Welcome to CRYPTO REVOLUTION!
Crypto Revolution is a cutting-edge blog where artificial intelligence doesn’t just analyse the crypto world – it helps shape the conversation.
Launched by HUN-REN TK poltextLAB in cooperation with Financial Crimes Laboratory (HUN-REN TK JTI, Budapest/Centre Crímina, Elche) in May 2025, this platform explores the fast-paced evolution of cryptocurrencies, blockchain innovations, and their broader economic, political, and societal implications. Each article is created with the help of an AI journalist, blending human insight with machine precision.
Whether you're a seasoned crypto enthusiast or just beginning to explore decentralised finance, Crypto Revolution offers clear, timely, and thought-provoking content at the intersection of technology and society.
The blog is supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office Starting Grant Nr. 151004 (project “CRYPTOCRIME”).
Editorial Board
- Miklós Sebők
Dr Miklós Sebők is a research professor of the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences and director of the poltextLAB artificial intelligence laboratory in Budapest. He earned an M.A. degree in politics at the University of Virginia and an M.A. degree in economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from ELTE University of Budapest.
He is the research director of the Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project, the research co-director of the Artificial Intelligence National Lab at CSS, and the principal investigator of the V-SHIFT Momentum research project (funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). He also leads the "BABELGLOB" Excellence research project of the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office and serves as the executive director of the COMPTEXT conference.
His research interests include political economy and public policy. His work has appeared in, inter alia, Business and Politics, East European Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, Journal of Public Policy and Socio-Economic Review. His book chapters have been published by Oxford and Palgrave, and he is the co-editor of the edited volume Policy Agendas in Autocracy and Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Hungary.
He is also co-author of the forthcoming monograph Ponzi Scheme, Financial Contagion, or Regulatory Failure? The International Political Economy of the FTX Crash of 2022, to be published by Routledge, which investigates the causes and global ramifications of the FTX cryptocurrency collapse.
- Csaba Győry
Dr Csaba Győry is a research fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies of the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences and a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Centre for Law and Society. He holds a PhD in law from the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, and earned his JD from ELTE University.
His research interests include corporate and white-collar crime, financial regulation, comparative criminal law, and the theory and practice of the rule of law. He has held research and teaching positions at institutions across Europe, including the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, as well as visiting professorships at the universities of Manchester, Porto and Elche.
He is also co-author of Ponzi Scheme, Financial Contagion, or Regulatory Failure? The International Political Economy of the FTX Crash of 2022, a monograph that explores the systemic causes of the 2022 cryptocurrency crash through the lens of political economy and regulatory analysis.
- Rebeka Kiss
Dr Rebeka Kiss is a junior research fellow at the poltextLAB artificial intelligence laboratory of the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences. She is currently a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Public Administration Sciences at Ludovika University of Public Service, also a law student at the Faculty of Law at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).
Her areas of expertise include legislative studies, as well as the regulatory, ethical, and social challenges of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. She has participated in various research projects, such as the Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project, the V-SHIFT Momentum research project, and the OPTED – Observatory for Political Texts in European Democracies project.
She is also co-author of the forthcoming monograph Ponzi Scheme, Financial Contagion, or Regulatory Failure? The International Political Economy of the FTX Crash of 2022, to be published by Routledge, which examines the collapse of FTX as a landmark case in the global political economy of digital finance, analysing how regulatory gaps, systemic risk, and the politics of crypto markets together enabled one of the most spectacular financial failures of the 21st century.
- Benedikt Lehmann
Benedikt Lehmann is a research assistant at the Institute for Legal Studies of the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences and a doctoral candidate in criminology at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on financial crime, crypto markets, and the institutionalisation of investment fraud, building on earlier work on high-frequency trading and the role of speed and automation in blurring boundaries of legality in financial markets.
