This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant, awarded to Iowa State University of Science and Technology, aims to advance the fault tolerance of decentralized blockchain transactions. The $290,772 award, effective May 15, 2024 through April 30, 2028, will fund research to: Capture the inherent dependencies across the blockchain ecosystem, Identify critical transaction states, and Ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of blockchain...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop a common framework for distributed cryptography and blockchain technologies. The $160,493 award, which runs from Aug 15, 2024 to Apr 30, 2025, aims to: Create a "distributed cryptography" framework to express foundational and modern questions from both cryptography and distributed computing, and develop...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $174,927 to the San Diego State University Research Foundation will fund research to address challenges in the Ethereum peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The effort will develop methods to systematically detect incompatible communication protocols and inconsistent behaviors across Ethereum clients, as well as design a new approach to preserve node...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,438 project grant to Northeastern University for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: FROM DISTRIBUTED CRYPTOGRAPHY TO BLOCKCHAIN AND BACK." The grant was awarded on May 1, 2021 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Northeastern University will...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $150,000 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to study the design and implementation of a new class of smart contracts for blockchain-based financial transactions and supply chain applications. The project, titled "EAGER: SYNTHESIZING AND OPTIMIZING DECLARATIVE SMART CONTRACTS," aims to develop "DESCO," a declarative smart...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $287,415 Project Grant titled "CAREER: OPERATIONALISING FAULT-TOLERANCE IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD" to the University of California, Berkeley under the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The project aims to develop new trust models and protocols that explicitly recognize the uncertain nature of large-scale distributed systems. This will significantly improve the performance and robustness...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,999 project grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: FROM DISTRIBUTED CRYPTOGRAPHY TO BLOCKCHAIN AND BACK." The award period is from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2025. The project supports investigator-initiated research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). This program aims to advance...
This Project Grant award for $786,661.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) will develop novel techniques and systems to identify vulnerabilities and detect malicious attacks in Web3 applications and blockchain-based financial infrastructure. The "BEDROCK" framework introduced by this project will leverage multi-chain program analysis, advanced security techniques, and high-level modeling of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $273,001 federal Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Illinois to develop novel fault-tolerance protocols and storage abstractions for improving the performance of fault-tolerant storage systems. The 5-year project aims to enable the construction of reliable and high-performing storage systems that can support critical applications in modern datacenters without...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $300,000 EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), under CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences. This 2-year award supports research to investigate the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT), such as blockchain, to enable automated and secure dynamic spectrum allocation mechanisms....