Findora Co-founder Ben Fisch Teaches Stanford Course on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Ben Fisch, Co-founder and CTO of Findora, has been teaching Stanford’s flagship course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies.
Working alongside Dan Boneh, Head of Stanford Cryptography and Advisor to Findora, Ben has assisted in instructing the course, which covers cryptocurrencies as well as blockchain and smart contracts, and shares the highest standards of knowledge, expertise, and best-practice in the industry.
In previous years, Boneh taught the course along with David Mazieres, Chief Scientist of the Stellar Foundation and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. The annual course was founded in 2015 by Boneh and Joseph Bonneau, author of the textbook Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, now a Professor of Computer Science at NYU.
Stanford University offers the highest number of courses in blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the world. Increased demand for education in the area is a signal that the industry as a whole is growing and maturing. Deeply rooted in the latest advances in blockchain and cryptography, Findora recognizes the role education plays in the development of a sustainable global blockchain ecosystem. Research and learning is at the core of making Findora’s vision of creating the internet of the finance world and revitalizing the global financial system a reality.
In October 2019, Ben Fisch revealed his latest breakthrough in zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP), ‘Supersonic’, the first practical, trustless, succinct, and efficiently verifiable zero-knowledge proofs, alongside Benedikt Bünz, Head of Research at Findora, and Alan Szepeniec. As a Stanford Computer Science PhD working with Dan Boneh and Stanford’s Applied Cryptography Research Group, Ben has made major cryptographic breakthroughs in proofs of storage, accumulators and secure computation. Prior to his work on Findora, Ben contributed significantly to the core protocols of Filecoin and Chia. Ben co-authored the seminal paper introducing Verifiable Delay Functions, which has had critical impact on the design of proof-of-stake protocols and trustless lotteries. Ben’s research on VDFs and stateless blockchains have influenced the design of Ethereum 2.0.
Led by some of Stanford’s most well-known cryptographers, the Findora founding team also includes Benedikt Bünz, inventor of Bulletproofs & VDFs; John Powers, former head of Stanford’s $25bn endowment fund; Dan Boneh Head of Stanford Cryptography, and Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of Coinbase.
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Published at Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:47:11 +0000
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