Andreessen Horowitz September 12, 2022
Field notes is a series where we report on the ground at significant industry, research, and other events. In this edition, some of the a16z crypto team members in attendance rounded up a collection of interesting talks, papers, slides and more from the DeFi Security Summit 2022 (Aug. 27-28), the Science of Blockchain Conference 2022 aka SBC 22 (Aug. 29-31), and various affiliated workshops (Aug. 28-Sept. 2), all of which took place at Stanford University last month.
1. Science of Blockchain Conference 2022
The Science of Blockchain Conference focuses on technical innovations in the blockchain ecosystem, and brings together researchers and practitioners working in the space across cryptography, secure computing, distributed systems, decentralized protocol development, formal methods, empirical analysis, crypto-economics,...