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Plenary Talk - 2024 Protocol Symposium

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Tim Boo opens the 2024 Protocol Symposium, explaining how Summer of Protocols evolved from studying Ethereum-specific challenges to examining protocols as a cross-domain class of phenomena. The program aims to identify common principles underlying protocols across different fields by funding researchers to study diverse protocol implementations.

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