Nikhil Vadgama
Assistant Professor,
Emerging Business Technologies
Nikhil is the director of DLT Science Foundation and N-Gamma Ltd. He is also the council member of Hedera Hashgrahp Governing Council. He is leading innovation, conducting research and teaching on blockchain and other emerging technologies in the financial services domain.
Nikhil is the lead editor and author of the book Enabling the Internet of Value: How Blockchain Connects Global Businesses , featuring 21 authors from academia and industry, including David Schwartz, C.T.O. Ripple. He is lead author of An Analysis of Blockchain Adoption in Supply Chains Between 2010 and 2020 published in Frontiers in Blockchain in 2021. This research features an analysis of 271 blockchain supply chain projects along multiple dimensions and finds that the greatest adoption of blockchain occurs in agriculture supply chain projects and that projects that utilize private blockchains have a greater chance of reaching the market with a lower failure rate than those that utilise public blockchains.
