Cornell Blockchain

⚡️HISTORY IS MADE ⚡️ Yesterday, Cornell Blockchain had the honor of ringing the closing bell to the NASDAQ stock market bell 🛎️📈 Our presidents, Advay Koranne and Martin Eckardt shared our vision for a blockchain-enabled world, and our mission to democratize Web 3 education. Together with 50+ club members, advisors, and alumni, we celebrated 6 years of successful blockchain education and high hopes for a decentralized future. We are beyond excited to welcome industry experts, academics and #web3 enthusiasts to Cornell #Blockchain Conference which will be organized on April 21, 2023 on Roosevelt Island, New York City. 🎟️ Ticket Link: https://lnkd.in/e63sHedu 🎥 Rewatch our broadcast here: https://lnkd.in/efG2JhPB?

Where does the global payments industry head from here, and how will blockchain shape its future? Find out with Vasant Prabhu, Former Vice Chair and CFO of Visa and Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks, in a conversation moderated by Leo Schwartz of Fortune. 10am ET this Friday at Cornell Tech at the U.S. Innovation in Crypto conference. See the full agenda here: https://lnkd.in/gjXJnVQW!

Do you want to understand where Wall Street is heading in the next year or next 10 of blockchain-driven change? Join us this Friday, April 25th in New York City at Cornell Tech to delve in the New Technologies of Finance with Cynthia Lo Bessette, Head of Digital Asset Management at Fidelity Investments, Nadine Chakar, Global Head of Digital Assets at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and Puneet Singhvi, Founder & Former Global Head of Citi Digital Assets. They will be speaking at 11:45am ET on the Verizon Center stage at Cornell Tech. You can see the day's full agenda here: https://lnkd.in/gjXJnVQW The conference is shaping up to be one of the strongest tech gatherings in NYC this year with 50+ speakers from leading blockchain, Wall Street, tech, fintech and research institutions, along with 300+ confirmed attendees. See you on Friday!

Join us this Friday, April 25th in New York City at Cornell Tech, and learn how the leading technology companies approach blockchain innovation. Rich Widmann, Head of Web3 Strategy at Google and Yorke Rhodes III, Co-Founder of Blockchain @ Microsoft will be joined by Leigh Gallagher, Senior Managing Director at Teneo and author of The Airbnb Story at 11:15am ET on the Verizon Center stage at Cornell Tech. You can see the day's full agenda here: https://lnkd.in/gjXJnVQW The conference is shaping up to be one of the strongest tech gatherings in NYC this year with 50+ speakers from key blockchain, Wall Street, tech, fintech and research institutions, along with 300+ confirmed attendees. See you on Friday!

Cornell Blockchain is excited to partner with Digital Sovereignty Alliance for the U.S. Innovation in Crypto Conference Happy Hour starting at the Panorama Room next to the Cornell Tech campus on the Roosevelt Island at 5 PM on Friday, Apr 25. RSVP on the Luma: https://lu.ma/cocktailhour Please note, this event is open for attendees 21+ in age. Kindly carry your in-person govt-issued ID with you. Entry would be capped at the first 100 guests.

New York City is getting ready for a great Friday at Cornell Tech at the New Era of U.S. Innovation in Crypto conference. 50+ speakers on the topics that matter in crypto, technology and economic growth! Cornell Blockchain is excited to partner with the leading teams in blockchain to deliver this rare convening of blockchain, Wall Street, policy and academic leaders, along with students and researchers from dozens of schools in NYC and around the world. Thank you to our partners! Look forward to this Friday, April 25th! Digital Sovereignty Alliance, MoonPay Avalanche, Mesh, Artemis, CoinTracker, Gemini, Ethereum Foundation EY, Base, The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3), Cryptio, Overclock Labs, creators of Akash Network, Palais Solana Foundation, Merkle Science

