Fan Zhang

Updates

• Aug

  12
  We wrote a blog post on incentive attacks in HTLCs and our solution He-HTLC.
• Aug

  01
  Received an NSF Frontier grant for the Center for Distributed Confidential Computing. This is a multi-institution effort, involving faculty from IU (Lead), CMU, Duke, OSU, Penn State, Purdue, Spelman, UIUC and Yale. Yale News.
• Jul

  29
  Received three grants from Ethereum Foundation.
• May

  05
  Manuscript on He-HTLC is online. We revisited bribery attacks in HTLCs (hash-time locked contracts), presented a new family of them (reverse bribery), and proposed a solution.
• Apr

  22
  Our work on empirical analysis of EIP-1559 is presented at ETHconomics @ Devconnect 2022. Recording available here.
• Mar

  11
  Our paper on empirical analysis of EIP-1559 is accepted in CCS 2022.
• Mar

  16
  I will join the TPC of Oakland'23.
• Dec

  01
  I will join the TPC of CCS'22 and DeFi'22.
• May

  01
  I will join the TPC of PET 2022 and AFT 2021.

Older ones...

• Nov

  13
  I joined the TPC of PET 2021 and CCS 2021.
• Nov

  13
  I presented DECO at CCS'20.
• Oct

  01
  I presented CanDID at the annual convention of Chinese Institute of Engineers - Greater New York Chapter.
• Oct

  01
  I presented CanDID at Empire Hacking (organized by Trail of Bits).
• Oct

  01
  I presented DECO at W3C Credential Community Group (CCG).
• Oct

  01
  I joined the TPC of Financial Crypto 2021 and DeFi'21 workshop.
• Sep

  30
  CanDID paper is accepted to IEEE S&P 2021!
• Aug

  29
  DECO acquisition by ChainLink is announced!
• Jul

  29
  CanDID, our latest work on Decentralized Identity (DID) is available online.
• Mar

  30
  DECO accepted to CCS 2020!
• Jan

  08
  Real World Crypto (RWC) video on DECO is now available online.
• Oct

  25
  I visited ETH Zurich and presented “Connecting Blockchains to the Real World”.
• Oct

  21
  I presented Paralysis Proofs at ACM AFT 2019 at Zurich, Switzerland.
• Sep

  20
  I visited IBM Waston Center and presented DECO (Decenetralized Oracles)."
• Sep

  01
  Two papers (CHURP, Tesseract) are accepted to ACM CCS'19! See you all in London!
• Aug

  02
  “Paralysis Proofs: Secure Access-Structure Updates for Cryptocurrencies and More” is accepted to ACM AFT'19!
• Apr

  01
  “Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contract Execution” is accepted to EuroS&P'19!
• Nov

  01
  Town Crier is acquired by ChainLink!
• Mar

  30
  I’m awarded the IBM PhD Fellowship Award for 2018-2020.
• Mar

  02
  I presented Paralysis Proof at the 5th Bitcoin workshop @ Financial Crypto 2018 in Curacao.
• Aug

  02
  Solidus: Confidential Distributed Ledger Transactions via PVORM is accepted to CCS'17.
• Aug

  13
  I was invited to present Town Crier at Silicon Valley Ethereum Meetup.
• Aug

  18
  I presented REM at USENIX Security 2017, Vancouver, Canada.
• Jul

  10
  Intern at Intel Labs this summer.
• May

  15
  Town Crier is officially live!
• May

  11
  REM: Resource-Efficient Mining for Blockchains paper is accepted to USENIX Security'17. Available here.
• Oct

  17
  Sealed-Glass Proofs: Using Transparent Enclaves to Prove and Sell Knowledge is accepted to EuroS&P ‘17.
• Jul

  22
  Town Crier: An Authenticated Data Feed for Smart Contracts is accepted to ACM CCS'16.
• May

  13
  Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs is accepted to USENIX Security'16.

In the News

Some of the projects are featured in the news.

• NEW
  Empirical study on EIP-1559 is cited in State of the Network by Coin Metrics on Jan 19, 2022.
• NEW
  Empirical study on EIP-1559 is cited in Vitalik’s tweet on Jan 17, 2022.
• DECO is featured in Chainlink acquires DECO protocol from Cornell University by FXStreet on Sep 1, 2020.
• DECO is featured in Chainlink’s New Acquisition From Cornell University Could Transform Blockchain For Good by Forbes on Aug 29, 2020.
• DECO is featured in Chainlink acquires a privacy-preserving oracle protocol from Cornell University by CoinTelegraph on Aug 29, 2020.
• DECO is featured in Chainlink Acquires DECO from Cornell University by PR Newswire on Aug 29, 2020.
• DECO is featured in Chainlink Acquires Blockchain Oracle Solution From Cornell University by CoinDesk on Aug 29, 2020.
• CHURP is featured in a MIT Tech Review China report by MIT Tech Review China on May 27, 2019.
• Town Crier is featured in Blockchain smart contracts are finally good for something in the real world by MIT Tech Review on Nov 19, 2018.
• Town Crier is featured in Chainlink Acquires Town Crier, a Hardware-Based Oracle by Unhashed on Nov 3, 2018.
• Town Crier is featured in Chainlink Blockchain Company Acquires Cornell’s Town Crier to Bolster Native Smart Contract Network by BitcoinExchangeGuide on Nov 2, 2018.
• Town Crier is featured in Cornell’s Town Crier Acquired By Chainlink To Expand Decentralized Oracle Network by Forbes on Nov 1, 2018.
• Ekiden is featured in Big Hitter Crypto Funds Pile Into Privacy-Enhanced Smart Contract Startup Oasis Labs by Forbes on Jul 9, 2018.
• Paralysis Proofs is featured in Cornell IC3 Researchers Propose Solution to Bitcoin’s Multisig “Paralysis” Problem by BitcoinMagazine on Jan 19, 2018.
• REM is featured in The Ridiculous Amount of Energy It Takes to Run Bitcoin by IEEE Spectrum on Sep 28, 2017.
• Town Crier is featured in Trust Your Oracle? Cornell Launches Tool for Confidential Blockchain Queries by CoinDesk on May 17, 2017.
• Town Crier is featured in How Encrypted Weather Data Could Help Corporate Blockchain Dreams Come True by MIT Technology Review on May 11, 2017.
• Town Crier is featured in Town Crier Service Delivers Solid Data To Coders by ETHNews on May 11, 2017.