Talks & Lectures
Speaking Engagements, Conferences Presentations, Podcasts, and Educational Workshops
Overview
(Public Engagements: 85+)
Talks & Presentations
Don't Trust, Verify What's At Stake
Transparency has never been more important to those of us who have been in the space for a while and others who are just getting started. As the first public company to stake a large sum of ether (36,000 ETH), we learned firsthand about the lack of sufficient data pipelines that made it difficult to meet certain auditing requirements. That's when we decided to build our staking dashboard — a custom solution that allows us to track our staking rewards, gives us direct insight into our validators performance and aggregates data into one easy-to-use platform saving us both time and money.
In real Life: Web3 and Sanctions
When we discuss Web3 and public goods, we don't consider geographical borders or language as a pressing issue, however, IRL many of the activists in the community have been banned from using what we take for granted as public good or protocols in web3, just because of the country they were born in or the language they speak. We want to shed some light on these incidents and raise awareness.
IranUnchained -- NGO meets DAO
Woman, Life, Freedom. A cultural revolution is underway in Iran. We look at how Ethereum and web3 tools can help (and are already helping) Iranians fighting for freedom against censorship, surveillance, and oppression. We will also discuss how sanctions over-compliance prevents legal aid from reaching Iran and present our newly formed IranUnchained NGO (built on Moloch v3) as a potential solution.
Terminologies and Regulations in Web3
Shayan Eskandari of Ether Capital and Concordia University defines relevant terms and discusses regulatory effects on web3 at the 2022 Researching Web3 Workshop, sponsored by Smart Contract Research Forum. Shayan chats about cold storage as an example of how ambiguous definitions can have tangible regulatory impacts on blockchain technologies.
Transparent Dishonesty: Blockchain Front-Running Taxonomy
Front-running has been an issue in financial instrument markets since the 1970s. With the advent of the blockchain technology, front-running has resurfaced in new forms we explore here, instigated by blockchains decentralized and transparent nature. We carry out a detailed analysis of Status.im initial coin offering (ICO) and show evidence of abnormal miners behavior indicative of front-running token purchases.
Oracles from the Ground Truth to Market Manipulation
One fundamental limitation of smart contracts is that they execute in a closed environment and only have access to the data and functionality that is either already on the blockchain or fed into the blockchain. Thus any interactions with the real world need to be mediated by a bridge service, which is called an oracle. As decentralized applications mature, oracles are playing an increasingly prominent role. With their evolution comes more attacks, necessitating a greater attention to the trust model of using oracles. We systemize the design alternatives for oracles, showcase attacks, and discuss attack mitigation strategies.
SoK: Transparent Dishonesty: front-running attacks on Blockchain.
3rd Workshop of Trusted Smart contract - FC 2019 Financial Cryptography and Data Security - Paper Presentation
Social Innovation: International Development and Blockchain
Panel: Blockchain technology has shaken the Financial and Technological worlds with its unprecedented ability to decentralize governance, provide secure data storage and allow Participants to interact in a fresh way over the internet.
The Thing from the Future: A Reverse Archeology Game
The Thing From The Future is an award-winning imagination game that challenges players to collaboratively and competitively describe objects from a range of alternative futures. Participate in this Reverse Archeology game.
Democratic Improvement Proposals for decentralization projects
Blockchain and DLT based systems are core internet infrastructure technology and many DLT solutions have one thing in common: They are developed with a diverse open source developer community and carry significant security risk. To manage software change related risks both Bitcoin and Ethereum have derived their own process of managing change proposals. For Ethereum changes are discussed and agreed upon in the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) process. However given the non-hierarchy management model, there have been many approaches and obstacles to make this process as close to a democratic procedure as possible. It is working, but far from perfect and there are many good approaches and lessons learnt. EIP requires input from experts at IETF to shape up and standardize.
Security By Design and Smart Contract Audits
This session will cover why smart contracts are the new paradigm of software development. The idea of a serverless application running in a public ledger with open interface is new to most developers and hence common practices in traditional programming could easily result in security vulnerabilities in decentralized applications. The second half of the session will focus on smart contract code auditing and hands on code review on real smart contracts.
Transparent Dishonesty: Blockchain Front-Running Taxonomy
WTH is Bitcoin?
A through historical view of where Bitcoin and Blockchain technology came from and how it evolved to be what we know now.