Join us this Friday in NYC at Cornell Tech to discuss and debate the New Era of U.S. Innovation in Crypto Have a look at our conference agenda details below! 50+ speakers from leading blockchain, Wall Street, tech, fintech and research institutions, and 300+ confirmed attendees. See you on Friday! Agenda: 8am Registration & Breakfast 9:00am Opening Remarks 9:15am Opening Fireside Keith A. Grossman, Moonpay 9:30am Fireside: Crypto 2025 & Beyond  Michael Sonnenshein, Securitize Keith A. Grossman, MoonPay 10:00am Fireside: Next Chapter of Payments Vasant Prabhu, Visa Michael Shaulov, Fireblocks 10:45am Fireside: Responsible Innovation Ken Coghill, New York State Department of Financial Services  Neil DeSilva, The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3) and PayPal (fmr) 11:15am Fireside: Bridging Web 2 to Web 3 Rich Widmann, Google Yorke Rhodes III, Microsoft Leigh Gallagher, Teneo 11:45am The New Technologies of Finance Cynthia Lo Bessette, Fidelity Investments Nadine Chakar, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Puneet Singhvi, Citi Digital Assets (fmr) 12:15pm Lunch 1:00pm Live Podcast: The Chopping Block! 1:00pm Panel II: Navigating a Legal Sea Change in Crypto Andrew Siegel, Galaxy Alexandra Scheibe, Steptoe LLP TuongVy Le , Anchorage Digital (fmr) Michelle Ann Gitlitz, Change Agents Technologies Inc  Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, StarkWare 1:30pm Panel: Managing Crypto Risk in an Era of Growth Larry W., PayPal BCDC Adam Israel, Mesh Channi Greenwall, Olympix Josh Peschko, CFA, Talos Mriganka Pattnaik, Merkle Science Erin Bream, CoinTracker 2:00pm Fireside: Bringing the World On-Chain Emin Gun Sirer, Ava Labs John Wu, Ava Labs 2:45pm Panel I: Winning the Stablecoin Race Walter Hessert, Paxos Nassim Eddequiouaq, Bastion Neil DeSilva, IC3 and PayPal (fmr) Adrian Wall, Digital Sovereignty Alliance Alejandro Latorre,EY 2:45pm Panel II: Crypto x AI Lincoln Murr, Coinbase Zach H., Akash Network Nima Vaziri, Eigen Labs Kuleen Nimkar, Solana 3:15pm Panel I: Metrics that Matter Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary, Grayscale Jon Ma, Artemis Eric Turner, CFA, Messari Anais Rachel, Fidelity Investments David Duong, CFA, Coinbase 3:15pm Panel II: DeFi: Today & Tomorrow Christopher N., Cumberland Labs John Morrow, Gauntlet Anjan Vinod, ParaFi John Dagostino, Coinbase Jeff Rundlet, CFA, Cryptio 3:15pm Panel III: Scaling the Onchain World: 1, 2 and 5 Years Out Natalie Golub, Coinbase Katherine Wu, ENS Labs Gil Rosen, Blockchain Builders Fund Ravi Bakhai, HYPE 3:45pm IC3/Blockchain Accelerator Demo Session Ari Juels, The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3) Presenting Teams: SpaceComputer, Sparsity, BitGPT, AgentBall, Prinx

Crypto is a big tent, and at our conference this year, we wanted to include 4 of the most interesting-- and authentic-- voices within it. Cornell Blockchain is pleased to welcome The Chopping Block for a live podcast recording at the U.S. Innovation in Crypto conference at 1pm on April 25th at Cornell Tech. Just as they done before at other leading conferences like Token2049 and Consensus, Haseeb, Tom, Tarun & Robert will be tackling the latest news in markets, giving their industry perspective as early stage investors in crypto. Now with 50 speakers, this year's conference is shaping up to be the industry convening of April. Early Bird Tickets continue to go fast and can be purchased here: https://lnkd.in/eWfSwPrC. See you in 2.5 weeks in NYC!!!

