Stanford University

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Basics 

"The ICF [Cosmos foundation] began an initiative to start funding research more broadly, especially on consensus systems, cryptography, and formal verification. The ICF helped found the Stanford Blockchain Research Center and initiated collaborations with researchers in Switzerland and elsewhere."

"Presented two types of active side-channel attacks against private (a.k.a. shielded) transactions in Zcash. This Security announcement has been shared earlier this month in the Zcash community forum. Be sure to upgrade your nodes to Version 2.0.7-3 immediately and discontinue use of older versions. Please note that the issue does not put funds at risk of theft or counterfeiting."

"The Stanford Blockchain Club has joined Uniswap as a delegate to provide guidance and governance in the future."

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Past employees/graduates

Funding

"Combining mainstream pedigrees and pioneering crypto cred, Ehrsam, 32 and Huang, 31, convinced top institutional investors like Harvard and Stanford to give them $750 million to invest in a market they were too blue-blooded to touch directly. The vehicle was odd, an open-ended fund with no deadline to return it back."