Tsinghua, Huobi establish digital assets research initiative

Tsinghua University and Chinese bitcoin exchange, Huobi, have launched a joint initiative to conduct research into digital currencies. Managed through Tsinghua’s PBC School of Finance, the initiative will see Tsinghua join MIT, IBM, and Samsung as major global centers for the study of digital assets. Eighty per cent of global bitcoin assets are traded in and out of Chinese yuan, offering  Tsinghua unparalleled scope for data collection and analysis.