Yann Vonlanthen

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yvonlanthen@ethz.ch

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at the Distributed Computing Group at ETH Zurich, where I am advised by Prof. Roger Wattenhofer. My interests include the theoretical and practical aspects of distributed systems, blockchains, digital democracy, and governance.

More specifically, I aim to build fast and scalable decentralized systems — for instance, by reducing the reliance on consensus and enabling parallelization across all protocol levels.

I also enjoy exploring the security of existing systems, including network security, consensus mechanisms, and application-level security (DAOs, VAAs, etc.).

Lastly, I believe in the potential of proof-of-personhood and extending one-person-one-vote into the digital realm. By redesigning decentralized systems with built-in Sybil resistance, we can empower communities with potentially far-reaching economic and societal impacts.

In my free time, I enjoy gardening and participating in a variety of sports.

news

Nov 9, 2024 I will be presenting our paper “Banyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT” at Middleware’24.
Oct 5, 2024 I will be serving as a PC member for FC’25.
Sep 13, 2024 I presented our most recent work titled “Deanonymizing Ethreum Validators: The P2P Network Has a Privacy Issue” at the TUM Blockchain Conference.
Jul 5, 2024 I will be presenting our paper “SoK: Attacks on DAOs” at DAWO and AFT’24.
Dec 10, 2023 Our paper “Short Paper: Dissecting the EIP-2930 Optional Access Lists” was accepted at FC’24.

selected publications

  1. Banyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT
    Yann Vonlanthen, Jakub Sliwinski, Massimo Albarello, and 1 more author
    In 25th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference (Middleware), 2024
  2. SoK: Attacks on DAOs
    Rainer Feichtinger, Robin Fritsch, Lioba Heimbach, and 2 more authors
    In 6th International Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT), Vienna, Austria, 2024
    Non-archival: 4th Workshop on Decentralized Finance (DeFi), March 2024
    Non-archival: The Latest in DeFi Research (TLDR) Conference, May 2024
    Non-archival: European DAO Workshop (DAWO) 2024, July 2024