Established by UCSB Professors, Dahlia Malkhi and Yu Feng, the Gigabrains Blockchain Reading Group is an international forum, sponsored by nubit.org, concerned with Bitcoin and Payment Systems
The UCSB-ECON DeFi Seminar is a graduate-student-led seminar series sponsored by Uniswap and led by Nir Chemaya and Dingyue "Kite" Liu.
Blockchain@UCSB is a student-led organization of over 300 students holding meetings, tutorials, accreditation, and events.
Past Events
UCSB Blockchain summit
The first UCSB Blockchain summit was held in May 2024, sponsored by Hedera, NEAR Foundation, Starknet Foundation, Coreum.
Industry leaders, students, and enthusiasts came together for a day of insightful lectures and networking opportunities, which featured the following speakers:
Jung Won Kim, co-founder and CEO at Lantern Finance.
Yu Feng, co-founder and at Riema Labs.
Jay Freeman, Member at SaurikIT, LLC.
Jasper Zhang, co-founder and CEO at Hyperbolic.
Favio Velarde, head of growth, and Jahanzeb Hussain, developer relations advocate, at Coreum.
Cameron Dennis, head of ecosystem at NEAR Protocol, and President of Blockchain Acceleration Foundation.
Dahlia Malkhi, professor of Computer Science, UCSB and Distinguished Scientist, Chainlink Labs. Former CTO of Diem(Libra).
Spencer Bogart, general partner at Blockchain Capital LLC.
Giovanni Vigna, professor of Computer Science at UCSB and Director of Threat Intelligence, Broadcom.
2023-2024 Courses by blockchain@UCSB
In 2023-2024, Blockchain@UCSB hosted a Blockchain Fundamentals course with over 200 students, and a Chainlink 101 lecture series in collaboration with Chainlink Labs.