About me

Nicola Greco
Photo by Virginia Alonso is a computer scientist with focus on decentralized systems, applied cryptography and multi-agent security. He directed protocol design & applied cryptography research and run large scale research funding programs at several organizations including ARIA, Protocol Labs, MIT. He run an investment vehicle called deepcrypto.

He started writing code when he was very young. At 14 run a petition “Linux in Italian Schools”, converting schools to use Open Source Software; 16, started a BuddyPress’ developers community, an open source platform for federated social networks; 18, wrote software for Social Network analysis used by Telecom Italia, which featured at TEDx and on Wired Italian Top 10 under 25; 21, left his undergraduate program at UCL a year before graduation to join MIT as a PhD student to work on decentralized web technologies with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and to join the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society as a fellow; 23, joined Protocol Labs to run the applied cryptography research team for 7+ years, participating in the design of several decentralized protocols widely used today; 27, started deepcrypto, an investment vehicle for early stage cryptography companies; 30, he started several organizations including Filoz, Public Good Crypto and Quantum Punks a new movement to make quantum technology practical; 32, he co-designed a £50M research funding program at ARIA with Alex Obadia.

Publications

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2019 by Virginia Alonso
2018 by Virginia Alonso
2017 by Virginia Alonso
2015 by Nicola
2014 by Virginia Alonso

• Boneh, D., Eskandarian, S., Hanzlik L., Greco, N. Single Secret Leader Election (eprint). 2020.
• Campanelli, M., Fiore, D., Greco, N. Kolonelos, D., Nizzardo, L. Vector Commitment Techniques and Applications to Verifiable Decentralized Storage (eprint). 2020.
• Benet, J., Greco, N. Filecoin: A Decentralized Storage Network (whitepaper). 2017.
• Smith, E., Greco, N., Bosnjak, M., Vlachos, A. A Strong Lexical Matching Method for the Machine Comprehension Test. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2015.

Events and Conferences

The following are events and conference I gave a presentation at. Want me to give a keynote/unconference? Please contact me at @nicolagreco or via email at me at nicola dot io.

• What if agents could generate protocols on the spot?, Devconnect, Buenos Aires, 2025/11
• Quantum Punks, with Alex and Nicola, ZKPodcast, 2025/05
• Quantum Cryptography Acceleration, QuantumPunks @ Devcon7, Bangkok, 2024/11
• Good SNARKS are here needed, Zcon0, Montreal, 2018/06
• What is a Hackathon?, SeedCamp, London, 2014/07
• 10 points Manifesto of a new generation, OrientaGiovani, Confindustria, Rome, 2012/11
• The International Italian, how to expand the borders, WorkingCapital, Rome, 2012/11
• School as a Framework: appeal to the President, iSchool, Rome, 2012/10
• The mathematics of Social Networking Potential, TEDx, Milan, 2012/07
• Presenter: Interviewing Italian successes, Nuovi Mille, Turin, 2011/07
• How to be young in the 2.0, ToscanaLab, Arezzo, 2010/12
• Panel: Communication Week, Milan, 2010/09
• Horizontal, vertical and transversal social concepts, Ignite Italia, Rome, 2010/01
• Under21: Digital Natives, Capitale Digitale, Rome, 2009/11
• The future of New Media, Venice Sessions, Venice, 2009/08
• Turn a blog into a social network, WordCamp, Milan, 2009/05
• Introduction to BuddyPressDEV, WordCamp, Milan, 2009/05
• From blogs to social networks, MateraCamp, Matera, 2009/05
• News, blogs and RSS aggregators, LinuxDay, La Sapienza University, Rome, 2008/10
• Presenting BongoLinux, aggregating Linux Blogs, LinuxDay, La Sapienza University, Rome, 2007/05