💻 This Friday at 4 PM GMT 💻

Join us on Friday, December 18th at 4 PM GMT (11am EST) for the kick-off of Blockchain Education Network Africa.

The event will be co-hosted with KNUST, a founding chapter of BEN Africa, and feature guest speaker Sahabia Yakubu, Founder/CEO of DeFi Africa.

We will be giving an Introduction to Decentralized Finance geared towards university students, but anyone is welcome to attend.

Congratulations to Our Outstanding Chapters!

We are pleased to announce the winners of the first annual Blockchain Education Network Excellence Awards! The outstanding achievements of the members of our community and university chapters have inspired BEN to launch this annual series of awards. These awards highlight our chapters’ achievements in education, research, initiative, and other aspects of being a standout BEN chapter.

The four winners are:

The

Outstanding Chapter of the Year Award

is awarded to the 

Rutgers Business School Blockchain Hub

.

This

Outstanding New Chapter Award

is awarded to the 

The 

Outstanding Chapter Research Award

is awarded to the 

Northwestern University Blockchain Group

.

The 

Outstanding Chapter Digital Presence

is awarded to the 

Member Spotlights

• UC Berkeley student Gloria Zhao was featured in The BTC Times "From Silicon Valley to Bitcoin Core: The Story of Gloria Zhao"

• The Frankfurt School Blockchain Club published a paper on Tokenization in Housing

• Blockchain at Berkeley has published a recap of their Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator SP20 Cohort

• Tsinghua International Blockchain Association members won big at Conflux Hackathon

Job Opportunities

Be sure to mention BEN in your application

• The Giving Block is hiring 2 backend developers

• BCA Solutions is hiring a crypto technical analyst

Featured Upcoming Events

📅 When

: Nov 17 - Jan 25

🌐 Where

: Online

💻 Link

: 

https://gitcoin.co/hackathon/hack-the-horizon/

💰 

Prizes

: Up to $50,000

Hack the Horizon is a collaborative, creative, and inclusive cross-chain hackathon focused on building applications that utilize the Horizon Bridge. Our singular aim to work with Ethereum and Harmony developers to build the most interesting, useful, and innovative applications that take advantage of Ethereum and Harmony's strengths.

More Upcoming Events

• Golem Network Hackathon Dec 8, 2020 - Jan 5, 2021

• Baseline Protocol 2020 Hackathon Dec 9, 2020 - Jan 6, 2021

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