Monthly Research Talks

Title Researcher(s) Date of Talk Link to Talk
The Dual Challenges: Making Decentralization Scalable Mohammad Jalalzai
Bridging the gap: Crypto users’ sense-making of a historical market crisis Dr. Annika Aebli
Data Spaces and Sovereignty by Design: A Proof of Concept in Agriculture Roberto García, Rosa Gil
AI in health is overrated. Find out what's missing and why Dr. Brigitte Piniewski
Blockchains as a Business Force Allan Matheson
Accountability in permissioned blockchains: through the ledger, the code and the people Abstract: Mélissa Fortin
Building on Bitcoin: Exploring Innovations and Opportunities Brian Atchue
Intro To Zenrooom Denis "Jaromil" Roio
National Archives and Trustworthiness of the Digital Records: The Role of Blockchain Technology Özhan Sağlık
Tight Security Analysis of Nakamoto Consensus and Its Variants Xuechao Wang
Digital Responsibility : why it matters for a desirable, trustworthy and sustainable digital society Jean-Henry Morin
Is decentralized finance actually decentralized? A social network analysis of the Aave protocol on the Ethereum blockchain Luyao (Sunshine) Zhang
Incentive Mechanisms Design for Sustainable Blockchain Storage Yunshu Liu
On-Chain Governance Model Based on Particle Swarm Optimization for Reducing Blockchain Forks Reza Nourmohammadi
How Blockchain Tokens are Changing Platform Economics Hanna Halaburda
Ethereum After The Merge: Is It Still Secure? Joachim Neu
Project Helvetia - Settling Tokenised Assets in Central Bank Money Fabio Wieser, Mirjam Eggen
Decentralized Storage Networks, IPFS/Filecoin/Estuary Jimmy Lee
The Economics of Non-Fungible Tokens Yukun Liu
Blockchain; A Game-Theoretic Cryptographic Ledger Rasoul Ramezanian
The Evolution of Decentralized Governance Andrew Hall
Blockchain Forensics; DeFi Investigations & Criminal Activity Ryon Shamloo
SafeCoin: Improvements to Solana and the accessibility of blockchain technology Jeff Galloway
Crypto, Blockchain and Digital Transformation in the Second Era of the Internet Don Tapscott
Web3, Crypto, and Coinbase Dinek Kothottil, Nemil Dalal
Be Careful What You Build Dr. Maureen Webb
Technology and Cryptocurrency Valuation: Evidence from Machine Learning Dr. Jinfei Sheng
Digital Governance as Recombination: The Institutional Generativity of Blockchain Protocols Jason Windawi
Querying the Blockchain Data through one Unified API Anadi Pandharkar
The Future of Money in the Bitcoin Age Nigel Dodd
Verifiable Lotteries and Verifiable Delay Functions Joseph Bonneau
Analysis of the current opportunities offered by the Digital Yuan in China and pilot tests in Japan, Korea, UAE and Saudi Arabia. Oriol Caudevilla
Equitable Smart Unified Real Estate (eSÛRe) Platform Atefeh Mashatan
Manta: Privacy Preserving Decentralized Exchange Shumo Chu
Applying Blockchain to Healthcare with Ethereum, Decentralized Identity and Peer-to-peer Databases Chris Were, Dr. Ray Ng
Self-Sovereign Health Data Management: Opportunities and Challenges Shin'ichiro Matsuo
Blockchain@UBC Student Research Roundup Anisha Dhillon, Chelsea Palmer, Jianyu Niu, Artemij Voskobojnikov
From UX to Justice: The Challenges of Designing On-chain Solutions for Authenticating Evidence of War Crimes Daniel Park
Self-Sovereign Health Data Management: Opportunities and Challenges Victoria Lemieux
The Hermes BFT: Efficient Consensus in the Era of Blockchains Mohammad Jalalzai
The Trust over IP Stack: How Blockchains Can Anchor a Trust Layer for the Internet Drummond Reed
Forging Field Intersections: The Case of the Intersection between the Field of Blockchain Innovation and Healthcare Chang Lu

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We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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