Harvard Law BFI Conference Happening Today!

Things are at full swing today at the

Harvard Law School BFI Conference

!

3pm EST - Taking Down Cyber-Terrorists

-Zia Faruqui – United States Magistrate Judge

-Chris Janczewski – Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

-Kyle Armstrong – Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)

4pm EST - Rise of Decentralized Finance

- Andreas Antonopoulos – Bitcoin and Open Blockchain Educator and Author

- Prof. Emin Gün Sirer – Cornell University; Co-Director of IC3; CEO of Avalanche

- Kyle Roche – Roche Freedman LLP

- Eric Rosen – Roche Freedman LLP

#Macros2021 Summit Today & Tomorrow

Likewise, our partner DystopiaLabs at their

#Macros2021 Summit

has had some amazing panels today on the intersection of traditional finance and decentralized finance. If you didn't make it today, there's still more panels happening tomorrow!

Today! Still time for..

12 PM PT - The Business Perspective of Security Token Offerings (STOs)

- Samson Lee, CEO & Founder of Coinstreet Partners

Tomorrow - Fri Mar 5th - Bitcoin & Privacy

7:30 AM PT - Deep Dive Into Crypto, Privacy, and Financial Crime w/ a Former Trial Attorney at the Department of Justice

- Kyle Freeny, Shareholder & Partner at Greenberg Traurig, LLP

8:00 AM PT - The Future of BTC Mining

- Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer at Coinshares

8:30 AM PT - BTC Taproot Activation

- Alejandro De La Torre, VP at Poolin; Leading the BTC Taproot Activation

9:00 AM PT - BTC & DeFi: Mining Hashrate Tokens

- Nick Hansen, CEO of Luxor Tech

9:30 AM PT - User Defined Assets (UDAs) & Stablecoins on Zcash

- Ian Miers, Founding Scientist at Zcash

- Lucca Spaapen, Privacy Contributor

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that it has entered into a partnership

with

Sperax

. This partnership is built on the shared commitment to provide mentorship and strategic resources to young, driven builders, entrepreneurs and blockchain enthusiasts. As a strategic partner, we are confident that the blockchain ecosystem, Sperax developer ecosystem, as well as the LIFTED grants campaign will have significantly more reach and curate a diverse ecosystem.

The combination of Polyient’s market-leading relationships in the blockchain gaming and NFT space, Sperax’s award winning R&D team, and the reach of BEN, LIFTED will open the doors to women and women-led teams in blockchain. You should apply for LIFTED if you are interested in exploring a whole new world of opportunities through the implementation of blockchain technology.

LIFTED Grant Details

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📅 Application deadline on Mar 16th

Tomorrow Starts the University of Arkansas Blockchain Hackathon

This spring, the Blockchain Center of Excellence is hosting the 2021 RZRblock Hackathon – a completely free, virtual, and month-long blockchain hackathon competition that will be open to students, as well as individuals in the professional community.The Kick-off event will be held on Friday, March 5th, featuring keynote speaker, Jed McCaleb, company use-case presentations, and technical workshops exploring different blockchain platforms.Hackathon Teams will be able to engage with industry professionals and build solutions for real world, blockchain-enabled use cases.First, second and third place prizes will be announced on April 9th for both a Student Track and an Open Track.

Announcing the BEN Uniswap Meta-Delegate

BEN has launched a new initiative to help university blockchain clubs within our network participate in Uniswap governance. 

Part 1: Helping Clubs Become Uniswap Delegates

We are hosting more events and workshops to teach our university chapters how to become Uniswap delegates. We hosted the first such event last Wednesday with Blockchain at Berkeley and Harvard Law School Blockchain & Fintech Initiatives, who’ve already set up delegates, as presenters.

Thanks to our partner, Decentraland University, we were able to stream the event live on Decentraland to their prestigious Crypto College campus. We had 30+ attendees on Zoom and another 30+ attendees from inside Decentraland!

Part 2: Running a BEN Uniswap Meta-Delegate

Because delegates need 10 million $UNI to submit proposals, BEN has created a framework for a Uniswap meta-delegate in which intercollegiate students can come together to present and discuss Uniswap proposals. After which, every BEN university chapter will have a vote on whether the BEN meta-delegate should formally submit proposals to the official Uniswap governance voting process.This way, BEN can bring representation and engagement from smaller universities who would not be able to reach the proposal initiation requirements on their own delegates.

We look forward to taking this journey with our students!

#BlockchainEdu

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