker: Michael Neuder
Resources: Paper | Slides


13:10 - 13:30 ET | BDoS: “Reorg” across chains (15min)Speaker: Yan Ji
Resources: Paper | Slides


13:30 - 13:50 ET | Reorg counterattacks (20min)Speaker: Dan Moroz
Resources: Paper | Slides (to-be-updated)


13:50 - 14:30 ET | The tweet heard round the world? The binance hack & perspectives on reorg incentives (40min)Roast Master: Hasu
Panelists: Brandon Curtis, James Prestwich, Jeremy Rubin
Resources: Context


14:30 - 14:45 ET | Why reorgs are negative sum (15min)Speaker: Phil Daian
Resources: Blogpost | Slides


14:45 - 15:00 ET | MEV democratization and reorgs (15min)Speaker: Mahimna Kelkar
Resources: Slides


15:00 - 15:15 ET | Are forks a good thing? Fast finality blockchains and reorgs (15min)Speaker: Zaki Manian
Resources: Context | Notes


15:15 - 16:00 ET | Technical challenges: reorg softwares and reorg protections (45min)Roast Master: Phil Daian
Panelist: Sunny Aggarwal, Rick Dudley, Daniel Goldman, thegostep, Nathan Worsley


16:00 - 16:20 ET | Searching for Ethereum reorgs (20min)Speaker: Robert Miller
Resources: Slides


16:20 - 16:40 ET| Understanding the economic motivation for reorgs and how to counter (20min)Speaker: Saneel Sreeni & Ivan Bogatyy
Resources: Blogpost | Slides


16:40 - 17:00 ET | So you want to build a pool for reorgs? NGMI (20min)Speaker: Ivan Bogatyy
Resources: Blogpost | Slides


17:00 - 17:30 ET | Ethereum reorgs after the merge (30min)Speaker: Vitalik Buterin
Resources: Blogpost | Slides


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