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Saidu Sokoto is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at City, University of London, specializing in the development of scalable, secure, and practical decentralized systems.
Languages
Arabic (can read, write, speak, understand spoken), English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review), Hausa (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review) and Turkish (can read, write, speak, understand spoken)
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Conference papers and proceedings (9)
- Yang, W., Ye, Q., Ascigil, O., Sokoto, S., Balduf, L., Król, M.... Tyson, G. Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster's Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking. SIGMETRICS '26: ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems.doi:10.1145/3801489.3806886
- Kastantin, A., Balduf, L., Ascigil, O., Sokoto, S., Scheuermann, B., Duda, A.... Korczyński, M. Netting Phish in the IPFS Ocean: Real-Time Monitoring and Characterization of Decentralized Phishing Campaigns. WWW '26: The ACM Web Conference 2026.doi:10.1145/3774904.3792188
- Sokoto, S., Balduf, L., Ascigil, O., Tyson, G., Castro, I., Scheuermann, B.... Król, M. Open or Blocked Skies? Community Moderation Practices in Bluesky. WWW '26: The ACM Web Conference 2026.doi:10.1145/3774904.3792106
- Yang, W., Ye, Q., Ascigil, O., Sokoto, S., Balduf, L., Król, M.... Tyson, G. Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster's Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking. .doi:10.1145/3771565
- Balduf, L., Sokoto, S., Ascigil, O., Tyson, G., Scheuermann, B., Korczyński, M.... Król, M. Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky. IMC '24: ACM Internet Measurement Conference.doi:10.1145/3646547.3688407
- Sokoto, S., Balduf, L., Trautwein, D., Wei, Y., Tyson, G., Castro, I.... Krol, M. (2024). Guardians of the Galaxy: Content Moderation in the InterPlanetary File System. USENIX Security Symposium 14-16 August, Philadelphia, USA.
- Sokoto, S., Król, M., Stankovic, V. and Rivière, E. Next-Generation Distributed Hash Tables. CoNEXT 2023: The 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies.doi:10.1145/3630202.3630234
- Sokoto, S. and Onur, E. (2022). SGLC: A Logical Clock Using Succinct Graphs. 2022 30th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) 15-18 May.doi:10.1109/siu55565.2022.9864718
- Balduf, L., Sokoto, S., Baronchelli, A., Castro, I., Król, M., Tyson, G.... Ascigil, O. Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs. .doi:10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35810
Journal article
- Yang, W., Ye, Q., Ascigil, O., Sokoto, S., Balduf, L., Król, M.... Tyson, G. (2026). Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster's Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 54(1), pp. 16-18. doi:10.1145/3820171.3806886