Tagged: cornell university

August 31, 2020 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

John Wu, the president at Ava Labs, a company that aims to create the next generation of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, notes that his organization is working with a large European digital asset manager. Wu, who was joined by Dr. Emin Gün Sirer, who is… Read More

August 29, 2020 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Eswar Prasad, professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, acknowledges that the Chinese digital yuan will improve the nation currency’s role as an international payment method. However, he clarified that it will “hardly put a dent” in the… Read More

March 1, 2020 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AVA Labs, an efficient and modular decentralized services platform, has acquired Investery Inc., a private capital markets platform, that aims to assist investors in managing alternative investments.  Investery’s current business partnerships will be transitioning over to AVA. John Wu, CEO and founder at Investery, and… Read More

March 1, 2019 @ 1:19 am By Cali Haan  |  

Russian state media outlet TASS reported February 26th that Dmitry Vyatkin, a deputy in Russia’s ruling United Russia party, has introduced a bill to have the Moscow City Duma (city hall) use an experimental blockchain voting system in the city’s next election. According to an… Read More

December 7, 2018 @ 7:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cornell University and Tsinghua University (清华大学) announced this week they have joined forces to host the International Workshop on Blockchain, which is set to take place in Xi’an, China.  According to the learning institutions, the event was made possible by a $150,000 grant from not-for-profit platform Social… Read More

October 23, 2018 @ 9:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

Incorporation of blockchain tech would give a false sense of security to Internet voting, which is a fundamentally insecure proposal, say researchers from Cornell University’s Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts. Blockchain has been touted as an excellent way to diminish fraud in supply chains and… Read More