CyLab announces second round of Secure Blockchain Initiative funded projects

Michael Cunningham

May 22, 2024

Carnegie Mellon University Secure Blockchain Initiative logo

Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Initiative (SBI) has announced its second round of funded proposals, providing $90K to three groundbreaking research projects that are exploring the security and privacy of distributed ledger technology.

Through research, the CMU SBI aims to revolutionize blockchain technology within enterprise ecosystems by tackling various challenges, including enhancing consensus mechanisms and scalability, exploring cryptocurrencies and markets, advancing cryptography, implementing formal verification, and addressing regulation, policy, and governance concerns.

Led by co-directors Nicolas Christin, Elaine Shi, and Ariel Zetlin-Jones, the multi-year CyLab initiative intends to develop a suite of novel foundations and technologies focused on three key thrusts:

  • Cryptoeconomics: Cryptography, Consensus, and Verification
  • Applications and Implementations
  • Cryptocurrencies, Tokenized Assets, and Policy 

Funded Projects

Each of the following researchers provided lightning talks previewing their funded research at the 2024 Carnegie Mellon University Secure Blockchain Summit:

Analysis and Optimization of Resilience in Ripple Transaction Network

Modeling and Reasoning about Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) Deployment

How Automated Market Maker (AMM) Reward Functions Can (Dis-)Incentivize Strategic Liquidity Providers

  • Giulia Fanti - Assistant Professor, Electrical and Chemical Engineering (ECE)

 Funding for these projects is made possible by the following sponsors:

algorand-foudation-logo_black_500px.png
ripple.png

Interested in getting involved or supporting the Secure Blockchain Initiative? Learn more by visiting the SBI Sponsor Page, or contact Michael Lisanti, Director of Partnerships, at mlisanti@andrew.cmu.edu.