Events

Past events

DeCenter Seminar Series: The Data Socket – A Canonical Construct for Web 3 and the Coding to Enable It

December 10, 2024 4:30 pm

Speaker: Muriel Médard, co-founder of Optimum, on leave from MIT, where she holds the NEC Chair of Software Science and Engineering for the School of Engineering at MIT, and is a Professor in EECS.

Book Talk: Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin

November 4, 2024 4:30 pm

Conference

DeCenter Alumni Mixer

October 17, 2024 6:00 pm

DeCenter Seminar: Towards Cryptographically Verifiable Randomness

October 2, 2024 4:30 pm

Speaker: Joseph Bonneau, Research Partner on the a16z crypto team and an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Courant Institute, New York University.

DeCenter Seminar: Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum

September 18, 2024 4:30 pm

Speaker: Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Princeton Sabbatical

DeCenter Seminar: How Cryptographic Proofs are Transforming the Decentralized Web 

May 8, 2024 4:30 pm

Speaker: Ben Fisch, Yale University

DeCenter Workshop: Blockchain Meets Networking: Promises, Enhancements, and Threats

April 18, 2024 8:30 am

Spring Conference 2024

April 17, 2024 8:15 am

Conference

DeCenter Seminar: Privacy Preserving Smart Contracts

April 3, 2024 4:30 pm

Speaker: Andrew Miller

DeCenter Seminar: Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains

March 27, 2024 4:30 pm

Speaker: Eric Budish, Chicago Booth

DeCenter Seminar: Accountability in Central Bank Digital Currency

March 6, 2024 12:30 pm

Speaker: Giulia Fanti, Carnegie Mellon University

DeCenter Workshop: Decentralized Social Media Platforms

March 4, 2024 9:00 am

Conference

Book Talk: Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better

February 6, 2024 4:30 pm

Speaker: Lyn Alden, Lyn Alden Investment Strategy

DeCenter Workshop: I Wasn’t There: Applications of Blockchain to Privacy Preserving Reality Protection

December 4, 2023 12:00 pm

DeCenter Seminar: What insights can we learn from the Bitcoin algorithm?

November 15, 2023 4:30 pm

Speaker: Ling Ren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Advances in Financial Technologies – AFT 2023

October 23, 2023 10:00 am

DeCenter Seminar | Blockchain does not operate in a vacuum: an Internet perspective

October 11, 2023 4:30 pm

Speaker: Maria Apostokaki, Princeton University

DeCenter Seminar: An Overview of Mechanism Design for Blockchain Applications

September 20, 2023 4:30 pm

Speaker: Matt Weinberg, Princeton University

Smart Learning to Find Dumb Contracts 

July 28, 2023 10:30 am

Speaker: Aquinas Hobor, University College London

DeCenter Seminar: Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): Two Market Challenges

May 4, 2023 12:30 pm

Speaker: Ari Juels, Cornell Tech

DeCenter Spring Conference

April 13, 2023 9:00 am

Conference

DeCenter Seminar: Transparency and Security via Algorithmic Economics

April 11, 2023 10:30 am

Speaker: Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira, Harvard University

DeCenter Seminar: Internet-Scale Consensus In The Blockchain Era

March 27, 2023 3:30 pm

Speaker: Joachim Neu, Stanford University

DeCenter Seminar: Designing Blockchain Systems for Real-World Networks

March 21, 2023 11:30 am

Speaker: Lei Yang, MIT

DeCenter Seminar: Decentralizing Governance for Online Platforms

March 3, 2023 12:30 pm

Speaker: Andrew Hall, Stanford University

DeCenter Inaugural Summit

November 30, 2022 9:00 am

DeCenter Seminar: Correctness Conditions for Cross-chain Transactions

November 3, 2022 12:30 pm

Speaker: Maurice Herlihy, Brown University

DeCenter Seminar: Introduction to DeCenter

October 6, 2022 12:00 pm

Ethereum After The Merge: Is It Still Secure?

September 30, 2022 3:00 pm

Speaker: Joachim Neu, Stanford