Awarded research grants by quarter

Q2 2024

• Aayush Jain (CMU), Post-Quantum Threshold Signatures for the Blockchain

Q1 2024

• Peter Müller (ETH), Practical Rust Verification
• Pratik Soni (The University of Utah) and Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan (The University of Sydney), Functional Payments from Adaptor Signatures

Q4 2023

• Amit Levy (Princeton University), Interoperating in a World of Decentralized Applications
• Christian Cachin (UNIBE), Efficiency of Anonymous and Private Decentralized Payments
• Qiang Tang (The University of Sydney), Aggregatable and Auditable Tumbler for Stellar
• Clément Aubert (Augusta University), Formal Verification of Tiered-Privacy-Perserving Auditable Protocols
• Mirjam Eggen (UNIBE), The Value Proposition of a Retail CBDC

Q3 2023

• Xuechao Wang (HKUST), Unveiling and Improving Unauthenticated BFT Protocols
• Aurojit Panda (NYU), Detecting and Reacting to Errors in Distributed Systems at Runtime

Q2 2023

• Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan (OSU), Efficient Gossip and Topology Design in the Stellar Peer-to-Peer Network