Philipp Jovanovic is an information-security professor and blockchain consensus researcher whose work spans cryptographic protocols, Byzantine fault tolerance, and distributed systems. Philipp Jovanovic's Twitter Score is 28 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #34,395 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Philipp Jovanovic works at UCL Information Security Group as Professor in Information Security and at Mysten Labs as a researcher. His academic output covers a range of consensus and cryptography problems: he co-authored the 2015 paper introducing CoSi, a scalable witness cosigning protocol designed to keep authorities accountable, and followed that with the 2016 paper presenting ByzCoin, which proposed bringing strong consistency to Bitcoin through collective signing.
Philipp Jovanovic has continued contributing to asynchronous consensus research, co-authoring a 2020 study on asynchronous agreement using private coins and threshold logical clocks, a 2024 paper introducing Mahi-Mahi, a low-latency asynchronous BFT DAG-based consensus protocol, and a 2025 paper proposing BlueBottle, a two-layer blockchain consensus architecture aimed at improving speed and robustness through subsystem specialization. His profile on this platform reflects 3,302 followers as of August 2026 and 7,185 posts.
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