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Hosted by Baeksu (Jeongho), B-Harvest & Arun Chaudhuri
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New York, New York
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β€‹πŸ™οΈ Welcome to The Boiler Room in NYC, hosted by B-Harvest and Manifold!

​A high-signal gathering for blockchain researchers, engineers, and protocol builders.

​No shilling. Just real talks on consensus, execution, and networking infra.

​Come by for some expert talks, panel discussions, and networking hosted by B-Harvest and Manifold!


β€‹πŸ—“ Date: June 27th, 2025
πŸ“ Location: Private venue in NYC (open once approved)
πŸ•š Time: 11AM – 3PM

  • ​11am – 12pm: Registration & Welcome Networking

  • ​12pm – 2pm: Technical Talks & Panel Discussions

  • ​2pm – 3pm: Networking & Open Discussions


β€‹πŸ”§ What to Expect

  • ​Talks from top minds in consensus, networking, and execution

  • ​Panel discussions on building performant blockchain

  • ​Food, drinks, and meaningful peer-to-peer convo

β€‹πŸŽ™ Featured Speakers and Topics

  • ​Florian Suri-Payer (Cornell University) – Autobahn: Seamless high speed BFT

    • ​This talk introduces Autobahn, a novel BFT consensus protocol designed to offer low latency, high throughput, and seamless recovery from intermittent network failures. The Autobahn architecture allows every replica to act as a proposer, and implements a modular interface that allows for plug and play "motorization" of existing consensus protocol. Today, Autobahn is adopted in real-world deployments, e.g., by Somnia and Sei.

  • ​Patrick O’Grady (Founder, Commonware) – Reducing Block Time with Buffered Signatures

    • ​Patrick introduces a strategy for deferring verification during consensus message processing that both reduces CPU usage and block finalization latency.

    • ​Commonware’s (open source) research focuses on foundational improvements to blockchain architecture, and this talk gives a peek into their low-level engineering approach to building faster chains.

  • ​Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye (Senior Cryptographer at Category Labs) – RaptorCast: Messaging for Decentralized Systems

    • ​Babak presents RaptorCast, a novel messaging protocol that leverages UDP and erasure coding instead of traditional TCP to ensure faster, fault-tolerant communication in peer-to-peer systems. This talk will dig into the bandwidth efficiency and implications for decentralized messaging layers.


β€‹πŸ€ Cohost

​B-Harvest (@b__harvest) is a blockchain R&D and infrastructure company specializing in high-performance blockchain systems. From P2P networking, mempool design, and consensus algorithms to execution engines, databases, and RPC infrastructure, B-Harvest provides comprehensive end-to-end services to help partners design, build, and operate scalable and reliable blockchain networks.

​Manifold (@ManifoldTrading) is a quantitative investment and venture capital firm, combining systematic trading with strategic early-stage investments.

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