NoConsensus.wtf 2025 @ SBC

​NoConsensus.wtf brings together researchers and engineers to discuss censorship-resistance, scalability, and anonymity in blockchain p2p layers. At this event we'll explore various Ethereum P2P bottlenecks, R&D in anonymous broadcast (e.g. ZipNet, ADC Net), and Information Flow Control for P2P Confidential Containers.

​No product or marketing pitches, presentations are meant to calibrate discussions. Expect to exchange research insights and get ready to whiteboard.

​🧩 SECTION 1 (17:30–18:15 PDT) — Scalability & the Networking Layer Bottleneck

• ​📊 Block Propagation Before and After PeerDAS - Mempirate

• ​📊 Real-World Bandwidth on Sei Infrastructure - Kartik

• ​📊 Real-World Bandwidth on World Infrastructure - Leyton Taylor

• ​🔬 PANDAS: Peer-to-peer, Adaptive Networking for Data Availability Sampling within Ethereum Consensus Timebounds – Michal (City, University of London)

• ​🔬 Deanonymizing Ethereum Validators on the P2P Network – Lioba Heimbach

• ​🔬 Scaling Distributed Protocols with TEEs - Quintus Kilbourn

• ​⚡️ VRFs and Timelock Encrypted Mempools - Patrick Ogrady

• ​📊 Production Distributed Block Building Measurements – dmarz

​🕳 SECTION 2 (18:30–20:30 PDT) — Uncensorable Information Flows in Distributed Block Building

• ​🔬 Are Existing Consensus Protocols Censorship Resistant, or Do We Need a New One? - Odysseas Sofikitis

• ​⚡️ RLNC for Censorship Resistance and Anonymization in P2P - Muriel Merdad

• ​⚡️ Motivating Unconditional Privacy and Anonymous Broadcast - Phil Daian

• ​⚡️ Latest Advances on Anonymous Broadcast - Aniket Kate

• ​🔬 ZipNet: Anonymous Broadcast from TEEs – Fan Zhang

• ​🔬 ADCNet: Threshold Cryptography-based Protocol for Anonymous Broadcast Communication with Auction-based Message Scheduling – Mark Simkin

• ​Break Out Sessions:

  • ​Application Latency and Privacy Requirement Profiles

  • ​Anonymous Broadcast for Distributed Block Building

  • ​VRFs and Timelock Encrypted Mempools

​🔐 SECTION 3 (20:30–21:00 PDT) — Trustless Peering, Object Capabilities & Composable Network Primitives

• ​Object Capability over P2P - Louis Thibault

• ​Securely Composing Software in the Order Flow Pipeline - Zaki Manian