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 on Tuesday 20 of July 2021.
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
Our Students Marco Fresco and Carlo Pasculli have defended their Bachelor Thesis. Marco proposes an advanced access control system for the EOS.IO blockchain, Carlo investigates the Filecoin Blockchain based Storage System.
16 December 2021: Laura Ricci participated to the be-annual meeting of the National DLT Group, in Salerno
FEBRUARY 2022
Several students defended their Master/Bachelor Thesis. Vito Ferrulli proposed a new Oracle- based architecture for blockchain based on Chainlink . Samuel Fabrizi presented a thesis on Federated Learning with Fungible Tokens. The bachelor students Leonardo Stoppani e Calogero Turco presented, respectively, an analysis of the transaction graph of the fungible token of Ethereum and a Calogero Turco a Self Sovereign Identity framework based on Hypeledger Indy.
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.
Our Students Vincenzo Paolo di Perna has defended his Master Thesis, and Luca Cirillo his Bachelor Thesis. Vincenzo has developed an efficient document management system on top of a transaction secure environment, while Luca has presented a clustering of communities on the colored graph of Bitcoin.
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.
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
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
the following students have successfully defended their Bachelor's thesis
Jacopo Raffi: "Studio del dust attack: un attacco all'anonimato di Bitcoin"
Fabio Federico: "A W3C compliant and smart-contract based SSI framework for Algorand"
the following student has successfully defended his Master's thesis
Nunzio Lopardo "Design and implementation of a cross-chain rating system with Chainbridge"
FEBRUARY 2023
the following students have successfully defended their Master's thesis
Alessandro Puccia: "A multi-layer trust framework for Self Sovereign Identity in Blockchain"
Gianmaria Di Rito: "Authenticated Cross Chain Data Transfer on EVM-based blockchains".
the following students have successfully defended their Bachelor's thesis
Simone Schiavone "NMT: NFT modificabili per asset dinamici nel metaverso"
Giuseppe De Marco "Ricerca di betting pattern automatici per Bitcoin on-chain betting services".
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
Vincenzo Palazzo has successfully defended his Master's thesis, LNMetrics: an open source framework to collect metrics on Lightning Network.
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.
JUNE 2023
IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, June 26-28, 2023, Kyoto, Japan
JULY 2023
the following students have successfully defended their Master's thesis
Luca Santarella "Mapping the peaks and depths of crypto exchanges with machine learning"
the following students have successfully defended their Bachelor's thesis
Lorenzo Trezza "Scraping Bitcoin: un'analisi di indirizzi di exchange"
Agatino Cantarella "Classificazione degli utenti della blockchain Steem in base alla ricchezza accumulate"
Leonardo Manneschi "Gasper: un nuovo algoritmo di consenso Proof of Stake per Ethereum"