Arizona State University Partners With Dash to Fund Research, Scholarships

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Arizona State University (ASU) has announced a partnership with the digital currency Dash that will provide $350,000 to “accelerate research, development, and education in ways that advance blockchain transaction speed, efficiency, security, and expand its uses.” The funds will be allocated as follows:

1. The Dash Scholars Program, which provides $100,000 in scholarships for undergraduate and graduate research fellowships;

2. Research lab and Industry open source projects, providing an additional $100,000 in funding for ASU’s Blockchain Research Lab (BRL) and $50,000 in new funding for the Luminosity Lab, and

3. Blockchain course development, with $100,000 for creating an online graduate course expected to be offered at ASU this fall.

The $350,000 is funded by Dash, via a successful treasury proposal. Director of ASU’s Blockchain Research Lab, Dragan Boscovic, commented:

“ASU welcomes this initiative and is ready to play its role in creating a potent Blockchain research and innovation environment for young talents to develop practical Blockchain applications.”

“Initial research [will] focus on throughput capacity and latency performance of blockchain technology, model and assess it for different network architectures (including Dash's multi-tiered architecture), applications, and use cases to propose a "scalability" deployment guide and best practices.”

https://cointelegraph.com/news/arizona-state-university-partners-with-dash-to-fund-research-scholarships