Cryptoeconomics Lab | UC Digital Futures

The Cryptoeconomics Lab delves into how blockchain technology is transforming economic systems, from securing transactions to revolutionizing insurance and exchanges, paving the way for a more inclusive and decentralized financial landscape.

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TEAM CAPABILITIES

Cyber Policy

Cyber Technology

Predictive Analytics

Education Technology

Michael Jones

Director

Cryptoeconomics Lab

About

The Cryptoeconomics Lab provides a physical space for researchers, students, and companies to study the impact of blockchain technology and digital assets on the future economy. The lab contains hardware that validates blockchain transactions, transfers data for smart contract execution, and securely stores digital assets. Cross-disciplinary researchers analyze trends in decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, parametric insurance, prediction markets, and other cryptoeconomic applications.

PROJECT SHOWCASE

Digital Futures Flashpoint Series | Is Cryptocurrency the Future of Philanthropy? – In 2021, the market cap of cryptocurrencies exceeded $3 trillion, 6 new crypto billionaires joined the Forbes 400, and the CEO of Twitter sold an NFT for charity. With the Giving Block reporting a 583% increase in cryptocurrency donations in 2021, how should philanthropies embrace this transformative technology?

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Digital Futures High Performance Computing Center

The Digital Futures (DF) High Performance Computing (HPC) center provides the tools, talent and training necessary to accelerate computational and data-enabled research and knowledge creation.

UC’s HPC and HPDA (High Performance Data Analytics) supercomputer, popular open-source data analysis software packages, high-speed data transfer tools and integrated high-speed storage environment are available to project teams and collaborators. These tools, and others, can be used for proof-of-concept projects, testbeds for new ideas, code benchmarking, interactive analysis and data sharing/reproducibility.

Talented research computing professionals are available to help you scale your workflows from workstation to HPC, optimize your code and take advantage of the massive processing power available in the GPUs for your modeling and simulation, ML and AI projects.