Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS) at SBC 2024
BASS (Blockchain Application Stanford Summit) is the in-person focal point of Stanford’s Blockchain entrepreneurial ecosystem; gathering our global community of researchers, engineers, and thought leaders to connect and explore blockchain's latest topics in depth.
Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/LFCS5m4x6EA
BASS is brought to you by the Stanford Blockchain Club, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Crypto & Blockchain Alumni of Stanford, with special thanks to Stanford's Center for Blockchain Research and Professor Dan Boneh for their support.
We’re grateful for sponsorship from QeD Protocol (qedprotocol.com), Story Protocol (storyprotocol.xyz), Polygon (polygon.technology), Starkware (starkware.co), Near (near.org), Blockchain Builders Fund, Cooley (cooley.com), Nesa (nesa.ai), Nexus Labs (nexus.xyz), Mach (mach.exchange), Hinkal (hinkal.pro), PIN AI (pinai.io), Metalayer (x.com/metalayerlabs), Turbo Protocol (turboprotocol.xyz).
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Please find the agenda below:
9:00 AM Check-in
9:30 AM Welcome Remarks
Kun Peng, Founder at Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA) & Founder at Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS)
Dan Boneh, Professor of Applied Cryptography at Stanford University, Co-Director at Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, Senior Research Advisor at a16z
9:40 AM Avalanche: a network of networks | John Wu, President at Ava Labs & Stephen Buttolph, Chief Protocol Architect at Ava Labs
10:00 AM Optimistic + ZK > ZK | Ed Felten, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Arbitrum
10:20 AM Plonky3: Past, Present, Future | Daniel Lubarov, Co-Founder at Polygon Zero & Inventor of Plonky2 and Plonky3
10:40 AM Multi User Cryptography | Dan Boneh, Professor of Applied Cryptography at Stanford University, Co-Director at Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, Senior Research Advisor at a16z
11:00 AM Multi-settlement L2 for Unifying Heterogeneous Ecosystems | Rachin Kalakheti, Founder and CEO at Metalayer (SBA Startup)
11:10 AM The Nexus zkVM: Democratizing Ethereum’s Execution Layer | Daniel Marin, CEO & Founder at Nexus & Don Beaver, VP of Cryptography at Nexus & ex-Chief Cryptographer at Jump Crypto (SBA Startup)
11:30 AM Break
11:40 AM Present and Future of Rollup Interoperability | Ben Fisch, CS Professor at Yale University & Co-Founder and CEO at Espresso Systems
12:00 PM Shared Privacy: Scaling Privacy via Anonymity Staking and Mirrored Shielded Pools | Georgi Koreli, Co-Founder & CEO at Hinkal; Nika Koreli, Co-Founder & CTO at Hinkal (SBA Startup)
12:10 PM PROF: Upending the MEV Game with Protected Order Flow | Ari Juels, CS Professor at Cornell Tech, Co-Director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), Chief Scientist at Chainlink
12:30 PM Trust, Treachery, and TEEs | Sam Trautwein, Founder and CEO at Mach Exchange (SBA Startup)
12:40 PM Lunch Break
1:30 PM Crypto & AI Panel | Himanshu Tyagi, Co-Founder at Sentient; Yue Zhao, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Nesa; Jasper Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO at Hyperbolic; Naveen Durvasula, Founding Member and Researcher at Ritual; Moderator: Gil Rosen, Managing Partner at Blockchain Builders Fund
2:00 PM PIN AI, Open platform for Personal AI | Bill Sun, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at PIN AI (SBA Startup)
2:10 PM Nightshade 2.0: Stateless Validation and Solving Scalability | Bowen Wang, Head of Protocol at NEAR
2:30 PM The Reth SDK: Tools for Building High Performance Nodes | Georgios Konstantopoulos, CTO and General Partner at Paradigm
2:50 PM Do we need consensus? | Shresth Agrawal, Co-Founder at CEO at POD (SBA Startup)
3:05 PM Bottlenecks in Ethereum and How to Solve Them | Keone Hon, Co-Founder and CEO at Monad
3:25 PM Parallelized Execution on Geth: Building the Base Layer of On-chain Compute | Aaron Greenblatt, Founder and CEO at Turbo Protocol (SBA Startup)
3:35 PM Break
3:45 PM Come Build on Starknet: From Stake to Stwo, and Bitcoin Too | Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-Founder and CEO at Starkware
4:05 PM CityRollup: a trustless rollup for Dogecoin and UTXO based blockchains | Carter Feldman, Co-Founder and CEO at QeD Protocol
4:15 PM Building an Open, Interoperable Bitcoin Layer 2 | Elizabeth Stark, Founder and CEO at Lightning Labs
4:35 PM Break
4:45 PM Enabling liquidity for LSTs and RWAs | Gordon Liao, Chief Economist at Circle
5:05 PM Chopping Blocks BASS Edition | Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly; Tarun Chitra, Founder and CEO at Gauntlet; Robert Leshner, CEO at SuperState and ex-CEO and Founder at Compound; Avichal Garg, Managing Partner at Electric Capital
5:35 PM Onchain Assets Panel | Nathan Allman, Founder & CEO at Ondo Finance; Robert Leshner - CEO at SuperState and ex-CEO and Founder at Compound; Moderator: Xochitl Cazador, Chief Ecosystem Growth Officer at Celo
6:05 PM Closing Remarks
A huge thank you to the BASS Organizing Team:
Kun Peng - Founder of BASS & Stanford Blockchain Accelerator
Gil Rosen - President of Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Managing Partner Blockchain Builders Fund
Jay Yu - President of Stanford Blockchain Club, Stanford 2025
Kevin Xu - Stanford GSB 2025
Kole Lee - Stanford 2026
Steven Willinger - Co-lead Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, General Partner at Blockchain Builders Fund
Xochitl Cazador - Head of Ecosystem & Growth, Celo