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Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
MIT Media Lab–connected research, people, and community moments shaped headlines and campus life throughout 2025.
In arid climates, the atmosphere is a source of water, but its extraction is energy-prohibitive.Many countries have arid climates in signi…
This paper provides an overview of blockchain technology and smart contracts and explains how they enable multiple parties to deploy and ex…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Enhancing human physical capability
Bitcoin is the leading public permissionless digital currency. Bitcoin uses a public ledger to achieve strong security properties and doubl…
Neha Narula, Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the Media Lab, joined Bloomberg’s Crypto to reflect on digital asset wipeouts
MIT launches DCI Global to study real-world Bitcoin & stablecoin use, tackling financial inclusion through research & education.
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
With the increase in electronic payments options, privacy considerations are becoming even more important and privacy concerns more prevale…
Gabriela Torres Vives, et al. "Enhancing the Privacy of a Digital Pound." Bank of England and MIT Digital Currency Initiative, December 2024
As the digitalization of the economy accelerates, protecting privacy is essential. In this regard, MIT Digital Currency Initiative has laun…
Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…
This award recognizes previously published papers with a lasting impact on research and practice in computer security and privacy.
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…
This project is working on understanding and implementing privacy preserving payments in CBDC. After surveying privacy techniques from cryp…
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
Ali, A. (2024) Scaling Privacy Preserving Payments. [Master's thesis, MIT]. https://www.mit.edu/publications/scaling-privacy-preserving-payments
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
This project focuses on developing and integrating new powered prosthetic limbs, sensor systems, and surgical technologies to restore neura…
Funded by a National Science Foundation EAGER GrantOpenCBDC raised the bar for CBDC performance and viability. In this subsequent work, we …
The collaboration will focus on privacy-preserving designs.