Share this article
CIA's New Research Lab to Study Blockchain
CIA Labs will give officers an outlet to patent and profit from their tech inventions.
By Danny Nelson
Updated Dec 11, 2022, 2:04 p.m. Published Sep 21, 2020, 5:52 p.m. 1 min read
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launched a new research and develop laboratory on Monday that features blockchain technology among its focus areas.
- CIA Labs' webpagehttps://www.cia.gov/offices-of-cia/science-technology/cia-labs.html said the labs will research "distributed ledger/blockchain-enabled technologies" alongside other tech stacks: wireless telecommunications, quantum computing, artificial intelligence and data analytics, to name a few.
- Officers who develop tech inventions in the lab will be permitted to patent, disclose and partially profit from their work, according to MIT Technology Review.
- MIT's reporting notes the labs will give CIA a useful incentive to woo tech talent that might otherwise turn to Silicon Valley's giants.
- That the CIA, one of the U.S. intelligence community's two code-breaking hubs, would take an interest in researching a technology secured by cryptography should come as no surprise to observers.
- The Block first reported CIA Labs' blockchain focus.
More For You
Investors turn to HYPE and XRP funds while dumping bitcoin and ether ETFs.
需要了解的:
- Investors yanked over $1 billion from bitcoin ETFs last week and over $215 million from ether funds, signaling waning appetite for broad large-cap crypto exposure.
- Instead, the capital is rotating into select altcoins, with new HYPE spot products drawing about $72 million and XRP and SOL ETFs attracting $22 million...
