Outstanding UCSB students made their mark at the IC3 Blockchain Camp 2026

🚀 Proud moment for UCSB at the IC3 Blockchain Camp 2026 at Princeton University)!

Congratulations to the outstanding UCSB students who represented our community and made their mark:

🥇 Team Fftech — Tom Shangguan, Kaiyang Chang, and Rithwik Kerur — won 1st Place with their team in the Hackathon with “Infinite Drip: A Universal Cryptocurrency Faucet.”

📖 Rithwik Kerur presented “eAID: Elastic Asynchronous Information Dispersal with Post-Dissemination Pruning”.

📖 Kaiyang Chang presented “Trust-Minimized Cross-Chain Trading.”

🥈 Saloni Singhal and her team won 2nd Place in the Hackathon with “Trustless Agents: Trustless Code Audits.”

The future of blockchain research is bright, and it is inspiring to see UCSB students contributing both innovative ideas and working systems at one of the field’s premier student programs.

I am proud of all of you. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition!