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The Penn Blockchain Club is an educational institution at its heart. Over the past two years, the Penn Blockchain Club haseducated over 500 students about the many potentials of blockchain.

The club offers numerous student taught courses each semester and strives to be a preeminent blockchain educational institution.

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Vivek Chauhan
July 16, 2018

Blockchain Applications in Capital Markets

Some of the biggest use cases of the blockchain technology have been in the financial services industry. From the obvious use (e.g., Ripple)

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Aaron Diamond-Reivich
April 30, 2018

Disrupting Finance Podcast

When speaker Michael del Castillo of Coindesk posed that question at the inaugural Penn Blockchain Conference, more than half of the

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Aaron Diamond-Reivich
April 29, 2018

Penn Blockchain Club joins Hyperledger as an Associate Member

The Penn Blockchain Club is pleased to announce that it is now an Associate Member of Hyperledger, hosted by The Linux Foundation. Members

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Erik Marks
April 29, 2018

The Case for Graphical Smart Contract Editors

Blockchain smart contracts enable the programmatic, trustful execution of some logic or transaction. Because of their unique affordances

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Andrew Poma
April 12, 2018

Bright future of Blockchain and how MBAs can help building it

One of the many who missed the opportunity to earn a quick million from the recent cryptocurrency boom, I was both skeptical and curious whe

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Penn Blockchain
December 15, 2018

Blockchain applications in Capital markets with Michael Tae, Head of Strategy and M&A at Broadridge

In our latest podcast, Vivek Chauhan (Wharton MBA '19) chats with Michael Tae, Head of Strategy and M&A at Broadridge. Broadridge Financial Solutions, a $4 billion global fintech leader, provides investor communications and technology-driven solutions for broker-dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers globally. With over 50 years of experience, Broadridge's infrastructure underpins proxy voting services for over 90 percent of public companies and mutual funds in North America and processes more than $5 trillion in fixed income and equity trades per day. Broadridge is part of hyperledger project, a minority investor in the blockchain startup Digital Asset Holding, and has received an award for its blockchain initiatives Michael is the head of strategy and M&A at Broadridge and leads strategy, acquisitions, partnerships, and other growth-related activities. He began his career at McKinsey where he provided consulting services to the financial services industry before moving to Merrill Lynch where he was the Vice President of their Financial Institutions Group. In 2009, at the height of the financial crisis, He moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked in the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Financial Stability as Director of Investments and Senior Policy Advisor. Most recently, he was the Senior Executive Vice President of Worldwide Services for Microstrategy In this engaging podcast, Michael shares more about Broadridge's industry-leading initiatives using the blockchain technology for proxy voting and talks about opportunities and challenges in the adoption of blockchain technology in capital markets.

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Penn Blockchain
December 5, 2018

Podcast with Michael Tae, Head of Strategy and M&A at Broadridge

In our latest podcast, Vivek Chauhan (Wharton MBA '19) chats with Michael Tae, Head of Strategy and M&A at Broadridge. Broadridge Financial Solutions, a $4 billion global fintech leader, provides investor communications and technology-driven solutions for broker-dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers globally. With over 50 years of experience, Broadridge's infrastructure underpins proxy voting services for over 90 percent of public companies and mutual funds in North America and processes more than $5 trillion in fixed income and equity trades per day. Broadridge is part of hyperledger project, a minority investor in the blockchain startup Digital Asset Holding, and has received an award for its blockchain initiatives Michael is the head of strategy and M&A at Broadridge and leads strategy, acquisitions, partnerships, and other growth-related activities. He began his career at McKinsey where he provided consulting services to the financial services industry before moving to Merrill Lynch where he was the Vice President of their Financial Institutions Group. In 2009, at the height of the financial crisis, He moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked in the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Financial Stability as Director of Investments and Senior Policy Advisor. Most recently, he was the Senior Executive Vice President of Worldwide Services for Microstrategy In this engaging podcast, Michael shares more about Broadridge's industry-leading initiatives on using the blockchain technology for proxy voting and talks about opportunities and challenges in the adoption of blockchain technology in capital markets.

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Penn Blockchain
December 5, 2018

Bitcoin, Consensus Mechanisms, and a New Blockchain Called Ava with Professor Emin Gün Sirer

In this episode of the Penn Blockchain Podcast, Andrew Ciatto (Wharton '20) chats with Professor Emin Gün Sirer about his work on a precursor to Bitcoin, the problems blockchains face, the Bitcoin Cash debate, and the dream for his new blockchain called Ava. Professor Emin Gün Sirer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and the Co-Director of IC3, the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts. He is also working on Ava, an implementation on top of a new class of consensus mechanism called Avalanche hoping to create a high-throughput blockchain to address the current scaling challenges.

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Penn Blockchain
November 19, 2018

Ethereum 2.0 and Scaling Blockchains with Preston Van Loon of Prysmatic Labs

In this episode of the Penn Blockchain Podcast, Andrew Ciatto (Wharton '20) chats with Preston Van Loon about the scalability problem that blockchains face today and how he and his team at Prysmatic Labs hope to solve them. Preston is a software engineer at Google by day and is the co-founder and team lead at Prysmatic Labs by night. Prysmatic Labs is a team of blockchain engineers committed to scaling the Ethereum blockchain. They are working to implement a sharding client for Ethereum 2.0. The Penn Blockchain Club is a student organization that facilitates conversations between Blockchain enterprises, students and academics to further the knowledge of Blockchain in the Penn community and contribute to the formation of great companies and meaningful research. To learn more, visit us at pennblockchain.com Thanks for listening!

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Penn Blockchain
August 7, 2018

PBC2018 - Crypto-Investing: Boom Or Bubble - Ari Paul

Ari Paul (Blocktower) expounds on the future of blockchain, drawing important parallels to the past. From the 2018 Penn Blockchain Conference.

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EVENTS

The Penn Blockchain Club hosts events both for Penn students and members of the wider blockchain comunity. Join us for a collection of lunch and learns, conferenes, and workshops lead by world leading blockchain experts like Brian Behlendorf and Amber Baldet (pictued to the left). Or if you are looking for something more casual, how about small group dinners to discuss current event and white paper review sessions?

Synchronize Conference

April 17th

The conference focusses on enterprise and institutional applications of DLT and smart contracts for financial services.
Learn more about the conference here and use the promotion code "UPENN" for 15% off tickets

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Penn blockchain conference

Saturday, April 6th, 2019

Join us for the second annual Penn Blockchain Conference! Check back here for more details on ticketing and a complete agenda soon!

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