News:
July 2025: The testnet of BrokerChain (a Layer1 sharding blockchain) is online!
Visit its Github page here: github.com/HuangLab-SYSU/brokerchain-academic
BrokerChain (academic) Testnet is EVM-compatible. Students and researchers can develop/deploy smart contracts on this testnet much cheaper than on Ethereum.
BrokerChain's Dashboard (public data provided) is here: academic.broker-chain.com:56741/
This dashboard provides public data, including token minting, the number of blockchain shards, active miner nodes, the waiting list of nodes, and the faucet for developers. Anyone can claim a few BKC tokens through this page. If you are interested in BrokerChain, please find the white paper (Chinese version so far) from Google Drive: "BrokerChain-Testnet-使用说明-2025Jul17.pdf", URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBtqt8W5kj4BhOi4EZdr6dmq-rzjF6qM/view
Mar. 26, 2025: Good News! I am promoted to a Full Professor!
Mar. 03, 2025: Good News! IEEE/ACM ToN / TNet has accepted our paper. Title: “BrokerChain: A Blockchain Sharding Protocol by Exploiting Broker Accounts”.
Feb. 23, 2025: Finally, “BlockEmulator: An Emulator Enabling to Test Blockchain Sharding Protocols” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) as a regular paper.
Dec. 7, 2024: Congrats to my Ph.D. student, Mr. Jian Zheng, for accepting his paper at INFOCOM 2025. Title: “Justitia: An Incentive Mechanism towards the Fairness of Cross-shard Transactions.” To download this paper: http://xintelligence.pro/archives/1371
Sep. 19, 2024: I have again been recognized in the World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists.
Jan. 2024: I am invited to be a TPC track co-chair for the IEEE Global Blockchain Conference. This conference was held in Shanghai on August 21-23, 2024. [ TPC ]
Jan. 12, 2024: I am invited to join the program committee of ICDCS 2024 (44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems), Blockchain Track, and Industrial and Interdisciplinary Studies of Distributed Systems and Applications Track. [ TPC ]
Dec. 1, 2023: Great News! Our two papers, titled “Broker2Earn: Towards Maximizing Broker Revenue and System Liquidity for Sharded Blockchains” and “Account Migration across Blockchain Shards using Fine-tuned Lock Mechanism,” have been accepted by INFOCOM 2024. Big congrats to my Ph.D. student, Mr. Qinde Chen (陈钦德), and my master's program student, Mr. Yue Lin (林岳). Good job!
Nov. 8, 2023: We have provided a technical paper for our BlockEmulator, a blockchain experiment tool that enables researchers to verify their proposed new protocols and mechanisms, particularly blockchain sharding protocols. Check out our guidebook from [arXiv article].
Oct. 26, 2023: I have been invited to give a talk in the Web3 forum at CNCC 2023, Shenyang. My talk title is "Building Infrastructure for Web3: Improving the Scalability of Blockchains using Sharding."
Oct. 11, 2023: I have been on the World Ranking of the Top 2% Scientists List (October 2023).
Sep. 6, 2023: I've been appointed Youth Editorial Board Member for the ELSP Journal Blockchain (ISSN 2959-1260) [Editorial Board].
May 13, 2023: Good News! We made our experimental tool for blockchain research open-source. This tool is named blockEmulator. Visit our websites –>> www.blockEmulator.com (Chinese version), and https://github.com/HuangLab-SYSU/block-emulator (English version).
May. 11, 2023: Good News! Our paper “Scheduling Most Valuable Committees for the Sharded Blockchain” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN/TNet). Congratulations to my group! [ PDF ] [公众号介绍文章]
Apr 13, 2023: Good News! Our paper ``Adaptive Double-Spending Attacks on PoW-based Blockchains” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), a top journal in Cyber Security. Congratulations to my student Jian Zheng (郑简)! [ 论文介绍 ]
Jan. 28, 2023: I am invited to serve on the editorial board for the Journal of Blockchains (MDPI, ISSN 2813-5288) [Editorial Board].
Jan. 19, 2023: My first-ever science book, ''From Blockchain to Web3" (in Chinese), will be published in October 2023. Welcome to download the preview version from [my blog].
July 1, 2022: Good News! I have been elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
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