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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

WCPO: Gift allows UC to launch new cryptocurrency fund, lab - University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati is launching a pair of programs focused on cryptocurrency and new financial technologies thanks to gifts via longtime champions Dan Kautz and Woodrow (Woody) Uible.
The gifts will fashion an educational program within the Carl H. Lindner College of Business — including a cryptocurrency fund that will promote student learning of blockchain technology and digital assets — as well as the public-private Kautz-Uible Cryptoeconomics Lab in the new Digital Futures building, set to open this coming fall.
“Cryptocurrency is in its infancy. It’s going to continue to develop and evolve,” Lindner Dean Marianne Lewis, PhD, told WCPO-TV. “I think one of the beauties of us building coursework, as well as this lab around it, is to learn as that volatility shifts, [we] start to better understand where that value is in terms of securing assets, trading assets. I think there’s a lot to be learned. And it is going to be a moving target.”
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