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Giulia Scaffino

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Giulia Scaffino

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I joined the Security and Privacy group as a University Researcher in August 2021. My research interests include cryptocurrencies, blockchain interoperability and scalability, off-chain protocols and decentralized finance (DeFi).

Before starting my PhD at TUWien, I have been working for 9 months as a Salesforce developer at Deloitte Digital, Milan, Italy. After my Bachelor in Physics, I have done my Master in Nuclear and Particle Physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. I graduated in 2019 with the thesis Analysis of the pi0 photoproduction in the Delta(1232) region.

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  • Blink: An Optimal Proof of Proof-of-Work / Aumayr, L., Avarikioti, Z., Maffei, M., Scaffino, G., & Zindros, D. (2026). Blink: An Optimal Proof of Proof-of-Work. In C. Garman & Pedro Moreno-Sanchez (Eds.), Financial Cryptography and Data Security : 29th International Conference, FC 2025, Miyakojima, Japan, April 14–18, 2025, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (pp. 173–190). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07035-7_11
    Project: CDL-BOT (2020–2026)
  • Alba: The Dawn of Scalable Bridges for Blockchains / Scaffino, G., Aumayr, L., Bastankhah, M., Avarikioti, Z., & Maffei, M. (2025). Alba: The Dawn of Scalable Bridges for Blockchains. In Proceedings 2025 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. 32nd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS Symposium 2025), San Diego, United States of America (the). Internet Society. https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2025.241286
    Download: Paper (2.08 MB)
    Projects: Browsec (2018–2024) / CDL-BOT (2020–2026) / CoRaF (2022–2025) / SCALE2 (2023–2027) / SFB SPyCoDe (2023–2030)
  • A blockchain-based IoT data marketplace / Sober, M., Scaffino, G., Schulte, S., & Kanhere, S. S. (2023). A blockchain-based IoT data marketplace. CLUSTER COMPUTING-THE JOURNAL OF NETWORKS SOFTWARE TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, 26(6), 3523–3545. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-022-03745-6
    Download: Artikel (662 KB)
    Project: CDL-BOT (2020–2026)
  • Glimpse: On-Demand PoW Light Client with Constant-Size Storage for DeFi / Scaffino, G., Aumayr, L., Avarikioti, G., & Maffei, M. (2023). Glimpse: On-Demand PoW Light Client with Constant-Size Storage for DeFi. In Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (pp. 733–750).
    Projects: Browsec (2018–2024) / CDL-BOT (2020–2026) / CoRaF (2022–2025) / SFB SPyCoDe (2023–2030)
  • Distributed Key Generation with Smart Contracts using zk-SNARKs / Sober, M., Max Kobelt, Scaffino, G., Kaaser, D., & Schulte, S. (2023). Distributed Key Generation with Smart Contracts using zk-SNARKs. In SAC ’23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (pp. 231–240). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.34726/4523
    Download: PDF (582 KB)
  • A Voting-Based Blockchain Interoperability Oracle / Scaffino, G., Schulte, S., Sober, M., & Spanring, C. (2022). A Voting-Based Blockchain Interoperability Oracle. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain). IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2021), Melbourne, Australia. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/blockchain53845.2021.00030