Aug
7
4:00pm
Reorg.WTF Summit
By Hsin-Ju @DystopiaLabs
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.
A bird’s eye view on reorgs
- 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)
The op-eds: beyond NP-hard?
- 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
Reorg and mitigation on Ethereum
The Past and Present
- 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
The Future
- 17:00 - 17:30 ET | Ethereum reorgs after the merge (30min)Speaker: Vitalik Buterin Resources: Blogpost | Slides
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