Blockchain@ Stanford

  • The Stanford BlockchainClub is Stanford's official student run organization with over 3000 active student and alumni members, 10K twitter following, and both virtual and in person events with industry thought leaders

    The club comprises our community and educational events, our research arm, and the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator

  • The Stanford Blockchain Accelerator is an alumni and student run blockchain accelerator, officially part of the Stanford Blockchain Club.

    The accelerator leadership comprises the same three partners of the Blockchain Builders Fund - Gil Rosen, Kun Peng, and Steven Willinger.

    The accereator incubates 25 stanford student and alumni teams each year, and its 36 teams to date have raised over $100M from leading funds. 70% also launch and are post revenue by the end of the program.

    Watch our last 2 demo days here:

    May '23 Cohort 3

    October '22 Cohort 2

  • The Stanford Blockchain Review publishes bleeding edge and insightful articles on the blockchain ecosystem authored by industry thought leaders and Stanford researchers

  • The Blockchain Applications Stanford Summit (BASS) is a pre-conference to the world renowned Science of Blockchain Conference. The BASS conference is organized by the Stanford Blockchain Club and Accelerator leadership, and will host the deepest thinkers and innovators in the space on Aug 26-27 on Stanford campus including:

    • Jae Kwon, Founder & CEO at Tendermint & President at Interchain Foundation

    • Dan Robinson, Head of Research at Paradigm

    • Dahlia Malkhi, Chief Research Officer at Chainlink

    • Uri Kolodny, Co-Founder & CEO at StarkWare

    • Ben Livshits, VP of Research at zkSync

    • Ed Felten, Chief Scientist of Arbitrum

    • Nick White, COO of Celestia

    • Sreeram Kannan, Founder of Eigenlayer

    • Evan Miyazono, Head of Research at Protocol Labs

    • Paul Veradittakit, Managing Partner at Pantera

    • Avichal Garg, Managing Partner at Electric Capital

    • Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly

    • David Tse, Stanford Professor and Founder of Babylon

    • Noam Hurwitz, Engineering executive at Alchemy

  • Stanford has over 27 blockchain courses, and the partners of Blockchain Builders fund developed and are instructors of CEE 246A Blockchain Entrepreneurship which had over 300 students enrolled this past year.

  • The Stanford Center for Blockchain Research is widely regarded as a leading University research center The center hosts the Science of Blockchain Conference each year