Web3 Scholars Conference 2025 / Web3学者峰会2025
👉 活动概览/Overview
时间/Date：2025年4月8日/ April 8, 2025
地点/Venue：香港会议展览中心 5BCDE/5BCDE, HKCEC
主办/Host: DRK Lab, RCBT of PolyU
🔥 活动简介/Event Description
Web3学者峰会主要关注区块链生态系统内的技术和组织形态创新，包括但不限于安全性、密码学、加密经济学、分布式AI、应用、DAO与组织形态研究等。旨在促进Web3行业发展创新，增加行业学者、研究者和从业者之间的合作交流。
更多信息：https://www.web3scholar.org/
The Web3 Scholars Conference primarily focuses on technical and organizational innovations within the blockchain ecosystem, including but not limited to security, MEV, cryptography, tokenomics, decentralized AI, dApps, DAOs, and organizational studies.
We aim to drive innovation within the Web3 community and enhance collaboration among scholars, researchers, and practitioners.
More information: https://www.web3scholar.org/
请注意：本次会议以英文为主，同时提供中英文字幕。
Kindly note: This conference will primarily be conducted in English, with simultaneous subtitles available in both Chinese and English.
Agenda 议程：
Check-in
9:30am - 10:00am
Welcome to WSC 2025
10:00am - 10:05am
Audrey Tang, Founder of DRK Lab
Daniel Luo, Professor of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Opening Remarks
10:05am - 10:10am
Duncan Chiu, Legislative Council Member (Technology & Innovation Constituency), Hong Kong
Keynote
10:10am - 10:45am
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum
Session 1: Security
10:45am - 11:05am
Refinement-based Safety and Liveness Proofs for Consensus Protocols: LiDO and Beyond
Zhong Shao, Thomas L. Kempner Professor of Computer Science, Yale University; President, CertiK
11:05am - 11:25am
Unmasking Hidden Threats: Strengthening Blockchain Security
Daniel Luo, Professor of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
11:25am - 11:45am
System Research for Blockchain: From Storage Optimization to Parallel Execution
Yajin Zhou, Professor of Zhejiang University; CEO of BlockSec
11:45am - 12:05pm
Towards Deployable Large Scale Distributed Key Generation and All-hands Checkpointing
Qiang Tang, Associate Professor, University of Sydney
12:05pm - 12:20pm
Exploring Onchain Data Analytics
Feida Zhu, Aptos Move Chair Professor & Associate Dean, School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University
12:20pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
Session 2
2:00pm - 2:20pm
Next-generation Proving for L2s
Ed Felten, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs
2:20pm - 2:40pm
AUTONOME: Backbone of a Verifiable and Interoperable Agentic Web
YQ, Founder of AltLayer
2:40pm - 2:55pm
Keynote
Yonatan Sompolinsky, Kaspa Originator, Research Affiliate at Harvard University
2:55pm - 3:10pm
ChaosChain: How AI Agents Are Redefining Consensus and Governance
Sumeet Chougule, Team Lead, ChaosChain, Nethermind
Session 3: Cryptography
3:10pm - 3:30pm
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Central Bank Digital Currency: A Technical Perspective
Man Ho Allen Au, Professor of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
3:30pm - 3:50pm
Post-Quantum Blockchains and zkTLS as Enablers of Authentic Data Portability
Yu Yu, Professor of Computer Science Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Session 4: ZK
3:50pm - 4:10pm
Keynote
Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-Founder & CEO of StarkWare
4:10pm - 4:25pm
Horizontal scaling via fast cross chain interoperability
Anurag Arjun, Co-Founder of Avail Project
4:25pm - 4:40pm
Building Verifiable Applications with SP1
Uma Roy, Co-Founder & CEO of Succinct
4:40pm - 4:55pm
Pico: A Modular, Performant zkVM
Michael, Co-Founder of Brevis
4:55pm - 5:10pm
Keynote
Jacob Everly, Boundless Product Lead, RISC Zero
Host:
DRK Lab
DRK Lab is a boutique studio-like lab founded by Blockchain professionals that devoted in helping talented projects/teams, contributing as active builder to develop an organic Web3 world with long-termist.
The Research Centre for Blockchain Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is a leading hub advancing next-generation blockchain and Web3 technologies, driving real-world innovation, strategic industry applications, and global talent development.