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FDCI Areas of Research
Financial Inclusion
Using digital currencies to bring universal access to transparent, fair, and efficient payment and market mechanisms.
Interoperability
A seamless interoperability substrate layer that facilitates network scailing, ensures fungibility across new systems, and enables new financial use-cases and businesses.
Identity Verification
How digital currencies can achieve ID verification and how it will affect know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering policies and practices.
Currency Programmability
How digital currencies can be programmed to execute smart contracts for multiple use cases geared towards both public and private sector interests.
Decentralized Financial Systems (DeFi)
Digital currency's role in decentralizing the financial sector. For example, how DCs can use multi-asset matching requests and trade execution protocols that allow for decentralized market exchanges.
Evolution of the Digital Economy
What will the overall digital economy look like in the next 5, 10, or 50 years? How will our efforts impact that future? What are the nth level consequences of implementing technological and regulatory standards today on that future?
Testing Methodology
Cutting-Edge Applications
Creating technical primitives using today's most advanced technology to ensure openness and technical capacity of systems to support the cutting edge apps of the future.
Litmus Testing
Testing technical capabilities of digital currencies to ensure they are secure, afford privacy, support useful market mechanisms, and can scale at government and enterprise levels.
Sandbox Testing and Metric Benchmarking
A neutral, academic sandbox, complete with metrics and benchmarking based on select criteria, to test and evaluate digital currency solutions from the broader ecosystem, stemming from both the private and public sector.
Affiliated Faculty Research
FDCI is pursuing research through multiple avenues, through the FDCI lab itself, and through our affiliated faculty's ongoing projects linked below.
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