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== Basics ==
* a ''"globally scalable decentralized payments network"''
* is [https://cointelegraph.com/news/mit-stanford-researchers-to-fund-new-globally-scalable-cryptocurrency-unit-e?utm_source=cryptotickerr+main+list&utm_campaign=308afc9048-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d53548996e-308afc9048-87461257&ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN)&mc_cid=308afc9048&mc_eid=b9fac0945e planning] to launch Unit-e in the second half of this year (2019). The organisation told reporters their goal for the cryptocurrency’s processing time is 10,000 transactions per second. Update 4-2019: [[testnet]] has been [https://medium.com/dtr-blog/distributed-technologies-research-launches-alpha-testnet-for-unit-e-eb194edbaeff released]. As of 9-2019 Unit-e hasn't been launched yet.

== Team, investors, etc. ==
* According to the [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/distributed-technologies-research-launches-foundation-and-introduces-unit-e-a-globally-scalable-decentralized-payments-network-300779801.html press release], the core team developing Unit-e is based in Berlin and consists of ''“[[Open Source|open-source]] and distributed systems engineers.”''
* DTR [https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=fe456310-2119-11e9-92aa-0b7578ad11b7&url=L25ld3MvYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAxOS0wMS0xNy9taXQtc3RhbmZvcmQtYWNhZGVtaWNzLWRlc2lnbi1jcnlwdG9jdXJyZW5jeS10by1iZXR0ZXItYml0Y29pbg== includes] researchers from seven major U.S. universities, including the [[MIT|Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)]], [[Stanford University]] and the [[University of California]], [[Berkeley]], as Bloomberg reports.
* Funded by [[Distributed Technologies Research (DTR)]] — a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, whose official launch was announced on the same day as the Unit-e press release.
* The organisation reportedly received backing from blockchain investment fund [[Pantera Capital]] ([[Joey Krug]] is connected with both DTR and Pantera)

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