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Professor Emilios Avgouleas, a distinguished expert in financial law and regulation at Edinburgh Law School and a member of the Blockchain Technology Lab, recently participated in significant discussions with senior UK financial regulators and industry leaders. The discussions aimed to explore the evolving landscape shaped by technology in finance and …
The EDI team is officially launching today the alpha version of the index. The EDI is not a number or a graph! It is a framework, set of tools and graphical interface for the blockchain community to collaboratively and transparently measure and compare the decentralisation of different blockchain systems. Ultimately, …
The Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI) project aims to define and measure blockchain decentralisation in a systematic way. As a first step, the EDI team identified 8 dimensions of blockchain systems that can exhibit different degrees of (de)centralisation and are therefore interesting to evaluate. These layers include : 1) Hardware, 2) …
Congratulations to Amirreza Sarencheh for his outstanding achievement in winning the prestigious “Best Fintech Student of the Year” award at the 2022 Scottish Financial Technology Awards, organised by DIGIT, Scotland’s renowned technology, media, and events company. Amirreza, a dedicated PhD student at the Blockchain Technology Lab, University of Edinburgh, has …
In a previous blog post, we analysed Pool Splitting Behaviour and Equilibrium Properties in Cardano’s Rewards Scheme, demonstrating results from experiments that were carried out using a simulation engine that we developed. This time, we are here to explain in detail how this tool works and go over the design …
The reward sharing scheme used in the current deployment of Cardano has some favourable properties that were analysed theoretically in an academic paper and through simulation experiments in our previous blog post. Specifically, we examined the reward scheme in terms of the level of decentralisation it induces and concluded that …
Since the introduction of blockchain systems more than a decade ago, groups and individuals from both academia and industry have strived to refine the underlying protocols, improving their scalability, stability or decentralisation properties, to name a few. In this blog post, we will focus on the aspect of decentralisation and …
Chinese crypto firms are relocating to other nations amidst a crackdown by Chinese authorities, who are addressing concerns regarding energy usage and financial risks associated with the crypto industry. The Scotsman recently featured an article on the environmental impact of migrating crypto miners, with insights from Prof. Aggelos Kiayias. For …
Prof. Aggelos Kiayias gave a webinar at the Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research Forum (CBER) last Thursday, 2nd December, on the topic, “Rethinking Information Technology from a Decentralisation Perspective.” His talk (abstract below) was based upon research compiled in the following paper: Decentralizing Information Technology: The Advent of Resource Based …