T-24 hours to go… the team is hard at work on finalizing some details, and we are incredibly excited to bring the blockchain community to the Berkeley campus for the Berkeley Innovators Conference. We have some exciting new speakers joining us in addition to our existing…
From zk-NFT projects to conferences in Bogota, our members did a lot of amazing work in 2022. Check out everything Blockchain at Berkeley accomplished in the past year below!
It's happening!! Justin Rice, VP of Ecosystem
@StellarOrg
, will moderate a panel of key ecosystem players as they explore Stellar. Join
@calblockchain
and
@StellarOrg
and learn how to build an app on Stellar and more on 5/4 at 10am PT. Register:
There's a huge need for educated developers in this space, which is why we started the Developer DeCal in the first place. We've since created a fantastic website for the class as an open resource for the community! Learn
#smartcontract
development at !
Join us tomorrow to hear
@avalabsofficial
’s Director of Gaming,
@EdC
, talk about the Avalanche Protocol and why 2022 is going to be the year of gaming at our monthly Berkeley Blockchain Ecosystem meetup taking place from 6-9 pm PST!
Introducing the 0 to 1 Guide for MEV by
@0xmebius
MEV, (Miner/Maximal Extractable Value) can be best described as any automated interaction you can do on the blockchain that has positive expected value.
1/ Introducing Blockchain at Berkeley Grants, designed to bridge the gap between students’ unbridled potential and the resources they need to manifest their vision. 🐻
Who better to enable the next generation of builders than their own peers? 🧵⤵️
Blockchain at Berkeley (B
@B
) is glad to announce that our validator has entered
@EvmosOrg
’s activate set.
Mintscan:
Delegate:
Learn more about our validator work below 👇
We are ecstatic to be hosting a meetup with
@chainlink
on April 19th from 6 pm - 7 pm PST! Join us for a technical discussion on how oracles are enhancing the
#DeFi
space.
Register here:
Join us March 22nd to hear keynote speakers from Aleo speak about their platform and industry impact. There will be a networking event, so this is a great way to meet the Aleo team as well Berkeley's crypto community!
Signup Here:
We're hosting our first ecosystem meetup with
@reserveprotocol
on Sept 6th from 6-9 pm PST. Join to hear about how Reserve is making impact, as well as a dive into their protocol from
@mattimost
!
RSVP:
Blockchain at Berkeley is giving away $250k to student builders.
you have just 4 more days to apply, and all you really need is ambition and an idea.
we’re so excited to be engaging a community of student innovators with
@BitDAO_Official
's Education DAO!
🧵🎉
Join us on November 2 with
@avalabsofficial
speakers Usman Asim and Gabriel Cardona tell us about their platform. There will be a networking opportunity and food. This is a great way to meet the Ava Labs team and Berkeley’s crypto community!
RSVP link:
Excited to announce that our Plasma research team, FourthState, has secured funding from the
@Ethereum
Foundation. They've completed most of the rootchain smart contract work and aim to have a working plasma sidechain by August! Learn more at:
Over the past semester,
@CalBlockchain
's consulting department worked with
@LayerZero_Labs
to discuss and prototype the future of Cross-Chain Wallets. Read our full research here:
1/5
Fundamentals of L1s and L2s course with
@zksync
had a huge turnout!
And we have plenty more left:
Thu 2/15 - Advanced topics in L2s at Moffit 106
Tue 2/20 - zkEVM circuits at Moffit 106
Thu 2/22 - ZK Proofs at SOCS 20
Thanks to
@zksync
for helping us make this happen!
Honored to be mentioned by
@CoinDesk
. Grateful to all the current B
@B
members and alumni that have invested time and energy into building such a great community!
The
@CalBlockchain
student club, widely seen as the top group of its kind in the country, is self-funded through consulting arrangements with top companies. Students learn directly on the job.
#coindeskU
📣 Building Your Own Blockchain with Avalanche 📣
April 18th
5:30PM
Come learn from Ava Labs, a network of networks that enables smart contracts of any virtual machine! Build anything you want, any way you want, on the eco-friendly blockchain designed for Web3 developers.
1/ Our governance team is excited to announce a new delegation of 2.5M dYdX from
@a16z
. We believe leveraged trading opportunities are central to the future of DeFi and it is up to governance mechanisms to ensure their safety and success!🚦
Join Blockchain at Berkeley, Cal Launchpad and Illia Polosukhin, Founder of NEAR and Co-Author of the Transformer paper for a fireside chat as we unpack chain abstraction and the intersection of blockchain and AI!
