Stanford Distributed Trust Initiative company information, Employees & Contact Information

The Stanford Distributed Trust Initiative is a university-wide multi-disciplinary program with the following goals: - Bring together Stanford expertise in cryptography, big data, privacy, health, sensors and devices, and economics - Provide a forum for discussing and setting future directions of distributed trust and identity - Foster collaborations among Stanford researchers and industry - Provide a forum for the early communication of new results - Foster communication between industrial sectors - Push the forefront of real-world blockchain applications - Help to set standards for blockchains - Provide multi-dimensional training for students and postdocs Our research agenda covers the following topics: - Governance and Law (e.g. decentralized governance; distributed systems and international law) - Health and Synthetic Biology (e.g. patient-controlled medical data/records, micropayments for health, distributed AI, global logistics for synthetic biology and genome synthesis) - Cryptoeconomics (e.g. Crypto-economic systems; Distributed trust for social good) - Hardware (e.g. secure computing enclaves such as Intel SGX; semiconductor design for crypto; biometrics; IoT) - Privacy and Security (e.g. privacy preserving analytics and currencies) - Fundamentals (e.g. scaling, useful proofs, reliable consensus, formal verification of smart contracts)