Did we fund this?

DASH has no involvement with that. Near the bottom of the document it states:
"Acknowledgement. Andrew Miller is supported in part by the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts. Arvind Narayanan is supported by NSF Awards CNS-1421689 and CNS-1651938."
I've never heard of the "Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts". Anyone have an idea?
EDIT: nevermind. Google knows all!
http://www.initc3.org/about.html