Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS)
August 26 - 27
by Stanford Blockchain Club
Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS) is part of Stanford Blockchain Week as an affiliated side conference to the Sciences of Blockchain Conference. The conference is organized by the Stanford Blockchain Club with the support of Stanford Center of Blockchain Research. The conference will take place on Stanford campus in the weekend of 8/26 and 8/27 before Sciences of Blockchain Conference (SBC).
While the main conference is more academic and research driven, our conference aims to be complementary and focuses more on the application, engineering and entrepreneurship aspects of the blockchain technology. In addition, we aim to highlight the top blockchain startups from the Stanford ecosystem.
Conference Dates: Aug. 26 - 27, 2023
Venue: Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 200, Stanford University. Address: 370 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United States
Registration: Attendance is free, but please register if you plan to attend. Space is limited.
Side Events: Apply here to host a side event for Stanford Blockchain Week. View registered side events here.
The conference will cover a variety of topics including execution environment, rollups, DeFi, privacy, Bitcoin ecosystem, ZK, DevOps, payment, creator economy, MEV & data infra.
Program
| Saturday, August 26th, 2023 | |
| 8:00am | Registration opens |
| 9:00am | Welcome Remarks Kun Peng, Founder, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator & BASS Dan Boneh, Professor, Stanford University & Co-director, Stanford Center for Blockchain Research |
| 9:10am | Gno.land: A transactional paradigm of reality Jae Kwon, Founder of Gno.land & Co-Founder of Cosmos |
| 9:40am | Nexus: Enabling Decentralized Verifiable Computing Daniel Marin, Founder & CEO, Nexus |
| 10:00am | Innovation in Consensus Research from Chainlink Labs Dahlia Malkhi, Distinguished Scientist at Chainlink Labs |
| 10:30am | A Pragmatic Path to an N-Rollup Future Bobby Beniers, Polychain |
| 11:00am | Stylus: Unifying the EVM and WASM on Arbitrum Ed Felten, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs |
| 11:30am | Modular Blockchains: Past, Present & Future Nick White, COO, Celestia Labs |
| 12:00pm | The Case for Dedicated Rollups Matthew Katz, Co-Founder, Caldera |
| 12:20pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:30pm | Blend and Oracle Minimization Dan Robinson, Head of Research, Paradigm |
| 2:00pm | Challenges in Programmable Privacy Adam Domurad, Aztec |
| 2:30pm | Usable Privacy From Stealth Addresses and Shielded Pools Sebastien La Duca, CTO, Nocturne Labs |
| 2:50pm | Bitcoin Staking: Unlocking 21 Million Bitcoins to Secure the Decentralized Economy David Tse, Professor, Stanford University & Co-Founder, BabylonChain |
| 3:10pm | Digital Gold and Beyond Panelists: John Riggins (Asia Pacific Head of Operations, BTC Media); Leland Lee, (VP, Galaxy Digital); Udi Wertheimer (Taproot Wizard #0001, Taproot Wizards) Moderated by Logan Jastremski, Co-Founder and Partner, Frictionless |
| 3:55pm | Build on top of Bitcoin Panelists: David Tse (Co-Founder, BabylonChain); Erin Redwing(COO, Ordinals protocol); Danny Yang(Founder & CEO, Metagood), Albert Liang (Founder, Bitcoin Startup Labs) Moderated by Tyler Evans (Co-Founder & CTO, Bitcoin Inc.） |
| Sunday, August 27th, 2023 | |
| 9:10am | Open questions in rollups Ben Livshits, VP of Research, zkSync |
| 9:40am | Cost of Intelligence: Reflections on ZKML Nick Cosby, VP of Engineering, Modulus Labs |
| 10:00am | L1 + L2 = L3 Uri Kolodny, Co-Founder & CEO, StarkWare |
| 10:30am | The next 10x in zero knowledge proofs comes from coordination John Guibas, Co-Founder, Succinct Labs |
| 10:50am | zkOps: The journey to mass adoption of zero knowledge systems Aaron Greenblatt, Founder & CEO, Ironmill |
| 11:10am | Supporting a modular smart contract account ecosystem Noam Hurwitz, Alchemy |
| 11:40am | Building hyperscale applications on Ethereum Sreeram Kannan, Founder & CEO, Eigenlayer |
| 12:10pm | AI & Crypto Panelists: Evan Miyazono (Head of Research, Protocol Labs); Guy Wuollet (Deal Partner, a16z Crypto) Moderated by Kun Peng, Founder, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator |
| 12:40pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:30pm | Programmable wallets Yingying Zheng, Circle Li Tao, Circle |
| 2:00pm | The future trends in crypto and the future of crypto VCs Panelists: Avichal Garg (Managing Partner, Electric Capital), Haseeb Qureshi (Managing Partner, Dragonfly), Paul Veradittakit (Managing Partner, Pantera) Moderated by Gil Rosen, Managing Partner, Blockchain Builders Fund |
| 2:45pm | Google Cloud: Blockchain Node Engine Ethan Wang, Google |
| 3:05pm | Scaling for real world adoption Marek Olszewski, Co-Founder, Celo & Celo Labs Xochitl Cazador, Ecosystem Growth, Celo Foundation & Founding Team, Celo Labs |
| 3:35pm | Real-Time Data Improvements in The Graph Sam Green, Co-Founder Semiotic Labs & Core Dev Team, The Graph |
| 4:05pm | Embedded privacy for on-chain trading - building optimal user experience for whales Georgi Koreli, CEO, Hinkal Protocol Dr. Nika Koreli, CTO, Hinkal Protocol |
| 4:25pm | Chainlink’s CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol) Lorenz Breidenbach, head of R&D, Chainlink Labs |
| 4:55pm | Building web3: lessons from building web2 products used by millions Nikil Viswanathan, Co-Founder & CEO, Alchemy Dan Boneh, Professor, Stanford University & Co-director, Stanford Center for Blockchain Research |
If you have any questions, please contact Kun Peng at kun@stanford.edu.
Planning Committee
Lead
Kun Peng, MS in Management Science & Engineering & Lead Instructor of CEE246A & Founder of Stanford Blockchain Accelerator & BASS
Core Team
Bridget Harris, BS in Economics, Chief Financial Officer at Stanford Blockchain Club
Gil Rosen, Stanford GSB MSx Sloan Fellow & MA in Public Policy & Instructor of CEE246A, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator President
Jay Yu, BS in Computer Science & BA in Philosophy, VP at Stanford Blockchain Club
Kydo, MS in Medicine & Instructor of CEE246A, Head of Research at Stanford Blockchain Club
Philipp Reineke, PhD in Management Science & Engineering & Instructor of CEE246A, Co-Chief Financial Officer at Stanford Blockchain Club
Ricky Wang, Stanford MBA, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator Outreach Director, CyberConnect BD Manager
Sophie Fujiwara, BS in Symbolic Systems MS in Computer Science, President at Stanford Blockchain Club
Trudy Liu, active member of Stanford Blockchain Club
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