News and Events

NOVEMBER 2020

• Laura Ricci is a Member of the Editorial Board of the new Elsevier Journal "Blockchain: Research and Applications" 

AUGUST 2021

• Laura Ricci is appointed Associate Editor of ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies:Research and Practice, ACM DLT, Journal.

JULY 2021

• H2020 European Project "HELIOS:  A Context-aware Distributed Social Networking Framework", 2019-2021

• July 2020: the two European research projects Helios and Articonf join forces for a Pilot at the 28th #JungfrauMarathon in Switzerland. 

• July 2020: the rebranded TestClient is now SummerApp and its piloting has finally started! 

• Laura Ricci has joined the TPC of Complex Network 2021. Submissions are welcomed. Deadline 1 September 2021.

• We are delighted to announce that Andrea Michienzi, and Mohsin Ur-Rahaman, two of our Ph.D. students have successfully defended their thesis 

• The laboratory  organizes several workshops  BRAIN @ IEEE ISCC Blockchain Theory and Applications LSDVE@EUROPAR Large Scale Distributed  Virtual Environments OASIS @ACM Hypertext Open Challenges on Online Social Networks  

• Our Phd Student Andrea Lisi presented the paper Lightning over rose bouquets: an analysis of the topology of the Bitcoin Lightning Network, @45th IEEE COMPSAC 

• Laura Ricci and Barbara Guidi congratulate with their co-authors Rolf Nyffenegger and Robin Ribback from SWISS-TXT for the paper “HELIOS CJ App: the decentralization of the Citizen Journalism” accepted @ACM GoodIT 2021, 9-11 September, Rome, Italy.

• We are glad to announce that the Laboratory participates in the activities of the IEEE Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Tecgnologies, IEEE TEMS

FEBRUARY 2021

• Laura Ricci is appointed Section Editor of Springer Nature, SN Computer Science,  Section V,  Innovations in Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers

NOVEMBER  2021

• New PhD Student    We are delighted to announce that Domenico Tortola, from University of Molise, has got the PhD scholarship   “Trusted interactions in a trustless network: novel technical solutions” 

DECEMBER 2021

• 16 December 2021: Laura  Ricci participated to the be-annual meeting of the National DLT Group, in Salerno

MARCH 2022

• The 3rd BRAIN Workshop, was held in conjunction with PERCOM 2022,  as a virtual event, on 21 March 2022

APRIL 2022

• Laura Ricci and Damiano Di Francesco Maesa have given a the talk "Blockchain: What It Is and why it matters", at Dipartimento di Informatica, Statistica e Applicazioni, Università degli Studi di Firenze. 

• Laura Ricci  has given the talk  "Blockchain: an Introduction", Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica, Statistica,  Università degli Studi di Venezia. 

• Laura Ricci is appointed Full Professor

• Barbara Guidi is appointed Senior Researcher (RTD-B)

MAY 2022 

• The @H2020 European Project "HELIOS: A Context-aware Distributed Social Networking Framework",  2019-2021, is finished in March 2022. The final review was held in May 2022, and the project has has received excellent ratings from the reviwers.

• Damiano Di Francesco Maesa has received the grant "Cross chain authenticated queries", from the Ethereum Foundation.  

JUNE 2022

• The 2nd OASIS Workshop, was held in conjunction with ACM Hyptertext 2022, as a virtual event, on the 28th of June 2022

• Laura Ricci has given the invited talk "Self Sovereign Identity", invited talk , 3rd Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology School, 27 June- 1 July 2022, Pula,  Cagliari, Italy.

• SOCI 2022, Security in Open Cloud Infrastructures, in conjunction with European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 15-16 June, 2022. 

• Our PhD student, Andrea Lisi, is visiting Aalto University School, from June 2022 to October 2022.

• Self Sovereign Identity Access Control Systems - Verifying Private Attributes on Blockchain, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Talk, June DLT 2002, Rome.

• Enabling Private Attributes in SSI Access Control Systems with DLT and zkSNARK , Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Talk, DisCoTec 2022, FOCODILE Workshop, Lucca, June 2022

• Andrea Michienzi is appointed Junior Researcher (RTD-A)

JULY  2022

• Our bachelor students Maurizio Cascino, Francesco Di Luzio, Francesco Fidale, and Francesco Ziccolella have succesfully defended their Bachelor Thesis on July 2022. Congrats!

SEPTEMBER 2022

• BANDIT special track, to be held in conjunction with ACM GoodIT 2022, Lymassol (Cyprus), 7-9 September 2022

OCTOBER  2022

• Laura Ricci takes part in the debate Communityverse:  Cryptoscettici vs. Criptosistenitori, Sagrestia Chiesa San Francesco, Lucca, 29th of October 2022, Lucca Comics and Games.

• Matteo Loporchio has successfully  presented the advancement of his PhD thesis 

• Domenico Tortola has successfully presented his thesis proposal.

• Roberta Zucca has successfully defended her Bachelor Thesis "Analisi delle relazioni tra topologia e fee nella Lightning Network di Bitcoin"

DECEMBER 2022

• Int Workshop on Decentralized Edge-to-Cloud Apps managed by Blockchain, in conjunction with CloudCom 2022, Bangkok, Thailand, 16 December 2022.

