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[Lecture Series Fall ’23] AI-Enhanced Security in DeFi: Leveraging LLMs for Proactive Defense — 19 Sep. 2023
[Hybrid] RAI-F-41, University of Zürich, Rämistrasse 74, 8006 Zürich | Online via Zoom
BDLT Group Open Position: Senior Research Associate (Postdoc)
[Lecture Series Spring ’23] A Rand Index-Based Analysis of Consensus Protocols — 17 July 2023
[Hybrid] RAI-F-41, University of Zürich, Rämistrasse 74, 8006 Zürich | Online via Zoom
[Lecture Series Spring ’23]Blockchain Decentralisation – a Stratified Approach — 11 July 2023
Online via Zoom
Alexander F. Wagner’s Study Show How Analysis Contributes to Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
This paper studies the contribution of analysts to the functioning and failure of the market for Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).…
Point Zero Forum – Innovation Tour by University of Zurich
28.06.2023 | 12:45 – 14:15 | KOL-G-217, University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich
Gold or Lead? The Alchemy of Crypto Art & Its Markets
Thursday 8 June 2023, 13:15 -18:00 (CEST) | UZH Main Aula, KOL-G-201, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich
Rolf H. Weber has published an essay on register value rights on blockchains
Prof. Rolf H. Weber is member of the steering committee of the UZH Blockchain Center. His essay on register value…
Call for Contribution – Point Zero Forum: Student Firepoint Conference [Deadline: 31 May 2023]
Within Point Zero Forum ’23 (to be held 26 – 28 June in Zurich) we are thrilled to announce the…
Deadline Extended until May 15 – ChainScience Conference
We would like to inform you that based on the request of several authors, the submission deadline for all contributions…
[Lecture Series Spring ’23] Dissecting DeFi – on Digital Assets, Decentralised Governance, and Digital Identities
23th May 2023 | Hybrid
Benjamin Kraner & Dr. Vallarano Nicolò Publish a Paper on Ethereum Modeling
Matthias Hafner was awarded 1st place at The British Blockchain Association for their research on Stablecoin (joint work with Prof. Helmut Dietl)
In this research, the authors explained the recent depeg of the second largest stablecoin USDC and under what conditions stablecoins…
[Lecture Series Spring ’23] Beyond Chains: the potential and challenges of DAG-based Distributed Ledgers
14th April 2023 | Hybrid
ChainScience Conference 2023
15 -17th June 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts
EthereumZuri.ch Conference + Hackathon
14-16 April 2023 in Zurich, Switzerland
UZH Blockchain Center collaborates with the DLT Science Foundation
We are proud to announce our collaboration with the DLT Science Foundation, a global non-profit organisation launched on March 20, 2023,…
International Summer School – Deep Dive into Blockchain 2023
DDiB ’23 proved to be an absolute blast, leaving everyone thrilled. We look ahead with great anticipation to DDiB ’24…
Shengnan Li successfully defended her PhD dissertation
Shengnan Li successfully defended her dissertation on “Effects of Consensus and Incentives on the Functioning of Blockchains”. An interdisciplinary thesis…
[Industry Talk Spring ’23] Convex, a paradigm shift in convergent execution
28.09.2023 | 13:00 – 14:00 | Hybrid
[Seminar Series Spring ’23] Robustness of the Tangle 2.0 Consensus
15.03.2023 | 13:00 – 14:00 | Hybrid
[Seminar Series Spring’23] NFT: Legal Developments Around the Globe
09.03.2023 | 12:30 – 14:00 | Hybrid | Brown-Bag
[Lecture Series Spring ’23] Scaling Smart Contracts Via Layer-2 Technologies
14 March 2023 | 18:00 – 20:00 | Online via Zoom
[Lecture Series Spring ’23] On Scalable Implementation of Web3
21. 02. 2023 | 18:00 – 20:00 | Hybrid
Ethereum Zurich Conference + Hackathon
14-16 April 2023 in Zurich, Switzerland
[Lecture Series Spring’23] Web3 Big Data, Blockchain Forensics, and Financial Inclusion
24.01.2023 | 18:00 – 20:00 | Online via Zoom
UZH Season’s Greetings ’22 – An NFT Experience
Transaction Fee Mechanism Design
[Lecture Series Antumu 22] | 13.12.2022 | 18:30 – 20:30 | RAA-G-01, University of Zürich, Rämistrasse 59, 8006 Zürich
DAO Symposium 2022
Tuesday, 29 Nov. 2022
[Industry Talk HS22] Julius Bär: A traditional private bank engaging in digital assets
(Hybrid) 15 Nov. 2022
Rolf H. Weber has published an article on international regulations on blockchains
The article shows that current legislation is far from being harmonised and rather resemble a mosaic. Prof Dr. Rolf H.…
Cash online publishes two columns of Helmut Dietl
Prof Dr. Helmut Dietl explains in Cash online why Bitcoin is helpful to reduce the volatility of your portfolio (article…
CoinDesk Rankings ’22: UZH ranked first in Europe (and 3rd World-wide)!
