{"id":214128,"date":"2022-02-05T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=214128"},"modified":"2022-02-05T03:15:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:15:22","slug":"boston-fed-and-mit-release-the-first-results-of-their-cbdc-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/boston-fed-and-mit-release-the-first-results-of-their-cbdc-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Fed and MIT release the first results of their CBDC research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubbed Project Hamilton, exploratory research between the Federal Reserve of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonfed.org\/publications\/one-time-pubs\/project-hamilton-phase-1-executive-summary.aspx#1ce6ee5c-8752-49b4-b3e7-74ff415b80c9\">released<\/a> the first round of results in modeling a digital dollar.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the initial technological research into a central bank digital currency (CBDC) were published accompanied by an open-source code in github for contributions.<\/p>\n<h2>The two digital currency designs<\/h2>\n<p>The disclosed research describes a \u201ctheoretical high-performance and resilient transaction processor for a CBDC\u201d\u2013developed using \u2018OpenCBDC\u2019\u2013an open-source research software.<\/p>\n<p>In this initial phase, the project focused on building and testing platforms that would \u201cgive policymakers substantial flexibility in the potential creation of a CBDC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Project Hamilton focuses on technological experimentation and research\u2013separate from the Federal Reserve's Board's evaluation of a CBDC.<\/p>\n<p>As per report, the team created a core processing engine for a hypothetical CBDC and further explored it in two distinct architectures.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosed research evaluated their speed, throughput, and fault tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>The key difference between the two designs is that one, unlike the other, keeps a complete record of transactions in the order they were processed.<\/p>\n<p>The team noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis highlights initial tradeoffs we found between scalability, privacy, and auditability,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Processing 1.7 million transactions per second<\/h2>\n<p>The model which doesn\u2019t involve keeping an ordered transaction history surfaced as superior in terms of performance\u2013demonstrating a \u201cthroughput of 1.7 million transactions per second (TPS) with 99% of transactions durably completing in under a second, and the majority of transactions completing in under half a second.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite using ideas from blockchain technology, we found that a distributed ledger operating under the jurisdiction of different actors was not needed to achieve our goals,\u201d read the report, noting that a distributed ledger diverges from the project\u2019s trust assumptions\u2013as the platform would be administered by a central actor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that even when run under the control of a single actor, a distributed ledger architecture has downsides,\u201d the project added, stating performance bottlenecks, and requiring the central transaction processor to maintain transaction history as some of the cons.<\/p>\n<p>The team is now pursuing another phase of the research, which will, amongst other focus on alternative technical designs.<\/p>\n<p>In this second phase, Project Hamilton will also analyze additional functionality related to a hypothetical digital currency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubbed Project Hamilton, exploratory research between the Federal Reserve of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology&#8217;s (MIT) released the first round of results in modeling a digital dollar. 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