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Although China banned all cryptocurrency transactions in September 2021, that does not take away from the adoption of blockchain technology more widely in the country for alternative functions. The state has actually supported some blockchain firms, helping them to explore use cases in fields like medicine and energy. President Xi
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) lives up to its name by providing one of the most advanced blockchain educations available in the world. table { border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; } tr{ border: 1pt solid black; } td{ padding:5px; font-size: 24px; text-align: center; } tr td:nth-child(1){
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The society offers prizes for innovation competitions and incubates startups as they seek the investment they need to grow. For example, the Cambridge Blockchain Prize calls for teams of up to six participants to propose either research or enterprise ideas – with a potential £15,000 of funding awarded to the
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) offers a variety of blockchain-related courses for students. The career prospects and awards that its students enjoy in the field reflect the thorough education they receive. table { border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; } tr{ border: 1pt solid black; } td{ padding:5px;
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Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), near the western edge of Switzerland, may not be as well known as MIT or Harvard but the QS world rankings call it the 14th-best university in the world across all measures. Its blockchain offering lives up to that reputation. table { border-collapse: collapse;
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Cornell Tech provides the home for the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3), a collaboration between researchers from Cornell and a global network of higher education institutions, including Carnegie Mellon and the University of California, Berkeley. Its ground-breaking work so far has included developing the test bed Miniature World, where
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Outside the university’s walls, Hong Kong has an illustrious place in the brief history of blockchain and crypto. The largest stablecoin in the world, tether, was created there as well as the crypto derivatives exchange FTX Trading, to name just two. Hong Kong’s financial regulations have been relatively friendly to
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The lab takes part in the Dutch Blockchain Coalition, which is based on the university campus. It brings together government, industry and academia to encourage the development of “reliable, robust and socially accepted” blockchain software. The coalition organized its third annual conference in 2021 and works with the European Commission
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The university’s Koguan School of Law has been spreading education and debate around blockchain since at least 2017, when its international student forum went by the title “Discovering Blockchain Technology.” Even then, before the bull run of 2019, the event was able to attract a partner from global accountancy PwC
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Meanwhile, Oxford’s blockchain research center is based at University College, the oldest of the institution’s 39 semi-autonomous colleges. It is headed by Bill Roscoe, a former head of the university’s computer science department. He began researching blockchain technology in Shenzhen, China in 2017. Source
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