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 …
Professor Aggelos Kiayias, Director of the Blockchain Technology Lab at the University of Edinburgh, has received the 2024 BCS Lovelace Medal, one of the most distinguished honours in computing, for his impactful contributions to cybersecurity and cryptography. Named after Ada Lovelace – the 19th-century mathematician considered the first computer programmer …
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 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 …
