Gitcoin: The Future of Work

Hackathons, grants, and bounties. Gitcoin has been an integral part of Web3 development and funding, and is a great opportunity for any blockchain club to get involved.

We are pleased to bring on Vivek Singh and Scott Moore from Gitcoin to share these opportunities on how anyone can start earning crypto by doing bounties, participating in their hackathons, or setting up a grant for fundraising.

Decentraland Event Link: https://events.decentraland.org/en/?event=edbf40e4-f7b5-4f39-aefd-bdaf9c6810f6

Gitcoin is a pathway for developers to work for the open internet. Build open source software, get paid, meet top talent & teams in crypto, and support public goods. Gitcoin wants to enable YOU to be able to work for open source, for the open internet. In January 2020, Gitcoin facilitated $333k in value transfer. That's about $463/hour, for every hour during January.

BEN Africa Presents: Intro to Blockchain Technology

Join BEN Africa and CRUTECH on this Saturday March 20th for an intro to blockchain event hosted by African Blockchain Centre for Developers! This talk will cover the basics of blockchain technology and how all the moving parts come together to power applications like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

This is a free talk, RSVP below to claim your spot!

Creating CompSci & Cryptography-Focused Blockchain Courses

The BEN Education Committee brought in Andrew Miller from UIUC to talk about how to create cryptography-heavy technical blockchain courses.Prof. Andrew Miller is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in Electrical and Computer Engineering and affiliate in Computer Science. He is also an Associate Director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) and a board member of the Zcash Foundation and Ethereum Enterprise Alliance. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland Cybersecurity Center.Andrew has focused his research in computer security, and on the design of secure decentralized systems and cryptocurrencies. Combining unique techniques from programming languages, cryptography, and distributed computing.

Intro to Stablecoins with Celo, BEN Africa, & KNUST

Celo is global payments infrastructure that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone.BEN Africa's founding chapter KNUST hosted Celo for an introductory lesson on stablecoins. In this video, Jarell James and Peter Oluwashina break down the financial technology and explain how it works, the use cases and some real world applications.

⭐ Student Spotlight ⭐

Christian Lang is the DeFi Governance Lead at the Harvard Law School Blockchain & Finance Initiative. He also runs an insightful newsletter with a unique legal perspective on the #blockchain space. Check out his most recent post for an excellent analysis of the legal problems around #NFTs.

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