CMU Secure Blockchain Summit
October 7, 2025
Rangos Ballroom, Jared L. Cohon University Center
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.
Agenda is subject to change.
- 8:00 - 9:00 AM - Breakfast and registration
- 9:00 - 9:15 AM - Opening remarks
Session I: Economic and Security Risks for Cryptocurrencies
Moderator: Ariel Zetlin-Jones
- 09:15-09:35 AM: Taro Tsuchiya - Talk title coming soon
- 09:35-09:55 AM: Mark Dong - Talk title coming soon
- 09:55-10:15 AM: Sam Rosen - Talk title coming soon
- 10:15-10:35 AM: Srivatsan Ravi - Talk title coming soon
- 10:35-10:55 AM: BREAK
Session II: Decentralized Finance
Moderator: Ariel Zetlin-Jones
- 10:55-11:15 AM: Rod Garratt - Talk title coming soon
- 11:15-11:35 AM: Thomas Rivera - Talk title coming soon
- 11:35-11:55 AM: Guillermo Angeris - Talk title coming soon
- 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM: Michael Sockin - Talk title coming soon
Lunch
- 12:15-1:35 PM
Session III: AI and Applied Cryptography for Blockchains
Moderator: Giulia Fanti
- 1:35-1:55 PM: Ittay Eyal - Talk title coming soon
- 1:55-2:15 PM: Tanusree Sharma - Talk title coming soon
- 2:15-2:35 PM: Andrew Miller - Talk title coming soon
- 2:35-3:05 PM: BREAK
Session IV: Lightning Talks
- 3:05-3:15 PM: Austin Larson - Talk title coming soon
- 3:15-3:25 PM: Aayush Jain - Large Party Scalable Multiparty Computation from LPN
- 3:25-3:35 PM: Osman Yağan - Analysis and Optimization of Robustness in XRP Ledger Consensus Protocol
- 3:35-3:45 PM: Giulia Fanti and Elaine Shi - Incentivizing Constructive Participation in Decentralized Governance
- 3:45-3:55 PM: Ariel Zetlin-Jones and Shengxing Zhang - Tiered Payments Networks
- 3:55-4:05 PM: Sarah Scheffler - Efficient Anonymous Verifiable Credentials
- 4:05-4:15 PM: Fraser Brown and Riad Wahby - Superoptimizing probabilistic-proof-systems compilers
- 4:15-4:20 PM: Closing Remarks
Evening Events:
- 4:20-5:00 PM: BREAK
- 5:00-7:30 PM: Networking Social - The Café Carnegie
Speakers
Fraser Brown
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department
Giulia Fanti
Angel Jordan Associate Professor
Carnegie Mellon University Electrical and Computer Engineering
Eunsuk Kang
Associate Professor
Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department
Srivatsan Ravi
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Southern California
Sarah Scheffler
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University Engineering and Public Policy, Software and Societal Systems
Riad Wahby
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Osman Yağan
Research Professor
Carnegie Mellon University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ariel Zetlin-Jones
Associate Professor of Economics
Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business
Shengxing Zhang
Associate Professor of Economics
Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business
Secure Blockchain Summit Committee
Thank you to our Secure Blockchain Summit 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 CMU Secure Blockchain Summit, 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 Anaxi Labs 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.
The Carnegie Mellon University Secure Blockchain Summit is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0) program under Grant No. 2420955.