We will dive into what is needed for everyone in the world to…
We're excited to launch our proposal with
@nomadxyz_
to deploy
@Uniswap
v3 on
@MoonbeamNetwork
!
Moonbeam is an EVM-compatible parachain that serves as a key entry point for Uniswap into the
@Polkadot
ecosystem 🦄
Vote here 👇
1/ gm. We believe that DeFi governance should be open & accessible, but the current governance landscape remains difficult to understand for newcomers.
To help educate prospective governance participants, we’re releasing “The Guide to DeFi Governance”!
Have you hard about crypto & blockchain but not sure how to learn more? Introducing our Blockchain Fundamentals webinar, based on our curriculum which has already been taught to over 160,000 students worldwide🔥.
It's free and beginner-friendly! RSVP:
Come out to B
@B
's first white paper circle of the semester! Alan Lai will be presenting on the topic of hybrid blockchains followed by Atul Khekade, the co-founder of XinFin. You don't want to miss it!
Learn how
@helloiconworld
is hyperconnecting the world! Attendees will learn how the ICON Network can be used and why it's changing the world. Understand how you can, and why you should, build on ICON. Attendees will receive ICX! See you there! Register:
we’re excited to announce our very first batch of B
@B
grants recipients! seeing so many amazing applications gives us hope for the future of student startups and research in the space🤩
big thanks to
@BitDAO_Official
for supporting the future of students empowering students.
🧵
Calling all
#iconists
in the bay area or anyone interested in learning more about the
#ICONProject
. We'll be hosting
@helloiconworld
at UC Berkeley for people interested in the project. Beginners and developers are welcome! Find out more here
Thank you to
@joey__santoro
&
@sdalcega
for coming in to give an incredible talk about
@feiprotocol
's turnaround & future roadmap as well as their personal journeys as founders at last Thursday's Berkeley Blockchain Meetup! 🔥
Participate in Acala Mandala Festival Season
#2
from
@AcalaNetwork
and
@BB_Xcelerator
, a candy drop event rewarding KAR tokens and ACA tokens for those who follow the terms below. Learn about Polkadot and KAR respectively here: and !
🦄Verifying ourselves as a
@UniswapProtocol
#UNIDelegate
on Sybil🏛️
addr:0x458cEec48586a85fCFEb4A179706656eE321730E
sig:0xd18f9512640a34b30aa63ac13f6f8281971f2ee54ecd789c9311f57ace51a399707e37bb8b417b8ed9b54c9d6db98b8e83935c45d7521219a79fc3bb2f2eda161b
As a P-Rep, we are planning an event series with
@helloiconworld
after the winter holidays with ICX giveaways and free food/drink. If you'd like to host an event yourself, check out the resources that
@icxstation
made
Thanks to
@ankr
we are excited to be hosting a worker node for the
@NuCypher
network!
Check us out and bind your $NU here: 0x6d801F6C62F609850dBC357b86bB4fc9CabC60C2
Already more than 50
@NuCypher
nodes are running on
@ankr
🙌
If you have 15,000 $NU or more and you haven't staked them yet, go to and deploy your node with a few easy clicks!
Only $19.00 /month, payable in $ANKR, $USDT or with credit card
#AnkrYourNode
@0xProject
is coming to
@UCBerkeley
TODAY to teach developers how to build the future of open financial systems. Come early to reserve your spot and bring your laptop with you! See you there!
We are excited to start the year off with a partnership announcement with Loopring! The research under the Loopring Foundation aims to push the limits of speed and liquidity in decentralized exchanges. Read today's blog post to learn more about it!
We've partnered with
@nugbase
to drop in-game flowers in
@flowerpatchgame
to users who follow the instructions below tomorrow (4/20). This high-quality cannabis game is an ethereum project with
@BB_Xcelerator
! Players can soon pick up NFT collectible cards in dispensaries.
Our monthly Berkeley Blockchain Meetup is back again to unite all innovators and learners within Berkeley's blockchain ecosystem! Join us on Feb 3rd from 6-9 pm PST to join this amazing hub and hear from
@osmosiszone
's Co-Founder
@sunnya97
.
