Reuben Youngblom

Reuben Youngblom is managing editor of the Cryptoeconomic Systems Journal and Conference Series, an interdisciplinary effort between the MIT Digital Currency Initiative and MIT Press. He is a fellow at Stanford Law School’s CodeX Center for Legal Informatics, where he runs the Blockchain Education Initiative, serves as a coordinator for the RegTrax Blockchain Regulatory Tracking Initiative, and co-hosts the Our Data podcast. He also consults on CoinDesk's annual ranking of universities, evaluating the institutions’ impact in the blockchain space.

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Opinion

Why Rankings – Including University Rankings – Are Crap

I developed CoinDesk’s Best Universities for Blockchain rankings in 2020, and have been tortured to some degree by them ever since.

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Best Universities for Blockchain 2022: Where In the World Is the Most Research Being Produced?

Asia dominates the global blockchain research landscape in 2022. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.

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Best Universities for Blockchain 2022: CoinDesk’s Methodology

The massive effort to rank the efforts of universities to teach the fast-growing and potentially transformative emerging technology of blockchain comes down to making informed choices. This article is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.

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Policy

How We Ranked the Top Universities for Blockchain

Our methodology for ranking 230 institutions worldwide, and how your school can get involved.

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Markets

Which Universities Are the Best for Blockchain?

Calling students, academics and industry stakeholders: We need your help to identify the best places to learn about crypto and blockchain technology.

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Markets

Looking Backward to Build the Future: How Academia Is Shifting Its Blockchain Focus

Stanford's Reuben Youngblom interviews academics working to educate the next generation of crypto designers and developers.

Reuben Youngblom currently co-runs the RegTrax initiative through Stanford University

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