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Ex-Paradigm investor raises $75M for new frontier-tech venture firm

DIGIT — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:17:56 +0000

Former Paradigm investment partner Casey Caruso’s Topology has been backed by Andreessen Horowitz’s executives, an OpenAI founder and even Paris Hilton.

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Harvard students launch ‘New Bretton Woods Project’ to fix debt crisis

DIGIT — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:23:31 +0000

According to veteran trader Peter Brandt, the United States dollar has lost over 90% of its value since the 1950s due to inflation.

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Harvard University and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web Plan to Preserve Digital Information

DIGIT — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 08:00:58 +0000

On July 27, the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) announced it will be supporting an initiative with Harvard University’s Library Innovation Lab (LIL) called the “Democratizing Open Knowledge” program. With FFDW’s support, LIL plans to explore decentralized technologies that can preserve digital information. Democratizing Open Knowledge While there’s a lot of information to […]

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Universities including Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, Oxford to form EduDAO to promote Web 3 innovations, financed by BitDAO treasury

DIGIT — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:00:00 +0000

The funds from EduDAO will be used for research, education and entrepreneurship in Web 3 technologies among the world’s top universities.

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Blockchain Groups From Major Universities Are Powerful Voters in Defi Governance Protocols

DIGIT — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 03:30:36 +0000

Data shows a number of groups from major universities are participating in decentralized finance (defi) governance. For instance, out of 15 of the largest voters in Uniswap’s last governance proposal, six of the major voters were tied to universities like Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Penn, Michigan, MIT, and Columbia University. Blockchain University Groups Identified as Major […]

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ConsenSys throws its weight behind Uniswap DeFi lobbying proposal

DIGIT — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 03:43:54 +0000

The controversial proposal is gaining the support of the big players.

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Harvard Law BFI throws 10.5M votes behind own proposal to fund DeFi lobby with UNI

DIGIT — Fri, 28 May 2021 02:20:59 +0000

It is not the first time Uniswap governance has been dominated by a whale.

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Report Claims Harvard, Yale, and Brown University Endowments Have Been Discreetly Buying Bitcoin

DIGIT — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:30:00 +0000

According to sources familiar with the matter, a number of Ivy League universities including the University of Michigan, Brown, Yale, and Harvard endowments have been discreetly purchasing cryptocurrencies. The prominent schools have been reportedly leveraging exchanges like Coinbase and other trading platforms. Prominent university endowments have been quietly purchasing digital currencies according to a report […]

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Cambridge and Oxford teams compete in algorithmic crypto trading contest

DIGIT — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:16:54 +0000

Teams representing the maths and science departments of the universities of Cambridge and Oxford are competing to design cryptocurrency trading algorithms.

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Digital Currency Donors and Crypto-Backed Endowments Fuel Higher Learning

DIGIT — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 03:55:27 +0000

Digital asset holders and organizations have been donating funds to a number of well-known universities. These days a slew of popular colleges like Stanford, MIT, Cornell, Puget Sound, and Princeton all accept digital currency donations or have high-net-worth crypto backers funding these schools. On the flip side of higher education, many of the world’s prestigious […]

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