Carpino, Apulia, Italy
I am a blockchain researcher specializing in Distributed Ledger Technology with a national PhD from the University of Camerino (June 2026) and over three years of experience in experimental research on distributed systems. My work focuses on blockchain protocol benchmarking, performance analysis, and DeFi mechanisms. I designed and developed Lilith, a topology-aware benchmarking framework integrating Kollaps and Diablo, used to conduct large-scale experiments on public and permissioned blockchains. This work received the Best Student Paper Award at ACM DEBS'25. During my time at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), I contributed to research on DeFi protocols and CBDCs, co-authoring a paper published on SSRN and collaborating on the development of DeFi Navigator, a dashboard for on-chain analysis of DeFi ecosystems used in reports and calls with international institutions such as the BIS. I also developed the EB-index (Entropy Balance index) to aggregate heterogeneous on-chain parameters in a single interpretable view of the economic efficiency of cryptocurrencies. My research interests include performance variability, energy efficiency, tokenomics, and programmable economic mechanisms to counteract wealth concentration in economic systems.