We Won the Elections at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Engineering

I’ve just landed in Buenos Aires. Yesterday I was in Cambridge for Ethereum workshops on post-quantum cryptography, formal verification and fast finality. Today I came home to a milestone eighteen years in the making.

What began as a small organization founded by a handful of engineering students has now won a majority of the representatives elected by students, graduates and professors at the University of Buenos Aires’ Faculty of Engineering.

My partner and friend Fran has spent more than a decade working toward this moment. Many people helped make it possible, but we would not be here without his strategic mind, persistence and ability to think years ahead. He has dedicated much of his life to improving public education, while also building several products with me in parallel.

For me, the connection between these two worlds is very concrete: most of our work on Ethereum is made possible by people who studied at UBA. The university has educated the engineers and researchers who now help us build infrastructure used around the world.

Raúl Bertero, who holds a PhD in civil engineering, will lead the faculty, which serves around 15,000 students. At Lambda, we are also working with him to build civil engineering software with its own AI, already used by several companies and growing rapidly.

Cati Nosiglia, UBA’s Secretary of Academic Affairs, joined today’s election and celebration. Sebastián Civallero, UBA’s Secretary of Innovation, also came to visit us. Both hold leadership roles at a university with a community of around 350,000 people. Together, we are developing a rigorous new degree program that I look forward to announcing in the coming months.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me and my team along the way. Eighteen years is a long time to work toward something. Seeing that effort bear fruit, alongside people who never gave up, means a great deal to me.

I want our public universities to be more ambitious, give students more opportunities and work more closely with startups and the private sector. Universities can contribute knowledge, research and talent; companies can help turn that work into products and services that improve people’s lives.

That is the kind of public education we are working to build. Thanks everyone for supporting me and my team in our crazy life.

During the session at the Faculty of Engineering.

As you can see I am very tired after a very long flight. Time to celebrate and sleep!