We were privileged to welcome Lauren Weymouth and Nasri N. from Ripple‘s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) to NUS FinTech Lab on April 16th. The visit commenced with a brief presentation by Prof. Jungpil Hahn, outlining our commitment to thought leadership, support for innovative research projects, and our role in shaping the fintech ecosystem through education.
Our lab’s interns, members of the NUS Fintech Society, and NUS Computing student researchers seized the opportunity to showcase some of their innovative research projects, demonstrating the innovative spirit and intellectual rigor of our vibrant community within the National University of Singapore.
Highlights included:
1. Fractionate – Property Asset Tokenization.
2. Beyond Border – Exploring Maximal Extractable Value and risks in cross-domain CEX-DEX arbitrage. (Research)
3. KataraFi – P2P cross-currency payments.
4. NUSwap – Educational Crypto Exchange platform.
5. Large Value Payment System Simulator for academic and Central Bank research
6. Verifin – Innovating blockchain transaction security with identity auto-validation.
7. And last but not least, research into more open and reproducible methods of applying Large Language Models (LLM) to finance.
The partnership between NUS FinTech Lab and Ripple is setting the stage for revolutionary advancements in FinTech.
A huge thank you to our dedicated students, the NUS Fintech Society, and the NUS FinTech Lab team for their outstanding contributions.
We are not just anticipating the future; we are actively crafting it and are exhilarated by the possibilities that await!
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