About 200 experts in software engineering, finance and public policy gathered on Duke’s campus for “Digital Assets @ Duke,” a two-day exploration of digital assets—intangible constructions of cyberspace that are revolutionizing banks, businesses and markets in the physical world. The conference was sponsored by Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, including its FinTech Master of Engineering degree program and Duke’s Financial Economics Center. The setting on Duke’s campus was “much preferable to the big crypto-focused conferences,” said Corey Then, a Duke Law graduate and vice president of global policy for Circle, a firm that is expanding the global use of digital currency for payments.