KEYNOTE - Vincent Gramoli

Time & Venue

TBC

Abstract

Redbelly Network represents a new paradigm in blockchain technology, delivering unprecedented levels of scalability, decentralisation and security. In this keynote, we will present the series of research results combining game theory, distributed computing, software systems and formal verification that were necessary to design the first public blockchain used by a central bank. Through various benchmarking experiments we will demonstrate the properties of determinism, Byzantine fault tolerance, instant finality and fairness that make Redbelly Network the solution of choice to tokenize real world assets.

Biography

Vincent Gramoli is the Founder and CTO of Redbelly Network and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sydney. He received the Digital National Facilities & Collections Award from CSIRO, the Education Leader of the Year Award from Blockchain Australia, and the Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. In the past, Gramoli has been affiliated with INRIA, Cornell, Data61 and EPFL. Vincent is part of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and is a Director of Redbelly Network. In the past, Vincent acted as the Chair of the Cybersecurity Committee for CORE, the Chair of the Blockchain Technical Committee for the ACS, an advisor and a Blockchain expert for central and commercial banks. His expertise is in distributed computing and security. With his lab, he found and reported security vulnerabilities in blockchains in 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2024. As an alternative, they proposed the Redbelly Blockchain that offers quasi-instant finality, is Solidity compatible and scales to large networks. They designed a realistic open source blockchain benchmark suite, called Diablo. Vincent teaches Distributed Systems at the University of Sydney, the Coursera Blockchain Scalability MOOC to 13K students and published the textbook with Springer.