Greetings! Welcome to the IC3 Newsletter.
This is an outreach to keep the blockchain community aware of IC3 innovations, events, news, publications, and other service to the community by IC3 faculty, students, and partners.
Don't miss our next event -
Register now
for the
IC3 Winter Retreat
on February 14-15 in Interlaken, Switzerland. IC3 faculty, students, sponsors and guests gather at IC3 Retreats to discuss the major technical challenges, issues and innovative solutions to widespread blockchain adoption.
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Join us in Switzerland at the Congress Centre Interlaken (photo above) with our IC3 colleagues from ETH Zurich and EPFL, and all of the other IC3 campuses (Cornell, Cornell Tech, UC Berkeley, UCL, UIUC, and the Technion).
For registration, information and the agenda, please see
IC3 Winter Retreat
. (See a
photo and link to a summary of our most recent
Retreat
below
).
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The
IC3 2018 Spring Retreat
was
on May 10
at Cornell Tech in NYC. After the event, many faced the late afternoon sun for a photo. Pictured from the lower right clockwise are IC3 professors and session chairs, Prof. Sarah Meiklejohn, University College London (UCL) and Prof. Dawn Song, UC Berkeley, with PhD student Sarah Azouvi, UCL, Libby Kent, JP Morgan, Chris Ramming, VMware, Virgil Griffith, Ethereum, Patrick McCorry, Kings College London, and Mike
DiPetrillo, VMware.
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2018 Boot Camp Summary and Videos
The
IC3-Ethereum Crypto Boot Camp
was conducted
on
July 12-18, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. This is an immersive weeklong coding and learning experience in Blockchains and Smart Contracts with professors and students, along with leading architects, developers and engineers from industry and the open source community. Participating companies included Celer Networks, Chainlink, Cisco, Columbus Capital, Fidelity, IBM, JP Morgan, Metastable, Microsoft, Nervos, Oracle and Siemens. Some of the participants gathered for a group photo (below) on the first day.
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The project teams took occasional breaks from the hacking to attend talks by well-known experts in the community. Videos of the talks and some of the project team presentations are
here
. (Note that some talks are pre-publication oriented and may not be posted).
Watch for announcements of our next Boot Camp planned for June 2019.
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Recent IC3 Blog Posts
IC3 in the Press
(37 items since December - please see
Press
for prior mentions of IC3)
Recent Preprints and Papers
Giulia Fanti, Surya Bakshi, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Andrew Miller, Bradley Denby, Shruti Bhargava, Pramod Viswanath,
Dandelion++: Lightweight Cryptocurrency Networking with Formal Anonymity Guarantees
,
ACM SIGMETRICS 2018
(to appear).
Kevin Lee and Andrew Miller,
Authenticated Data Structures for Privacy-Preserving Monero Light Clients
,
IEEE Security & Privacy on the Blockchain, IEEE S&B 2018
(to appear).
Malte Möser, Kyle Soska, Ethan Heilman, Kevin Lee, Henry Heffan, Shashvat Srivastava, Kyle Hogan, Jason Hennessey, Andrew Miller, Arvind Narayanan, and Nicolas Christin,
An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain
,
PETS 2018.
Recent News Items from IC3 Sponsors
Please feel free to contact us for more info on these items.
Best,
Jim Ballingall
Executive Director
The Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3)
Copyright © 2017-2019 The Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3)
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The
IC3 2018 Spring Retreat
attendees gathered for a group photo at the end of the day in the lobby of the Tata Innovation Center,
on May 10 at Cornell Tech in NYC.
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