Cohen Draper

@Dalbcs president | Dalhousie University | AI innovation focused

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

@0xbigturk @dalbcs @totalistrading Congrats @0xbigturk

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

This is fantastic!! Congratulations to @ghostofharvard for this success

[Nick 🦈 @ghostofharvard]

We’ve spent the last 1.5 years building inside the Solana ecosystem — quietly.

Today, that work becomes $SHARK.

Thread 🧵👇

[College.xyz @college_xyz]

ETHDenver 2026

The student revolution…

[Nick 🦈 @ghostofharvard]

I am so happy to work on @SharkPoolSol , as we are making a real impact on the audience that needs it most.

Our validators, verifiable onchain, onboarded hundreds of students from elite universities across the world onto Solana, while providing them the much needed funding to operate.

Check out our validators through a network explorer of your choice!

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

@0xbigturk @radrdotfun @0xbigturk man you are so cracked in this space. Awesome job brother

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

RT to vote!

Help Jordan Mailata win the 25WPMOYChallenge this year!

@Nationwide | #WPMOYChallenge @jordan_mailata

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

RT to vote!

Help Jordan Mailata win the 25WPMOYChallenge this year!

@Nationwide | #WPMOYChallenge @jordan_mailata

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

@AsharBelanger @MBC_Conference I am so grateful to have worked with Ashar over the past few month he has taught me so much about the blockchain world. Thank you for inviting us out to @MBC_Conference and thank you for building the foundation of the club

[Ashar Belanger @AsharBelanger]

Another amazing year @MBC_Conference 2025. This year I had the opportunity to participate on a much greater level and work with some incredible people, I:

- Hosted and judged the Franklin Templeton Research Competition
- Moderated a panel speaking about the entire past year in crypto
- Brought out 8 students to represent @dalbcs

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First off, huge thanks to @Evanzsolomon for reaching out to me to run the competition. It was an amazing opportunity to work along side Christopher Jensen from Franklin Templeton to put it together.

Thankfully Evan already had an insane panel of judges consisting of:

Christopher Jensen from @FTDA_US
@brezshares from @nolimithodl
@aryonchain from @CMT_Digital
@zackrosenblatt_ from @Collab_Currency
@0xpampa from @artemis

In total we received 70+ submissions from 150 students across 40 universities. Out of them, we had 3 track winners and 1 overall champion. You can check out the winners here: https://t.co/lP5nY0kDJu

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As for the panel, I chatted with:

@pchopra28 from @BainCapCrypto
@nickjmatt from @standardcrypto
@samiam2194 from @CMT_Digital

We were tasked with macro outlook on 2025 and how we expected this year's events to affect 2026. As expected, our conversation was focused around stable coins, regulations, $HYPE, $PUMP, and more.

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Finally, this was my last year at MBC as a club president. Due to my upcoming graduation next spring I am passing off @dalbcs to the capable hands of @CDraper22448 and @Mitchellhaydar7.

This conference was the perfect opportunity to build their own connections within the industry and to other clubs around the world.

In addition to the incoming presidents we had @Maxhowe588, @rittuvik, @MatthewSullivn, @darren_deepak17, @ahmad7abdallah, and Abinav.

Everyone either competed in the Research Competition or the Hackathon and put together high quality submissions.

I'm incredibly proud of how well everyone performed at their first crypto conference. After this weekend, I'm confident that the club will be in good hands.

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All in all, this weekend wasn't just productive, it was so much fun. Once again massive thank you to the team that made it happen: @Evanzsolomon @redempshawne @EzvenG @reva_jariwala

See you all next year!

[Adam Fuzesi @adam_fuzesi]

Different continent, same outcome🥇
Came to Korea on exchange, leaving with a broken sleep schedule and more hackathon wins under my belt.

Hack Seoul - 1st place
Anthropic SK summit - 1st place
HackSNU - Finalist

Global rep for @dalbcs while they kill it at @MBC_Conference

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

@EzvenG @UMich @MBC_Conference @college_xyz It definitely was, especially as my first blockchain conference. I look forward to the many more to come

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

I would just like to thank @UMich, @MBC_Conference and @college_xyz for an amazing event this weekend!

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

@MBC_Conference Who wouldn't wear that hoodie? It is so warm, like a blanket

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

This video perfectly covers how hype @MBC_Conference was!!

I'm even more hyped for next year and the other conferences that lie ahead

[Midwest Blockchain Conference @MBC_Conference]

Thank you to everyone who joined us for MBC 2025.
Watch the Day 1 recap below 👇

Produced by @SkyRiseLabs

[Mitchell Haydar @Mitchellhaydar7]

Balding at 20 and 4000 trophies on clash, thank you for having me @MBC_Conference.

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

Key highlights for me were the @ dinner President's panel, the @coinbase recruitment workshop and booth, @Ledger, @circle and @HypurrFi booth, as well as the state of AI x crypto panel.

I can't wait for next year

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

@cometwtf I think we will need to shift into a space where we invest in tokenized assets over @Bitcoin and altcoin. Or wait for the cycle to reset and determine whther or not these coins will remain superpowers in the current cycle

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

Right now @MBC_Conference there is a panel on the integration of Crypto into academia.

This panel is one that invokes curiosity in me about how successful these courses truly will be, and how we can expect them to shape finance in academics for years to come!

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

After this panel I can confidently say that these two facets of globalization are a necessity in order to navigate the world of blockchain!

[Cohen Draper @CDraper22448]

Today @MBC_Conference hosted a panel on AI X Crypto, from that I was able to gain more information about how AI and crypto work together, how data is stored, and decentralization of AI.