Projects
The Cryptocurrency Research Group is the first multidisciplinary cross-industry research organization dedicated to solving the hard problems in cryptocurrency, including technical issues of consensus and scalability, development and evaluation of game-theoretic mechanisms useful in many kinds of smart contracts, as well as legal and practical issues relating to the intersection of the cryptographic world and the real world. The Ethereum Foundation is providing an initial grant to the CCRG, but the organization is in the process of actively expanding to include multiple stakeholders from academia, business and elsewhere.
The Ethereum Foundation is participating in and contributing, both financially and with the active involvement of our members, to a number of efforts that provide value to the cryptocurrency, payments and web technology space. We proudly support the Coin Center, a non-profit organization based in Washington dedicated to researching the legal implications of cryptocurrency and engaging in policy advocacy efforts, and are members of the W3C Web Payments Group.
The Ethereum Foundation is a founding member of the Digital Finance Compliance Organization, a self-regulatory organization for cryptocurrency businesses in Switzerland. Partners in the DFCA include Monetas (OpenTransactions) and Bitcoin Suisse.