Blockchain Fundamentals
Blockchain is one of the most disruptive technologies of the 21st century. Every major corporation is beginning to incorporate blockchain into their infrastructure. That said, many people still do not know the fundamentals of blockchain. The Fintech Society and the Data Intelligence Society of Concordia's guest lecturers will teach you all of the basic fundamentals of blockchain and about the impact that this innovative technology will have on society. We will cover all the fundamentals of blockchain
A first look at browser-based Cryptojacking
Security & Privacy on the Blockchain (affiliated with Euro S&P) - Paper Presentation
SecRev - The Security Revolution from Montreal
The Cybersecurity Revolution is an event conceived to openly encourage sharing and interaction among the wider cybersecurity research community. It is an event focused around research, education, science and learning and not the furthering of commercial interests. On this talk I presented my work on the first look at browser-based Cryptojacking.
Cocktail Blockchain
Panel organized by National Bank of Canada, Catallaxy and Ivado.
Discussion regarding the use of blockchain now and in the future in the real world and how organizations such as banks can use Blockchain technology and smart contracts to facilitate trust and security within their infrastructure.
Cryptojacking, victimless crime or a new online economy?
Cryptojacking is the invisible use of one’s resources to mine cryptocurrency for someone else’s profit. Even though these attacks rose by 8500 percent in the final quarter of 2017, it seems that this phenomena is neither well-studied or well-known. In the follow up of the published paper, we invite the community from crypto-communities to ethicists to start the conversation on the policies and regulation for this new online monetization architecture.
Blockchain Myopia, A thing from the Future
An experimental session that involved an award-winning imagination game called 'The thing from the Future' that challenges players to collaboratively and competitively describe objects from a range of alternative futures. We discussed topics that range from the technological utopian visions conceptualized by the flag bearers of Blockchain/Unicorn-land to the technological dystopian hypotheticals of unstoppable dark markets.
On the feasibility of decentralized derivatives markets
1st Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts In Association with Financial Cryptography 2017 - Paper presentation
Bootstrap Ethereum Development
A walkthrough on Ethereum development stack, describing how EVM and Full nodes function, Requirements for interprise high scale setup and how to deploy smart contracts on Ethereum hacker-style and fast
Buy your coffee with bitcoin, Real-world deployment of a bitcoin point of sale terminal
Advanced and Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SmartWorld), 2016 Intl IEEE Conferences - Paper presentation
Introduction to Bitcoin
The first workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain technology in Iran. This workshop organized by SBU Computer Science Scientific Association was designed to introduce and discuss research possibilities regarding Blockchain technology for graduate students and other interested parties.
A first look at the usability of bitcoin key management
USEC 15 NDSS Workshop on Usable Security (USEC) - Paper presentation and discussion
Workshops & Panels
Panel Moderator: Oracle Extractable Value (OEV): Unlocking New Revenue Models and Sustainability for Oracles & Dapps. Discussing Oracle Extractable Value (OEV) and its role in the broader narrative of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV), Panelists: Hart Lambur (UMA), Tesa Ho (Flashbots), Ugur Mersinlioglu (API3), Ariah Klages-Mundt (Gyroscope)
In this episode of Shir Ya Khat we look at the Blockchain technology with a radical philosophical narrative and, with our guest philosopher Professor Creston Davis from the Global Center for Advance Studies, we discuss the changes it can bring in the way we exist in the coming years.
In this workshop, we will teach students how to write smart contracts in the Solidity programming language. Solidity is easy to learn, but hard to get right. The approach to training we’ll take in this session will be to provide a series of simple coding challenges, where participants are asked to write the code and exploint a simple program, such as a coin toss, a transferable token (like a coin), or an auction.
Hacking & exploitation Solidity/EVM smart contracts, and practicing them on CaptureTheEther and OpenZeppelin Ethernaut challanges.
Some of the most financially devastating hacks in recent years have happened on the blockchain. In this workshop, we will walk through a series of simple Solidity coding challenges and common mistakes, where participants are asked read code, understand and try to break them. Regarding each challenge, we will talk about the history of the hacks involving that family of bug. We will talk about the attacks and possible solutions.
This blockchain bootcamp is an introductory level workshop that will teach the attendees the main building blocks of blockchain, with hands on experience with timestamping and associated use cases.
