PArSEC — short for “parallelized architecture for scalably executing smart contracts” — runs on the ERC-20 standard, so it could have other applications, too.
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Decentralized solutions can make academic research more secure and more accessible.
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As an MIT professor in 2018, Gary Gensler didn’t think most ICOs triggered United States securities laws.
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Members of the crypto community have called out the SEC Chairman for “shilling” Algorand.
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An active-duty United States Space Force astronautical engineer is proposing a new cybersecurity tool to the Pentagon: Bitcoin.
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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.
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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.”
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Blockchain-based architecture was deemed “not a good match” as researchers weighed several technological designs.
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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.
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Many students who participated in the 2014 MIT Bitcoin Project lament quickly selling their free BTC for textbooks, sushi and beer.
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Crypto industry captains are throwing their support behind a long-term project from MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative to enhance Bitcoin’s security.
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The next leader of the U.S. securities regulator seems to be sympathetic to the mission of decentralization.
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In the U.S., all eyes are on Joe Biden's planned appointees, while Europe is seeing progress under a new AML regime.
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The Federal Reserve Bank has been exploring digital currencies to modernize the U.S. payments sector.
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Can MIT help the U.S. catch up to China in the CBDC race?
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