Center for Decentralization of Power Through Blockchain Technology (DeCenter)

The Princeton DeCenter examines the most important applications of blockchain, drives interdisciplinary research and education across applications and foundational blockchain technologies, and promotes the development and understanding of the policy, governance, and societal implications of this fast-growing field.

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Crowd of people at a conference — In a series of conferences, the DeCenter has convened top federal regulators, experts in human rights, engineering, public policy, economics and ethics to identify and refine topics for research.

White paper maps the course of blockchain research

A person (face not visible) wearing a white lab coat and blue disposable gloves holds a square lab plate in their left hand. Their right hand holds a pair of tweezers which they are using to pick up one of several small green plants on the plate. — Jonathan Conway, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, received an innovation grant for the project “Engineering symbiotic plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture.” Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Since 2008, innovation funds have fostered research in AI fairness, sustainable agriculture, drug discovery and more

Professor giving a lecture — Professor J.P. Singh teaches an upper-level computer science course called “Web3: Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, and Decentralization.” Photos by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

‘The time is now’ to get blockchain right

What do philosophers have to say about blockchain?

Portrait of Nolan McCarty

Developing new tech can require more than a technological view

Matt Weinberg and students in a classroom — Matt Weinberg, at podium, teaches a course called “Economics and Computing.” Photo by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy

Building better algorithms to build better blockchains

Maria Apostolaki

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Portrait of Andrea Goldsmith

Andrea Goldsmith

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sanjeev Kulkarni

Electrical and Computer Engineering and Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Prateek Mittal

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Computer Science

Jaswinder Singh

Computer Science

Pramod Viswanath

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Matt Weinberg

Computer Science

David Wentzlaff

Electrical and Computer Engineering