(Edited) Mikerah | Challenges in Blockchain Access Privacy for Ethereum | Taipei Ethereum Meetup

Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 12:00 AM

Talk description: Despite the onslaught of on-chain privacy solutions for Ethereum, Ethereum users are still subjected to attacks at the network-level and metadata leakage that reveal how users interact with Ethereum. The goal of this talk is to discuss this open area of research and motivate the audience to think more deeply around issues access privacy for Ethereum. The talk is inspired by a paper by Henry et al on the topic of Blockchain Privacy Access. Speaker Introduction: Mikerah Quintyne-Collins is an independent researcher and founder and CEO of HashCloak, a blockchain privacy R&D startup with a global team. Her research focuses on networking, validator privacy, and optimistic rollups. She organized Scaling Ethereum, a research workshop bringing together top Ethereum researchers to work on Ethereum’s most pressing scalability problems. Currently, she’s focused on privacy for blockchains, specifically mixers and mix networks for cryptocurrency transactions. Previously, she was part of the ChainSafe Systems team working on ETH2.0, namely the Lodestar Typescript client. She was awarded a Vitalik YOLO grant for her work on ETH2.0. She also co-founded the University of Toronto Blockchain Group, a student club, focused on engaging the blockchain community at the University of Toronto. During her time at UofT Blockchain Group, she organized the largest student-run ETH docused hackathon in Canada, in 2018. During her free time, she enjoys reading wikipedia articles and taking naps. Slides: https://hackmd.io/@yBpKEsxORheI8AJoIiZj1Q/Hkb5hM1sL#/ Links: https://youtu.be/WC0GPPZ-qVg https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/akate/publications/BlockchainAccessPrivacy_preprint.pdf https://github.com/Mikerah/awesome-privacy-on-blockchains https://github.com/hashcloak/Meson https://github.com/hashcloak/go-baryon https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7163022