Standardized and Decentralized
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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/standardized-and-decentralized-rethinking-the-blockchain-stack/
Feb 28, 2018 - This project looks at the three layers of the blockchain stack—protocol, consensus, and economic—from logical and technical points of view; and it distinguishes between two types of standardization, semantic and technological. It should help executives and investors to understand the implementation challenges—such as scalability, energy consumption, and governance of each layer—and the problems that the blockchain community is attempting to solve with each innovation.
Keyword: Arun Devan,
Bitcoin,
consensus mechanism,
David Xiao,
ERC-20,
Ethereum,
Joel Monegro,
New York Agreement,
proof of stake,
proof of work,
SDG 9,
technology,
Vitalik Buterin
Saving the Web
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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/saving-the-web/
Dec 09, 2018 - Amid ongoing reports of surveillance, censorship, and massive hacking of data, this research explores how distributed ledger technology can address the challenges of the World Wide Web. The authors argue that blockchain can support the Internet’s founding ideals, decentralize the Internet, and restore the balance of power between individuals and large organizations. They focus on three big issues: open access, fair participation, and the recovery of the individual sovereignty as users. The authors interviewed such experts as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Joseph Lubin of Consensus Systems, Shane Greenstein of Harvard Business School, Rouven Heck of u...
Keyword: Facebook,
free speech,
GDPR,
HTTP,
law & regulation,
net neutrality,
privacy,
SDG 10,
SDG 3,
self-sovereign identity,
TCP/IP,
technology,
W3 Consortium
Distributed Artificial Intelligence
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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/distributed-artificial-intelligence/
Mar 22, 2019 - The use of artificial intelligence is diffusing, making it one of the broadest technological revolutions ever. Blockchain technology has the unique ability to improve the reliability of AI training data and secure AI implementations through smart contracts and on-chain governance. This project examines AI, the differences among centralized, decentralized, and distributed AI, the utility of autonomous agents, and current scalability and governance challenges.
Keyword: Amazon Kiva Systems,
autonomous agent,
connectionism,
decentralized autonomous organization,
Google Nest,
IBM Watson,
Internet of Things,
machine learning,
public data sets,
SDG 9,
technology,
Toda.Network,
training data
The Convergence of Big Data and Blockchain
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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/the-convergence-of-big-data-and-blockchain/
Dec 15, 2017 - This project explores how blockchain will change business models dependent on free big data. Distributed ledger technology will enable instant payment networks, loyalty schemes, aggregated metadata, multi-jurisdiction processes, and transactions within multinationals, potentially without liability for customer data and in compliance with EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Keyword: Ant Financial,
CertCoin,
Comcast,
data governance,
DeepMind,
Fujitsu,
Guardtime,
IOTA,
keyless signature infrastructure,
metadata,
predictive analytics,
SDG 3,
SDG 9,
self-sovereign identity,
Sovrin,
technology,
Telstra,
uPort
Cosmos and Polkadot for the Enterprise
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https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/cosmos-and-polkadot-for-the-enterprise/
Jul 30, 2021 - This project explores one of the most critical implementation challenges of blockchain technologies: interoperability. Enterprise uses are reluctant to tokenize their assets or invest seriously in decentralized finance and digital asset management capabilities without assurances that they will be able to move these assets across blockchain platforms. What if chosen platforms fail? What if better platforms emerge? Some of the best minds in the space are addressing these issues head on with a range of innovative solutions. This project features two of them: Cosmos and Polkadot. It looks at their origins and ethos, architecture and core technolo...
Keyword: Byzantine-fault tolerant (BFT),
ChainSafe,
financial services,
interblockchain communication (IBC),
OKEx,
parathreads,
Polymath,
sharding,
software development kit (SDK),
Substrate,
technology,
Tendermint