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How to Save on Ethereum Fees w/ Polygon (Matic)

How to Save on Ethereum Fees w/ Polygon (Matic)

February 15, 2021

How to Save on Ethereum Gas Fees with Polygon (formerly Matic)

Are you a blockchain club or student group that wants to launch a club token or a DAO on Ethereum? Gas fees on Ethereum are currently very expensive, so the BEN Tech Committee is bringing Polygon (formerly Matic) to talk to us about scaling solutions on Polygon. Through their platform, it should be cheap and easy to onboard students to blockchain.

This event will be hosted on Decentraland in partnership with Decentraland University at their prestigious Crypto College campus. RSVP for the Zoom link to connect with audio.

This week's Tl;dr:

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Connecting Universities with Industry (IBM and Walmart)

The BEN Education Committee invited Professor Daniel Conway last week as a guest speaker. Learn how the University of Arkansas Blockchain Center of Excellence partners and engages students with industry leaders.Professor Conway is Associate Director for the Blockchain Center of Excellence. He previously served on faculty at Notre Dame, Indiana University, Northwestern, Iowa, Virginia Tech, Florida, and South Florida teaching topics from Analytics, Data Science, and Digital Transformation. He was the first professor in residence at Cisco Systems and has decades of consulting experience in analytics and artificial intelligence. He currently focuses on blockchain and digital transformation.

BEN LatAm at The University of Los Andes

BEN LatAm hosted its first event of the semester with FIC UniAndes, with an "Intro to Blockchain" entirely in Spanish from Carlos Gomez, Polkadot's ambassador for Miami and CEO of the decentralized political project Politic.Network. We also gave an introduction to the Blockchain Education Network and how students can get involved in learning about blockchain and finding blockchain jobs after graduation. 

BEN Africa at Cross River University of Science & Technology

Join BEN Africa and CRUTECH on February 27th 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!

We are also excited to announce that BEN Africa is sponsoring our students from CRUTECH with BEN shirts and internet access for our next event, and reusable masks and PPE for the semester. They worked with a local Nigerian shop to print the shirts. All this wouldn't be possible without Bitcoin!

Bola-Ige Alabi-Efeshodiamhe with BEN T-shirts ready for the BEN Africa inaugural meetup in CRUTECH Nigeria.

Weekly Industry Highlights brought to you by Blockchain Istanbul Center 

  1. Tesla has acquired $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin and signaled its intent to begin accepting the cryptocurrency as a form of payment. 

  2. G7's financial leaders will discuss central bank digital currencies during a meeting on Feb .12.

  3. Beijing and Suzhou will issue 40 million yuan ($6.2 million) in the latest trials of China's digital currency this week.

  4. Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) launched its Ethereum futures product.

  5. A piece of land on blockchain game Axie Infinity was sold for over 888 ETH (about $1.5 million), making it the most expensive NFT sale ever.

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