From Monday August 5 to Wednesday August 8, 2019, the Concordium Blockchain Research Center Aarhus (COBRA) hosted the COBRA Summer Congress 2019 where some 30 researchers came together to discuss blockchain related topics such as sharding, semi-sync blockchain, streaming, anonymous seeding, committee election for PoC, committee elction für die Ewigkeit, Verified ECC, Oak/Acorn/Coq integration and konsensus test suit.
Monday August 5
Time: 9:00 - 16:00 / Venue: Lille Aud, INCUBA Building / Topic: Science Talks
Title/Topic | Speaker(s) | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
Welcoming remarks | Jesper Buus Nielsen | ~ 5min | |
A semi-synchronous blockchain and streaming | Jesper Buus Nielsen | ~ 20 min | |
A semi-synchronous finality layer | Daniel Tschudi | ~ 20 min | |
The Concordium ID layer, an overview | Ivan Damgård (tbc) | ~ 15 min | |
Better SNARKS for BCs | Chaya Ganesh | ~ 20 min | |
Concordium Transfer Layer (secret amounts) | Chaya Ganesh | ~ 10 min | |
Anonymous Seeding, State-of-the-art | Claudio Orlandi | ~ 20 min | |
Formally-Proving BCs secure | Søren Eller Thomsen | ~ 15 min | |
State separating proofs | Sabine Oechsner | ~ 25 min | |
Formal verification of Oak/Acorn smart contracts | Danil Annenkov | ~ 25 min | |
Current Thoughts on Sharding | Bernardo David | ~ 20 min | |
Randomness Generation on Blockchains: Past, Present and Future | Bernardo David | ~ 20 min | |
Privacy Preserving Smart Contracts | Bernardo David Carsten Baum | ~ 20 min | |
Implementing a blockchain with dynamic parameters and finalization | Simon | ~ 15 min | |
Proof of Location | Daniel Tschudi | ~ 1 min | |
Proof of Burn | Daniel Tschudi | ~ 10 min | |
P2P Network for PoS BC | Christian Matt | ~ 10 min | |
| Generalizing ABBA | Emil / Matias | ~ 15 min | |
| Implementing a PoS BC with Smart Contracts | Adam / Thomas | ~ 15 min | |
| Nikolaj / Morten / Christian | ~ 15 min |
Tuesday August 6
Time: 9:00 - 16:00 / Venue: Lille Aud, INCUBA Building / Topic: Tech Talks
| Time | Speaker(s) | Title/Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:57 | Mateusz Tilewski | State of the Union, speak about current project progress in general. State of the company, short-term plans, personnel updates, projects, short review of the roadmap, changes in projects. |
| 9.57-10.00 | Prize Ceremony! >> Employee of the month < | |
| 10.00-10.30 | (IJ) | POC4 Overview - High-level overview of features in POC4, issues that have haunted us, things we know are missing still missing at current point. |
| 10.30-10.45 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10.45-11.25 | Thomas Dinsdale-Young | State of: Consensus Implementation etc. |
| Ales Bizjak | State of : Scheduler + Acorn [not enough news since last time] | |
| 11.25-12.00 : | (FH) | State of:Oak compiler |
| 12.00-13.00 : | Lunch break | |
| 13.00-13.30 : | Bassel Mannaa and Ales Bizjak | State of: Identity Layer |
| 14.00-14.30 : | (MR) | State of: Wallet-app/ID-app |
| 14.30-15.00 : | (MKJ) | Our Testnet: Deployment/tests |
| 15.20 | ||
| 15.30-16.00 : | (MT) | Beta planning -How beta will be done, audience, preparation, ceremonies. |
| 16.00-16.30 : | Jesper Buus Nielsen | Science Summary |
16.30-17.00 : | BS | Science Summary |
| 17:00-19:30 | BREAK | |
| 19:30 | Eating together at Food Club, Klostertorv 8, Aarhus C (200m from our hotel) |
Wednesday August 7
Time: 9:00 - 17:00 / Venue: Lille Aud, INCUBA Building / Topic: Tech Workshops
| Time | Speaker(s) | Title/Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:30 | [IJ+AB+LJ+TY] | : Global state | serialization | catchup |
| 10.30-10.45 : | Coffee break | |
| 10.45-12.00 : | OAK vs Acorn | standard-library, end-user issues/ideas | |
| 12.00-13.00 : | Lunch | |
| 13.00-14.00 : | Thoughts about IDE / Oak/Acorn development process Walkthrough of current thinking re IDE + discussion / ideas | |
| 14.00-15.00 : | BETA discussion Gathering input from Team on Beta, loose discussions. | |
| 15.20-15.35 : | Coffee break | |
| 15.35-17.00 : | Group discussion | QA | wrap-up General discussion on state of development, team issues, org issues, planning next events |
Thursday August 8
Time: 9:00 - 17:00 / Venue: Lille Aud, INCUBA Building / Topic: Tech-Science Workshops
| Time | Speaker(s) | Title/Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:25 | Thomas Dinsdale-Young, [TDY+CM+DT] | Consensus |
| 10.25-10.35 : | Coffee break | |
| 10.35-12.00 | [IJ+CM+DT] | P2P Incentivisation / issues / assumptions |
| 12.00-12.50 : | Lunch break | |
| 12.50-14.20 : | Execution model / Resource Tracking / general Acorn/Scheduler speak | |
| 12.50-14.20 : | Election of committees for BETA (finalization+bakers) | |
| 14.20-14.30 : | Coffee break | |
| 14.30-15.00 : | Bernardo | MPC project |
| 15.00-16.00 : | Bas Spitters | Formal Verification - Testing haskell and Coq implementation of Konsensus |
| 16.00-16.10 : | Coffee break |
