Blockchain Lab is to be Launched, Collaboration of IOHK And Edinburgh University
Blockchain research and development company IOHK has partnered with the University of Edinburgh to produce and fund the institution’s first Blockchain lab. IOHK, which already has similar agreements elsewhere such as in Japan, will invest up to $1 mln per year in the Scottish project. The goal is to bring together academics and students to collaborate on solving “industry inspired problems,” Forbes reports. “Distributed ledgers is an upcoming disruptive technology that can scale information services to a global level. The academic and industry connection forged by this collaboration puts....
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