The Top Universities for Blockchain

Data shows a number of groups from major universities are participating in decentralized finance (defi) governance. For instance, out of 15 of the largest voters in Uniswap’s last governance proposal, six of the major voters were tied to universities like Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Penn, Michigan, MIT, and Columbia University. Blockchain University Groups Identified as Major Players in Defi Governance Decisions Just recently, messari.io researcher Jack Purdy tweeted about an interesting find he discovered while researching defi governance protocols. Purdy’s recent tweet....

Cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has recognized three universities for their work on blockchain technology out of 19 universities from the United States and the United Kingdom, reports The Economist. The winning three universities were New York University with a prize amounting to $10,000; University Of Maryland, College Park’s Maryland Cybersecurity Center who won $5,000; and Newcastle University winning $3,000. New York University proposed ‘the usage of a ‘permissioned blockchain’ configuration, in which a central authority admits voting machines to the network prior to the start of....

Universities have been helping with blockchain-related research for quite some time and, now, some world-class universities have added the technology to their curriculum. The world of digital assets saw a significant rise last year. The total cryptocurrency market cap reached $3 trillion, making more people, governments and universities take a closer look at the asset class.The presence of crypto in the world’s major economies has created a big opportunity for diverse startups in the industry, leading to a massive demand for digital assets. This newly born market has helped develop more....

The first annual Blockchain Madness, a live-streamed cross-campus student trivia tournament hosted by the Blockchain Education Network, starts March 15. Six teams of blockchain and Bitcoin all-stars from elite universities across North America will compete in this year’s tournament, fighting for the Blockchain Cup and prestige. Teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and the University of California-Berkeley representing the United States will battle it out against three Canadian teams from the University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier University and Queen’s....

As the founding member of the non-profit Bitcoin Association Northern Ireland I was fascinated to be contacted by a final year geography student at Queens University Belfast, who had spent the last year researching the potential viability of cryptocurrencies for her dissertation. Queens University Belfast is a public research university based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. QUB is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, Universities Ireland and Universities UK. This makes it....