#digital currency

In the up-and-down world of cryptocurrency, so-called meme coins are perhaps the most bewildering. The joke-inspired digital currency is all over the internet with new tokens popping up every day by the thousands. The value of some jumped thanks to v

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

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

A year ago I toured the gold vault beneath the New York Fed . You might recall it from the classic 1995 movie Die Hard with a Vengeance , but in case you aren’t familiar: It’s the world’s largest depository of monetary gold, storing over 6,000 tons

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

We’re creating a new global research network to 1) study Bitcoin and stablecoin use, especially in the global south, 2) build technology capacity, and 3) understand how to better design applications and protocols to empower people to financially flou

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