Distributed Futures

Smart Ledgers are the ‘next big thing’ in technology.

They’re based on a combination of Mutual Distributed Ledgers (aka blockchain: multiorganisational databases with a super audit trail, used since 2009 in cryptocurrencies) with embedded programming and sensing, thus permitting semi-intelligent, autonomous transactions.

Smart Ledgers are a technology for fair play in a globalised world.

Research

We work in partnership with many stakeholders to learn together and build the vital infrastructure needed to make Smart Ledgers a success.

Our research is structured around four themes:

• Society
• Technology
• Economics
• Politics

And directed at four outcomes:

• Expanding frontiers
• Changing systems
• Delivering services
• Building communities