Kraken – a popular cryptocurrency exchange based in San Francisco, CA – has partnered with the University of Wyoming to ensure all future tech students get the resources they need for positions in the growing crypto space. Kraken and Wyoming Continue Their Working Relationship Kraken says it will offer scholarship support to students pursuing PhDs at the university. It will also work with college professors to create programs for students in the K through 12 range that will give them the education and knowledge they need to potentially enter the digital currency space as they mature. Overall, Kraken is donating a whopping 0,000 to the University of Wyoming. The gift is part of the exchange’s tenth anniversary celebration. Jesse Powell – the CEO of the platform –
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Kraken – a popular cryptocurrency exchange based in San Francisco, CA – has partnered with the University of Wyoming to ensure all future tech students get the resources they need for positions in the growing crypto space.
Kraken and Wyoming Continue Their Working Relationship
Kraken says it will offer scholarship support to students pursuing PhDs at the university. It will also work with college professors to create programs for students in the K through 12 range that will give them the education and knowledge they need to potentially enter the digital currency space as they mature. Overall, Kraken is donating a whopping $300,000 to the University of Wyoming.
The gift is part of the exchange’s tenth anniversary celebration. Jesse Powell – the CEO of the platform – says that Kraken has been around since the year 2011, and that he and his staff wanted to do something big in honor of the company’s growth and status in the digital currency arena. He says:
On our tenth anniversary, we’re setting sights on the future by investing in expanding access to quality education on bitcoin and cryptocurrency. We hope the program will capture imaginations and contribute to a better financial future for Wyoming and for the world.
The $300,000 gift will be doled out over the next three years to ensure PhD students of limited financial means are privy to the same educational resources and program options as the rest of their classmates and counterparts. Part of the funds will also be utilized to create a summer camp for students looking to pursue tech-based and computer science degrees at the university.
Assistant professor of computer science Dr. Mike Borowczak stated in an interview:
This gift from Kraken enables us to recruit and retain a high-caliber researcher who will work in an interdisciplinary space with other researchers from both the Wyoming Advanced Blockchain Laboratory as well as the Cybersecurity Education and Research Center.
In addition to its work with the school, Kraken is striving to create an entire grant program that will ultimately donate more than $1 million to support open-source cryptocurrency technologies and future outreach programs.
Jesse Powell Has Been Featured a Lot
Kraken and Wyoming already share a special relationship given that the crypto exchange has established one of the state’s first official cryptocurrency banks in recent months. The trading platform has been in the news quite a bit as of late, with Jesse Powell recently saying that 2022 would be the year in which bitcoin reaches a price of $1 million per unit.
In addition, Powell was quick to suggest on social media that regulators may wind up working to collect individuals’ crypto holdings given how much digital assets threaten the well-being and stability of banks and standard financial institutions. At press time, the company has garnered financial backing from the likes of Tribe Capital, Hummingbird Ventures, Blockchain Capital and many other firms.