Register:
We’re so excited to be hosting our monthly ecosystem meetup with
@succinctlabs
! Come hear
@pumatheuma
and
@jtguibas
talk about how they’re bringing efficient consensus verification to IBC-like cross-chain communication using zkSNARKs.
Register:
We’re excited to announce that our friends over at
@feiprotocol
are delegating us 1M TRIBE to participate in Fei protocol governance! We’re excited to work with the community on one of the most novel stablecoins in the ecosystem.
Delegate FEI to us @ calblockchain.eth!
Blockchain at Berkeley is hosting
@SHE_256
to highlight the importance of
#WomeninBlockchain
and inspire the next generation of young women in tech! Shoutout to all the intelligent women in our organization! Learn more at !
#SHE256
We are really excited to have
@cryptocoley
from
@BinanceUS
join us TONIGHT for a fireside chat talking about her experience running one of the largest US-based exchanges, and where she sees the crypto industry going.
RSVP as part of our webinar series:
We are so excited to be featured in
@Cointelegraph
!
It means the world to be able to share what we're doing on this scale, and we look forward to participating in
@UniswapProtocol
and
@compoundfinance
governance and sharing our vote and proposal rationales with y'all!
throwback to Cosmoverse in September 🥹 thanks to the
@EvmosOrg
team, we were able to go and see all the cool stuff happening within Cosmos and meet up with the rest of the Berkeley Cosmos mafia <3
"So far, 7,400 students have already signed up" to our Blockchain Fundamentals Professional Certificate program on EdX.
Check out this article:
Sign up now!
…/uc-berkeleyx-blockchain-fundamentals
In light of questions within the DeFi community surrounding how VC & other delegations to university organizations work, we believe it is important to explain why we do DeFi governance & how we handle it as an organization! 👇
Join us this Tuesday at 6pm PT to hear from
@etekis
, VP of Business Development and Operations at 0(1) Labs, the team incubating
@MinaProtocol
!
Part of the Blockchain Fundamentals Webinar, sign up for the series here:
Join us
@EthereumDenver
to hear co-presidents
@daryakaviani
&
@ratankaliani
speak on the trifecta of cultivating student talent in crypto:
Educate x Enable x Empower
Better yet, intertwine the 3 for close-knit, student-driven powerhouses.
Thurs, 12:40-1, Art Stage @ Art Hotel
Join us on April 19th to hear keynote speakers from
@axelarcore
such as
@sergey_nog
(CEO) speak about Axelar's impact on the future of bridging and cross-chain communication!
RSVP:
Today, we announce the launch of B
@B
's Community Node Initiative with the mission to contribute back to the community by operating nodes for decentralized protocols. Read more here.
#Blockchain
#bitcoin
#ethereum
#ICON
We're incredibly proud of the
@fourthstatelabs
team, a research project that spun out of B
@B
, for making so much progress on their
#plasma
implementation! Thanks for the shoutout
@cosmos
.
We're gunning for Fourth State to be one of the first teams to finish building plasma!
The 3rd generation of blockchain apps can be built and scaled by way of the Cosmos-SDK. Ethermint,
@irisnetwork
, FourthState are such "dAppchains", or application-specific blockchains. For full slides, download them from here:
We're excited to announce that Blockchain at Berkeley's very own
@AlexisGauba
(co-founder of She256 and Mechanism Labs) will be speaking at SF Blockchain week! Check out the exciting projects she's working on
Our members
@NishSouza
and
@omkar_1799
take on
@NEARProtocol
's Nightshade sharding mechanism in the latest edition of our blockchain whitepaper circle deep dives this summer - check it out!
We were super excited to host a session over the weekend discussing rollups and the modular stack, along with
@neelsalami
! It was fun talking about interesting problems in DA, settlement, and execution :)
We’re excited to announce a 2.5M $TRIBE delegation from
@a16z
! We’ve been involved in the
@feiprotocol
ecosystem for a few months and are incredibly impressed with the project’s evolution (FEI-RARI 👀🚗) and the efforts of the team (s/o
@joey__santoro
@sdalcega
@BriannaPageM
)
AND we're back! Today marks the first day of school for the fall semester at
@UCBerkeley
. We'll be tabling all day every day to recruit new bears to our blockchain family! Come meet us on sproul plaza and learn more about what we do!
