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Previous Speakers
Mitchell Amador, CEO of Immunefi
Kurt Barry, Smart Contract Specialist, Spearbit & Fixed Point Solutions
Emiliano Bonassi, Co-Founder of DeFi Italy
Anton Permenev, Founding Partner at ChainSecurity
Tarun Chitra, CEO and Co-Founder of Gauntlet
Nurit Dor, VP Product at Certora
Jared Flatow, VP of Engineering at Compound Labs
Emilio Frangella, Head of Smart Contracts at AAVE BGD
Mudit Gupta, Chief Security Officer at Polygon
Hugh Karp, Founder of Nexus Mutual
Sam S, Research Partner at Paradigm and White-Hat Hacker
Gonçalo Sa, Co-Founder and Security Researcher ConsenSys Diligence
Mehdi Zerouali, Co-Founder and Director of Sigma Prime
Christopher Whinfrey, Co-Founder at Hop
Ryan Zarick, Co-Founder and CTO of LayerZero
Nicolás Venturo, Head of Smart Contracts at Balancer Labs
Richard Chen, General Partner at 1confirmation
Jonathan Alexander, CTO of Openzeppelin
Michael George, Director of Product at Certora
Joran Honig, Security Researcher & Product Lead at ConsenSys Diligence
storm0x, Contributor in Security and Core Development, Yearn Finance
Everett Hildenbrandt, CTO of Runtime Verification
Kostas Ferles, Principal Scientist at Veridise
Layne Haber, Research Lead, Connext
Nick Selby, VP, Software Assurance Practice, Trail of Bits
Filipe Casal, Cryptography Analyst at Trail of Bits
Neville Grech, Security Engineer and Founder of Dedaub
Mark Toda, Protocol Engineer, Uniswap Labs
Denys Ivanov, Hacken COO
David Tarditi, VP of Engineering at CertiK
Yoav Weiss, Security Fellow at the Ethereum Foundation
Jan Gorzny, Head of L2 Scaling, Quantstamp
Curtis Spencer, Electric Capital
Schedule
08:30am-09:00am John & Mooly – Opening [PDF] [VIDEO]
Session 1:
DeFi Protocols, Moderator: Zaki Manian, Co-Founder of Iqlusion
09:01am-09:20am Kurt Barry, Smart Contract Specialist, MakerDAO – MakerDAO Smart Contract Safety – When Billions are at Stake [PDF] [VIDEO]
09:21am-09:40am Jared Flatow, VP of Engineering at Compound Labs – Secure by Design [PDF] [VIDEO]
09:41am-10:00am Emilio Frangella, Head of Smart Contracts at AAVE BGD – The Butterfly effect: Small mistakes, massive consequences – and how to avoid them [PDF] [VIDEO]
10:01am-10:20am Mark Toda, Protocol Engineer, Uniswap Labs – TWAP Oracles After the Merge [PDF] [VIDEO]
10:21am-10:35pm Kurt Barry, Jared Flatow, Emilio Frangella, Mark Toda – Discussion [VIDEO]
10:36am-10:50am Coffee Break
Session 2:
DeFi Protocols 2, Moderator: Emilio Frangella, Head of Smart Contracts at AAVE BGD
10:50am-11:10am Nicolás Venturo, Head of Smart Contracts at Balancer Labs – Towards Verifiably Secure Governance [PDF] [VIDEO]
11:10am-11:30am Yuchen Lin, Lead Security Engineer, TrustToken – Searching Outside the Streetlight [PDF] [VIDEO]
11:31am-11:50am storm0x, Contributor in Security and Core Development, Yearn – Risk Management Approach to Security [PDF] [VIDEO]
11:50am-12:05pm Yuchen Lin, storm0x, Nicolás Venturo – Discussion [VIDEO]
12:06pm-1:05pm Lunch
Session 3:
Auditors Part 1, Moderator: Kurt Barry, Smart Contract Specialist, MakerDAO
1:05pm-1:25pm Neville Grech, Security Engineer and Founder, Dedaub – Billion Dollar Bugs [PDF] [VIDEO]
1:26pm-1:45pm Jan Gorzny, Head of L2 Scaling at Quantstamp – Not Quite Water Under the Bridge: Review of Cross-Chain Bridge Hacks [PDF] [VIDEO]
1:46pm-2:05pm Gonçalo Sa, Co-Founder and Security Researcher, ConsenSys Diligence – Clear as Mud – How Compilers Look Like VMs [PDF] [VIDEO]
2:06pm-2:25pm Anton Permenev, Founding Partner at ChainSecurity – Alpha for Auditors: The Vulnerabilities of Tomorrow [PDF] [VIDEO]
2:26pm-2:45pm Coffee Break
Session 4:
Auditors Part 2 and discussion, Moderator: Mudit Gupta, Chief Security Officer at Polygon
2:46pm-3:05pm Filipe Casal, Cryptography Analyst, Trail of Bits – Static Analysis for Zero-Knowledge Programming Languages [PDF] [VIDEO]
3:06pm-3:25pm Michael Lewellen, Head of Solutions Architecture, OpenZeppelin – Securely Scaling Decentralized Governance [PDF] [VIDEO]
3:26pm-3:45pm Mehdi Zerouali, Co-Founder and Director of Sigma Prime – Favorite DeFi Vulnerabilities [PDF] [VIDEO]
3:46pm-4:45pm Nick Selby, Michael Lewellen, Mehdi Zerouali, Jan Gorzny, Gonçalo Sa, Anton Permenev, Neville Grech – Auditing Panel [VIDEO]
4:46pm-5:05pm Coffee Break
Session 5:
Tools and Live Demos, Moderator: Kostas Ferles, Principal Scientist, Veridise
Food and drinks being served
