Research Theme: distributed algorithms

Discover the posts related to distributed algorithms produced by the team from the Blockchain@X research center at Ecole Polytechnique.

Central Bank Digital Currencies: the Quest for Public Digital Payment Infrastructures

Central Banks provide foundational public infrastructures for payments such as cash and gross settlement systems. In an evolving context, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) are efforts to leverage new patterns and technologies to provide infrastructures relevant to the digital age...

Central Bank Digital Currencies: the Quest for Public Digital Payment Infrastructures

Central Banks provide foundational public infrastructures for payments such as cash and gross settlement systems. In an evolving context, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) are efforts to leverage new patterns and technologies to provide infrastructures relevant to the digital age...

Tezos WEB 3.0. Hackathon– HEC X Polytechnique

This October HEC MBA Blockchain Club and Blockchain@X (Ecole Polytechnique) will collaborate for the first time to host a Web 3.0. TEZOS HACKATHON. During a...

CBER Forum – “Best Before ? Expiring Central Bank Digital Currency and Loss Recovery“

Charles Kahn (University of Illinois) Presenting “Best Before? Expiring Central Bank Digital Currency and Loss Recovery Discussant: Steve Williamson (Western University) Moderator: William Roberds (FRB...

The Future(s) of Money

A two-day workshop where academics, central bankers and industry experts will envision the future(s) of money. Recordings of all the talks available HERE Academia: Universities...

2022 CBER Conference

In collaboration with Management Science, the Questrom School of Business at Boston University, FinTech at Cornell – an Initiative of the SC Johnson College of...

CBER Forum – Digital Currency Competition

CBER Symposium: Digital Currency Competition Description The event will be hosted by Aleh Tsyvinkski (Yale University) and will include the following presentations: “The Coming Battle...

CBER Forum – The Limits of Code Deference

CBER Symposium: Auditing Economic Mechanisms in Blockchain Protocols The event will be hosted by Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern) and will include the following presentations: « Bridging...

Crypto in France: Structuring of the Sector and Adoption by the General Public

The Blockchain & B2B Platforms Chair at Ecole Polytechnique aims to combine academic excellence with institutional and scientific prestige in order to foster innovation in blockchain. Pioneer in its field and supported by Capgemini, Nomadic Labs and Caisse des Dépôts...

Optimal Cryptocurrency Design: Seigniorage versus Transaction Fees

This paper studies how transaction fees and seigniorage, equivalent to inflation in the cryptocurrency setting, affect miner incentives and trade congestion. Each cryptocurrency miner chooses how many new transactions to group into the next block of transactions that the miner...

Cryptoeconomics Seminar

Blockchain & Digital Market Design Seminar - We consider blockchain adoption in a multiple firm market. The blockchain cost per firm decreases with the adoption rate as the cost of verification and recording is distributed...

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