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. The lab, which is based in London, will be led by Professor David Williams, who has previously worked on developing digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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.