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In this whitepaper, we explore the challenges that financial institutions face when issuing assets on public blockchains. The infrastructure that traditional finance runs on today is fundamentally different from public blockchains, and this new envir

Neha Narula, Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, joined Bloomberg’s Crypto this week to reflect on the recent $19 billion wipeout in digital assets—now the largest crypto liquidation event on record. “Crypto is still a

2025 marks a milestone year for the Digital Currency Initiative — our 10th anniversary. Founded in 2015, DCI began with a simple but ambitious mission: to advance open-source, neutral digital currency technologies that empower individuals. A decade i

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Digital Currency Initiative (MIT DCI) and Kinexys Digital Payments at J.P. Morgan collaborated on the research and development of a prototype for payment tokens on EVM-based blockchains. This research focuses on