• Laura Ricci is Conference Program Chair of  ICBTA 2022, 5th Int. Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, 16-18 December 2022 Xi'an, China 

JANUARY 2023

• we have three new Ph.D. students for the National Pd.D. program in Distributed Ledgers

  • Francesco Donini, 

  • Ricardo Daniel Lopes Almeida

  • Andrea Pelosi

MARCH 2023

• Laura Ricci has given the talk "NFT: evoluzione storica e ambito di applicazione" nell'ambito della giornata "Il future della prorietà digital,  NFT, Gaming e metaverso", POMA Institute, online, 11 March 2023

• the 4th Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatioNs, (BRAIN 2023) has been held in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2023, Atlanta, USA

APRIL 2023

• Laura Ricci has participated in the Ph.D. committee for the defense of the Thesis of Mirko Zichichi, Decentralized Systems for the Protection and Portability of Personal Data, University of Madrid - University of Bologna. April 2023, Madrid, Spain. 

MAY 2023

• Damiano Di Francesco Maesa presented the invited tutorial Cross Chain Communication through authenticated queries on EVM-based blockchain at ICBC 2023, Dubai 1 May 2023.

• 5th  Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop (DLT 2023), Bologna, Italy, 25-26 May 2023, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa presents the talk "Towards mutable NFTs: Non-Fungible Mutable Tokens" at DLT 2023, Bologna, May 2023.

• Laura Ricci participated in the presentation of the projects winning  Bank of Italy's - Milano Hub,  Call of Proposal regarding Distributed Ledger Technologies, IBM Studios, Piazza Gae Aulenti, Milan.

• Laura Ricci TPC co-chair of  IEEE ICBC, Int. Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, 1-3 May 2023. Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

• Andrea Lisi successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Designing Layer-2 blockchain applications: methodologies and solutions"

JUNE 2023

• IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, June 26-28, 2023, Kyoto, Japan

JULY 2023

• The Students of the National Pd.D. program in Distributed Ledgers have participated to the Summer PhD School in Fano

OCTOBER  2023

• Laura Ricci gave the invited talk "Three Killer Blockcahin applications: NFT; supply chain and digital identities", AIBC 2023, 5-th Int.  Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Conference (AIBC 29023), October 2023

NOVEMBER 2023

• Laura Ricci is Poster Co-chair 12th Int. Conf. on Complex Networks and their Applications, 28-30 November 2023, Menton Riviera, France 

• we have two new Ph.D. students for the National Pd.D. program in Distributed Ledgers

  • Yitbarek Yimame

  • Giuseppe Galano

DECEMBER 2023 

• Laura Ricci is Program Chair of ICBTA 2023, Sixth Int. Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, Xi'an, China, 15-17 December 2023

APRIL 2024

• A new project has been funded: Advanced and Quantum-safe Solutions for Digital Identity and Digital Tracing”(AQuSDIT), Open Call partenariato SERICS, Spoke 5-Cryptography and Distributed Systems Security, 2024-2025

MAY 2024

• Matteo Loporchio successfully defended his PhD thesis "Query Authentication protocols and Data Analysis on Blockchain Systems", with the rank  Excellent with honors 

• Ethereum Foundation Grant , July 2024, principal investigator Damiano Di Francesco Maesa

JULY 2024

• The Students of the National Pd.D. program in Distributed Ledgers have participated to the Summer PhD School in Palermo

SEPTEMBER 2024

• Damiano Di Francesco Maesa is appointed RTT (Researcher Tenure Track)

NOVEMBER 2024

• Calogero Turco has started his PhD program at the University of Pisa's doctoral school.

MARCH 2025

• A new project has been funded POESIA_4_DPP,  Fondo per lo sviluppo di tecnologie e applicazioni di intelligenza artificiale, blockchain e internet of things, Ministero per lo Sviluppo economico (MISE), 2025-2027

• 6th Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs, BRAIN 2025, Washington, USA, March 11-15 2025, in conjunction with IEEE Pervasive Computing, PERCOM 2025,

APRIL 2025

• Laura Ricci is appointed Member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Journal Peer to Peer Networking and Applications

• Domenico Tortola succesfully defended his PhD thesis "Layer 2 Solutions for Blockchain: Analysis and Applications across Different Use Cases ", with the rank  Excellent with honors 

MAY 2025

• Laura Ricci has given the talk "Blockchain e Università: il Futuro della Formazione Digitale",  Blockchain Week, Palazzo dei Congressi, Roma, 9-10 May 2025.

• Ethereum Foundation Grant , principal investigator Matteo Loporchio

JUNE 2025

• the DLT Lab has organized the  7th IEEE Int.Conf. on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, Pisa, 2-6 June 2025, Laura Ricci General Chair,  Damiano Di Francesco Maesa TPC Co-Chair 

• Laura Ricci has given the talk "Addressing the blockchain trilemma: scalability solutions for Bitcoin and Ethereum" for the "Scientific School on Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies, Pizzo Calabro, June 2025.

JULY 2025

• The Students of the National Pd.D. program in Distributed Ledgers have partecipated to the Summer PhD School in Cagliari