ATLANTA, Nov. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Two worlds
collided on Wall Street today as the NASDAQ hosted leading
blockchain visionaries and cryptocurrency experts from around the
world at the Crypto Summit in New York
City. Often seen as playing against each other for global
financial market supremacy, this historic event marks a shift in
stance for Wall Street - one that looks at cryptocurrency and
tokenization as an opportunity, rather than a threat.
Among those blockchain visionaries addressing the NASDAQ summit,
Jason King, co-founder of
Kingsland School of Blockchain,
reminded the audience that the industry faces critical challenges
as it scales globally.
"The blockchain adoption rate at enterprise and government
levels is growing extremely fast—expanding its footprint globally
across multiple industries and economic sectors," said King.
"Blockchain has the power to transform the way the world does
business and reshape world economies. But the sector faces some
critical challenges in terms of adoption, regulation, and
capacity."
Across the sector, initiatives are being launched to address
these pain points. While many focus on regulation, one protocol is
leading the industry with a focus on skills development and
capacity building. The Tezos Foundation recently announced a grants
program to support the training of 1,000 Tezos-focused developers,
and during the NASDAQ summit, it was announced that Kingsland will
partner with the Tezos Foundation to realize its training and
industry growth goals.
"The Tezos Foundation is truly committed to growing the
ecosystem to support a more equitable and exciting global future,"
said John Souza, CEO and Founder of
Kingsland University School of Blockchain. "The Kingsland-Tezos
partnership highlights the importance of industry-aligned training
curricula and addresses the critical shortage of developers in the
space. Working together we will ensure a future for blockchain and
create thousands of career opportunities for developers around the
world."
As a part of the partnership, Kingsland will collaborate with
developers that worked on the Tezos mainnet to develop and update a
Tezos-focused blockchain developer curriculum. This curriculum
specialization will also be integrated into Kingsland's
world-leading blockchain engineering programs.
"Kingsland has a demonstrated track record of delivering
high-quality, work-ready blockchain development programs and we're
excited to work with them to support the long-term success of the
Tezos ecosystem," said Ryan
Jesperson, President of the Tezos Foundation. "We believe
that the new wave of 1,000 developers that are being trained in
2019 will help Tezos' robust ecosystem continue to grow and gain
adoption."
The partnership will see a series of global events, hackathons,
project incubation, and courses rolled out in financial centres
around the world in 2019. Scholarships provided by the Tezos
Foundation will enable more students to access the world's first
accredited blockchain curriculum with Tezos specialization.
Kingsland will also support recruiting students into the Tezos
curriculum specialization and place them into jobs that support the
overall growth of the Tezos protocol and ecosystem.
Tezos-focused Blockchain Engineering courses will launch in
2019. Developers interested in starting their Tezos blockchain
career should register for program updates.
About Tezos
Tezos is the world's first liquid
proof-of-stake blockchain protocol, allowing all token holders to
participate in securing the ledger. Tezos is self-amending, meaning
stakeholders can vote to upgrade the protocol to keep apace of the
latest innovations. The protocol is written in OCaml, a programming
language well suited for environments in which a single mistake can
cost millions. The network entered mainnet in September 2018.
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