

Whitepaper Reading at SBC 25
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 Assets12pm:
Muthu Venkitasubramaniam (CEO of Ligero Inc.)
Paper: Limits of time and memory efficient hash-based ZKSNARKs1pm: Lunch
1.30pm:
Prof Roger Wattenhofer (Head of Research at Anza, EthZurich)
Paper: Solana Alpenglow Consensus - Increased Bandwidth and Reduced Latency2.30pm:
Brian Seong (Senior DevRel Engineer at Polygon Labs) & Paul Gebheim (Product Architect at Sei Labs)
Paper: Chainless - A New Paradigm for Verifiable Apps3.30pm:
Conner Swann (Research Lead at Prooflab)
Paper: Unaligned Incentives - Pricing Attacks Against Blockchain Rollups4.30pm:
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.