CMU Secure Blockchain Summit
October 7, 2025
Simmons Auditorium, Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Co-Located with AFT 2025
Now in its third year, Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Summit will convene leading researchers and experts from across academia and industry to discuss the future of blockchain research, technology, and applications, focusing on a variety of topics, including crypto-economics, applied cryptography, programming languages, security and privacy, policy and usability, ethics, equity, and more.
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About
Despite advances, many research questions still need to be answered to ensure blockchain protocols and applications are ready for widespread use. As the industry continues to see more consumer applications, such as decentralized finance (DeFi), securing the fundamental research elements of the technology, especially from a security, privacy, ethics, and societal impact perspective, is of utmost importance.
Now in its third year, Carnegie Mellon University’s Secure Blockchain Summit will convene leading researchers and experts from across academia and industry to discuss the future of blockchain research, technology, and applications, focusing on a variety of topics, including crypto-economics, applied cryptography, programming languages, security and privacy, policy and usability, ethics, and equity.
The CMU Secure Blockchain Summit is co-located with the seventh international conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2025).
Schedule
Please note: this is an invitation-only event. Please fill out this form if you are interested in attending.
Detailed scheduling information coming soon
Speakers
Detailed speaker information coming soon
Secure Blockchain Summit Committee
Sponsors
CyLab is currently offering a limited number of opportunities to sponsor the CMU Secure Blockchain Summit to companies and organizations seeking to build brand visibility distributed ledger technology experts from across the globe, as well as with Carnegie Mellon University faculty members, students, and alumni. For more information on sponsoring the CyLab Robotics Workshop, contact Michael Lisanti, Senior Director of Partnerships, at 412-268-1870 or mlisanti@andrew.cmu.edu.
CMU Secure Blockchain Initiative (SBI)
The CMU Secure Blockchain Initiative (SBI) is supported by seed sponsorships from Algorand Foundation and Ripple. Our goal is to work together with industry partners to ensure that the research outputs are relevant and applicable to the challenges faced by the blockchain industry.
Learn more about partnering with the CMU Secure Blockchain Initiative.