Podcast Episodes
در این اپیزود از پادکست شیر یا خط، به بررسی همافزایی جذاب و آیندهساز دو تکنولوژی هوش مصنوعی (AI) و بلاکچین میپردازیم. از کاربردهای عملی تا مفاهیم فلسفی و ابزارهای توسعهای نوظهور و وایب-کدینگ، سفری عمیق به این دنیای نوآورانه خواهیم داشت.
اتریوم در حال آمادهسازی برای یک ارتقای بزرگ به نام Pectra است که تغییرات مهمی را در شبکه ایجاد خواهد کرد. از تبدیل حسابهای معمولی به کیفپولهای هوشمند گرفته تا تغییراتی در استیکینگ و نحوهی پردازش دادهها، این آپگرید میتواند مسیر آیندهی اتریوم را شکل دهد.
در این قسمت از پادکست شیر یا خط، راهنمای کاملی برای شرکت در ایونتهای بلاکچین و وب۳ ارائه میدهیم. از نحوه پیدا کردن و ثبتنام در رویدادهای Devcon و Devconnect گرفته تا مدیریت برنامه، کار تیمی و نحوه بهرهبرداری حداکثری از این ایونتهای مهم را بررسی میکنیم.
در این قسمت از پادکست شیریاخط، راهنمای کاملی برای شرکت در هکتانهای بلاکچین و وب۳ ارائه میدهیم. از نحوه پیدا کردن و ثبتنام در هکتانهای ETHGlobal و DoraHacks گرفته تا مدیریت پروژه، کار تیمی و نحوه برنده شدن در هکتانهای اتریوم را بررسی میکنیم.
در این قسمت، نگاهی دقیق به پروتکل Eignlayer خواهیم داشت که اخیراً در شبکه اصلی اتریوم راهاندازی شده است. همچنین، به بررسی مفاهیم ایده Restaking در اتریوم میپردازیم.
در این قسمت به بررسی فورک دِنکُن اتریوم میپردازیم و تغییراتی به مانند EIP-4488 را مورد بررسی قرار میدهیم.
Learn the basics of Ethereum Smart Contracts from the CEP committee. Covers what smart contracts can and cannot do, how they differ from normal addresses, security considerations, and real-world applications with guest Danielle Wall Elliott from Names.
Learn about the difference between execution clients and consensus clients and why Ethereum client diversity is so important. Joined by Hart Montgomery (CTO at Hyperledger Foundation) and James He (Ethereum Core Developer at OffChain Labs).
Join C4's committee chairs to learn about committee accomplishments, education projects, and certifications. Features CBP chair S. Dirk Anderson, CEP chair Shayan Eskandari, CCSS chair Petri Basson, and CCE chair Michelle Demarest-Stephenson.
NFTs IRL
NFTJoin C4's Certified Ethereum Professional Committee to learn about Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), including how they are created, how they started, and real-world applications.
Join C4's Certified Ethereum Professional Committee for a 'Bring a Friend' live session about Ethereum and why it matters. CEP committee discusses what got them into Ethereum and where to find credible resources.
Interactive trivia session with the Certified Ethereum Professional committee testing knowledge of Ethereum fundamentals, protocols, and ecosystem developments.
Special guest Dr. Jeremy Clark joins Shayan Eskandari and Jessica Levesque to discuss education in the blockchain space, covering curriculum development, industry standards, and the future of crypto education.
Introduction to DAOs
DAO SpecialCEP committee members are joined by governance researcher Ann Brody and Willy Ogorzaly from Fox Foundation to explore Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Learn about DAO structures, governance mechanisms, and real-world implementations.
Join the Certified Ethereum Professional Committee, plus special guest Michael Perklin, to learn about operational security fundamentals for cryptocurrency and blockchain environments.
EthDenver 2022 Follow-Up
EthDenverCertified Ethereum Professional committee discusses EthDenver 2022 highlights, insights, and key takeaways from the premier Ethereum conference and hackathon.
The Certified Ethereum Professional committee, plus guest Willy Ogorzaly from Giveth and ShapeShift DAO, answer questions about Ethereum, Web3, metaverse, and blockchain technology terminology and slang.
Bitcoin or Ethereum? Is one better than the other? Join C4 LIVE to learn how Bitcoin and Ethereum are similar, different, and why they both matter in the blockchain ecosystem.
