Master Workshop: Layer I solutions

This free 2-day workshop will see 14+ of the world’s foremost developers, researchers and industry experts lead discussion on a variety of scaling solutions for distributed ledgers.

Highlights include:

• DAG-based frameworks
• Consistency guarantees of different algorithms and their relation to scalability concerns
• OmniLedger: A secure, scale-out, decentralised ledger via sharding
• PolyShard: How coded sharding achieves linearly scaling efficiency and security simultaneously

This workshop is the second in our series of 2-day Master Workshops examining scaling solutions for distributed ledgers. It follows our ‘Off the chain’ event earlier in the year, where 25+ experts including Patrick McCorry, Liam Horne, Jason Teutsch and Lefteris Karapetsas joined us in Berlin.

The potential of distributed ledger technology has been much publicised. However, there remain significant obstacles to be overcome before it achieves widespread adoption.

The most pressing question to be answered is whether or not it can scale–in terms of both total transaction volume and the number of independent participants involved in processing them.

A wide variety of solutions have been proposed. These fall into two categories - layer I ‘on-chain’ solutions, or layer II solutions built ‘off-chain’, such as the Lightning Network.

How feasible are these solutions? Are these just short-term fixes? What are the fundamental tradeoffs? What can we expect in the future?

On the 17-18 November, the 2-day ‘Master Workshop: Layer 1 solutions’ will bring together leading experts for an in-depth examination of Layer I scaling solutions for distributed ledger technology. They will discuss delegated proof of stake (DPOS), key aggregation, two-tiered network systems and many other new consensus & protocols that are currently being explored to solve the TPS bottleneck.

Event agenda

Day 1

09:30—09:35 Welcome

9:35—11:30 Presentations on Cryptography, DAG-based Framework, Scalability of distributed ledgers and Spectre Attacks

11:30—12:00 Coffee break

12:00—14:00 Presentations on Proof-of-Work Protocol, Security, Fantômette and Consistency Guarantees

14:00—15:00 Lunch

15:00—16:00 Working groups I & II

16:00—16:30 Coffee break

16:30—17:30 Working groups I & III

17:30—18:00 Panel discussion / Presentation of Day I Working groups

18:00—18:15 Closing remarks

18:15—22:00 Social activity

Day 2

9:20—9:30 Day II Intro

9:30—11:30 Presentations on Fraud Proofs, Bias Resistance, OmniLedger and Value-Centric Ledgers

11:30—12:00 Coffee break

12:00—13:30 Presentations on Thunder Token, PolyShard and Ostraka

13:30—15:00 Lunch

15:00—16:00 Working groups I and II

16:00—16:30 Coffee break

16:30—17:30 Working groups III and IV

17:30—19:00 Panel discussion / Presentation of Day II Working groups

19:00—19:15 Closing remarks

20:00—22:00 Social activity