Blockchain At Davis

09/27/2020

Dear friends,

Hope you are safe and well.

BaD membership application for the Fall quarter is now open!
Become a free member at: https://rb.gy/vfixhj

We hope to have you become a part of the network :)

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09/09/2020

The Blockchain Education Network is currently conducting an airdrop (students who fill out the form gets free ethereum, tokens and other free stuff) in all partner universities, which includes Blockchain At Davis. Don't miss this great opportunity to get free ethereum!

https://blockchainedu.org/airdrop

08/31/2020

Hello friends,

If you are looking to build your resumes, we have some great opportunities for you!

Blockchain at Davis (BaD) currently has open positions in Vice President, Financial Manager and Marketing Manager roles for the upcoming academic year of 2020-2021.

Being part of BaD is an amazing opportunity to learn about blockchain and work with industry experts if you’ve always been keen to know more about blockchain and only heard about the bitcoin price fluctuations.

Who we are?
We are a group of undergraduate students at UC Davis that work closely with Assistant Professor Sadoghi, Blockchain Acceleration Foundation and industry experts to design curriculum for UC Davis' first blockchain course (ECS 189F: Introduction to Distributed Ledgers, CRN:54151). We build curriculum and source lectures for university blockchain course as well as bridging the gap between the blockchain industry and academia at UC Davis. We offer blockchain workshops and accelerate blockchain project development through one-on-one tutoring.

Job Descriptions:
Vice President (https://rb.gy/me5tzf)
Financial Manager (https://rb.gy/l2aniw)
Marketing Manager (https://rb.gy/wfmpws)

Please apply at: https://forms.gle/okF4Dj5UUhk5BJ5v9
Deadline: September 15, 2020

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us on BaD facebook messenger. 🙂

08/31/2020

Hello friends,

If you are looking to build your resumes, we have some great opportunities for you!

Blockchain at Davis (BaD) currently has open positions in Vice President, Financial Manager and Marketing Manager roles for the upcoming academic year of 2020-2021.

Being part of BaD is an amazing opportunity to learn about blockchain and work with industry experts if you’ve always been keen to know more about blockchain and only heard about the bitcoin price fluctuations.

Who we are?
We are a group of undergraduate students at UC Davis that work closely with Assistant Professor Sadoghi, Blockchain Acceleration Foundation and industry experts to design curriculum for UC Davis' first blockchain course (ECS 189F: Introduction to Distributed Ledgers, CRN:54151). We build curriculum and source lectures for university blockchain course as well as bridging the gap between the blockchain industry and academia at UC Davis. We offer blockchain workshops and accelerate blockchain project development through one-on-one tutoring.

Job Descriptions:
Vice President (https://rb.gy/me5tzf)
Financial Manager (https://rb.gy/l2aniw)
Marketing Manager (https://rb.gy/wfmpws)

Please apply at: https://forms.gle/okF4Dj5UUhk5BJ5v9
Deadline: September 15, 2020

More information:
BaD: http://www.blockchainatdavis.com/
ExpoLab: https://expolab.org/
BAF: https://www.blockchainacceleration.org/

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us on BaD facebook messenger. 🙂

08/23/2020

UC Davis' first blockchain course is now up for registration!
The class size is limited to 30 students so don't forget to register!

ECS 189F - Databases is an innovative project-based course that will cover the foundation of distributed ledger technologies covering topics such as distributed transaction processing, resilient consensus protocols, consistency models, secure storage architecture, blockchain technologies, smart contracts, blockchains digital assets and payment systems, and recent developments in the blockchain industry. You will be working in teams of 5 for the development of your project.

The class will also have guest speakers coming in every week from various areas of the blockchain industry, to speak about the various topics taught in this class.

The prerequisites of this class are ECS 165A or ECS 150, but if you’ve not taken those classes and are still really interested to learn about blockchain don’t hesitate to send a petition to join the class.

This is an amazing opportunity to learn about blockchain if you’ve always been keen to know more about it and a great introduction to those who have only heard about the bitcoin price fluctuations.

08/20/2020

Hello friends, if you are looking to build your resumes. We have just the opportunity for you!

Blockchain at Davis (BaD) currently has an open position in the Financial Officer role for the upcoming academic year of 2020-2021.

As a member of BaD, you will become a part of the community where you learn cool things about Blockchain technology, a.k.a the "backbone" of Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency of all.

As financial officer, you will be in charge of budget allocation for the organization and writing grant applications for sponsorships. See https://lnkd.in/dFrFzuX for role description.

