Today Nanjing has The Blockchain Lab, led by associate professor Xiaowei Ding, who as a doctoral candidate worked at Stanford’s Advanced Financial Technologies Laboratory. In 2020, the Blockchain Lab created the Blockchain + AI and Digital FinTech Innovations course under the guidance of the Ministry of Education in China. The lab also has worked with leading fintech companies such as WeBank, a private Chinese neo-bank backed by tech giant Tencent.