UZH Blockchain Center
A Competence Center establish to fathom the complexity of distributed trust through an interdisciplinary lens
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The UZH Blockchain Center is composed of 22 Faculty members from three Faculties and including Informatics, Business, Economics, Finance, Regulation, Law, Mathematics and Complexity Science. It hosts over 50 researchers from the University of Zurich and top scholarss.
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Since August 2021, the group is tenured at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, as the “Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies” group. With this, UZH demonstrates a strong strategic interest in the area of Blockchain.
Our Research
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Latest Publications
New business models for the art market. The integration of blockchain into the art market’s infrastructure
Blockchain Analytics
Nicolas Galley
2023
Arbitrage in the Market for Cryptocurrencies
Economy
Tommy Crépellière, Matthias Pelster, Stefan Zeisberger
2022
Disorder Unleashes Panic in Bitcoin Dynamics
Blockchain Analytics
Marco Alberto Javarone, Gabriele Di Antonio, Gianni Valerio Vinci, Raffaele Cristodaro, Claudio J. Tessone, Luciano Pietronero
2022
Twisted by the Pools: Detection of Selfish Anomalies in Proof-of-Work Mining
Blockchain Analytics
Sheng-Nan Li, Carlo Campajola, Claudio J. Tessone
2022
The Evolution Of Centralisation on Cryptocurrency Platforms
Blockchain Analytics
Carlo Campajola, Raffaele Cristodaro, Francesco Maria De Collibus, Tao Yan, Nicolo' Vallarano, Claudio J. Tessone
2022
MicroVelocity: rethinking the Velocity of Money for digital currencies
Blockchain Analytics
Carlo Campajola, Marco D'Errico, Claudio J. Tessone
2022
Agent-based Modelling of Bitcoin Consensus without Block Rewards
Blockchain Analytics
Benjamin Kraner; Sheng-Nan Li; Andreia Sofia Teixeira; Claudio J. Tessone
2022
Visualization of Blockchain Consensus Degradation
Blockchain Analytics
Luca Ambrosini; Matija Piškorec; Claudio J. Tessone
2022
Public Policy Modeling and Applications 2021
Blockchain Analytics
Miguel Fuentes, Claudio J. Tessone , and Bernardo Alves Furtado
2022
Multi-Party Certification on Blockchain and Its Impact in the Market for Lemons
Blockchain Analytics
Ingrid Bauer, José Parra-Moyano, Karl Schmedders, Gerhard Schwabe
2022
A Systematic Literature Review of Blockchain Technology for Smart Villages
Blockchain Analytics
Kaur, P., Parashar, A.
2022
DLT-Handelsplattforme
Technology
Rolf H. Weber
2022
A Decentralized Ticketing Management Platform
Blockchain Analytics
Sina Rafati Niya, Simon Bachmann, Claudio Brasser, Michael Bucher, Nicolas Spielmann & Burkhard Stiller
2022
Efficient Designs for Practical Blockchain-IoT Integration
Blockchain Analytics
Sina Rafati Niya; Burkhard Stiller
2022
Enabling Technologies and Distributed Storage
Blockchain Analytics
Sina Rafati Niya, Burkhard Stiller
2022
The Role of Smart Contracts in the Transaction Networks of Four Key DeFi-Collateral Ethereum-Based Tokens.