We are thrilled and honoured to announce that University of Zurich has been ranked 3rd World-wide and 1st in Europe for second year in a row in the CoinDesk Best Universities for #Blockchain 2022
Radiotelevisione Svizzera features a podcast with Claudio Tessone
The podcast enters into the world of blockchain & cryptocurrencies and discovers the origins of these technologies and what prospects…
Best paper award for Burkhard Stiller and his co-authors!
The paper on “Æternum: a Decentralized Voting System with Unconditional Privacy” by Christian Killer, Markus Knecht, Claude Müller, Bruno Rodrigues,…
Christian Ewerhart wants to make crypto more secure
Professor Christian Ewerhart has founded the spin-off Blockchain Presence that builds a platform to feed data in a new fashion…
Recording: Crypto Art Conference
The memorable event on Crypto Art at Kunsthaus Zürich co-organised with the University of Zurich Art Market Studies and The Europa Institut at the University of Zurich (EIZ) was a huge success. Over 300 participants filled the auditorium of the Kunsthaus Zürich!
Thanks to all the speakers for your valuable inputs on crypto art from technological, artistic, and legal perspectives.
Helmut Dietl Explains the Mechanisms of Stablecoins
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies that are tied to a reference value (typically the USD). They have been developed to cope with…
Meet the Media Guru Swiss Edition: Prof. Claudio Tessone
Switzerland is turning a World-wide blockchain hub, and the University of Zurich is really active in the space. Thus, UZH Blockchain Center are produce to…
New PhD positions are open: Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies group at UZH
Are you looking for a PhD position in Blockchain? Are you interested in cryptoeconomic analysis modelling, implementation of blockchain-based incentives,…
Florian Spychiger on the research project No1s1 – a house that belongs to no one but itself
Florian Spychiger, a researcher of the UZH Blockchain Center, talks with SRF Radio about No1s1. The project enhances Decentralised Autonomous…
Claudio Tessone about speculation and privacy in NFT markets
Daniel Saraga has written an interesting article on how NFTs disrupted the art market in less than a year. He…
Blockchain Presence wins 3rd place at Austrian Blockchain Award 2021
Blockchain Presence AG is an official spin-off of the University of Zurich that was founded in December 2020 and aims…
UZH ranked first in Europe (and 4thWorld-wide) in CoinDesk’s “Top Universities for Blockchain” 2021
Great to see the University of Zurich ranked first in Europe (and fourth World-wide) in CoinDesk’s “Top Universities for Blockchain” 2021. Switzerland is in a…
Liudmila Zavolokina took part in the Podcast: “Blockchain Won’t Save the World”
Dr. Liudimila Zavolokina, a member of the UZH Blockchain Center, was one of the guests in the S2E10 of the…
Liudmila Zavolokina’s Insights on Trust in Blockchains
Can we trust a trust-less technology? Dr. Liudimila Zavolokina, a member of the UZH Blockchain Center, raises this question in…
Rolf H. Weber Publishes an Article on the Liability Issue in Blockchain Transactions
Who is liable in blockchain transactions? Prof. Dr. iur. Rolf H. Weber tackles this intricate topic in an article published in German…
Helmut Dietl on Staking Ether
Staking Ether can be attractive for long-term investors as Prof. Helmut Dietl explains in his cash column. You can read…
Registration Open: Deep Dive into Blockchain
The registration for the UZH Summer School (4-23 July) – Deep Dive into Blockchain: Linking Economics, Technology and Law –…
Christian Ewerhart on the Future of Blockchains
Are cryptocurrencies and blockchains revolutionary or overhyped? Prof. Dr. Christian Ewerhart from the University of Zurich gives an answer to…
Deep Dive into Blockchain: sold out
Fantastic response to the upcoming UZH Summer School: Deep Dive into Blockchain: Linking Economics, Technology and Law, that far exceeded…
2nd International FinTech, InsurTech & Blockchain Forum
The International FinTech, InsurTech and Blockchain Forum is an international and interdisciplinary conference on the global phenomenon of the digitization of financial…
Claudio Tessone gives talk on Vienna Crypto-Monday
Prof. Dr. Claudio Tessone from the University of Zurich will give a talk at the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics, Vienna…
Blockchain @ Fraunhofer
Wolfgang Prinz has been one of the founders of the Fraunhofer Blockchain Lab (https://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/en/fb/cscw/blockchain.html) and has been exploring the potential…
Great interest was shown for Blockchain seminar
From 17th until 19th of May in 2018 a joint blockchain seminar took place at University of Zurich. In total,…
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