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Dr. Gavin Wood: Developer. Architect. Inventor. Founder. Visionary.

DLT is emerging for a disruption of our current financial infrastructure. As such, Blockchain Finance seeks to combine open-source, peer to peer building blocks into sophisticated products using blockchain technology, seeking to disintermediate and decentralize the traditional financial service industry. This lecture will combine insights on DLT with recent applications from finance.

The course "Shaping a DCent.Society: Assessing Societal Implications of Bitcoin, Blockchains & Smart Contracts" critically reflects on the potential long-term implications of distributed ledger technology on our societies.

May 2022. This workshop will focus on Distributed Ledger Technology and its applications in business. It is being co-​organised by MAS MTEC staff, students and alumni.

Zum vierten Mal wurden die 100 wichtigsten Köpfe der Schweizer Digitalisierung gekürt. Unter den Digital Shapers 2019 finden sich auch ETH Professoren.

The very first edition of the new annual conference Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT) is going to take place in Zurich, October 21 - 23, 2019.

One of the root causes for non-sustainable practices in the world seems to be the misalignment of incentives in daily life. The promise of tackling global sustainability challenges lies at the heart of the BETH course.

This event is the follow-up to the highly successful Swiss Blockchain Summer School 2017 and an IACR Cryptology School.

«DECIPHERING BLOCKCHAIN: Applications, Impact and Risks» – an event with first-hand insights and well-known ETH Professors speaking.

After summer break, Prof. Claudio Tessone is guest-hosting us at UZH. This gives us an opportunity to learn what topics our colleagues at UZH are working on in the blockchain space.

Blockchain systems can be used to solve important societal challenges. You want to know how this is done? Join the meetup!

Our external guest will be Saifedean Am­mous who recently published the book "The Bitcoin Standard".

If you thought that only mainstream blogs and youtubers buzz about blockchain technology, consensus, tokenization, & cryptoeconomics HOLD ON ... We, researchers and students at ETH are active in this space, too!

Welcome to the ETH Blockchain Initiative. This initiative coordinates efforts in blockchain research and related topics such as cryptocurrencies at ETH Zurich.