Blockchain Analytics
De Collibus, Francesco Maria; Partida, Alberto; Piškorec, Matija
2022
The Structural Role of Smart Contracts and Exchanges in the Centralisation of Ethereum-Based Cryptoassets
Blockchain Analytics
De Collibus, Francesco Maria; Piškorec, Matija; Partida, Alberto; Tessone, Claudio J
2022
Incentivizing Data Quality in Blockchain-Based Systems – The Case of the Digital Cardossier
Blockchain Analytics
Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio; Zavolokina, Liudmila; Schwabe, Gerhard
2022
Arbitrage on Markets for Cryptocurrencies
Blockchain Analytics
Crépellière, Tommy and Zeisberger, Stefan
2022
Consensus formation on heterogeneous networks
Blockchain Analytics
Edoardo Fadda, Junda He, Claudio Tessone, Paolo Barucca
2021
The landscape of Blockchain research: impacts and opportunities
Blockchain Analytics
Hsing Kenneth Cheng, Daning Hu, Thomas Puschmann & J. Leon Zhao
2021
Fostering Peer-to-Peer Blockchain-based Data Markets
Blockchain Analytics
José Parra-Moyano, Marcel Bühler, Michel Avital, Karl Schmedders
2021
A Blockchain-based Approach for Educators’ Profile Management and Reward system
Blockchain Analytics
Parminder Kaur; Anshu Parashar; Kavisha Duggal; Sunita Sunita
2021
Regulating Financial Innovation: DLT Potential and Promise for Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)
Law
Pavel Kulikov
2021
Unveiling the importance and evolution of design components through the “Tree of Blockchain”
Blockchain Analytics
Spychiger, Florian; Tasca, Paolo; Tessone, Claudio
2021
Absence of a resolution limit in in-block nestedness
Blockchain Analytics
Mariani, Manuel; Pallazi, Maria J; Solé-Ribalta, Albert; Borge-Holthoefer, Javier; Tessone, Claudio
2021
The Complex Community Structure of the Bitcoin Address Correspondence Network
Blockchain Analytics
Fischer, Jan Alexander; Palechor, Andres; Dell’Aglio, Daniele; Bernstein, Abraham; Tessone, Claudio J
2021
The Miner’s Dilemma With Migration
Blockchain Analytics
Li, Chuanyun; Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio
2021
Heterogeneous Preferential Attachment in Key Ethereum-Based Cryptoassets
Blockchain Analytics
De Collibus, Francesco Maria; Partida, Alberto; Piškorec, Matija; Tessone, Claudio J
2021
Agent-based Modelling of Strategic behavior in PoW Protocols
Blockchain Analytics
Schwarz-Schilling, Caspar; Li, Sheng-Nan; Tessone, Claudio J
2021
Consensus: Proof of Work, Proof of Stake and Structural Alternatives
Economy
NIcola Dimitri
2021
Monetary Dynamics with “Proof of Stake”
Economy
Nicolas Dimitri
2021
Bitcoin Mining as a Contest
Blockchain Analytics
Nicola Dimitri
2021
NFTs and Copyright: Challenges and Opportunities
Blockchain Analytics
Pınar Çağlayan Aksoy & Zehra Özkan Üner
2021
The Formation and Validity of Smart Contracts
Blockchain Analytics
Pınar Çağlayan Aksoy
2021
AI as Agents: Agency Law, Artificial Intelligence and Private Law: Global Perspectives
Law
Pınar Çağlayan Aksoy
2021
The evolving liaisons between the transaction networks of Bitcoin and its price dynamics
Blockchain Analytics
Bovet A., Campajola C., Mottes F., Restocchi V., Vallarano N., Squartini T., Tessone C.J.
2019
Leitfaden Blockchain in der kantonalen Verwaltung Zürich
Blockchain Analytics
Zavolokina, Liudmila Spychiger, Florian Schwabe, Gerhard
2021
How Can We Reduce Information Asymmetries and Enhance Trust in ‘The Market for Lemons’?
Blockchain Analytics
Liudmila Zavolokina, Manuel Schlegel, Gerhard Schwabe
2021
Dealers of Peaches and Lemons: How Can Used Car Dealers Use Trusted Car Data to Create Value?
Economy
Baumann, J., Zavolokina, L., & Schwabe, G.
