Morgan State University is joining in an academic partnership with Silicon Valley fintech firm Ripple that aims to bolster research and education programming around blockchain and cryptocurrency.
Baltimore’s Morgan is one of 11 universities joining Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) alongside the likes of Georgetown University, Carnegie Mellon University and Duke University. A total of 29 universities are now part of UBRI, which the global payments company launched in June 2018 with more than $50 million committed.
The goal of UBRI is to move research and technical development forward in the areas of blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments.
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