A new blockchain research center opens this week at Stanford University, funded by the Ethereum Foundation and others involved in the industry.
The new Stanford Center for Blockchain Research is led by Dan Boneh and David Mazières, two computer science professors who have specialties in blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
The news comes on the heels of San Francisco-based Ripple's announcement in June that it is pumping $50 million into the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), "a collaboration…