2021
Ethereum Gas Price Statistics
Economy
David Carl, Christian Ewerhart
2021
The impact of blockchain on business models in banking
Blockchain Analytics
Viktoria Rajnak & Thomas Puschmann
2020
Mining blocks in a row: a statistical study of fairness in Bitcoin mining
Blockchain Analytics
Li, Sheng-Nan; Yang, Zhao; Tessone, Claudio J
2020
Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency mining: a statistical approach to fairness
Blockchain Analytics
Li, Sheng-Nan; Yang, Zhao; Tessone, Claudio J
2020
Lightning Network: a second path towards centralisation of the Bitcoin economy
Blockchain Analytics
Jian-Hong Lin, Kevin Primicerio, Tiziano Squartini, Christian Decker, Claudio J.Tessone
2023
Bitcoin Transaction Networks: an overview of recent results
Blockchain Analytics
Nicolò Vallarano, Claudio Tessone, Tiziano Squartini
2020
Mining blocks in a row: A statistical study of fairness in Bitcoin mining
Blockchain Analytics
Sheng-Nan Li, Zhao Yang, Claudio J. Tessone
2020
SC-FLARE: Cooperative DDoS Signaling based on Smart Contracts
Blockchain Analytics
Bruno Rodrigues, Spasen Trendafilov, Eder John Scheid, Burkhard Stiller
2020
A Controlled Natural Language to Support Intent-based Blockchain Selection
Blockchain Analytics
Eder John Scheid, Patrick Widmer, Bruno Rodrigues, Muriel Franco, Burkhard Stiller
2020
Standardization of Blockchain-based I2oT Systems in the I4 Era
Blockchain Analytics
Sina Rafati Niya, Eryk Schiller, Ile Cepilov, Burkhard Stiller
2020
PleBeuS: a Policy-based Blockchain Selection Framework
Blockchain Analytics
Eder John Scheid, Daniel Lakic, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller
2022
Design and Implementation of Cast-as-Intended Verifiability for a Blockchain-Based Voting System
Blockchain Analytics
Christian Killer, Bruno Rodrigues, Raphael Matile, Eder John Scheid, Burkhard Stiller
2020
Toward scalable blockchains with transaction aggregation
Blockchain Analytics
Sina Rafati Niya, Fabio Maddaloni, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller
2020
Unveiling the relation between herding and liquidity with trader lead-lag networks
Blockchain Analytics
Carlo Campajola, Fabrizio Lillo, Daniele Tantari
2020
Blockchain for business: redefining trust
Blockchain Analytics
Liudmila Zavolokina, André Naef
2020
Designing for Trust in a Blockchain Platform
Blockchain Analytics
Liudmila Zavolokina; Noah Zani; Gerhard Schwabe
2020
Potential and Limits of Blockchain Technology for Networked Businesses
Blockchain Analytics
Roger W.H. Bons, Johan Versendaal, Liudmila Zavolokina, Weidong Larry Shi,
2020
Value Creation From a Decentralized Car Ledger
Blockchain Analytics
Ingrid Bauer*, Liudmila Zavolokina, Fabian Leisibach and Gerhard Schwabe
2020
Management, Governance and Value Creation in a Blockchain Consortium
Blockchain Analytics
Zavolokina, L., Ziolkowski, R., Bauer, I., & Schwabe, G.
2020
Is there a market for trusted car data?
Economy
Ingrid Bauer, Liudmila Zavolokina & Gerhard Schwabe
2020
Finite blockchain games
Economy
Christian Ewerhart
2020
Stablecoins in cryptoeconomics from initial coin offerings to central bank digital currencies
Economy
Marco Dell'Erba
2019
Reconnecting citizens to politics via blockchain–starting the debate
Blockchain Analytics
Uwe Serdült, Shefali Virkar, Olivier Glassey, Marijn Janssen
2019
Designing a Marketplace for Distributed Data
Economy
D Moor, S Seuken, T Grubenmann, A Bernstein
2019
Transaction Fees, Block Size Limit and Auctions in Bitcoin
Economy
Nicola Dimitri
2019
Transaction Fees, Block Size Limit and Auctions in Bitcoin
Blockchain Analytics
Nicola Dimitri
2019
A Taxonomy of Blockchain Technologies: Principles of Identification and Classification
Blockchain Analytics
Paolo Tasca, Claudio J. Tessone
2019
Threat Management Dashboard for a Blockchain Collaborative Defense
Blockchain Analytics
Christian Killer, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller
2019
Bifröst: a Modular Blockchain Interoperability API
Blockchain Analytics
Eder John Scheid, Timo Hegnauer, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller
2019
