Est. 2024 · Bloomington

Blockchain
at Indiana University.

A student-run crypto club at IU. We research digital assets, build real projects, and win hackathons and research competitions across the country.

Join the club See where we compete
On the road

Where we compete.

Across the country

9 cities

We travel for competitions and the big conferences. Hover a city to see what we did there.

Won / placed Conferences & events
Map of the United States Bloomington Los Angeles Ann Arbor Philadelphia New York Las Vegas Miami Washington Denver
Selected Work

What we’ve won.

Real competitions against teams from across the country, judged by analysts and academics.

5
Hackathon wins
3
Research wins
$60.8K
In prizes
Featured win · Mar 2026 1st place

First place, Penn Blockchain research competition

An institutional-grade research pipeline for the Cronos ecosystem that pulled 29GB of on-chain data through twelve analytical modules, from bot classification and wash-trade detection to holder concentration and validator decentralization, and turned it into a full investment thesis with bull, base, and bear cases. Judged the best of the field at Penn Blockchain, the nation’s premier student-run conference.

Penn Blockchain Conference · Philadelphia
May 2026

Winners, Artemis × DormDAO research

A long-form study of the KelpDAO rsETH cross-chain stress event and what it means for how bridges should be onboarded as collateral. One of three winning teams out of more than sixty submissions.

Artemis × DormDAO
Apr 2026

First place & Best Use of Solana

Senthos, a structured prediction-market protocol on Solana that wraps live Polymarket markets into tranched basket indices and principal-protected notes, with a USDC lending market layered on top.

USC VanEck SCBC · Los Angeles
Apr 2026

First place, Avalanche

AgentHire, a marketplace where autonomous agents transact through x402 machine payments, on-chain reputation, and slashable developer stake on Avalanche.

USC VanEck SCBC · Los Angeles
Mar 2026

Polymarket bounty, Penn Blockchain

A prediction-markets build that took the Polymarket-sponsored bounty at the Penn Blockchain Conference.

Penn Blockchain Conference · Philadelphia
Jan 2026

Second place, $40,000, Arbitrum Open House

Laytus, a protocol that prices correlated prediction-market outcomes with a Gaussian copula and an ensemble correlation model. Second place at the Arbitrum Open House, plus a quarterfinal in the ADI bounty at ETHDenver.

Arbitrum Open House · New York
Nov 2025

First of 57 teams, Franklin Templeton competition

Blockchain forensics on Pi Network, combining review-fraud clustering, chi-squared on-chain sampling, and time-series break tests into a single fraud-assessment framework, presented at the Midwest Blockchain Conference.

Midwest Blockchain Conference
Upcoming

Where we’re headed.

The calendar is being finalized.

2026–27 schedule

To be announced

We’re locking in next year’s travel now. Join the GroupMe to hear where we’re headed first.

About

Built by students, for students.

The Blockchain Club at Indiana University is a student-run club for people who want to understand digital assets and actually do something with them. We learn together, build projects, enter competitions, and travel to conferences.

We learn by doing. We’ve gone up against MBA and PhD teams at national competitions and placed, and we’ve had just as much fun losing sleep at a hackathon.

Open to all IU students regardless of major or experience. We’re looking for people who are curious and willing to do the work.

What we do

More than research.

The club

We’re a club, not a lecture series.

Members show up because it’s actually fun. We build things, argue about ideas, compete as a team, and travel together.

Weekly seminars

We pick apart a protocol or a paper and argue about it.

Wednesdays, 6 PM

Research competitions

Deep on-chain research, judged by industry analysts.

A few each year

Hackathons

Thirty-six hours to build something real. We’ve won a few.

Every semester

Speaker series

Founders and researchers who actually build in the space.

Throughout the year

Conference travel

We fly out to compete at the conferences that matter, on the club’s dime when we can swing it.

For active members

Open to all majors

No CS or finance background needed.

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Leadership

Co-presidents.

The co-founders who started the club and still run it together.

Tharun Ekambaram

Co-President & Co-Founder

Bio coming soon.

Nick Hardy

Co-President & Co-Founder

Bio coming soon.

Michael Green

Co-President & Co-Founder

Bio coming soon.

Join us.

Open to all IU students. No prior experience required.

Join the GroupMe blockchainatiu@gmail.com