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Looking beyond smart cities
Abstract: We propose, implement, and evaluate two extensions to OpenCBDC, an open-source transaction processor designed for central ba…
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
Stuewe, Sam et al. "Beware the Weak Sentinel: Making OpenCBDC Auditable without Compromising Privacy." Digital Currency Initiative, 25 November 2024, https://dci.mit.edu/beware-the-weak-sentinel-making-opencbdc-auditable-with-out-compromising-privacy
This paper provides an overview of blockchain technology and smart contracts and explains how they enable multiple parties to deploy and ex…
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
As the digitalization of the economy accelerates, protecting privacy is essential. In this regard, MIT Digital Currency Initiative has laun…
Announcement dated March, 17, 2022The Bank of Canada is collaborating on a CBDC research project with the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. …
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
This award recognizes previously published papers with a lasting impact on research and practice in computer security and privacy.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Bell was a high school intern with the Fluid Interfaces group, where he helped to develop assistive cognitive tools.
This project is working on understanding and implementing privacy preserving payments in CBDC. After surveying privacy techniques from cryp…
Ali, A. (2024) Scaling Privacy Preserving Payments. [Master's thesis, MIT]. https://www.mit.edu/publications/scaling-privacy-preserving-payments
The US Treasuries repo market is the largest financial market in the world. Trade volume is constrained by the interaction of accounting ru…
ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…
Funded by a National Science Foundation EAGER GrantOpenCBDC raised the bar for CBDC performance and viability. In this subsequent work, we …
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…
In Scientific American, Dr. Alex Lipton and Media Lab Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland call for the creation of new banking regulations.
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…
Public interest tax analyst Don Griswold introduces Tech for Transparency, inspired by Media Lab Professor Alex Pentland's research.
Transforming data into knowledge
From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work?
Choice is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
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.
Boston.com reports on research conducted by Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, visiting professor Esteban Moro, and collaborators.
The 2021 event, held in Kresge Auditorium and streamed live, was an unmistakable sign that MIT’s campus is up and running.
Sandy Pentland discusses national digital currencies and trade platforms, and how they could upend today's geopolitical hierarchies.
CNBC talks to Neha Narula and other experts about the growing interest in central bank digital currencies.
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
CE 2.0
Essays and testimonies on Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency
We investigate the structure and dynamics of a network representative of the global trading market that emerged during the 16th century.
Blockchain technology and the crypto ecosystem it has birthed must come fully within public policy frameworks to reach its full potential.