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Looking beyond smart cities
DCI has launched Cryptoeconomic Systems (CES), a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal and conference series focused on blockchain tech.
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Climate change and the domino effect it creates will require coordination at scales we haven’t seen and new forms of organization to addr...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Building on earlier work done at the Media Lab, MIT has formed the Digital Credentials Consortium an international network of universitie...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating technology for social change
Neha Narula and Gary Gensler joined other experts to explore the potential impacts of digital currencies on national and global security.
Lit, the lightweight Lightning Network software developed at the MIT Media Lab, works with multiple Bitcoin-like blockchains. The DCI tea...
Digital Currency Initiative
We need to bump up a level and revisit how to achieve our original public policy goals in a new paradigm
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Adoption of self-driving...
Proponents say payments with a digital dollar would be faster and easier. Opponents say it would be costly and inefficient.
Blockchain technology is changing the nature of money and organizations. We should probably start pondering the potential consequences.
Essays and testimonies on Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency
This project delivers a series of Github-signal based metrics that would be useful to both the layman and investor, helping look beyond t...
Many cryptocurrency speculators are banking on the theory that someone dumber than them will buy their tokens for more than they paid.
The DCI’s position between academia and industry, their policy on conflicts of interest, and their most fascinating research topics.
My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability
Projects should take steps to ensure that responsible disclosure is the easiest, safest and most lucrative response.
Discreet Log Contracts (DLC) are a new type of smart contract which limit the information gained and influence of oracles, and can r...
To understand why blockchain matters, look past the wild speculation at what is being built underneath.
Blockchain technology and the crypto ecosystem it has birthed must come fully within public policy frameworks to reach its full potential.
Robleh Ali, former crypto specialist for the Bank of England, on why initial coin offerings are dangerous and how to make them more useful.
Gary Gensler has joined the MIT Digital Currency Initiative
A surefire way to be accused of over-hyping blockchain technology is to make some sweeping, breathless statement like, "It can solve clim...
Decentralized databases promise to revolutionize medical records, but not until the healthcare industry buys into the idea and gets to work.
Neha Narula's TED Talk
Invisible Ink is a certified mail application that demonstrates the utility of the blockchain for maintaining a public ledger of transact...
Ethos is a decentralized, Bitcoin-like network for storing and sharing valuable information. We provide transparency, control, and owners...
Lazarovich Amir
Toyota pushes into blockchain tech to enable the next generation of cars.
Azaria, Asaph, Ariel Ekblaw, Thiago Vieira, and Andrew Lippman. "MedRec: Using Blockchain for Medical Data Access and Permission Management." In Open and Big Data (OBD), International Conference on, pp. 25-30. IEEE, 2016.
Ekblaw, Ariel, Asaph Azaria, John D. Halamka, and Andrew Lippman. "A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare:“MedRec” prototype for electronic health records and medical research data." (2016).