NYU Blockchain Society

NYU Blockchain Society is the official NYU Organization for alumni at the intersection of blockchain, finance, and AI

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

One thing we're watching: the quiet race to own stablecoin distribution.

Issuers got the first win. Now wallets, exchanges, and fintech apps are fighting over who touches the user.

Distribution > issuance. Mark it.

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

2027 conference planning is underway.

One question for the timeline: who NEEDS to be on that stage?

Best answers get remembered when we build the program. 👇

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

DeFi's second act isn't retail yield farming.

It's institutions: tokenized collateral, onchain credit, 24/7 settlement. The plumbing is being rebuilt while most people argue about prices.

We'd rather build the plumbing. 🏗️

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

The NYU network is unfair advantage in disguise.

One group chat has a TradFi structurer, a protocol engineer, a VC, and a policy lawyer. That's a normal Tuesday in our community.

Alumni + industry, worldwide. That's the society. ����

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

Good communities are built in rooms, not feeds.

Our mixers bring NYU alumni together across crypto, finance, and AI: founders, investors, operators. Next one: Monday, November 16.

Members hear first. Join: https://t.co/AmSce5KSun #NYU

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

Calling NYU founders:

If you're building in digital assets or AI: protocols, tokenized markets, agentic systems, fintech infrastructure, we want to know you.

An accelerator to back NYU builders is on our roadmap. DMs open, tell us what you're building. 💜

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

Seven panels and a fireside at our 2024 conference covered serious ground:

Tokenized markets. Institutional DeFi. Onchain AI. Regulation that actually works.

The 2027 program is being built now, and the conversation is only getting bigger.

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

Stablecoin volumes now rival the major card networks.

Onchain settlement went from curiosity to institutional infrastructure in five years. We spend our time on what comes next: tokenized markets, agentic wallets, the works.

That's the society: blockchain × finance × AI.

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

The last time we filled a room:

BlackRock · J.P. Morgan · Franklin Templeton · a16z · Solana Foundation · Kraken · Variant · EigenLayer

632 attendees. 35 speakers. 7 panels + a fireside.

That's the caliber of the room. Our 2027 conference is already in planning. 🏛️

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

We're opening the doors.

The NYU Blockchain Society is now public. New site, new channels, same mission: uniting the alumni, builders, investors, and institutions shaping digital assets, finance, and AI.

NYU alumni worldwide, come build with us. ⬇️
https://t.co/AmSce5LqjV

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

@FangZhangyy @patelarth312 @ReneeLeibler

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

NYU Blockchain Society has a new home.

The professional network for NYU alumni at the intersection of blockchain, finance, and AI. An official NYU Alumni Club.

Conferences, networking evenings and an accelerator for NYU founders.

Add your block: https://t.co/tuTI9PAw0J

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

Update: We will not be hosting our blockchain mixer this month. We’re shifting our focus to November and hope to share details on a fresh event soon! See you then! 👋

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

🍂 Join us for the NYU Blockchain Fall Mixer! Connect with fellow alumni, founders, investors & Web3 builders for an evening of networking in NYC.

🎟️ Register: https://t.co/NSYVXpLPlm

#NYUBlockchain #Web3

[NYU Blockchain Society @NYU_Blockchain]

🍂 Join us for the NYU Blockchain Fall Mixer! Connect with fellow alumni, founders, investors & Web3 builders for an evening of networking in NYC.

🎟️ Register: https://t.co/NSYVXpLPlm

#NYUBlockchain #Web3

[Light Node Ventures @LightNodeVent]

The future of transaction monitoring is real-time.

As digital transactions scale, organizations need better visibility, faster fraud detection, and smarter compliance workflows.

[Light Node Ventures @LightNodeVent]

RWA is moving from narrative to infrastructure.

We’re heading to @rwasummit in NYC, to connect with the teams building what comes next.

[Light Node Ventures @LightNodeVent]

Lionel Williams, @SirLeoThe1st , our VP of Business Development, will be speaking on “The Future of Trading: Where Prediction Markets Meet Finance” at @EthereumDenver 2026 alongside @JackSimison
from @nascent and @setofsevens , founder of @SkywalkTokens . Looking forward to the conversation ahead!

[patelarth.eth @patelarth312]

How much funding does this man need?!?! 😅

https://t.co/qOed0a4xOb

[Gaia 🌱 @Gaianet_AI]

🚨 Big news from Gaia Labs!

We’ve raised $20M across Seed and Series A to scale decentralized AI infrastructure and we’re launching the first AI-native smartphone designed for user-owned intelligence.

Gaia is building the backbone of a decentralized AI economy where inference is verifiable, agents are sovereign, and value flows directly to users, not platforms.

This funding accelerates:

⚙️ Expansion of Gaia’s open inference network (700K+ active nodes, 17T inferences)
📱 Launch of the Gaia AI Phone: on-device models, local agents, full data control
🧰 A new open-source toolkit for LLMs, agents, and devs
🌉 Cross-chain infrastructure to power AI across blockchains and data ecosystems

We’re grateful to our lead investors ByteTrade/SIG, Mirana/Mantle, and to visionary partners including Outlier Ventures, NGC, Taisu Ventures, Consensys Mesh, and more for believing in this movement.

The Gaia AI Phone, built on Galaxy S25 Edge hardware, runs decentralized AI inference locally without cloud dependency or data extraction: your agents controlled by your hardware.

If AI is the next computing layer, we’re building the network and the interface.

Learn more here: https://t.co/UI22Wo1bR6

[Light Node Ventures @LightNodeVent]

The foundation is set, the tools are ready, and the adoption is accelerating. 2025 is the year Web3 infrastructure finally breaks through to mainstream business adoption.