Deep dive into professional crypto certification with C4's Executive Director Jessica Levesque and CEP Chair Shayan Eskandari. Covers Bitcoin and Ethereum certifications, education standards, and the future of blockchain credentials.
EIP (Ethereum Improvement Proposals) & Updating the Chain | فرایند بهروزرسانی پروتکل اتریوم
S05E01در این قسمت به چرایی نیاز به تغییر و بروزرسانی در محیط های مختلف نظیر نرم افزارهای سازمانی و نرم افزار های متن باز پرداختیم و روند بروزرسانی ها در اتریوم را از ایده تا اجرا بررسی کردیم.
Join C4's Certified Ethereum Professional (CEP) committee LIVE as we discuss newly proposed CEP exam questions and potential changes to existing exam questions. We will share how our CrowdQ exam platform works and our plans for involving CEPs and the Ethereum community more in 2022.
Join C4's Certified Ethereum Professional (CEP) committee LIVE to learn about Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake and ask questions in the chat.
Episode 3 - Conversation: Why won't books just f**k off?! And other things we can't tech away. This week we are joined by our special guest Shayan Eskandari.
French language extract discussing Non-Fungible Tokens during the week when the most expensive digital artwork was sold for $69 million. Expert insights on the NFT revolution and digital art market.
در این قسمت به ادامه بررسی سیستم های وامدهی غیرمتمرکز پرداختیم. با توضیحاتی در باره نقدینگی حضانتی و غیرحضانتی در این سیستمها٫ به روشهای تصمیمگیری برای متغیرهایی مثل سود سپرده و اسنتراتژی پروژه های تجمیع وام رسیدیم و در آخر جمعبندی کلی از این فصل از پادکست داشتیم.
Startup Talks | Episode #1 | Shayan Eskandari: Blockchain, DeFi, Non Fungible Tokens and Oracles
PodcastComprehensive discussion covering blockchain fundamentals, smart contracts, DeFi, automated market making, oracles, and entrepreneurship opportunities. Explores the intersection of blockchain with economic systems and decentralization principles.
در این قسمت به بررسی سیستم های وامدهی غیرمتمرکز پرداختیم و آن را با سیستم وام دهی سنتی مقایسه کردیم. تاریخچه و مثال هایی از وامدهی در حوزه ی بلاکچین را برشمردیم. به توکن های Wrapped و استفاده از آنها به عنوان وثیقه اشاره کردیم و در آخر وام دهی در حوزه ی دیفای را با بررسی پروژه ی Compound تشریح کردیم.
در این قسمت به ادامه موضوع صرافی های غیر متمرکز و بازارسازهای خودکار(AMM) ٫ مثل Uniswap و Balancer ٫Curve میپردازیم.
در این قسمت به توضیح صرافی های غیر متمرکز٫ از روزهای اول تا به امروز می پردازیم.
مثال هايي از كاربرد هاي فعلي DeFi - دسته بندي رمز ارزهاي پايدار( stable coin) - سير تكاملي استيبل كوين ها (Tether, USDt, USDC, Maker DAO, DAI, SAI, etc)
. DeFi مقدمهای درباره اقتصاد غیرمتمرکز یا همان دیفای - چرا اقتصاد غیرمتمرکز؟ - تفاوت DeFi با سیستممالی حاکم بر اقتصاد امروز دنیا چیست؟ - مفهوم بازار آزاد چگونه در اقتصاد غیرمتمرکز تعریف میشود؟
How Bitcoin Moves Value In & Out Of Closed Economies (Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela) - DeFi Discussions with Alejandro Machado (Open Money Initiative), Boaz Sobrado (WhyNotCuba.com), and Shayan Eskandari (CoinIran.com).
Philosophical exploration of blockchain technology with Professor Creston Davis from Global Center for Advanced Studies. Examines blockchain as a radical technology that can bring transformative changes to human existence and social relationships.
Discussion on Bitcoin's role in human freedom, covering COVID-19 impact in Iran, hardware wallets, security, private keys, technological innovations on Bitcoin, and the monetary evolution of cryptocurrency.
این برنامه به اثرات ویروس کرونا (کوید-19) و دلایل سقوط بازارهای رمزارز و بازارهای اقتصادی جهانی، آینده این بازارها، فرصت های ایجاد شده برای کارهای راه دور و درآمدزایی و موضوعات دیگر به بحث و تبادل نظر می پردازد.