We're voting AGAINST
@uniswap
proposal
#5
. Proposal
#5
allocates one million UNI to create and fund the “DeFi Education Fund,” a 501(c)(4) nonprofit entity based in the United States to provide grants for political, educational, and legal engagement. Read our thoughts below 👇:
Applications to the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator's 2021 Batch are now open - any blockchain company can apply by Jan 24th!
Read more about our last batch's experience and what makes the
@BB_Xcelerator
so special here! 👇
Join us October 12th to hear from
@StarknetFndn
@StarkWareLtd
tell us about their platform and industry impact. There will be a networking opportunity after closing remarks to meet the Starknet team as well Berkeley's crypto community!
RSVP link:
UPDATE: Following campus policy regarding COVID-19 we are cancelling our meetups until further notice. We do have plans to reschedule our confirmed meetups with
@InsightFellows
and
@helloiconworld
at a later date. Stay safe!
Blockchain at Berkeley has developed the Blockchain Fundamentals Professional Certificate program on EdX.
Check out this article:
…/new-uc-berkeley-online-course-w…/
Sign up now!
…/uc-berkeleyx-blockchain-fundamentals
As the dust begins to settle following the close of
@UCBerkeley
's NFT auction yesterday and the excitement surrounding
@FiatLuxDAO
's win, we wanted to take this opportunity to explain what a DAO is and why it is important.
First-ever auction of
#NFT
based on
#NobelPrize
nets UC Berkeley $50,000.
The proceeds of the auction will go toward education and research, with a focus on seed funding for early-stage research that could have a broad impact on society.
#NobelNFT
Join us for our Workshop Series with
@zksync
! Each workshop is a unique opportunity to learn from industry experts and gain hands-on experience. Plus, don't miss out on the custom swag & pizza. SIGN UP HERE:
Are rollups real? Yes 👏
@conduitxyz
rollup pilling at
@CalBlockchain
🤝
great folks, great discussions and fresh new ideas on how to make scalability more accessible to everyone
We’re so excited to be hosting our monthly ecosystem meetup with
@Calderaxyz
who will be talking about their solution to scalability through customizable and easy-to-deploy rollups!
Register:
We're hosting our first ecosystem meetup with
@reserveprotocol
on Sept 6th from 6-9 pm PST. Join to hear about how Reserve is making impact, as well as a dive into their protocol from
@mattimost
!
RSVP:
🔥The first Berkeley Blockchain Meetup is here. 🔥
Hear from all corners of the Berkeley Blockchain Ecosystem. Academia, startups, and all in-between.
Learn about the work Berkeley is doing in the blockchain space, network, and get involved!
Register:
We are proud to announce the launch of
@FiatLuxDAO
, a collective of
@CalBlockchain
members and alumni with a shared goal of funding innovation in novel and revolutionary ways.
The first ever alumni DAO, we can’t wait to see what FiatLux accomplishes! 💡🐻
1/ We are thrilled to announce the launch of FiatLux DAO, a collective of
@UCBerkeley
alum focused on funding scientific and technological innovation in a novel, crypto-native way.💡🐻
We're excited to announce our collaboration with
@flipsidecrypto
to offer a DeFi dashboard bounty program to Berkeley students (grants up to $100 USDC)!
More information can be found here 👇
From co-hosting San Francisco Blockchain Week to creating two edX course with over 55,000 students enrolled, Blockchain at Berkeley has accomplished many achievements.
Check out "State of the Ledger 2018" to see how much we've grown!
Article:
We look forward to helping shape the future of cross-chain development with more such collaborations.
This project could not have been completed without the support of the
@LayerZero_Labs
team. We would like to specifically thank
@lexiemenyhart
,
@IreneWu27
, and
@ryanzarick
!
5/5
Only 2 more days until the Berkeley Intelligent & Verifiable App Conference
@EthereumDenver
on March 2nd!
Sign up here:
Big love to our correct sponsor
@ProjectZKM
, a sibling to
@MetisL2
. Thanks for the support! 💚
Our monthly Berkeley Blockchain Meetup is back again to unite all innovators and learners within Berkeley's blockchain ecosystem! Join us on March 3rd from 6-9 pm PST to join this amazing hub and hear from
@avalabsofficial
!
Register:
We're excited to announce that Blockchain at Berkeley has joined the Hyperledger project! It's a great opportunity to push forward open-source projects & collaborative work in the blockchain space.