Yifan Zhou

Yifan Zhou

PhD Student

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Email: evzhou AT hust DOT edu DOT cn

Hi, I’m Yifan Zhou, a third-year PhD student in Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), supervised by Prof. Jiang Xiao.

I am currently a visiting student at the University of Warwick, supervised by Prof. Kaihua Qin.

I am broadly interested in blockchain, especially in consensus protocols and incentive protocols. I am fascinated by the decentralized Web3 world and its open nature. I also write about crypto from time to time. Please see my blogs, and feel free to discuss them with me.

Before my PhD, I received my bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Publications

See Google Scholar.

Blogs

Originally written in Chinese. See Zhihu.

How Can Crypto Truly Prosper?

Monad has recently received substantial attention. I did not track carefully whether the discussion was about its testnet or mainnet. The important point is the surrounding narr...

A Roadmap for Understanding Blockchain Consensus

This note summarizes several assumptions and modules that are useful when learning blockchain consensus. Consensus protocols differ not only in their algorithms. They also diffe...

What Is Gas and Why Does Blockchain Need It?

Gas is a resource-pricing mechanism. It assigns a cost to the resources consumed by a transaction, such as computation, storage, and bandwidth. The user pays for these resources...

On Tokenized Stocks and Crypto-Stock Platforms

Several platforms now provide stock exposure through crypto rails. Robinhood and Kraken appear to have relatively organic usage. One reason is simple: they are not constantly pr...