The city of Philadelphia's chief innovation officeholder, Marking Wheeler, announced an initiative on Mon to bring blockchain technology to city regime. The project has invited people working in the blockchain and smart contract space to contact staff working on the project to see how crypto technology could exist useful within municipal regime. Wheeler tweeted that he was inspired by the blockchain-forward efforts of Miami, where Mayor Francis Suarez has touted city-specific crypto tokens as a potential replacement for taxes and has opted to receive his next paycheck in Bitcoin (BTC).

The city'southward website features a groundwork data department about crypto that includes Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin white paper, Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum white paper, a 21-infinitesimal introductory video from Andreessen Horowitz and a link to the Web3 Foundation website. In that location isn't a prepare timeline for how long the exploratory stage of the gambit will last. In an interview with StateScoop, Wheeler said, "I'thou trying to get a very good sense of the use cases, and why there could exist a value proposition here, and that's what the website is all near. We're prepare to talk."

The City of Brotherly Honey is just the latest municipal authorities to enter the crypto sphere. Monday's launch comes on the heels of newly elected New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adam's announcement that he hopes crypto literacy will be taught in public schools. Following Suarez's lead, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor plans to have her next paycheck in Bitcoin likewise. Meanwhile, Jackson, Tennessee announced back in April that it would investigate the adoption of crypto payments.