We are delighted to share that Lukas Aumayr, postdoctoral researcher at the Blockchain Technology Laboratory, has received the 2025 Bitcoin Research Prize for the paper “BitVM2: Bridging Bitcoin to Second Layers,” co-authored with Robin Linus, Lukas Aumayr, Zeta Avarikioti, Matteo Maffei, Andrea Pelosi, Orfeas Thyfronitis Litos, Christos Stefo, David Tse, …
We are thrilled to announce that Cairnlytics, the new spin-out from the Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI), has achieved two massive milestones! We have successfully completed Phase 1 of the prestigious CyberASAP (Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme) and have been awarded a place to proceed to Phase 2. As if …
This summer, members of the Blockchain Technology Lab contributed to the Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC) 2025, an international forum on the latest research in blockchain science and engineering. From the Lab, Aggelos Kiayias, Christina Ovezik, Yu Shen, and Lukas Aumayr were each involved in the programme, presenting and contributing …
The Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI) initiative continues to gain momentum. On September 17th, 2024, the EDI team held an in-person workshop hosted by the Scottish Government, bringing together representatives from the Bank of England, the Blockchain & Digital Trust Taskforce, and the British Blockchain Association. The session featured a presentation …
We are excited to announce the spin-out of the Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI)—a major step in bringing decentralisation-based resilience assessment to security-critical domains beyond blockchain. The EDI project, developed at the University of Edinburgh, is at the forefront of measuring decentralisation in blockchain networks. Now, as a spin-out, we are …
Measuring Blockchain Decentralization with EDI The Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI), developed by the Blockchain Technology Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics, is an initiative aimed at defining and measuring the decentralization of blockchain systems. By incorporating metrics from diverse fields such as economics and network science, EDI …
