Awards

  • SCIS Best Poster Award, Taishi Nakai, “Is Your ‘Decentralization’ Measure Really Correct? — A Statistical Evaluation Framework for Decentralization Indices in PoW Blockchains”, Jan. 2026.
  • Outstanding Presentation Award, Taishi Nakai, Toward a Unified Algorithm for Nakamoto Consensus and Classical Consensus, The 21st Information Science Workshop, September 2025.
  • Kyoto University President’s Award, Taishi Nakai, for multiple research achievements in blockchain, Kyoto University, Mar. 2025.
  • The 40th TAF Telecom System Technology Student Award, Taishi Nakai, for “A Formulation of the Trilemma in Proof of Work Blockchain”, Mar. 2025.
  • ICT Innovation 2025 Excellent Research Award, Taishi Nakai, “High decentralization does not necessarily improve 51% attack resistance”, Feb. 2025.
    • 6 selected out of 33 presentations
  • SCIS 2024 Paper Award, Taishi Nakai, “Mathematical Formulation of the Blockchain Trilemma”, Jan. 2025.
    • 8 selected out of 228 papers
  • Best Session Presentation Award, Taishi Nakai, “The More Halving Advances, the More Rational Double Spending Attack is”, IEEE ICCE 2025, Jan. 2025.
    • 1 selected out of 5 in session
  • IEICE ISEC Research Encouragement Award, Taishi Nakai, “High decentralization does not necessarily improve 51% attack resistance”, Nov. 2024.
    • 8 student presentations among 66
  • IPSJ CSS 2024 Best Paper Award, Taishi Nakai, “High decentralization does not necessarily improve 51% attack resistance”, Oct. 2024.
    • 2 selected out of 269
  • IEICE Internet Architecture Research Award (Excellent Research Award), Taishi Nakai, “Blockchain Trilemma Described by a Formula”, May 2024.
    • 4 selected out of 100 in FY2023
  • ICT Innovation 2024 Excellent Research Award, Taishi Nakai, “The Blockchain Trilemma Described by a Formula”, Feb. 2024.
    • 8 selected out of 55
  • Excellent Master’s Thesis Award, Taishi Nakai, “The Blockchain Trilemma Described by a Formula”, Dept. of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Feb. 2024.

Grants

As a PI

  • 2024/10 – 2027/03: JST ACT-X (total 6,000,000 JPY, 2.5 years / 40k USD for 2.5 years)
  • 2024/04 – 2027/03: JST Boost Fellowship (900,000 JPY per year / 6k USD per year)