日月相推而明生焉
Brightness derives from days and nights' deduction.
Dr. Yulin Liu (刘玉林)
Economist, Entrepreneur, and Educator.
Master in Quantum Computation and Ph.D. in Monetary Theory at ETH Zurich.
Work
Current roles
PhD Mentor at Technische Universität München (2025 - Present)
Council Member at Decentralized Entities Foundation (2024 - Present)
Partner at Bochsler Group (2020 - Present)
Former roles
Private Sector: Chief Economist/Economic Research Lead/Senior Economic Advisor at Liquity, Dfinity Foundation, Origyn Foundation, Chainlink, etc
Public Sector: Visiting Economist/Founding President at Bank of Finland, SciEcon CIC, etc
Academia: Affiliated Economics Professor/Visiting Scholar/Guest Lecturer/Project Supervisor at HUST, University of Surrey, Duke University, ECNU, New York University Shanghai, etc
Education
Ph.D. in Economics at ETH Zurich (2012 - 2016)
Advanced Doctoral Studies at Swiss National Bank Study Center (2014, 2016)
Master in Quantum Physics at ETH Zurich (2010 - 2012)
Bachelor in Science at UCBL (2008 - 2010)
Bachelor in Science at Wuhan University (2006 - 2008)
Selected Publication
Empirical Analysis of EIP-1559: Transaction Fees, Waiting Time, and Consensus Security
Deciphering Bitcoin Blockchain Data by Cohort Analysis
Harvard Dataverse
Versatile forward guidance: escaping or switching?
Forward Guidance Contracts
Cryptocurrency Valuation: An Explainable AI Approach
SoK: Blockchain Decentralization
Data and codes
Macroprudential Policy in the New Keynesian World
The Economics of Blockchain Governance: Evaluate Liquid Democracy on the Internet Computer
Blockchain Network Analysis: A Comparative Study of Decentralized Banks
Bitcoin Gold, Litecoin Silver: An Introduction to Cryptocurrency’s Valuation and Trading Strategy
Stable Coins Backed by Real-World Assets – The Best of both Worlds
Cryptocurrency Valuation
Token Offering on Blockchain
What are the flaws of the Cosmos and how to tackle them?
AI-Based Stable Coin
A glimpse of the blockchain governance system
Referee for Journals
International Journal of Central Banking, Review of World Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Quantitative Finance and Economics, etc
Teaching & Projects Supervision
A passion for exploring the unknowns with curious minds
Data Science Pipeline For Academic Research & Web 3.0 Education (ICP grants), 2023-2024
Staking Mechanism Design: Ethereum 2.0 for Good (Ethereum consensus grants), 2022-2023
Ethereum Merge Meetup (advising Zesen Zhuang, Xinyu Tian and Tianyu Wu, Steering Committee), Ethereum Foundation, 2022
Decentralized Finance (advising Dylan Paul, Oum Lahade, Malika Rawal, and Rhys Banerjee with Profs. Luyao Zhang, Fan Zhang, Kartik Nayak), Duke CS+ Summer Program, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Jun. - Aug. 2021
Algorithmic Stablecoin on the Internet Computer (advising Oli Chen and Gina Joerger with Profs. Olivier Marin and Luyao Zhang), NYU Shanghai, Spring 2021
Decentralized Monetary Policy (invited guest lecture), Duke University, Kunshan Campus, 2021
Financial Technology, Cryptocurrency and AI (joint lectures), RMDS Lab, Summer 2020
Money, Blockchain and Decentralized Finance, Asia Europe Business School, ECNU, Spring 2020
Economics of Growth, Cycles and Policy (Master and PhD core course), ETH Zurich, Spring 2018
Economics of Growth, Cycles and Policy (Master and PhD core course), ETH Zurich, Spring 2016
Economics of Growth, Cycles and Policy (Master and PhD core course), ETH Zurich, Spring 2015
Economics of Innovation and Growth (Master and PhD elective course), ETH Zurich, Fall 2014
Invited Talks & Conferences
Lugano NFT Fest, NFTs and Metaverses for Museum and Luxury Brands, September. 9, 2023 (panelist)
Nordic Blockchain Conference, The Metaverse Hype Curve and the Road to Web 4.0: Blockchain's role, September. 7, 2023 (panelist)
NFT Biarritz, What do NFTs bring to gaming and the metaverse, August. 21, 2023 (panelist)
Swiss Blockchain Finance Day, Tokenization Panel, June. 6, 2023 (moderator)
Swiss Blockchain Finance Day, Expert Speech by Dr. Yulin Liu on Tokenization, June. 6, 2023 (speaker)
Binance, Fireside chat on tokenization and metaverse, May.10, 2023 (invited interviewee)
NFT Tallinn, Unlocking the true potential of metaverses, May. 9, 2023 (panelist)
Duke CS+ & SciEcon Symposium “Decentralized Finance: Cryptocurrency and Blockchain on the Internet Computer,” Aug. 5, 2021 (panelist)
Algorithmic Monetary Policy, Econ 204: Intermediate Macroeconomics by Prof. Luyao Zhang, Duke Kunshan University, Dec. 10, 2020 (invited guest speaker)
WEAI 95th Annual Conference, Denver, U.S.A, Jun. 26–30, 2020 (online presentation)
11th Swiss Winter Conference on Financial Intermediation, 2018 (presenter)
4th RES Symposium of Junior Researchers, Royal Economic Society, 2018 (presenter)
1st RCEA Warsaw Money-Macro-Finance Conference, 2018 (presenter)
China International Conference in Macroeconomics, Tsinghua University, 2018 (presenter)
The Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance 2018 (chair, presenter and discussant)
Research Seminars, Bank of Finland, 2017 (invited talk)
Fed St.Louis-JEDC-SCG-SNB-UniBern Conference, Swiss National Bank, 2017 (participant)
Workshop “Monetary Policy in Non-standard Times”, European Central Bank, 2017 (participant)
Annual Congress, European Economic Association, 2017 (presenter)
Annual Congress, German Economic Association, 2017 (presenter)
Journal of Monetary Economics and Swiss National Bank Conference, 2016 (participant)
9th Swiss Winter Conference on Financial Intermediation, 2016 (presenter)
Annual Congress, European Economic Association, 2016 (presenter)
Annual Congress, German Economic Association, 2016 (presenter)
Annual Congress, Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, 2016 (presenter)