Blockchain Projects and Academia

[magpie_lover]

Yesterday, I came across an article written by Blockchain at Berkeley about the role of academia in blockchain (Link). It is not a coincidence that most of the high profile projects in my radar have very strong ties to some of the top tier universities in the world. For example Dfinity, Filecoin, Enigma, Oasis Labs etc. It is interesting to note that these projects also crave a lot of attention of big investors (talking VCs). To quote from the article

"Technological limitations associated with scalability, privacy, and interoperability currently limit much of today’s most important blockchain infrastructure. Many investors believe that the solutions to these limitations will be sourced from the world of academia: home of cutting-edge discoveries and many leading cryptography and distributed systems experts."  

This makes sense to me; the technology is challenging and it makes perfect sense to bring researchers, professors, and Ph.D.students together and find answers to some of the major issues like scalability. Also, as small investors looking for opportunities in this space this is also a good determinant while making your investments.  What do you guys think?

[Cat Coin]

One of the reasons that there is no big investment is that there are no better technologies offered in the Blockchain. And the development of the academic community is very necessary, because this technology is the future. Not only in the investment market.

[Zemomtum]

I think this is best time for scholars to put head together and mitigate the scalability issue. If their is a good and sound project with realistic roadmap, institution money will flows in.  We are still dragging because researchers are yet to take their place and establish their stand in the blockchain space. Everything will change definitely in the next 3-5 years to come

[magpie_lover]

One of the reasons that there is no big investment is that there are no better technologies offered in the Blockchain.

I would disagree with this statement. There is a lot of money coming into blockchain. In fact, multi-billion dollar venture funds like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital are betting big on some projects.

[Terrmit]

Having gathered a lot of scientists most likely will not give nothing. Any project moves thanks to only one person with a unique mindset. So no need to make congresses. Which newcomers will accidentally open a way to better mobilize.

[lyks15]

This is a good idea. Because when blockchain will be a project and have a continues study in school specially in graduate school it will have a different idea to improve it using new technology. Remeber at Japan more youbg students are the great inventor of robotics project. So it is not impossible that also a study of different university or schoold is the key to improve blockchain technology.

[elitemobb]

I will tell you so today there are many problems that can be solved with the help of blockchain technology and that is why many projects involve scientists in helping to create a product and even most successful projects do it and I think every project should do this because there are a lot of problems in our society.

[magpie_lover]

Having gathered a lot of scientists most likely will not give nothing. Any project moves thanks to only one person with a unique mindset. So no need to make congresses. Which newcomers will accidentally open a way to better mobilize.

Not really the case always. The key to solving complex problems is sometimes to assemble the best talent and allowing them to brainstorm. Let's face it Blockchain scalability is a complex problem due to the theoretical limitations. We'll need the best in business, whether its Cryptography or Distributed Systems or Economics.