Columbia University to Support Smart Contract R&D

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QTUM, an open sourced public blockchain initiative, is donating $400,000 to academics at the University of Columbia. The grant is being extended to Ronghui Gu, Columbia University’s assistant CS professor who will oversee blockchain research being conducted by post-doctorate and Ph.D. students. The new program is researching DeepSEA, a programming language intended to bridge the gap between high-level formal reasoning and low-level systems programming in mainstream programming initiatives. The research is intended to combine gains in DeepSEA with ETH smart contracts, improving the security and functionality of one of the most fundamental components of the decentralized ecosystem.