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Chainless https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GB78RqqKn5-iaBRWBrGaKn8Rf5m7UBrExRS3fYvz3QY/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t-_HIkwEbRszUVLT5zsgmKNWxJYE5_t9Wfgi1E6-77U/edit?usp=drivesdk

Event Agenda:

  • 11am:
    James Austgen (Cornell Tech PhD)
    Paper: Liquefaction - Privately Liquefying Blockchain Assets

  • 12pm:
    Muthu Venkitasubramaniam (CEO of Ligero Inc.)
    Paper: Limits of time and memory efficient hash-based ZKSNARKs

  • 1pm: Lunch

  • ​1.30pm:
    Prof Roger Wattenhofer (Head of Research at Anza, EthZurich)
    Paper: Solana Alpenglow Consensus - Increased Bandwidth and Reduced Latency

  • 2.30pm:
    Brian Seong (Senior DevRel Engineer at Polygon Labs) & Paul Gebheim (Product Architect at Sei Labs)
    Paper: Chainless - A New Paradigm for Verifiable Apps

  • 3.30pm:
    Conner Swann (Research Lead at Prooflab)
    Paper: Unaligned Incentives - Pricing Attacks Against Blockchain Rollups

  • 4.30pm:
    Rami Khalil (Senior Engineer at RISC Zero and Boundless)
    Paper: The Boundless Protocol

Format

  • ​​​​​Round table discussions with the Authors (No Panels)

  • ​​​​​Summaries: We create summaries to help everyone understand.

  • LightFood + Drinks

Room:

Location

​​​​​​About Whitepaper Reading Club

​​​​​The Whitepaper Reading Club is a community of 500 passionate engineers, founders, core-devs, students, researchers, across Singapore, Malaysia and Bangkok who come together every month to read and discuss blockchain papers (website).

Bittensor (Jul 2025)

​​MakerDAO + Ethena (Sep 2024)

Eliza AI (Jan 2025)

​We create detailed and easy to understand summaries for each paper (summaries) and have held 30+ sessions since June 2023, covering topics from Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, Bitcoin Ecosystem to AIXCrypto. We are ecosystem-agnostic, not for profit and with a strong focus on projects with technical, product or social innovations.

Location
UC Berkeley Student Union
2495 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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