Project Grant 2446858
- 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...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) project grant (CFDA 47.070) awarded $160,493 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to conduct collaborative research at the intersection of distributed cryptography and blockchain technologies. The key objectives are: (1) developing a common framework and language to bridge the gap between cryptography and distributed computing research on emerging technologies like blockchain; (2) investigating the...
- This $786,661 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support the development of novel techniques and systems to identify vulnerabilities and detect malicious attacks in Web3 applications and blockchain-based financial services. The project, titled "SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: BEDROCK: SECURITY FOR SMART CONTRACTS," will introduce a multi-layer framework called BEDROCK to analyze...
- 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 $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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $125,304 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees. The grant, awarded on August 1, 2025 with a completion date of July 31, 2026, aims to develop novel optimization algorithms suitable for solving non-standard optimization problems in payment channel networks and urban transportation planning applications. The project will involve the...
- The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (SUNY at Binghamton) received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems to support research activities under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The award will fund work on decentralized data assurance through fair proof of work consensus federated ledgers from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The...
- 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) 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...
- The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania were awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award will support research towards developing permissioned blockchain infrastructure for mobile internet applications from October 2021 through September 2024. The NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communication...
This federal Project Grant award of $600,000.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) to New Mexico State University (NMSU). The award will fund research to address fundamental challenges in payment channel networks (PCNs), a layer 2 scaling solution for blockchain networks. The key objectives are to: 1) solve research challenges in PCNs, 2) build PCN protocols that are cross-chain compatible and blockchain-agnostic, and 3) develop state channels to execute arbitrary code off-chain. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art in layer 2 protocols through innovations in secure decentralized authentication, prevention of path inflation, and leveraging trusted execution environments. The award period is from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $600.0k | 8/4/25 |