Prof. Ittay Eyal, Deepak Maram, and Mahimna Kelkar also evaluate other authentication mechanisms and propose solutions to enhance security, including for India’s largest bank. initc3org.medium.com/improving-digi…

NEW: IC3 researchers present Liquefaction — a wallet platform that redefines private key control in crypto. Liquefaction allows private key access to be shared, rented, or pooled, supporting multi-user policies around crypto assets without direct on-chain traces. Trusted

Take My Ape is out! Try it at takemyape.com. Own a Bored Ape for 15 minutes with one Ethereum transaction. Ownership ≠ rental. It means copyright license, access to BAYC spaces, and your address on chain as owner. TMA's goal? To demo the power of Liquefaction.

"Defunding NSF means defunding scientists in the U.S. - including those leading crypto innovation." In a new CoinDesk op-ed, leading American researchers Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Giulia Fanti, Ben Fisch ☕️, Ari Juels, Andrew Miller, Farinaz Koushanfar, David Tse, ciamac moallemi, and

Join us for the Lagrange Science Fair this Thursday, July 31st in anticipation of SBC 2025 (Science of Blockchain Conference)! Hear from top researchers from Yale University, Stanford University, Cornell University, UC Berkeley, and Penn on new innovations in blockchain & AI: lu.ma/wpoxatcc

The Agenda for MEV-SBC'25 is live! 📍Aug 7 @ Berkeley This annual workshop highlights MEV research and talks to illuminate a new round of problems for the community to explore in cryptography, mechanism design, data, consensus, incentives, and their intersections

On August 13, IC3 and the Columbia Ethereum Research Center will co-host the Ethereum Research Funding Forum - a day focused on research priorities in Ethereum.

New research center focused on blockchain infrastructure Columbia Engineering ! Made possible by Ethereum Foundation. Super-excited about this, more to come!

Highly recommended! Direct quote from my thesis: "Discussions during my stay at a16z crypto were a significant inspiration for the research vision in this dissertation."

Should short conference papers be for: (A) Standalone short but useful results (B) Preliminary results in a larger work Is it a hot take to say they should be (A) and that we should have non-archival workshops for (B)?

Join us for a talk by Mahimna Kelkar (postdoc at Columbia University, incoming prof at Purdue Computer Science, research scientist at @OffchainLabs)! 🪧Title: Breaking Omertà: On Threshold Cryptography, Smart Collusion, and Whistleblowing 📅When: 11am ET, Oct 24 📷Livestream: sites.google.com/view/yacl/semi…