Blockchain comes to campus

Arizona State University and Dash, a top digital currency for payments, have partnered to accelerate research, development, and education in ways that advance the speed, efficiency, and security of blockchain transactions while also expanding its uses.

Arizona State University and Dash, a top digital currency for payments, have partnered to accelerate research, development, and education in ways that advance the speed, efficiency, and security of blockchain transactions while also expanding its uses. The partnership began after Dash contributed $50,000 in startup funding to ASU's Blockchain Research Laboratory.

The latest contribution of $350,000 will spark additional growth, with specific support for:

• The Dash Scholars Program, offering $100,000 in scholarships for undergraduate and graduate research fellowships
• Research lab and industry open-source project, providing an additional $100,000 in funding for ASU's Blockchain Research Lab and $50,000 for The Luminosity Lab
• Blockchain course development, including $100,000 that supported the development of a new online course for graduate students, first available this fall

"This is a remarkable partnership precisely because both sides will benefit greatly from tight collaboration," says Dash CEO Ryan Taylor (BS Management '99 ). "Dash benefits from gaining valuable independent insights into how we can improve our plans for scaling to massively large numbers of transactions. ASU will benefit from gaining access to one of the most innovative teams in the digital currency industry. The entire blockchain industry will benefit from the best practices that will emerge from the research, and the creation of a graduate course is a tremendous leap in blockchain's path toward rapid, mainstream adoption."