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8 March 2025. Our tutorial "Blockchain Interoperability: Theory And Practice" has been accepted for presentation at IEEE ICBC 2025.
14 February 2025. Our lecture on blockchain interoperability will happen soon for the Lisbon Blockchain Winter School.
12 February 2025. Our 28 academic papers and technical reports accumulated 1300+ citations and more than 75,000 downloads and views, over the last three years. A quick digest is available here.
9 January 2025. Submissions to our DepWeb3 Workshop will be accepted until 17 January.

13 December 2024. We participated in a Blockchain Interoperability Panel organized by INATBA.
24 November 2024. The third and last part of our 3 series is released, Distributed Ledger Interoperability Security (PART 3/3).
19 November 2024. Released the second part of our 3 part series, Distributed Ledger Interoperability Security (PART 2/3).
11 November 2024. Just released the first part of our 3 part series, Distributed Ledger Interoperability Security (PART 1/3). The series distills my recent thesis into an easy to read, accessible summary.
25 October 2024. I'm very honoured to have been awarded "Best INESC-ID Ph.D. student" due to my contributions to the theory and practice of blockchain interoperability.
2 October 2024. Thrilled that our article, A Brief History of Blockchain Interoperability, is featured on the cover of the October issue of Communications of the ACM. A huge milestone for our work at BIG Era Chair!
1 October 2024. We published the first version of our paper XChainWatcher (Hepheastus v2).

24 September 2024. I defended my PhD thesis in Técnico Lisboa with highest grade! You can read the thesis here.
10 June 2024. Our paper "Do You Need a Distributed Ledger Technology Interoperability Solution?" was the most read paper in ACM DLT in 2023!
15 March 2024. Our paper SoK: Security and Privacy of Blockchain Interoperability has been accepted for publication at the IEEE S&P!

11 November 2023. I will be out of office for several weeks, backpacking in Southeast Asia. See you in 2024!
10 November 2023. The draft for our paper SoK: Security and Privacy of Blockchain Interoperability (extended version) is almost ready to be published. Stay tuned! EDIT: published in TechRxiv.
3 October 2023. Our paper Harmonia: Securing Cross-Chain Applications Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs is available at TechRxiv. This research is a collaboration between the academia (Técnico Lisboa) and the industry (Blockdaemon).
Prior to October, we have been busy: Some of my talks, service, mentoring, and projects can be found under the academic and curriculum tabs