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Project Research

Application of Programmability to Commercial Banking and Payments with Kinexys by JP Morgan

This paper provides an overview of blockchain technology and smart contracts and explains how they enable multiple parties to deploy and ex…
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Evaluating the Practical Privacy of Whirlpool CoinJoins

Bitcoin is the leading public permissionless digital currency. Bitcoin uses a public ledger to achieve strong security properties and doubl…
Article Research

Crypto Still A Bit of "Wild West"

Neha Narula, Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the Media Lab, joined Bloomberg’s Crypto to reflect on digital asset wipeouts
Article Research

A new research network for Bitcoin and digital currency

MIT launches DCI Global to study real-world Bitcoin & stablecoin use, tackling financial inclusion through research & education.
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
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Enhancing the Privacy of a Digital Pound

With the increase in electronic payments options, privacy considerations are becoming even more important and privacy concerns more prevale…
Publication Research

Enhancing the Privacy of a Digital Pound

Gabriela Torres Vives, et al. "Enhancing the Privacy of a Digital Pound." Bank of England and MIT Digital Currency Initiative, December 2024
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Privacy Preserving Designs for CBDCs with Deutsche Bundesbank

As the digitalization of the economy accelerates, protecting privacy is essential. In this regard, MIT Digital Currency Initiative has laun…
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Improving Bitcoin-Core’s Kitchen Sink Random Number Generator

Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…
Post Research

Madars Virza wins Test of Time Award at 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

This award recognizes previously published papers with a lasting impact on research and practice in computer security and privacy.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Project Research

Bitcoin Security in Absence of Block Rewards

In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…
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Scaling Privacy Preserving Payments in a Centralized Digital Currency

This project is working on understanding and implementing privacy preserving payments in CBDC. After surveying privacy techniques from cryp…
Thesis Research

Mitigating Undercutting Attacks: A Study on Mining and Transaction Fee Behavior

Bao, C. (2024). Mitigating Undercutting Attacks: A Study on Mining and Transaction Fee Behavior. [Master's thesis, MIT]. https://media.mit.edu/publications/mitigating-undercutting-attacks-a-study-on-mining-and-transaction-fee-behavior
Thesis Research

Scaling Privacy Preserving Payments

Ali, A. (2024) Scaling Privacy Preserving Payments. [Master's thesis, MIT]. https://www.mit.edu/publications/scaling-privacy-preserving-payments
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Privacy-Preserving Audits for OpenCBDC

Funded by a National Science Foundation EAGER GrantOpenCBDC raised the bar for CBDC performance and viability. In this subsequent work, we …
Post Research

The Digital Currency Initiative at the Media Lab will collaborate with Deutsche Bundesbank on central bank digital currency (CBDC) research

The collaboration will focus on privacy-preserving designs.