If you are interested in the role or have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach Preston Ong at [email protected] or ask your questions in the comments below.

08/10/2020

UC Davis' first blockchain course is now up for registration!

Course Title: ECS 189F: Introduction to Distributed Ledgers
Lecturer: Dr. Mohammad Sadoghi
Class Size: Capped at 30
CRN: 54151
‼️Note: Make sure to choose the appropriate number of units.**For all undergraduate ECS 189 courses they will all be 4 units.**
Prerequisites: ECS 165A (Database Systems) or ECS 150 (Operating Systems & System Programming)
Lecture: Tue/Thu from 4:40-6pm
Discussion: 1-2pm on Fridays
Grading:
Class Participation: 10%
Final Project: 90%

✅Description:
This innovative project-based course will cover the foundations of distributed ledger technologies covering topics such as distributed transaction processing, resilient consensus protocols, consistency models, secure storage architecture, blockchain technologies, smart contracts, blockchains digital assets and payment systems, and recent developments in the blockchain industry.

✅List of topics:
• Introduction to Transaction
• Introduction to Distributed Consensus
• Introduction Blockchains and Bitcoin
• Foundations of Ethereum, Permissionless Fabric
• Developing Decentralized Applications
• Foundations of Hyperledger, Permissioned Fabric
• Hyperledger Ecosystem Overview
• Blockchain in Academia: ResilientDB
• Sharding in Blockchain
• Blockchain Applications: Agriculture, Healthcare, Energy, and Logistics
• Bridging Public & Private Blockchains
• Public Blockchain Protocol Participation
• Blockchain Trilemma
• Introduction Decentralized Governance & Voting Systems
• Stablecoins and Payments
• The State of Decentralized FinancNote:

07/28/2020

Hi everyone,
We hope you are doing well and staying safe.
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Join Blockchain Acceleration Foundation (BAF) on Thursday, July 30th at 6pm PDT as the wonderful Katherine Plotz interviews Preston Van Loon from Prysmatic Labs about the past, present, and future of Ethereum 2.0!

In case you don't know, Ethereum is an open-source decentralized network that runs without any downtime, fraud, control, or interference from a third party. It currently faces scalability issues that limits its potential to manage all of the worlds digital assets. A few of the research teams, like Prysmatic Labs, are working hard to fix these problems by launching Ethereum 2.0.

Attend the event and check out the attached a beginners guide to ETH 2.0 if you're interested in learning more.

✨Register Here: https://lnkd.in/ghMv5kN

✨Beginners Guide: https://lnkd.in/gDz53Ev

07/16/2020

Hi everyone,
We hope you are doing well and staying safe.
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Are you interested in the convergence of decentralized finance and governance?
Join this awesome meetup tomorrow July 16 at 6pm PDT about token distribution strategies, yield farming, liquidity pooling, and legal considerations with governance tokens!
Speakers include the CEO of Aave, Legal Engineer of LexDAO, and CEO of Govrn!
Join early and stick around after the panel for an intimate networking session with fellow blockchain enthusiast, researchers, investors, and more!

Register Here: https://live.remo.co/e/token-distribution-and-decentral
Schedule in PDT
5:40 PM: Arrive and Network via Remo
6:00 PM: Start Panel Discussion
7:00 PM: NetworkingWe

07/02/2020

Hi everyone,
Hope you are doing well and staying safe.

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Join Blockchain Acceleration Foundation(BAF) TODAY 5pm PST to learn about the blockchain trilemma from Turing award-winning Computer Scientist and Founder of , ! He will be discussing the tradeoffs between blockchain decentralization, security, and speed while highlighting some of his previous creations like the zero-knowledge proof and pseudo-random function! We hope to see you there!
https://live.remo.co/e/solving-the-blockchain-trilemma

06/17/2020

Hi everyone,
Hope you are doing well and staying safe.

The Blockchain Acceleration Foundation presents first community meetup with AVA Labs Founder and Cornell University professor, Dr. Emin Gün Sirer! On June 19th, at 2pm PST They will discuss various consensus protocols and the nuances of Avalanche consensus!

This online event will feature a 45 minute lecture led by Dr. Emin Gün Sirer followed by a 15 minute Q&A session where Dr. Sirer will answer all of your wildest questions. Afterward, there will be a 45 minute casual meet-and-greet where you can network with other attendees.

https://live.remo.co/e/a-journey-through-the-history-of/register?fbclid=IwAR2H0EV0ZH3tcmJu6ykzNGQa2jmsuQ-1e1nraXKnQ4KX60ep5tcCVkotlYg