By: Ratan Kaliani, Darya Kaviani, & Emma Guo
Blockchain at Berkeley Grants is motivated by one core objective—to bridge the gap between students’ unbridled potential and the resources they need to manifest their vision. Our mission is to foster student-driven blockchain innovation through early-stage funding to trailblazing startups, novel projects, and transformative research.
As students in one of the most innovative academic institutions in the world, we have witnessed firsthand the unmatched entrepreneurial spirit that our fellow classmates embody. Who better to enable the next generation of builders than their own peers? Put succinctly:
The future of high-impact, student-targeted funding is students empowering students.
By: 0xmebius
This is a quick and dirty guide to MEV meant to get you up to speed on the latest in the space, nothing more, nothing less. The guide is sorted so that each subsequent topic builds upon previous knowledge, and increases in complexity as topics advance. Obviously skip things you already know. The guide is also nested depending on the level of depth you wish to explore for each particular topic. Each nested child topic represents a further niche concept in the parent topic. Most general Crypto/DeFi topics will just point you to existing high quality material (no need to reinvent the wheel) but more advanced MEV topics (and alpha) will consist of everything I know and what I’ve learned along the way. Just be warned this is effectively throwing you in the deep end. By the end of this you should be able to build your own MEV Bots. Good luck!
By: Ratan Kaliani, Annamira O’Toole & Shivam Patel
In the spirit of decentralization, DeFi (decentralized finance) protocols have been empowering their communities to guide the future of these protocols through on-chain governance. However, the ecosystem of DeFi governance and token delegation can often be hard to navigate. Here at Blockchain at Berkeley (B@B), we’ve learned a lot from running our delegation program for 4 protocols (Uniswap, Compound, Aave, Fei) over the past year . This guide intends to distill some of those learnings into a digestible format to help other delegates & future community members hit the ground running.
DeFi Governance Overview
Protocols use DeFi governance to empower community members to work together to make key decisions regarding protocol changes, launching new initiatives and transforming the long-term vision for the protocol. In the most common model, token-based governance, 1 token corresponds to 1 vote in the protocol, enabling every token holder of a protocol to participate in governance. By leveraging governance, DeFi protocol teams decentralize decision-making across the community.