Seminars series: cryptocurrencies and smart contracts

Post date: 13-Jun-2016 12:45:12

1 - Introduction to cryptocurrencies and smart contracts

15.4.2016 h12.00 - Lab M (Massimo Bartoletti)

• J. Bonneau, A. Miller, J. Clark, A. Narayanan, J.A. Kroll, E.W. Felten. SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
• N. Koblitz and A.J. Menezes. Cryptocash, cryptocurrencies and cryptocontracts
• F. Tschorsch and B. Scheuermann. Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies
• S. Nakamoto. Bitcoin: a Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
• Divulgative and short description of how Bitcoin works

2 - Introduction to smart contracts in Ethereum

22.4.2016 h12.00 - Lab M (Tiziana Cimoli) -- Slides

• How blockchains could change the world
• The Trust Machine
• List of Ethereum contracts: https://etherchain.org/contracts
• Ethercast: state of the dapps
• Ethereum yellow-paper: gavwood.com/paper.pdf
• An Ethereum contract analyzer
• The DAO (Distributed Autonomous Organization)

3 - Incentives for smart contracts

29.4.2016 h11.00 - Lab M (Nicola Atzei) -- Slides

• L. Luu, J. Teutsch, R. Kulkarni, and P. Saxena. Demystifying incentives in the consensus computer. Proc. ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2015.

4 - Vulnerabilities of Bitcoin

6.5.2016 h11.00 - Lab M (Stefano Lande) -- Slides

• I. Eyal and E. Gun Sirer. Majority is not enough: Bitcoin mining is vulnerable. Financial Cryptography, 2014

5 - Analysis of the Bitcoin protocol

13.5.2016 - h11.00 - Lab M (Alessandro Sebastian Podda) -- Slides

• J. A. Garay, A. Kiayias and N. Leonardos. The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol: Analysis and Applications. Proc. EUROCRYPT 2015

6 - Ethereum in depth

20.5.2016 h11.00 - Lab M (Nicola Atzei and Tiziana Cimoli) -- Slides

7 - A survey of frameworks for smart contracts

27.5.2016 h11.00 - Lab M (Livio Pompianu) -- Slides

• Codius: www | whitepaper
• Contractvm: www | whitepaper
  • Eris: www | whitepaper
  • Ethereum: www | whitepaper
  • Hyperledger: www | whitepaper | github | projects
    • (DAH & IBM, Incubation) Fabric: www | prot-spec
    • (Intel, Incubation) Sawtooth Lake: www
  • Lisk: www | whitepaper
  • NXT: www | whitepaper
  • Peercoin: www | whitepaper
  • Ripple: www | whitepaper
  • Rootstock: www | whitepaper
  • Stellar: www | whitepaper
  • Tezos: www | whitepaper