Scalable Transport Mechanisms for Blockchain IoT Applications
Technology
Eryk Schiller, Sina Rafati Niya, Timo Surbeck, Burkhard Stiller
2019
TradeMap: A FINMA-compliant Anonymous Management of an End-2-end Trading Market Place
Technology
Sina Rafati Niya, Sebastian Allemann, Arik Gabay, Burkhard Stiller
2019
BUNKER: a Blockchain-based trUsted VNF pacKagE Repository
Technology
Eder John Scheid, Manuel Keller, Muriel Franco, Burkhard Stiller
2019
GENEVIZ: a Visual Tool for the Construction and Blockchain-based Validation of SFC Packages
Technology
Muriel Franco, Martin Bucher, Eder Scheid, Lisandro Granville, Burkhard Stiller
2019
Cooperative Signaling of DDoS Attacks in a Blockchain-based Network
Technology
Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller
2019
SATOS: Storage Agnostic Tokens over Opaque and Substructural Types
Technology
Markus Knecht, Burkhard Stiller
EUREKA – A Minimal Operational Prototype of a Blockchain-based Rating and Publishing System
Technology
Andreas Schaufelbühl, Sina Rafati Niya, Lucas Pelloni, Severin Wullschleger, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, Lawrence Rajendran
2019
A Reputation and Reward Scheme for a Cooperative Network Defense
Technology
Andreas Gruhler, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller
2019
Evaluating a Blockchain-based Cooperative Defense
Technology
Bruno Rodrigues; Lukas Eisenring ; Eder Scheid ; Thomas Bocek ; Burkhard Stiller
2019
Aktien als digitalisierte Werte
Economy
Merens Derungs
2019
The Bitcoin game: Ethno-resonance as method
Blockchain Analytics
Donncha Kavanagh, Gianluca Miscione, PJ Ennis
2019
Examining Gentle Rivalry: Decision-Making in Blockchain Systems
Blockchain Analytics
Rafael Ziolkowski, Geetha Parangi, Gianluca Miscione and Gerhard Schwabe
2019
Exploring Blockchain Value Creation: The Case of the Car Ecosystem
Blockchain Analytics
Ingrid Bauer, Liudmila Zavolokina, Fabian Leisibach and Gerhard Schwabe
2019
To Token or not to Token: Tools for Understanding Blockchain Tokens
Blockchain Analytics
Luis Oliveira, Liudmila Zavolokina, Ingrid Bauer and Gerhard Schwabe
2018
Incentivizing Data Quality in Blockchains for Inter-Organizational Networks – Learning from the Digital Car Dossier
Blockchain Analytics
Zavolokina, Liudmila ; Spychiger, Florian ; Tessone, Claudio J ; Schwabe, Gerhard
2018
Consensus through Blockchains: Exploring Governance across interorganizational Settings
Blockchain Analytics
Rafael Ziolkowski, Gianluca Miscione and Gerhard Schwabe
2018
Network-based indicators of Bitcoin bubbles
Economy
Alexandre Bovet, Carlo Campajola, Jorge F. Lazo, Francesco Mottes, Iacopo Pozzana, Valerio Restocchi, Pietro Saggese, Nicoló Vallarano, Tiziano Squartini, Claudio J. Tessone
2018
Tribal Governance: The Business of Blockchain Authentication
Economy
Gianluca Miscione, Rafael Ziolkowski, Liudmila Zavolokina, Gerhard Schwabe
2018
Blockchain Technologies from the Consumers’ Perspective: What Is There and Why Should Who Care?
Blockchain Analytics
Manuel Schlegel, Liudmila Zavolokina and Gerhard Schwabe
2018
Buyers of lemons: addressing buyers’ needs in the market for lemons with blockchain technology
Economy
Liudmila Zavolokina, Gianluca Miscione and Gerhard Schwabe
2018
Blockchains everywhere – a use-case of blockchains in the pharma supply-chain
Technology
Thomas Bocek; Bruno B. Rodrigues; Tim Strasser; Burkhard Stiller
2017
Blockchain innovation in private investment funds-A comparative analysis of the United States and Europe
Economy
Wulf A Kaal, Marco Dell'Erba
2017
The Blockchain Technology; Some Theory and Applications
Blockchain Analytics
Nicola Dimitri
2017
Why Should I Trust a Blockchain Platform? Designing for Trust in the Digital Car Dossier
Technology
Liudmila Zavolokina, Noah Zani and Gerhard Schwabe
2017
Cryptographic Primitives in Blockchain Technology: A mathematical introduction
Blockchain Analytics
Meike A. S. Bradbury, Thorsten Hens, Stefan Zeisberger
2015
The digital traces of bubbles: feedback cycles between socio-economic signals in the Bitcoin economy
Blockchain Analytics
David Garcia, Claudio J. Tessone, Pavlin Mavrodiev and Nicolas Perony
2014