SIB24: Scalability and Interoperability of Blockchains Austrian National Bank (OeNB) Vienna, Austria, September 26, 2024 |
| Conference website | https://aftsib.com/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sib24 |
| Abstract registration deadline | July 10, 2024 |
| Submission deadline | July 10, 2024 |
SIB is a workshop on the scalability and interoperability of blockchains.
SIB aims to unite theoretical and practical approaches to the scalability and interoperability of blockchains, bringing together researchers and practitioners from the fields of security, cryptography, distributed systems, economics, and policy-making.
Scalability pertains to effectively maintaining a blockchain’s throughput and latency as the network grows. Interoperability expresses the composition of multiple blockchains to build protocols with richer functionality on top.
The goal of SIB is to discuss state-of-the-art scalability and interoperability solutions, the advantages of each, and their respective converses.
Call for papers: submission deadline 10th of July.
Conference Date: 26 September 2024.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit a detailed technical paper that describes a novel contribution to the theory or practice of blockchain interoperability and scalability science and engineering.
- Please use Portable Document Format (.pdf).
- We suggest the LIPIcs format (see https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publishing/series/details/LIPIcs)
- Submissions are unlimited, but the reviewers are mandated to read only the first 12 pages.
- Papers must be anonymized by omitting the author names in the pdf. Author names will be recorded in easychair but not displayed to the reviewers.
- If you have any conflict of interest with a member of the program committee, please note it in the designated section of the easychair submission form.
- Appendices will be read at the reviewers’ discretion.
List of Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Scalability
- Rollups in the optimistic, ZK, and hybrid settings
- Any other scaling solution such as sidechains, payment/state channel networks (lightning etc.), sharding
- Modeling/proofs of security and/or attacks against existing scaling solutions
- Engineering considerations for the scaling of popular blockchains e.g., Bitcoin and Ethereum
- Incentives of scaling, use of algorithmic game theory, and classical game theory techniques to prove security in rational/cryptographic models
- Blob / danksharding and other on-chain data storage techniques
- Off-chain data availability for scaling applications (e.g., EigenDA)
- Light clients
- Advances in consensus protocols that improve transaction latency and throughput
- All techniques to improve computation, communication, and storage complexity of validators and clients
- Scalability improvements in data structures such as execution-layer commitment data structures (Merkle trees, vector commitments, etc.)
- Programming language and compiler innovations (e.g. JIT) allowing for practical improvements in the execution of EVM, CosmWasm, and other popular platforms
- Applications of re-staking to scalability
Interoperability
- Connecting existing blockchains
- Authentication of messages between different blockchains
- Trustless blockchain communication
- Purpose-tailored interoperability constructions such as HTLCs, atomic swaps, etc.
- Generic message passing
- Hub-and-spoke architectures for interoperability
- Performance considerations of interoperability
- Practical engineering challenges in interoperability
- Empirical measurements for the performance and security of interoperable protocols
- Incentives, rationality and economic security of protocol for interoperability
- Use of optimistic and zero-knowledge techniques enhancing interoperability protocols
- Attacks on existing research and threat modeling of deployed protocols
- On-chain light clients / bridging
Do Not Submit
The conference is generally not intended for price analysis of cryptocurrency markets or other investor related topics. Nor is it a venue for legal considerations of owning or using cryptocurrency. We request proposals that are engineering or scientific in nature only.
Committees
Program Chairs
- Zeta Avarikioti, TU Vienna & Common Prefix
- Dionysis Zindros, Common Prefix
Program Committee
- Lukas Aumayr, TU Wien
- Lioba Heimbach, ETH Zurich
- Dimitris Karakostas, University of Edinburgh
- Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh & IOG
- Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Mysten Labs
- Georgios Konstantopoulos, Paradigm
- Gregory Neven, Chainlink
- Matteo Maffei, TU Wien
- Jason Milionis, Columbia University
- Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, DFINITY Foundation
- Stefanie Roos, TU Delft
- Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University & a16z crypto
- Giulia Scaffino, TU Wien & Common Prefix
- Srivatsan Sridhar, Stanford University
- Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Chainlink
- Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos, Imperial College London
- Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich
- Michelle Yeo, National University of Singapore
Publication
SIB is not archival and does not have proceedings. It is allowed to submit work which has been published at or submitted to another conference or a journal.
Venue
The conference is co-organized with AFT 2024.
Venue: Austrian National Bank (OeNB), Vienna, Austria.
Registration: €100 for workshop only. €50 extra if you are already attending AFT. Plus €50 for late registration. Please visit the AFT website to register.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to aftsib24@gmail.com