Awards

  1. SCIS Best Poster Award, Taishi Nakai, “Is Your ‘Decentralization’ Measure Really Correct? — A Statistical Evaluation Framework for Decentralization Indices in PoW Blockchains”, Jan. 2026.
    • 5 selected out of 61 presentations
  2. Outstanding Presentation Award, Taishi Nakai, Toward a Unified Algorithm for Nakamoto Consensus and Classical Consensus, The 21st Information Science Workshop, September 2025.
    • 3 selected out of 28 presentations
  3. Kyoto University President’s Award, Taishi Nakai, for multiple research achievements in blockchain, Kyoto University, Mar. 2025.
  4. The 40th TAF Telecom System Technology Student Award, Taishi Nakai, for “A Formulation of the Trilemma in Proof of Work Blockchain”, Mar. 2025.
  5. 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
  6. SCIS 2024 Paper Award, Taishi Nakai, “Mathematical Formulation of the Blockchain Trilemma”, Jan. 2025.
    • 8 selected out of 228 papers
  7. 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
  8. IEICE ISEC Research Encouragement Award, Taishi Nakai, “High decentralization does not necessarily improve 51% attack resistance”, Nov. 2024.
    • 8 student presentations among 66
  9. IPSJ CSS 2024 Best Paper Award, Taishi Nakai, “High decentralization does not necessarily improve 51% attack resistance”, Oct. 2024.
    • 2 selected out of 269
  10. 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
  11. ICT Innovation 2024 Excellent Research Award, Taishi Nakai, “The Blockchain Trilemma Described by a Formula”, Feb. 2024.
    • 8 selected out of 55
  12. 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

  1. 2026/04 – 2028/03: JSPS DC2 (700,000 JPY per year / 5k USD per year)
  2. 2024/10 – 2027/03: JST ACT-X (total 6,000,000 JPY, 2.5 years / 40k USD for 2.5 years)
  3. 2024/04 – 2026/03: JST BOOST Fellowship (Support for Doctoral Students) (900,000 JPY per year / 6k USD per year)