Name: ​CalBlockchain

Address or ENS: ​eth:0x7AE109A63ff4DC852e063a673b40BED85D22E585

My views on the Obol Collective vision and why I want to be a delegate: ​

Blockchain at Berkeley is a student-run organization at UC Berkeley founded in 2014 and focused on blockchain innovation.

The major departments in Blockchain at Berkeley are as follows:

• Consulting: Building software and performing research to support companies, protocols, and other organizations. Previous clients include Arbitrum, Algorand, LayerZero, Avalanche, PayPal, UNICEF, etc.
• Education: Providing blockchain education through student-run courses at UC Berkeley, to over 300,000 students worldwide through our EdX course, DeCal’s (student-taught courses at UC Berkeley), and within the org through white paper reviews and developer bootcamps.
• Xcelerator: Launched what’s now the #1 university blockchain accelerator in the US, since 2019. 100+ alumni companies, 450M+ total of follow-on funding secured.
• Research/Governance: Voting and building proposals for delegated protocols including Compound, Uniswap, Aave, and Optimism. Also run whitepaper circles and initiatives to answer research questions in the space.

We are excited to extend our commitment to this space via running nodes. We have yet to have the opportunity to directly support the decentralization ethos that has benefited our club, our members, and our alumni. With this program, we are excited to support decentralization.

Languages I speak and write: ​We will communicate primarily in English, though our members understand a variety of languages.