An open source research programme for Smart Ledgers and new technologies
Distributed Futures
Distributed Futures is a Long Finance programme dedicated to exploring new technologies and finance. A large portion of the programme looks as Smart Ledgers, but also wider technologies ranging from quantum computing to machine learning to biological finance. Specifically, Smart Ledgers are multiorganisational databases with a super audit trail (often based on blockchains, used since 2009 in cryptocurrencies) with embedded programming and sensing, thus permitting semi-intelligent, autonomous transactions.
Research
Our research is structured around four themes:
- Society
- Technology
- Economics
- Politics
Directed at four outcomes:
- Expanding frontiers
- Changing systems
- Delivering services
- Building communities
Economic Control of Alternate Currencies Simulator
Objectives
- To develop an economic simulator capable of simulating characteristics of hypothetical alternative currencies (e.g. cryptocurrencies), their users, environment, exchanges, etc.
- To be freely available to use online.
- Supporting design, development, control, and also regulation of alternative currencies.
- With the goal of making them genuinely useful and competitive as currencies and electronic payment systems, in the long term too.