Demo Day is almost here! The IC3-Cornell Accelerator Projects will be showcasing their work during the Cornell Blockchain Conference on April 25th. Here's what you need to know: 📍 Demos will take place from 3:50 PM to 4:50 PM EST during the main conference at Cornell Tech. Prof. Ari Juels will kick things off with an introduction to the program, followed by presentations from each team. There will be time for Q&A at the end. A bit of background on each of the projects: 🔹 Spacecoin - Orbital Root of Trust is a satellite-based consensus system for secure computation. Built on Cryptosat, it delivers TEE-like functionality using tamper-proof satellite nodes. Team: Daniel Exponent, Filip R., Matej Y. Research: Prof. Dahlia Malkhi 🔹 Sparsity is billed as the first universal acceleration layer, enabling dApps from any blockchain to run in real-time with unlimited throughput (no migration required). Team: Justin Zhang, Charnjit Bansi, Wade Sung, Joanne Chen, Conrad Shelton 🔹 BitGPT is building an AI agent network to onboard the next billion web3 users. Team: Lia Müller Peña, Jaipal Singh Goud, Simone Giacomelli Fun fact: The founders also helped build Decentraland and SingularityNET 🔹 AgentBall is creating infrastructure for an onchain economy of autonomous AI agents. Team: Lanyin Zhang (former IC3 intern), Cici Wang Fun fact: AgentBall was awarded Most Innovative Use of CDP SDK by Coinbase Developer Platform at ETHGlobal Bangkok. 🔹 Prinx is an exchange for tokenized pre-IPO shares. It buys shares from secondary markets, tokenizes the rights, and pools them on Uniswap. Team: Brendan McShane, Patrick Sullivan, Esther Li, Yi Tong, Prerana Reddy We’re excited to watch the Accelerator teams show us what they've been building! Come join us and reserve your spot ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gVqysGTd

50 speakers are now confirmed for the "New Era of U.S. Innovation in Crypto" Conference on April 25th in NYC at Cornell Tech! Hear directly from Blockchain, Tech, and Wall Street leaders on where the U.S. Crypto Ecosystem heads from here. Early Bird Tickets are going fast and can be purchased here: https://lnkd.in/eWfSwPrC. Whether you are a finance professional, crypto builder, academic researcher or student interested in blockchain, you'll find no better opportunity to understand this moment in blockchain. Our speakers this year include: Vasant Prabhu, Former Vice Chair & CFO, Visa Cynthia Lo Bessette, Head of Fidelity Digital Asset Management, Fidelity Investments Keith A. Grossman, President of Enterprise, MoonPay Rich Widmann, Head of Strategy Web 3, Google Michael Shaulov, CEO, Fireblocks Nadine Chakar, Global Head of Digital Assets, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Michael Sonnenshein, COO, Securitize Emin Gun Sirer, Founder & CEO, Ava Labs Neil DeSilva, Former CFO, PayPal Crypto and EIR, IC3 Natalie Golub, Head of UXR on Base, Coinbase Walter Hessert, Head of Strategy, Paxos Larry W., Global Head of Compliance, PayPal BCDC Andrew Siegel, General Counsel and CCO, Galaxy Puneet Singhvi, Founder & Former Global Head, Citi Digital Assets Alexandra Scheibe, Partner, Steptoe LLP Adrian Wall, Managing Director, Digital Sovereignity Alliance Ari Juels, Co-Director, The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3) Leigh Gallagher, Senior Managing Director, Teneo Ken Coghill, Deputy Superintendent, New York State Department of Financial Services John Wu, President, Ava Labs Channi Greenwall, Founder & CEO, Olympix Adam Israel, Co-Founder & COO, Mesh TuongVy Le, Advisor, Anchorage Digital Lincoln Murr, AI Product Lead, CDP, Coinbase Nassim Eddequiouaq, Founder & CEO, Bastion Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary, Managing Director and Head of Product & Research, Grayscale Investments *** Panel topics: >The Future of Finance and the New Technologies of Money >Winning the Stablecoin Race >Building the Bridge between Web2 to Web3 >Navigating Legal Sea Change in Crypto >Managing Crypto Risk in an Era of Growth >Crypto x AI: Wen Near-Term Victories? >DePIN: Physical Infrastructure's Next Act >Gaining an Edge in Crypto Research >DeFi: Today and Tomorrow >IC3/Cornell Blockchain Accelerator Demo Day Cornell Blockchain looks forward to seeing you in a few short weeks!