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The Oasis Foundation has announced a new University Program, bringing together blockchain societies from leading universities like Oxford and Cornell.

Fed Governor Lael Brainard shares updates about the U.S. digital currency initiative and why it is crucial to understand CBDCs.

James Lovejoy, a research assistant for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, crypto and blockchain group the Digital Currency Initiative, explained blockchain attacks might not always be obvious.

Mainstream crypto trading interest has been on the rise since fall 2019.

An MIT startup focused on providing institutions better access to crypto trading technologies, recently secured millions in funding.

BitMEX’s parent company is accepting applications for grant funding from developers contributing to open source technologies.

An audit report of Voatz platform confirms numerous issues previously discovered, and the voting app declines to make all the necessary changes.

At MIT Bitcoin Expo 2020, monetary experts debate what form a central bank digital currency may take.

Computer scientist Ronald Rivest has said that blockchain is not the right technology for voting, although it can find proper application in a number of other areas.

MIT’s crypto research group said the crypto and blockchain space is an experimental playground paving the way for a central bank digital currency.

Algo Capital has raised $200 million — double its $100 million goal — for its venture capital fund.

An MIT academic has claimed that Libra used parts of a co-authored paper of his, which outlines a proposal for an asset basket-backed virtual currency.

Caitlin Long and Peter Van Valkenburgh find themselves on the opposite sides of the federal-versus-state regulation divide.

MIT career development professor Christian Catalini is reportedly on leave and working with Facebook on its cryptocurrency projects.