Current Position & Biography
Vincent Gramoli is a professor of computer science at the University of Sydney and founder of Redbelly Network. His personal website identifies his current company role as chief science officer and also lists a directorship. A September 2026 university announcement independently identifies him as a professor and Redbelly founder. His published School of Computer Science address is in Sydney, providing the professional basis for the Australia field. His work concerns distributed computing and security, with earlier affiliations including INRIA, Cornell, CSIRO and EPFL.
Notable Contributions
Gramoli coauthored The Attack of the Clones Against Proof-of-Authority with Parinya Ekparinya and Guillaume Jourjon. The NDSS research examines security weaknesses in the Aura and Clique proof-of-authority implementations. Its contribution combines an explicit description of the protocols, test-network demonstrations and proposed safeguards against double spending. The central lesson is that naming a set of authorized participants does not by itself establish that a consensus implementation remains safe when participants behave maliciously. The paper is historical research on the implementations studied, not evidence that every current version remains vulnerable.
Why Katharos.ai Is Following Them
Katharos.ai is following researchers who test the assumptions behind blockchain security while also building alternative infrastructure. That combination creates useful questions about how results move from papers into products. A claimed improvement in finality or throughput should be considered alongside the fault model, network assumptions and implementation evidence. Commercial involvement makes those distinctions more important, not less.
Areas to Follow
Areas to follow include independent evaluations, reproducible benchmarks, fault-injection testing and the relationship between formal protocol properties and deployed software. For systems handling tokenized assets, operational controls and legal claims also need separate scrutiny: a consensus guarantee cannot establish ownership rights or regulatory compliance by itself. These are priorities for editorial coverage, not findings that Redbelly or another network has passed every test.
Reporting Scope
The current company title follows Gramoli’s own website; older sources describing him as chief technology officer are not silently presented as current. The professional-location field is not a citizenship or residence claim. The discussion credits coauthored research and distinguishes its historical findings from present deployment conditions. This profile does not endorse Redbelly, a token, a performance claim or an investment proposition.
Sources for Further Reading
https://gramoli.github.io/ https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2026/09/04/seven-university-of-sydney-researchers-win-eureka-prizes--.html https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/the-attack-of-the-clones-against-proof-of-authority/
Photo Credit
Photo: Emlyn Crockett, via Vincent Gramoli’s personal website; creator and rights credit retained from original metadata. Reduced full image with neutral padding. Limited factual editorial identification, not endorsement; no unrestricted license asserted. The source metadata identifies the photograph with the 2026 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalist media materials and names Emlyn Crockett as creator and rights holder. That provenance is retained, but a media-status tag is not treated as an unrestricted license. The complete photograph is used at reduced size only to identify the researcher; no face alteration or synthesized surroundings are introduced.
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