This is Cornell Blockchain's 5th year as a club. We had numerous accomplishments this year as a club ranging from offering new courses to the Cornell community, hosting our annual conference in New York City, being ranked #2 in the United States for Blockchain Education by Coindesk, and much more. Here is a recap of our year!

Courses

We taught our third semester of CS-1998: Introduction to Blockchain and have taught over 200+ Cornell students. We covered topics ranging from what Bitcoin is, consensus, DeFi, NFTs, applications, and much more. We are thrilled to continue offering this class to the broader Cornell community and will offer a new course in spring 2023 on blockchain development.

Conference

After a two-year break due to Covid –– In April of this year, we hosted our inaugural Cornell Blockchain Conference at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island. We brought individuals from academia, cutting-edge projects, regulation, and companies who have adopted blockchain. Some speakers included John Wu (President of Avalabs), Yida Gao (General Partner of Shima Capital), and Miko Matsumura (Managing Partner of Gumi Crypto Capital). We are excited to announce that we will be hosting our conference again this year on Friday, April 21, 2023, at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island. Here is a video we made at this year's conference.

Trips

Our club members this year attended numerous events. In March this year, we had students attend Harvard's first crypto conference. In June, we had students attend a mixer at OPCryptoVC in NYC. In July, some of our club members attended the Formula E race and Avalanche satellite event in Brooklyn. In November this year, we had students attend the Southern California Blockchain Conference. We hope to continue to sponsor students' trips to more events in 2023!

Speakers

We had many speakers come present to our club members. We hosted Dexterity Capital, Binance, Gauntlet, Arkham, Dune Analytics, Ava Labs, and many more companies. This summer, we also started doing our Twitter Space series, where we hosted Haseeb Quershi from Dragonfly, Mike Dudas from 6th Man Ventures, Miko Matsumura from Gumi Cryptos Capital, Wade Prospere from OPYN, and Brittany Laughlin from Stacks Foundation. Be on the lookout for more twitter spaces in 2023!

Blockchain Education

This summer, we joined forces with Mayor Eric Adams, New York Schools, Social Justice Fund, and Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation to bring blockchain education to BIPOC Brooklyn public high school students. Over the course of 6 weeks, the Blockchain Bootcamp met on Tuesdays and Thursdays to introduce blockchain to over 50 curious students. Topics taught ranged from blockchain fundamentals to NFTs, DeFi, and more!

Projects

Along with the numerous networking and recruiting events, our club members also worked on projects in each of their sub-teams. The Quant-Trading team implemented a back tester for future trading strategies, the incubator team worked with numerous campus startups, our VC team worked with firms on diligence, the discretionary trading did research into DeFi protocols, the research team wrote a research paper on dark pools, the consulting team worked with Web 3.0 companies on go to market strategies, and our governance team worked on delegation, and lastly, our 17 new members presented their capstone projects at our final g-body presentation.

Thank you to all our club members, sponsors, speakers, and alumni for making 2022 a success and we are all very excited for 2023!