این برنامه به اثرات ویروس کرونا (کووید-۱۹) و دلایل سقوط بازارهای رمزارز و بازارهای اقتصادی جهانی، آینده این بازارها، فرصتهای ایجاد شده برای کارهای راه دور و درآمدزایی را بررسی میکند.
بیتکوین تلفیقی از تکنولوژیهایی است که از ۱۹۷۰ تاکنون منتشر شده، در این قسمت به این دوره میپردازیم و در ادامه در مورد تاریخچه بیتکوین از روز آغاز تا امروز گفتگو میکنیم.
گزارش از کنفرانس DevCon V، بررسی اتریوم ۲.۰، مسائل سانسور بیتکوین و برنامه پرسش و پاسخ مایک آزاد - تحلیل آخرین تحولات اکوسیستم بلاکچین و رمزارزها.
بررسی سگویت و شبکه لایتنینگ - تکنولوژیهای ارتقای مقیاسپذیری بیتکوین و پیادهسازیهای عملی آنها در شبکههای پرداخت فوری.
تایید تراکنشها و سرعت پردازش مالی - بررسی تراکنش در لحظه و مدل پیادهسازی آن، تفاوت تایید تراکنش روی BTC و BSV، و روشهای کاهش ریسک خطا در تایید تراکنشها.
بررسی انشعابات بیتکوین - قسمت دوم: تحلیل عمیق Bitcoin Cash، Bitcoin Gold، و سایر فورکهای بیتکوین، تاثیرات آنها بر اکوسیستم و آینده این انشعابات.
بررسی انشعابات بیتکوین - قسمت اول: تحلیل ماهیت فورکهای نرم و سخت، تاریخچه انشعابات بیتکوین، و بررسی علل و عوامل ایجادکننده انشعاب در شبکههای بلاکچین.
بررسی کاربردهای بلاکچین و آسیبشناسی اجتماعی در کشورهای در حال توسعه - تحلیل راهحلهای تکنولوژیک برای حل مشکلات مالی و اجتماعی.
شاهد اول آگوست - بررسی سگویت، BIP148، و آینده بیتکوین - تحلیل تغییرات مهم پروتکل بیتکوین و تاثیرات آن بر شبکه.
هنر ماینینگ پیشرفته در ایران - بررسی وضعیت استخراج بیتکوین در ایران، تکنیکهای پیشرفته ماینینگ، چالشها و فرصتهای ماینینگ در کشور.
بررسی آلتکوینها، توکنها و ICOها - تفاوت بلاکچین و پروژههای معادل، بررسی مدلهای مختلف تامین مالی در عرصه بلاکچین و رمزارزها.
مدیریت کلیدهای بیتکوین - بررسی روشهای امن نگهداری و مدیریت کلیدهای خصوصی، والتهای سختافزاری و نرمافزاری، و بهترین شیوههای امنیتی برای حفظ داراییهای دیجیتال.
برنامه پرسش و پاسخ مایک آزاد - بررسی ذات و ماهیت بیتکوین و فناوری بلاکچین، پاسخ به سوالات مطرح شده توسط مخاطبین در مورد مفاهیم اساسی بلاکچین.
بررسی فورکهای بیتکوین، Bitcoin Unlimited، و بحثهای بلاکسایز - تحلیل مسائل مقیاسپذیری شبکه بیتکوین و راهحلهای پیشنهادی مختلف.
در این قسمت می خواهیم درباره mining یا استخراج و همچنین Proof-of-work یا گواه اثبات کار صحبت کنیم.
موضوع صحبت این هفته در رابطه با سایر فناوری های بلاکچینی و موارد استفاده از این فناوری، غیر از استفاده پولی مثل بیتکوین است.
موضوع بحث این هفته در رابطه با شناخت اسکم های بیتکوین در ایران و همچنین طریقه شناخت شرکت ها و پلتفرم های سالم یا ناسالم است.
Hackathon Participation
Agentic Ethereum
HackerProject: AiVS
- Coinbase Developer Platform
- Gaia and Collab.Land
- EigenLayer - Eigen Agents
A multi AI Agent framework that utilizes EigenLayer AVS for a distributed justice system
OSC RegHackTO
HackerAn open-source Proof-of-Compliance standard on the blockchain.
RegHackTO was organized by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) as the first hackathon by a securities regulator in Canada.