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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…
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Beware the Weak Sentinel: Making OpenCBDC Auditable without Compromising Privacy

Abstract: We propose, implement, and evaluate two extensions to OpenCBDC, an open-source transaction processor designed for central ba…
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CBDC as a Cryptographic Platform

As announced on March 17, 2022, the Bank of Canada collaborated on a two year CBDC research project with the MIT Digital Currency Initiativ…
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PArSEC: Executing Smart Contracts in Parallel

Parallelized Architecture for Scalably Executing smart Contracts (PArSEC)AuthorsJames Lovejoy, Federal Reserve Bank of BostonAnders Brownwo…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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OpenCBDC

ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…
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ADESS: A Proof of Work Blockchain Protocol Modification to Deter Double-Spend Attacks

A principal vulnerability of a proof-of-work ("PoW") blockchain is that an attacker can re-write the history of transactions by forking a p…
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Cryptoeconomic Systems Journal and Conference Series

The Cryptoeconomic Systems Journal has moved to Metagov. After five years at the DCI, the Cryptoeconomic Systems journal, transitioned…
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Bitcoin Core's migration to the CMake buildsystem

The DCI’s Bitcoin Core developers have been reviewing and guiding Hennadii Stepanov's work to migrate to the CMake buildsystem, which was m…
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Transformable Discreet Log Contracts (TDLC)

Abstract Since Bitcoin and the Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO) model were introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto over a decade ago, there ha…
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CBDC User Research Collaborations

What will it take for decentralized networks to realize our vision of a radically improved financial system that protects user privacy and …
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Pool Detective

Ever since the introduction of the first mining pool for Bitcoin in November 2010, mining pools have been used by miners to reduce the vari…
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zkLedger: Privacy-Preserving Auditing

Privacy-preserving auditing on distributed ledgerszkLedger is a project that combines techniques from modern cryptography to analyze privat…
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Decentralized Web

Between 1989 and 2015, the World Wide Web transformed from an esoteric system for publishing technical notes to a basic infrastructure of c…
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OpenSolar

The OpenSolar project and platform aims to use blockchain and IoT-based smart contracts for disintermediation and contractual automation in…
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Bitcoin vending machine

Lit, the lightweight Lightning Network software developed at the MIT Media Lab, works with multiple Bitcoin-like blockchains. The DCI team …
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Building smart contracts with Bitcoin

Discreet Log Contracts (DLC) are a new type of smart contract which limit the information gained and influence of oracles, and can run…
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Solar Micro-Mining

Bitcoin generates net-new value from "mining" in a distributed network. In this work, we explore solar micro-mining rigs that transform exc…
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Blockchain Labs | Working Groups

 The Working Group Program brings DCI Member Companies (1) and students together to work on real world projects that use blockchain te…
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Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

Since the Bank of England first raised the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in its 2015 research agenda, the subject has g…
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zk-SHARKS

We investigate the goal of deploying efficient non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs for moderately complex statements. Motivated by the d…
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Cryptography and Policy

The Digital Currency Initiative is interested in cryptography research beyond digital currency and blockchains. The DCI and its collaborato…
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Utreexo

Utreexo: a dynamic accumulator for bitcoin state A description of research by Thaddeus DryjaOne of the earliest-seen and most persiste…
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