Introduction Welcome everybody. It's not only about solving the puzzles, but the immense interest in verifiable delay functions. When setting up this conference, I hadn't expected that. It's hard to predict where technology will go or what things will be popular decades later when you work on somet...

Introduction I'll give an overview of VDFs and make sure that we're on the same page. I want to make sure everyone knows what it is that we're talking about. The goal of a VDF is to slow things down. The question is, how do we slow things down in a verifiable way? What is a VDF? I won't give a ...