Swayam Shah, Msc., wrote his thesis in the scope of the SecureSECO project entitled “A framework for designing self-sustaining ecosystems” (pdf), as part of his Master Game and Media Technology. In it, Swayam outlines how one should go about creating new distributed ledger based projects and evaluates his methods in several empirical case studies. His work was also published at the International Conference on Software Business (pdf). On Friday the 5th of February was announced that Swayam’s thesis has won the National Saxion Blockchain Thesis Award with fierce competition. His thesis supervisors were dr. Slinger Jansen and dr. Zerrin Yumak at Utrecht University. Congratulations Swayam!