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The RIAT Academy is aimed at preparing developers for the future crypto-era. RIAT academy provides training in the domains of blockchain, smart contract development, EVM, WASM and Rust. We are training developers to contribute to Ethereum, Monero, Polkadot and others. The RIAT Academy is a format which is aimed at developers and is taking place…

The Future Cryptoeconomics Magazine is available via Motto Distribution Geneva, Switzerland and is part of the RIAT publications. We live in times of zero trust, a term stemming from computer security research, which is applied to all sectors and businesses. Most prominently zero trust is used in cryptoeconomic systems such as Bitcoin and other blockchain-based technologies…

Production in the 21st century works with distributed authorship and identities. Our projects are collective inquiries formed by distributing agency between humans, machines, and programs. RIAT is a research institute about “research, development, communication and education in the fields of cryptography, privacy technologies and the future of decentralization”. We have an office and lab in…

The Critical Decentralisation Cluster at Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) is an area and grouping of similar minded projects, which are offering workshops and host a space to critically discuss the future of decentralisation. The cluster at 36C3 is organised by RIAT and the Monero Community. We also host other assemblies in the categories Privacy &…

Ralph Pichler is a Smart Contracts and Blockchain veteran, and co-founded one of the first Ethereum meetups worldwide in 2014. Dubbed the “Dennis Rodman of Ethereum” he became well-known in the community for being responsible for the Ethereum Constantinople Hard Fork Delay, which had been identified in 2018 and which had the consequence that Ethereum…

Overview of external mentions and texts written about RIAT Institute. Austrian Blockchain Award 2022 – participation in the jury and selection process. WKO Vienna, May 31, 2022. Beginner’s Mind #60: Astrid Woollard, Dusica Lukac, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Irénée Robin – This was 2021 – A Year in Review. Beginner’s Mind podcast on amazon music, January 2,…

RIAT Institute focuses on research, development, communication and education in the fields of cryptography, privacy technologies and the future of decentralization. To get in contact for consultancy, research and development support in Web3 & Blockchain, or advice for developers, founders (or any other topics) – please use our contact form.

Open Hardware Month is a format by OSHWA (the Open Source Hardware Association). OSHWA is calling for worldwide action in the name of Open Source Hardware. RIAT will be hosting the format “Open Hardware Dialogues”, which follows the footsteps of a RIAT publication with the name “Openism – Conversations in Open Hardware”. This publication sheds…

RIAT Essentials is a new workshop series for the improvement of business models, evaluation and validation of research-driven projects. RIAT has a long and vivid history of mentoring and developing research applications for science, science communication and technical projects in Austria and throughout Europe. In this event, RIAT introduces the series and discusses the experiences…

DATA LOAM is an exhibition in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Royal College of Art in London, RIAT Vienna, as well as the Master’s program Arts & Science. Data Loam is a PEEK project for the development of the arts, funded by the FWF, the Fund for the advancement/promotion of scientific…

Prerequisites: Smart Contract Development for Ethereum This course is targeting programmers who already have solid experience in an object-oriented programming language. In particular this means you should know: Imperative Programming the usual control-flow primitives such as if conditions, for and while loops functions and recursion common data types such as integers (signed and unsigned), booleans,…

The RIAT institute is an NGO and works in the fields of Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Open and Libre Hardware, and Coded Cultures. Our aims are to create literacy in crypto, open hardware and fringe research. You can support our mission! RIAT is organised and registered as an NGO and is operated through support from the…

New configurations of cryptography, economics, network engineering, game theory and mathematics open up complex questions that require interdisciplinary rigour and engagement. We define the field of cryptoeconomics as the interdisciplinary research field of developing, understanding and implementing systems in which the interests and behaviour of the individual are sought aligned with the interests of the…

Future Cryptoeconomics #1 (Tarasiewicz, Newman, Antonopoulos, Brekke, Stark, Miyazaki, Buterin, Polat, Schuppli, Hubik). ISSN: 2617-6289  Faceless Praxis in the Age of Zero Trust: Strategies of Disappearance and Distributed Pseudonymity in Art and Research in: Faceless: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies, DeGruyter, Edition Angewandte, 1st edition (June 11, 2018). ISBN-13: 978-3110525137  Forking as cultural practice: institutional…

The event archive is currently under reconstruction. Please see the RIAT Github for events and participations. If you find something missing in the list here, please open an issue on Github or create a pull request. 2022 Events for 2022 not in archive yet 2021 Events for 2021 not in archive yet 2020 Date Description…

The history of RIAT can be traced back to the Austrian artist collective 5uper.net that was established in 2003 by Matthias Tarasiewicz, Ile Cvetkoski, Karina Lackner and Michal Wlodkowski. The collective focused on artistic research at the intersection of media, arts, technology and society and was responsible for developing the Coded Cultures platform.  Coded Cultures’ goal…

This 4-day course teaches the basics of smart contract development on the Ethereum platform using Solidity and the Truffle Framework. It covers the full workflow of developing, testing and deploying contracts as well as interacting with them afterwards. In addition you will learn about common contract patterns and potential security issues. In this course you…

RIAT is structured in labs, and we have past and running projects. RIAT has a lab and office in Austria, and workgroups globally. Running projects (as of 2026) Please contact us if you are interested to learn more. Labs at RIAT Activities archive (2003 – 2020) RIAT Open Hardware Lab The RIAT Open Hardware Lab…

RIAT is an independent research institute specializing in privacy, cybersecurity, and open source. Our mission is to make things verifiable and reproducible. We foster, document, and support reverse engineering as method for cultural and technological advancement. Browse the RIAT events archive for highlights and international participations from 2004 to 2026. You can contact us or…