5:06-5:10 Jonathan Alexander, CTO of Openzeppelin – Runtime Threat Detection and Automated Response [PDF] [VIDEO]
5:11pm-5:15pm Michael George, Director of Product at Certora – Formal Verification with the Certora Prover [PDF] [VIDEO]
5:16pm-5:20pm Natalie Chin, Security Engineer, Trail of Bits – Building secure contracts: How to fuzz like a pro [PDF] [VIDEO]
5:21pm-5:25pm Joran Honig, Security Researcher & Product Lead, ConsenSys Diligence – Scribble in a Nutshell [PDF] [VIDEO]
5:26pm-5:30pm Everett Hildenbrandt, CTO of Runtime Verification – Formal Verification of Foundry Tests [PDF] [VIDEO]
Session 6:
5:31pm-7:30pm Tool workshops Forta, Certora, ConsenSys, Runtime Verification, Foundry, Echidna, Slither, Manticore
Session 7:
White Hat Hacking, Moderator: Curtis Spencer, Electric Capital
09:00am-09:20am Emiliano Bonassi, DeFi Italy – The Big Red Button: How to Plan and Design for Security Events [PDF] [VIDEO]
09:21am-09:40am Mitchell Amador, CEO of Immunefi – Security Incentives: From Six Figures to Billions in DeFi Bug Bounties [PDF] [VIDEO]
09:41am-10:00am Samczsun, Research Partner at Paradigm, White-Hat Hacker – How Do You Even Write Secure Code Anyways [PDF] [VIDEO]
10:01am-10:20am Emiliano Bonassi, Mitchell Amador, Samczsun – Discussion: White Hat Hacking [VIDEO]
10:21am-10:35am Break
Session 8:
Security 1, Moderator: Dan Robinson, Paradigm
10:36am-10:55am Daniel Von Fange, Senior Engineer, Origin Protocol – How to Understand a Smart Contract Hack [No Slides] [VIDEO]
10:56am-11:15am Christoph Michel, Security Researcher – Price Manipulation Exploits [PDF] [VIDEO]
11:16am-11:35am Tina Qian, Blockchain Security Engineer, Coinbase – Smart Contract Governance [PDF] [VIDEO]
11:36am-11:50pm Daniel Von Fange, Tina Qian, Kurt Barry – Discussion: Security [VIDEO]
11:51pm-12:50pm Lunch Break
Session 9:
Security 2, Moderator: Mitchell Amador, CEO of Immunefi
12:51pm-1:10pm Mudit Gupta, Chief Security Officer at Polygon – TWAP Oracle? No, Thanks. [PDF] [VIDEO]
1:11pm-1:30pm Tarun Chitra, CEO and Co-Founder of Gauntlet – Probabilistic Liquidity Attacks in DeFi [PDF] [VIDEO]
1:31pm-1:50pm Nurit Dor, VP Product at Certora – From High-Level DeFi Properties to Concrete Security Bugs [PDF] [VIDEO]
1:51pm-2:05pm Mudit Gupta, Tarun Chitra, Nurit Dor – Discussion: Security [VIDEO]
2:06pm-2:25pm Break
Session 11:
Bridges, Moderator: Mudit Gupta, Chief Security Officer at Polygon
3:46pm-4:05pm Christopher Whinfrey, Co-Founder at Hop Protocol – Securing a Cross-Chain Bridge [PDF] [VIDEO]
4:06pm-4:25pm Ryan Zarick, Co-Founder and CTO of LayerZero Labs – Pre-Crime and Library Upgrades: The Future of Omnichain Security [PDF] [VIDEO]
4:26pm-4:45pm Layne Haber, Research Lead, Connext – Breaking Down Bridge Security Models [PDF] [VIDEO]
4:46pm-5:05pm Yoav Weiss, Security Fellow at the Ethereum Foundation – Breaking Bridges – An Incomplete Sampler of Bridges Hacks [PDF] [VIDEO]
5:06pm-5:25pm Christopher Whinfrey, Ryan Zarick, Layne Haber, Yoav Weiss – Discussion – Bridges [VIDEO]
5:26pm-5:45pm Break
Bird of a feather 5 min. talks
Chair – Vanessa Grellet, Managing Partner at Aglaé Ventures
5:46pm-5:50pm Kostas Ferles, Principal Scientist, Veridise – V for Verification: A Unified Service for Secure Blockchains [PDF] [VIDEO]
5:51pm-5:55pm Jesse Tasman, Head of product at Redefine – DeFirewall: Combatting Attacks and Putting an End to “Blind Signing” on DeFi Transactions. A live demo. [PDF] [VIDEO]
5:56pm-6:00pm David Tarditi, VP of Engineering at CertiK – Tools For Supporting Manual Auditing At Scale [PDF] [VIDEO]
6:01pm-6:05pm Denys Ivanov, Hacken COO – What Should the Scope of the Web3 Audit Look Like? [PDF] [VIDEO]
6:01pm-6:05pm Sebastian Bürgel, Founder HOPR – Privacy and Security [VIDEO]
Steering Committee
- Jonathan Alexander, OpenZeppelin
- Mitchell Amador, Immunefi
- Kurt Barry, MakerDao
- Julien Bouteloup, Rekt
- Tarun Chitra, Gauntlet
- Maria Christakis, MPI
- Isil Dillig, UT Austin
- Rajeev, Secureum
- Dan Guido, Trail of bits
- Aparna Krishnan, Opyn
- Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell University and Ava Labs
- John Mardlin, Optimism
- John Mitchell, Co-Founder, Stanford University
- Sam S, Paradigm
- Gonçalo Sá, ConsenSys Diligence
- Mooly Sagiv, Co-Founder, Tel Aviv University and Certora
- Curtis Spencer, Electric Capital
- Kartik Talwar, General Partner ACapital
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