Florian Spychiger

Florian Spychiger

Research Associate

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Florian Spychiger received his MSc. in Quantitative Finance jointly by the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. He is a PhD student at the UZH Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies Group and a researcher at the UZH Blockchain Center, and a research associate at the Zurich University of Applied Science. He conducts research on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and on incentives in blockchain systems. Florian analyses existing incentives in blockchain protocols and in DAOs and designs new systems. Specific research topics include consensus design, decentralized autonomous organizations and blockchain governance. Furthermore, he is a core member of the industry association DAO Suisse that promotes DAOs in Switzerland.

Research interests

Blockchain Governance
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Incentive Systems in Blockchains
Agent-based Modelling

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Spychiger, Florian; Makode, Parminder Kaur; Küng, Lukas; Tessone, Claudio Juan (2024). Governance and Maintenance for a DAO with Physical Assets - An Agent-based Model. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS), London, United Kingdom, 29 July 2024 - 31 July 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 106221151.
Li, Chuanyan; Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio J (2023). The Miner’s Dilemma With Migration: The Control Effect of Solo-Mining. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 20(3):2760-2770.
Li, Sheng-Nan; Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio (2023). Reward Distribution in Proof-of-Stake Protocols: A Trade-Off Between Inclusion and Fairness. IEEE Access, 11:134136-134145.
Spychiger, Florian. Incentive systems in blockchains. 2023, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics.
Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio; Zavolokina, Liudmila; Schwabe, Gerhard (2022). Incentivizing Data Quality in Blockchain-Based Systems – The Case of the Digital Cardossier. Distributed Ledger Technologies : Research and Practice, 1(1):1-27.
Li, Chuanyun; Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio (2021). The Miner’s Dilemma With Migration. In: 3rd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, Paris, 27 September 2021 - 30 September 2021, IEEE.
Malešević, Saša; Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian (2020). Applying Distributed Ledger Concepts to a Swiss Regional Label Ecosystem. Logistics Journal: Referierte Veröffentlichungen, 4(4):32.
Spychiger, Florian; Tasca, Paolo; Tessone, Claudio (2020). The Tree of Block-Chain. SSRN 3707260, University of Zurich.
Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian; Malesevic, Sasa (2020). Towards a better understanding of the value of blockchains in supply chain management. In: Spychiger, Florian. Digitalisierung in der Praxis. Switzerland: Springer, 101-112.
Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian; Taylor, Michael (2019). Optimierung des Supply Chain Informationsaustauschs mit Blockchain-Startups. In: Uhl, Axel. Digitalisierung in der Praxis. Switzerland: Springer, 209-221.

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