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Claudio J. Tessone is Professor of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies at the Informatics Department, University of Zurich. He is co-founder and Chairman of the UZH Blockchain Center. He holds a PhD in Physics (on complex systems) and an Habilitation on "Complex socio-economic systems" from ETH Zurich. He is an expert in the modelling of complex socio-economic, and socio-technical systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. He is interested in the link between microscopic agent behaviour and the rules these agents abide to, and the global, emergent properties of socio-economic and socio-technical systems. Blockchain-based systems and cryptocurrencies are the main pillar of his research (being among the first to study them). This includes crypoeconomics (from financial aspects to meso- and macro- properties, such as withstanding, emergent centralisation), big-data blockchain analytics and forensics, design of blockchain-based systems, and characterisation of economic incentives that are present (by design or set inadvertently) in them. He is the director of the Summer School: Deep Dive into Blockchain and of the Certificate of Advanced Studies on Blockchain at the University of Zurich. Since 2018, he serves as Chief Editor of the section on non-financial blockchains and interdisciplinary applications of the Journal “Frontiers in Blockchain”.

Research interests:
consensus dynamics, Complex Systems, scalability of blockchain-based systems, Incentive schemes, Cryptocurrency economics, governance, social dynamics of cryptocurrency adoption, social dynamics of cryptocurrency adoption

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Title

Lightning Network: a second path towards centralisation of the Bitcoin economy

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Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Jian-Hong Lin, Kevin Primicerio, Tiziano Squartini, Christian Decker, Claudio J.Tessone

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2023

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Title

The Structural Role of Smart Contracts and Exchanges in the Centralisation of Ethereum-Based Cryptoassets

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Blockchain Analytics

Authors

De Collibus, Francesco Maria; Piškorec, Matija; Partida, Alberto; Tessone, Claudio J

Publication Type
Research Paper
Release Year

2022

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Title

The Role of Smart Contracts in the Transaction Networks of Four Key DeFi-Collateral Ethereum-Based Tokens.

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

De Collibus, Francesco Maria; Partida, Alberto; Piškorec, Matija

Publication Type
Book
Release Year

2022

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Title

Public Policy Modeling and Applications 2021

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Miguel Fuentes, Claudio J. Tessone , and Bernardo Alves Furtado

Publication Type
Research Paper
Release Year

2022

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Title

Visualization of Blockchain Consensus Degradation

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Luca Ambrosini; Matija Piškorec; Claudio J. Tessone

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Conference ProceedingsResearch Paper
Release Year

2022

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Title

Agent-based Modelling of Bitcoin Consensus without Block Rewards

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Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Benjamin Kraner; Sheng-Nan Li; Andreia Sofia Teixeira; Claudio J. Tessone

Publication Type
Conference Proceedings
Release Year

2022

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Title

MicroVelocity: rethinking the Velocity of Money for digital currencies

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Carlo Campajola, Marco D’Errico, Claudio J. Tessone

Publication Type
Research Paper
Release Year

2022

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Title

The Evolution Of Centralisation on Cryptocurrency Platforms

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Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Carlo Campajola, Raffaele Cristodaro, Francesco Maria De Collibus, Tao Yan, Nicolo’ Vallarano, Claudio J. Tessone

Publication Type
Research Paper
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2022

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Title

Twisted by the Pools: Detection of Selfish Anomalies in Proof-of-Work Mining

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Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Sheng-Nan Li, Carlo Campajola, Claudio J. Tessone

Publication Type
Research Paper
Release Year

2022

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Title

Disorder Unleashes Panic in Bitcoin Dynamics

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Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Marco Alberto Javarone, Gabriele Di Antonio, Gianni Valerio Vinci, Raffaele Cristodaro, Claudio J. Tessone, Luciano Pietronero

Publication Type
Research Paper
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2022

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Title

Agent-based Modelling of Strategic behavior in PoW Protocols

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Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Schwarz-Schilling, Caspar; Li, Sheng-Nan; Tessone, Claudio J

Publication Type
Conference Proceedings
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2021

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Heterogeneous Preferential Attachment in Key Ethereum-Based Cryptoassets

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Blockchain Analytics

Authors

De Collibus, Francesco Maria; Partida, Alberto; Piškorec, Matija; Tessone, Claudio J

Publication Type
Research Paper
Release Year

2021

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Title

The Miner’s Dilemma With Migration

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Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Li, Chuanyun; Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio

Publication Type
Conference Proceedings
Release Year

2021

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Title

The Complex Community Structure of the Bitcoin Address Correspondence Network

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Fischer, Jan Alexander; Palechor, Andres; Dell’Aglio, Daniele; Bernstein, Abraham; Tessone, Claudio J

Publication Type
Research Paper
Release Year

2021

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Title

Absence of a resolution limit in in-block nestedness

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Mariani, Manuel; Pallazi, Maria J; Solé-Ribalta, Albert; Borge-Holthoefer, Javier; Tessone, Claudio

Publication Type
Research Paper
Release Year

2021

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Title

Unveiling the importance and evolution of design components through the “Tree of Blockchain”

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Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Spychiger, Florian; Tasca, Paolo; Tessone, Claudio

Publication Type
Research Paper
Release Year

2021

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Title

Consensus formation on heterogeneous networks

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Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Edoardo Fadda, Junda He, Claudio Tessone, Paolo Barucca

Publication Type
Research Paper
Release Year

2021

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Title

Mining blocks in a row: A statistical study of fairness in Bitcoin mining

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Sheng-Nan Li, Zhao Yang, Claudio J. Tessone

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AllConference Proceedings
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2020

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Title

Bitcoin Transaction Networks: an overview of recent results

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Nicolò Vallarano, Claudio Tessone, Tiziano Squartini

Publication Type
Preprint
Release Year

2020

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Title

Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency mining: a statistical approach to fairness

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Li, Sheng-Nan; Yang, Zhao; Tessone, Claudio J

Publication Type
Conference Proceedings
Release Year

2020

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Title

Mining blocks in a row: a statistical study of fairness in Bitcoin mining

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Li, Sheng-Nan; Yang, Zhao; Tessone, Claudio J

Publication Type
Conference Proceedings
Release Year

2020

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Title

A Taxonomy of Blockchain Technologies: Principles of Identification and Classification

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Paolo Tasca, Claudio J. Tessone

Publication Type
Research Paper
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2019

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Title

The evolving liaisons between the transaction networks of Bitcoin and its price dynamics

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Bovet A., Campajola C., Mottes F., Restocchi V., Vallarano N., Squartini T., Tessone C.J.

Publication Type
Research Paper
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2019

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Title

Incentivizing Data Quality in Blockchains for Inter-Organizational Networks – Learning from the Digital Car Dossier

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

Zavolokina, Liudmila ; Spychiger, Florian ; Tessone, Claudio J ; Schwabe, Gerhard

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AllConference Proceedings
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2018

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Title

Network-based indicators of Bitcoin bubbles

Research Area

Economy

Authors

Alexandre Bovet, Carlo Campajola, Jorge F. Lazo, Francesco Mottes, Iacopo Pozzana, Valerio Restocchi, Pietro Saggese, Nicoló Vallarano, Tiziano Squartini, Claudio J. Tessone

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Preprint
Release Year

2018

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Title

The digital traces of bubbles: feedback cycles between socio-economic signals in the Bitcoin economy

Research Area

Blockchain Analytics

Authors

David Garcia, Claudio J. Tessone, Pavlin Mavrodiev and Nicolas Perony

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Release Year

2014

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