Blockchain and Crypto application in Education

#cryptoineducation. Danielius Stasiulis, a co-founder and the CEO of BitDegree, had the pleasure to present to the education leaders at the EdTech World Forum 2021. He spoke about blockchain and crypto in education. His main message was that instead of trying to fit blockchain into the existing forms of education, we should discover the new crypto-native forms and tools. With the crypto community tripling this year (2021) to 300m globally, we already see the rise of such opportunities as outlined in the thumbnail It shows how crypto-native concepts can be applied to serve educational needs. At BitDegree this is the path that we have taken since December 2021.

Danielius Stasiulis is a co-founder & CEO of BitDegree, the #1 Crypto Educator globally in the making, and one of the leading EdTechs in Lithuania and Europe. He is also one of the founders of EdTech Lithuania. BitDegree (est. 2017) has recently been crowned as the Global Champion of the UN-backed World Summit Awards in the field of Education for leveraging technology to bring digital skills to the masses. Today, the platform provides digital-skills-focused short-courses and learning paths to 1 000 0000+ reskillers and upskillers globally and is recognized for its pioneering research into gamification and learning motivation. Previously, Danielius has spent 10 years in management consulting at Civitta, Emerging Europe's leading consultancy covering 15 countries with 350+ consultants, where he served as a Partner and a Board member developing the Startups and Innovation stream. For his work in building the European startup ecosystems and personal entrepreneurial example, Danielius has been awarded the prestigious Junior Achievement Europe FERD's List honouree title 2019 and was named as one of the 5 exemplary Junior Achievement Lithuania alumni from over the last 25 years in 2018. In 2020, Danielius was recognised by Global Lithuanian Leaders with other BitDegree co-founders as the Lithuanian leaders whose ideas lead globally. Danielius has earned a BSc in Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and has been a visiting scholar to UC Berkeley at Skydeck accelerator. In his free time, Danielius is an ultra trail runner and a proud husband and father.