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PArSEC — short for “parallelized architecture for scalably executing smart contracts” — runs on the ERC-20 standard, so it could have other applications, too.

Decentralized solutions can make academic research more secure and more accessible.

As an MIT professor in 2018, Gary Gensler didn’t think most ICOs triggered United States securities laws.

Members of the crypto community have called out the SEC Chairman for “shilling” Algorand.

An active-duty United States Space Force astronautical engineer is proposing a new cybersecurity tool to the Pentagon: Bitcoin.

Universities have been helping with blockchain-related research for quite some time and, now, some world-class universities have added the technology to their curriculum.

The bank will work alongside the MIT Media Labs’ Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) team to examine how “advanced technologies could affect the potential design of a CBDC.”

Blockchain-based architecture was deemed “not a good match” as researchers weighed several technological designs.

The researchers published results from “Project Hamilton,” which was first announced in 2020 to explore the use of existing and new tech to build and test a hypothetical CBDC platform.

Many students who participated in the 2014 MIT Bitcoin Project lament quickly selling their free BTC for textbooks, sushi and beer.

Crypto industry captains are throwing their support behind a long-term project from MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative to enhance Bitcoin’s security.

The next leader of the U.S. securities regulator seems to be sympathetic to the mission of decentralization.

In the U.S., all eyes are on Joe Biden's planned appointees, while Europe is seeing progress under a new AML regime.

The Federal Reserve Bank has been exploring digital currencies to modernize the U.S. payments sector.

Can MIT help the U.S. catch up to China in the CBDC race?