Outlooks

One of the major challenges in the world of blockchains is that of scaling up, particularly in terms of throughput, i.e. the number of transactions per second. One way to increase throughput is to use a block validation system other...

Decentralized Finance is a major innovation trend that is shaking the FinTech world. DeFi refers to a universe of financial applications that rely on blockchain technology to achieve decentralization. In other words, DeFi applications allow their users to perform traditional...

This report is a continuation of the work of the Blockchain for Good association, including the publication of a first report released in June 2020. Both attempt to answer the question of whether and how blockchains could help accelerate the...

Central Banks provide foundational public infrastructures for payments such as cash and gross settlement systems. In an evolving context, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) are efforts to leverage new patterns and technologies to provide infrastructures relevant to the digital age...

The Blockchain & B2B Platforms Chair at Ecole Polytechnique aims to combine academic excellence with institutional and scientific prestige in order to foster innovation in blockchain. Pioneer in its field and supported by Capgemini, Nomadic Labs and Caisse des Dépôts...

One of the main obstacles to the deployment of blockchains is the fact that the data managed on a blockchain is publicly accessible. This is unthinkable in the health or banking sectors, for example. Zero-knowledge technologies can resolve precisely this...