Talks

Some of my talks throughtout the years, both academic and otherwise. Among these are some unrecorded, slides-only talks. More talks can be found in my CV and this YouTube playlist.

Aptos confidential assets
@X Live · Tuesday, Mar. 24th, 2026
Talk Slides

How I Learned to Stop Hashing and Love the Accumulator (from Roberto)
@RobertoFest · Friday, Oct. 24th, 2025
A celebration of Roberto Tamassia’s work on authenticated data structures over the last 40 years, at RobertoFest.
Slides

How Should a Blockchain Keep a Secret?
@Scholl Dagstuhl Seminar on Next-Generation Secure Distributed Computing · Thursday, Sept. 5th, 2024
Slides

Distributed Randomness from Weighted VRFs
@SBC’24 · Wednesday, Aug. 7th, 2024
Talk Slides

Aptos keyless accounts
@zkSummit11 · Thursday, Apr. 11th, 2024
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UTT: Sensibly-anonymous payments without zkSNARKs
@SBC’23 · Tuesday, Aug. 29th, 2023
Talk Slides

Fantastic trees and how to hash them
@Protocol Labs · Thursday, Mar. 24th, 2022
Talk Slides

Hyperproofs: Aggregating and Maintaining Proofs in Vector Commitments
@Axelar · Thursday, Apr. 8th, 2021
Talk Slides

Authenticated data structures for stateless validation and transparency Logs
@University College London · Monday, Nov. 2nd, 2020
Talk Slides

Authenticated Dictionaries with Cross-Incremental Proof (Dis)aggregation
@zkStudyClub’20 · Wednesday, Oct. 28th, 2020
Talk Slides

Aggregatable Subvector Commitments for Stateless Cryptocurrencies
@SCN’20 @zkStudyClub’20 · Monday, Sept. 14th, 2020
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Towards Scalable Threshold Cryptosystems
@IEEE S&P’20 @RWDC’21 · Saturday, May 2nd, 2020
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Catena: Efficient Non-equivocation via Bitcoin
@MIT @IEEE S&P’17 · Wednesday, Feb. 28th, 2018
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