📢 FifTech + Blockchain_at_UCSB + great weather = FBC'25 📢
This year summit brings finance/tech together, with amazing speakers. Mark the date: May 17th, 2025.
- Weekly Standup + Seminar of the FifTech team. Thursdays at 9:30am PT
- The UCSB-ECON DeFi Seminar , 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
FiFTech Mini Summit
FiFTech held a mini summit on February 18, 2025.
Speakers and presentations included:
- Professor Jacob Leshno, Chicago Booth, "On the Viability of Open-Source Financial Rails: Economic Security of Permissionless Consensus"
- Daniel Bar, "Spacecoin Computer: Orbital Root of Trust"
- Professor Yu Feng, UCSB, "Nubit: Trustless World Computer on Bitcoin"
- Bita Abulfathi, "Introduction to the Uniswap Foundation"
- Rithwik Kerur, "Revisiting Crash-Tolerance In Consensus Protocols"
Daniel Bar presenting Spacecoin Computer: Orbital Root of Trust.
Daniel Bar presenting Spacecoin Computer: Orbital Root of Trust.
Bita Abulfathi presenting "Introduction to the Uniswap Foundation".
Bita Abulfathi presenting "Introduction to the Uniswap Foundation".
Rithwik Kerur presenting "Revisiting Crash-Tolerance in Consensus Protocols".
FiFTech Team Half-Day Mini Workshop
On November 7, 2024, the FiFTech team held a mini-workshop with introductions, short presentations, and a lunch. Presenters included:
- Hongbo Wen, presenting "FORAY: Towards Effective Attack Synthesis against Deep Logical Vulnerabilities in DeFi Protocols"
- Professor Amr El Abbadi, presenting "Privacy Preserving Data Management Systems"
- Nir Chemaya, presenting "CLVR Ordering of Transactions on AMMs"
- Dr. Ted Yin, presenting "Firewood, Cordwood, and LyteMemory: Single-Level Storage for Blockchain Systems"
Hongbo Wen presenting FORAY.
FiFTech lab members watching Hongbo Wen's presentation.
Nir Chemaya presenting CLVR.
Professor Amr El Abbadi presenting "Privacy Preserving Data Management Systems".
Dr. Ted Yin presenting "Firewood, Cordwood, and LyteMemory: Single-Level Storage for Blockchain Systems".
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.