PoS Blockchain protocols

Amsterdam , Netherlands

About PoS Blockchain protocols

In this talk, Dr. Bernardo David introduces Ouroboros, the first blockchain protocol based on Proof-of-Stake with rigorous security guarantees. Ouroboros is currently used by the Cardano project blockchain. 
Bernardo also walks us through the Ouroboros Praos protocol, which improves on the efficiency of Ouroboros and is scheduled to be deployed in the next versions of the Cardano project. He will highlight the main techniques developed in the process of designing these protocols, which find applications in the design and security analysis of other PoS protocols.
About the speaker
Dr. Bernardo David is an Assistant Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, working on cryptographic protocols for privacy preserving computation, cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Aarhus University obtained under the supervision of Ivan Damgård and Jesper Buus Nielsen. He has been a visiting researcher at NTT Corporation’s Secure Platform Laboratories in Japan and at the Cryptography Research Group of Bar Ilan University in Israel. He has previously worked in both the public and private sectors in Brazil as an IT consultant on network infrastructure and security.

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Start:
Jul 19, 2018, 6:00 PM , CET (UTC +1)
End:
Jul 19, 2018, 9:00 PM , CET (UTC +1)
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