Michigan Blockchain is the University of Michigan's student organization for blockchain technology. Members manage over $50M in assets across protocol governance, a Solana validator, and a live investment portfolio.
A student organization for every major.
Our mission is to prepare students for careers in blockchain through professional development with industry partners, education across disciplines, and hands-on research and project work.
Blockchain needs more than developers. Our members include engineers, economists, lawyers, designers, and founders. We have been running for more than six years and work with over 20 industry partners.
Every member starts in the cohort.
No blockchain background is required. The cohort is a weekly program that covers both the technology and the business context around it. Completing it makes you eligible to join any of our teams.
Weekly sessions on how blockchains work, and on where the technology is useful and where it is not.
Developer exercises alongside the concepts, so every member writes code and forms their own views, whatever their major.
The cohort ends with a project showcase. Members who complete it can then join a team.
Eight teams, open to every major.
After the cohort, members join one or more teams. Each team runs its own projects and has its own leadership.
Members follow proposals across the protocols we are delegated on, decide how the club votes, and write a regular brief on active governance.
We operate a Solana validator. Members either maintain the infrastructure or work on business development with protocols and token holders. Both tracks are taught from the ground up.
Members pitch an investment each week in a live competition against 20 other university funds, run with Dorm DAO. Each pitch covers the thesis, risks, catalysts, and a recommendation.
Bi-weekly market insights, Dune dashboards, and case studies. Research is published publicly under the names of the members who write it.
Our engineering team. Weekly build sessions where experienced developers mentor newer ones, a modular technical curriculum, and hackathons with prize money.
Client projects scoped and staffed by students: developer builds, market research, protocol strategy, and marketing. Deliverables are reviewed internally before they go to the client.
Runs the club's presence on social media, along with event coverage, the brand kit, recruiting materials, and print design.
Members research prediction markets: how they are structured, how they price information, and how they compare with traditional markets.
Delegates for four protocols.
Michigan Blockchain is a delegate for Uniswap, Arbitrum, Compound, and Origin Protocol. Members review and vote on proposals, and take part in drafting and discussing new ones.
in tokens governed by the club
Stand With Crypto chapter
Stand With Crypto
Our governance work extends to public policy. Michigan Blockchain is a university chapter of Stand With Crypto, the nonprofit advocating for clear crypto policy in the United States, and we bring that work to students on campus.
What members get.
Consultants are paid for client engagements, hackathons come with prize money, and the validator brings in revenue for the club.
Club trips to conferences and events in Denver, Miami, New York, and Philadelphia, plus a ski trip and a warm-weather trip.
Weekly catered meetings, speakers from across the industry, and alumni at the firms listed below.
Work with Michigan Blockchain.
A trained student team for your blockchain project: developer builds, market research, protocol strategy, or marketing. Projects are scoped up front with defined deliverables.
We are active delegates for Uniswap, Arbitrum, Compound, and Origin Protocol, with over $30M in tokens governed. We vote, write, and help shape proposals.
Open to University of Michigan students in any school or major, with no experience required. Start in the education cohort and join a team after.
Where our members have worked.
Alumni, interns, partners, and firms that have spoken to the club.
Executive board.
No blockchain experience required.
Recruitment runs at the start of each semester. Join the interest list to hear about the next round.
