Our Work ResearchProjects

Projects

Research and public engagement projects in which BABEL takes part, funded by national programmes, public institutions and private partners.

Ongoing

BABELing — Quando la ricerca si fa ascoltare

A ten-episode podcast series translating BABEL's research on blockchain and artificial intelligence for a general audience. Selected under the University of Florence UniFi EXTRA+ 2026 programme, where it ranked second with 86 points out of 100, and financed by a crowdfunding campaign that raised €13,470 from 87 supporters, matched by the University. A joint project of DISEI and DIMAI, produced with Podcast Italia Network. Episodes are released monthly from October 2026 through 2027.

Project pages.

Completed

PRIN 2022 — DeTOKoDE

Governance of the tokenized economy: legal, economic and technological challenges. A national research project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, coordinated by Professor Riccardo de Caria (University of Turin), with units at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Professor Monica Rossolini) and the University of Florence.

The Florence unit, led by Filippo Zatti, examined the impact of distributed ledger technologies and digital currencies on banking supervision and financial stability, with particular attention to central bank digital currencies and their interaction with traditional monetary frameworks. The third BABEL International Conference — BIC25 — and a workshop on digital asset regulation chaired by the project's scientific coordinator were organised as dissemination milestones.

PRISMA — PRato Industrial SMart Accelerator

The House of Emerging Technologies for the Prato textile district, led by the Municipality of Prato with the PIN University Centre and funded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. Within PRISMA, the Blockchain Lab — coordinated by Professor Mauro Lombardi, co-founder of BABEL — drew on the unit's expertise to help small and medium textile firms assess where distributed ledger technologies could realistically be of use, and where they could not.

PhD scholarship in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology

A doctoral position dedicated to research on distributed ledger technologies, co-funded by Blockchain Italia S.r.l. alongside University funding.