MIT Media Lab–connected research, people, and community moments shaped headlines and campus life throughout 2025.
Neha Narula, Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the Media Lab, joined Bloomberg’s Crypto to reflect on digital asset wipeouts
Neha Narula has been selected for the Rockefeller Foundation's 2025 Bellagio Center Residency
The collaboration will focus on privacy-preserving designs.
Representatives from the Media Lab participated in discussions on the Earth Data Revolution, Space Economy, Digital Currencies, and more.
From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work?
The MIT Digital Currency Initiative director serves as a crucial link between cryptocurrency developers and central banks around the world.
Collaboration with Federal Reserve Bank of Boston yields progress in understanding how a digital currency might be developed in the future.
DCI director Neha Narula has been honored with the Alumni Trailblazers Award this year.
DCI has launched Cryptoeconomic Systems (CES), a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal and conference series focused on blockchain tech.
CNBC talks to Neha Narula and other experts about the growing interest in central bank digital currencies.
Proponents say payments with a digital dollar would be faster and easier. Opponents say it would be costly and inefficient.
Neha Narula joined experts discussing the privacy and security concerns around China's digital currency.
DCI head Neha Narula offers perspective on the draw of decentralization.
Neha Narula and Gary Gensler joined other experts to explore the potential impacts of digital currencies on national and global security.
Neha Narula and Gary Gensler participated in a simulated “digital currency war” at Harvard’s Belfer Center.
The DCI’s position between academia and industry, their policy on conflicts of interest, and their most fascinating research topics.
The 21st Geneva Report on the World Economy reviews the basics of blockchain technology, and its challenges, costs, and benefits.
Projects should take steps to ensure that responsible disclosure is the easiest, safest and most lucrative response.
We need to bump up a level and revisit how to achieve our original public policy goals in a new paradigm
How can a cryptocurrency be worth anything in the first place? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
With Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple dominating their respective online markets, we plebeians visit fewer sites than we used to an…
There’s no "silver-bullet technical solution" to the challenges in decentralizing the web.
Neha Narula's TED Talk
Blockchain technology could help to revolutionize how artists get paid.
Toyota pushes into blockchain tech to enable the next generation of cars.
Like the internet, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are driven by advances in core technologies along with a new, open architecture.
MIT DCI's research director Neha Narula discusses the future of money at TED@BCG Paris