Keynotes 

Keynote #1:

Title: The Trust Paradox: Adversarial Incentives to Systemic Oversight in Blockchains

Abstract: TBA.

Bio: Prof. Dr Claudio J. Tessone is Professor of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies at the University of Zurich, where he leads the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies Group. His research connects complex systems science, economics, and data science to study decentralised technologies, with a focus on cryptoeconomics, consensus mechanisms, blockchain analytics and forensics, DeFi, token-based economies, and blockchain governance. He is co-founder and Chairman of the UZH Blockchain Center, one of the leading interdisciplinary blockchain hubs worldwide, bringing together more than 20 professors across business, economics, finance, informatics, law, and mathematics. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Ledger, the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to blockchain and cryptocurrency research. He also directs several international education initiatives, including the Deep Dive into Blockchain Summer School and the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Blockchain.

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Keynote #2:

Title: Post-Quantum Security and Censorship Resistance in the Decentralization Era 

Abstract: The core promise of decentralized infrastructure is its resilience to single points of failure, providing reliable services to everyone at any time. However, two major risks threaten to completely jeopardize existing decentralized systems: the quantum threat and the approaching large-scale adoption of highly centralized identity systems. This keynote addresses these two issues, presenting potential mitigations and countermeasures that combine standardized post-quantum
cryptography with advanced cryptographic tools, enabling post-quantum blockchains and censorship-resistant privacy-preserving credential systems.

Bio: Prof. Ivan Visconti is a full professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests focus on cryptography and, more specifically, on data protection through zero-knowledge proofs, post-quantum cryptography, decentralized systems, blockchain technology, homomorphic encryption, and privacy-enhancing technologies. For over 20 years, he has contributed to the design of advanced cryptographic systems, publishing his results in the proceedings of prestigious conferences organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and serving on their program committees.

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Keynote #3:

Title: Blockchains are dangerous!

Abstract: Blockchains are increasingly adopted in many critical domains. Despite so, it is still unnecessarily easy to fall victim of scams or relying on dangerous smart-contracts. In this talk, I will give some insights on our recent results detecting phishing smart contracts on Ethereum, and discovering unsafe WebAssembly smart contracts in the wild.

Bio: Prof. Valerio Schiavoni is Professeur Titulaire of Computer Science at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). His research explores the practical trade-offs of building systems, security, and trustworthy computing, with a focus on confidential computing, and more recently security and performance aspects of blockchain benchmarking.
He coordinates the Doctoral Program in Computer Science of Universities in West Switzerland. He regularly serves on numerous program committees, including EuroSys, DSN, ICDCS, SoCC, Middleware, SRDS, and he co-chaired several international conferences, i.e,  ACM Middleware 2024, IEEE PRDC 2024, IEEE SRDS 2025. He serves as IFIP WG6.1 Vice-Chair, Steering Chair of DAIS, while serving on few other steering committees.
He was Invited Professor at U. Sapienza Rome (Italy), Invited Professor at U. Torino (Italy) and Invited Professor at UM6P (Morocco).