Digital asset platform Blockchain and Imperial College London have launched the Digital asset Research Lab to develop cryptocurrency and blockchain applications . Funding for the lab comes as part of a three - year partnership with the Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering at Imperial . Initial research projects are likely to include smart channels – applications that work on behalf of blockchains – and smart channels – capable of scaling up blockchain consensus by updating databases without publishing everything to the chain .
Digital asset platform Blockchain and Imperial College London have launched the Digital Asset Research Lab to develop cryptocurrency and blockchain applications. Funding for the lab comes as part of a three-year partnership with the Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering at Imperial. Initial research projects are likely to include smart contracts – applications that run on top of blockchains – and smart channels – ways of scaling up blockchain consensus by updating transactions without publishing everything to the chain.