Smart contracts will use code to reshape law

20 January 2017 Jane Wild 2 mins read

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Smart contracts will use code to reshape law

On a frosty Friday morning in Switzerland’s commercial centre of Zurich, an audience arrived early at the university to learn about the emerging field of smart contracts in a presentation given by Charles Hoskinson. A completely new way of quantifying concepts like trust, reputation and ambiguity, smart contracts are a digital legal system – a computer protocol that facilitates…

Introducing The Grothendieck Team

10 December 2016 Alan McSherry 4 mins read

Introducing The Grothendieck Team

The Grothendieck Team

Hi everyone, it's my pleasure to officially announce the new team known as The Grothendieck Team! The team has been named after Alexander Grothendieck, a German-born French mathematician who became a leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. They have been committed to Ethereum Classic by IOHK in order to build a Scala client for ETC based on IOHK's

Professor Aggelos Kiayias joins IOHK as Chief Scientist

21 October 2016 Charles Hoskinson 4 mins read

Professor Aggelos Kiayias joins IOHK as Chief Scientist

Professor Aggelos Kiayias joins IOHK as Chief Scientist

We are delighted to announce that Professor

Aggelos Kiayias
, professor in cryptography at the University of Edinburgh, has joined IOHK as Chief Scientist.

Prof Kiayias is the pre-eminent academic in the field of blockchain security. He has produced pioneering work providing the rigorous analysis necessary to secure…

IOHK | Latvia. Executive update

19 October 2016 Jeremy Wood 3 mins read

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IOHK | Latvia. Executive update

For some of the IOHK team it was their first time meeting in person when we gathered in Latvia this month for an intensive working session to push forward several of our key projects. As a distributed company we usually collaborate remotely, across time zones, so coming together to exchange ideas was inspiring. For two weeks in the beautiful capital city of Riga, we advanced…

A Blockchain-free Approach for a Cryptocurrency

12 October 2016 Mario Larangeira 5 mins read

A Blockchain-free Approach for a Cryptocurrency - Input Output HongKong

A Blockchain-free Approach for a Cryptocurrency

A major technical challenge of the cryptocurrencies is to find a way to safely increase the throughput of the system in terms of number of transactions. An approach to tackle this limitation is to review the role of the blockchain, or even to take that data structure out of the picture completely. In this post, we will comment a paper by Boyen, Carr and Haines named Blockchain…