How to design collateral: 2020-02-18

Seminar, Tokyo Tech, Oookayama Campus, 2020

This week we had a special guest for our weekly seminar in our cryptocurrency group.

Dominik Harz visited us to present his work on how to design collateral in blockchain systems. In particular, the explained his framework Balance: Dynamic Adjustment of Cryptocurrency Deposits presented at CCS’19.

He also presented a didactical explanation of the very recent Flash Loan attacks, which had been flooding comments on Twitter last week. An insightful description written by Dominik is already available here!