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1/ We have posted three articles about the new proposal “BLS oracle signature for DLC”. The first article is an overview of the proposal. medium.com/crypto-garage/…

Our paper 'BlindHub: Bitcoin-Compatible Privacy-Preserving Payment Channel Hubs Supporting Variable Amounts' is accepted at IEEE S&P 2023 🥳🥳 Thanks to my co-authors Xianrui Qin, S. Pan, A. Mirzaei, Zhimei Sui, AminSakzad, Jiangshan Yu, Muhammed Esgin, J. Liu and T. H. Yuen.

🔵 #NEWS | #IMDEASoftware researchers Gibran Gómez, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Juan Caballero create a tool capable of tracking #cybercrime financial transactions in #Bitcoin More information ➡️ software.imdea.org/news.html#2022…

Happy to announce that the paper eprint.iacr.org/2022/499 will appear at NDSS 2023. My first paper at NDSS after many attempts :) Amazing cross continental collaboration with Varun Rajeev Madathil Pedro Moreno-Sanchez Zero-Knowledge Goof Dimitrios and Giulio.

Curious to learn how to exploit virtual channels to shut down the #LightningNetwork and how Donner, our new multi-hop virtual channel protocol, fixes this problem? Take a look at our NDSS Symposium'23 paper! Aniket Kate Lukas Aumayr Pedro Moreno-Sanchez eprint.iacr.org/2021/855.pdf TU Wien

Lukas Aumayr Pedro Moreno-Sanchez Aniket Kate Congratulations Lukas Aumayr , with this paper you managed to get (actually more than) one paper accepted in each of the four security circus conferences during your phd, amazing result! You are the first of my students to achieve that…chapeau! TU Wien

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Lukas Aumayr from S&P TU Wien TU Wien showing how to break and fix virtual channels NDSS Symposium

Lukas Aumayr (Lukas Aumayr) from TU Wien is presenting his work on virtual channels in blockchain session at #NDSS23, talking about how to exploit virtual channels to shut down the lighting network and about a new protocol that fixes this issue

Awesome work by Lukas Aumayr with great practical potential

Happy to be at #FC23! On the layer-2 session, Stefanie will present our work on Bailout: An HTLC Re-routing protocol. On the WTSC workshop on Friday, Mohsen Minaei will present our ongoing work on integrating A2L+ protocol in the VISA proposal for universal payment channels (UPC)

Industry speakers include apriori from Anoma, Alex Kampa from azkr, Julio from Circles Entropy Academic talks from Jens Ernstberger, Ashish Goel, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Nikos Papadis, Ashish Goel Thanks also to sponsors Informal Systems 🌱 (CoFi) Mask Network (mask.io) IC3 and @

While distributed computing & applied crypto researchers are making waves in the thriving blockchain industry, the CS academia (the US and a few other countries) still doesn't particularly look for candidates who claim blockchain as their area of research. What can we do?

What a wonderful blockchain day S&P TU Wien TU Wien ! Lukas Aumayr and @erkantairi graduated with two amazing doctoral theses on layer-2 protocols and adaptor signatures, respectively! Congrats guys, it was a real pleasure to accompany you through this journey!

Phd in Australia for UK residents. Interested in doing research in cryptography at University of Sydney? Deadline is 23 August 2024. Check out for details britain-australia.org.uk/northcote

The website for FC25 is available! Paper submission deadline is September 30. Moreover, we are currently soliciting nominations for the FC25 program committee. More info in the website fc25.ifca.ai

Would you like to help us shape a great program for FC'25? We are looking for nominations to the FC'25 program committee. Self nominations are also allowed. forms.gle/SiCL7g4ped44hq…

I am looking forward to going over many interesting papers this year! Financial Cryptography Christina Garman

#chatcontrol was removed from the agenda last week which was seen as a small victory. But this week Orban has put it back on the agenda. In the mean time our letter explaining why #chatcontrol is a terrible idea has been signed by more than 350 experts homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/Open_…