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We survey some of the amazing progress in Blockchain technology in the last 5 years: from foundations like consensus protocols, execution models, and zero-knowledge proofs, to why these foundations are critical for applications like decentralized finance and web3. The main part of the talk will try to envision the future of Blockchains: how will the "Endgame" look like? What foundations are we still missing? We argue that for Blockchains to thrive and reach Billions of users, we should expect a much more regulated landscape to emerge and discuss some exciting opportunities in reg-crypto and RegDeFi. An example of this direction is our new work on UTT which is a decentralized Ecash system with accountable privacy.
@InProceedings{abraham:OASIcs.FAB.2022.1,
author = {Abraham, Ittai},
title = {{Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Blockchain Foundations and Applications}},
booktitle = {5th International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain 2022 (FAB 2022)},
pages = {1:1--1:1},
series = {Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-248-8},
ISSN = {2190-6807},
year = {2022},
volume = {101},
editor = {Tucci-Piergiovanni, Sara and Crooks, Natacha},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.FAB.2022.1},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162686},
doi = {10.4230/OASIcs.FAB.2022.1},
annote = {Keywords: Blockchain}
}