Working Towards a Plural Public via Common Knowledge and Designated Verifier Proofs

Often cited virtues of blockchains are immutability, transparency, decentralization, openness, and trustlessness. Many also think of their most natural applications as financial. Yet a critical affordance of such systems is often missed: the way they are uniquely suited to facilitate cooperation. Here I show how via CK and DVPs.

Speaker(s): Shrey Jain
Skill level: Intermediate
Track: Governance & Coordination
Keywords: Coordination,Non-Financial,Social

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Speaker Details

Shrey Jain is a Researcher at Microsoft’s Decentralized Social Technology Collaboratory. Shrey’s work lies at the intersections of applied cryptography, game theory, and machine learning to produce new social data structures necessary for improved human coordination.

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