Center for Cryptography and Distributed Systems

11 Sep 2026

Agents, game theory, and quantum computers: the Web3 AI Summit in San Francisco

Diego Kingston, CCSD's Research Director, took part in the Web3 AI Summit in San Francisco. This edition was dominated by AI agents, agentic payments, game theory applied to models, and the post-quantum transition.

ZKSummit 14, ZKProof 8, and Eurocrypt 2026: a week in Rome at the center of modern cryptography

Diego Kingston, CCSD's Research Director, attended the three most relevant conferences in cryptography and proof systems — ZKSummit 14, ZKProof 8, and Eurocrypt 2026 — all held in Rome during the same week.

CommitLLM: a cryptographic protocol for verifying LLM inference

Researchers from CCSD and LambdaClass present CommitLLM, a commit-and-audit protocol to verify that a provider actually ran the language model it claims to have run.