ITU Blockchain is a student-run blockchain and Web3 society at Istanbul Technical University, recognized as Turkey's first university blockchain community. ITU Blockchain's Twitter Score is 18 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #53,625 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
ITU Blockchain was established in February 2018 by a group of students and has since built a broad program spanning blockchain education, research, content production, hackathons, and DAO governance. Its curriculum runs from introductory blockchain concepts through advanced Solidity development, and it produces Turkish-language resources across blog, video, and podcast formats. The society is backed by the Ethereum Foundation and is a member of College DAO.
ITU Blockchain operates a Delegation Committee that reviews protocol proposals, builds consensus among members, casts on-chain votes, and publishes its voting rationale publicly. The society holds active delegate roles in Optimism Collective, Arbitrum DAO, Uniswap DAO, and Scroll DAO, and previously served as a delegate in Starknet. Its published delegate identity includes the ENS name itublockchain.eth, an Ethereum address, a Starknet address, and a GitHub account. The Arbitrum Foundation's 2023 transparency report listed the society among university groups contributing governance participation and content.
ITU Blockchain has earned first-place finishes across multiple ETHGlobal hackathon tracks, including Build with Oasis, Blockchain and AI, Real Blockchain Use Case, and Hedera AI Services. Teams from the society also received finalist recognition and multiple sponsor-category awards at ETHGlobal Cannes 2026. The account has published 3,694 posts and has been mentioned by 48 accounts a total of 141 times.
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The accounts that follow ITU Blockchain include 73 founders, 19 angel investors, 34 influencers and 1 VCs, among them Emin Gn Sirer, Nader Dabit, Austin Griffith, The Rollup, Fedes Intern and ETHGlobal.