This $256,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships project grant will fund the development of security gateway processing software for a digital currency ledger system. Awarded to National Currency Technologies Inc. on March 15, 2023, the project aims to enable a more inclusive and accessible public-facing digital currency platform. Specifically, the company will program a multicore processor with different security checks to efficiently process large volumes of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $274,193 to Knox Networks, Inc. to research and develop a novel tokenization approach for file-based digital assets (FBDAs). The project aims to create a production-ready FBDA product that improves upon existing distributed ledger and database technologies in scalability, interoperability, privacy, and programmability. The technology has potential...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 EAGER grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The project aims to preserve privacy in the use of digital currencies, particularly central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), by developing cryptographic approaches such as pseudonymization, zero-knowledge proofs, and private information retrieval. The research will evaluate design choices for...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), supports research and development to create innovative distributed security frameworks for next-generation mobile network systems. The key products and services to be delivered under this $138,295 award include: 1) developing distributed public-key infrastructure (PKI) and symmetric-key cryptography schemes compliant with NIST...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA #47.084) provides $994,567.00 to Corsha, Inc. to develop innovative distributed ledger technologies for cybersecurity applications. The project aims to enable distributed ledgers to naturally scale as their workloads increase, reducing the barrier for companies to adopt and operate the technology over the long-term. The key technical objectives are to develop...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of South Florida (USF) to conduct research on the development of new cryptographic primitives for post-quantum cryptography. The project aims to construct novel cryptographic schemes based on rank metric codes derived from Drinfeld modules, as well as explore new variants of the Hamming metric for code-based cryptography. This research...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $255,946 to Heights Labs, Inc. to develop comprehensive blockchain transaction monitoring technology for detecting illicit cryptocurrency accounts and funds in close to real time. The awardee will scale network tracing algorithms to monitor the entire Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains, identify known illicit accounts through on-chain and dark web activity...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $999,109 to Cryptyx Bioscience, Inc. to develop a natural product drug discovery platform based on high-throughput elicitor screening (HITES). The goal is to unlock the full metabolomic potential of microbes and rapidly identify novel antibiotics, anticancer agents, and other therapeutics from previously "cryptic" or...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $133,487 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct collaborative research towards developing distributed, secure, and resilient network security protocols and standards for next-generation mobile networks. The key focus areas include creating distributed public-key infrastructure (PKI) and...
Cryptyx Bioscience, Inc. was awarded a $256,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (NSF TIP, CFDA 47.084) to develop a novel small-molecule drug discovery platform based on high-throughput elicitor screening. The platform will trigger the production of cryptic microbial metabolites for evaluation as potential new pharmaceuticals to address a range of diseases. During the one-year period from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023, the...