Blockchain Lab at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU Prague @CVUTFEL | Research & education in blockchain & zero-knowledge tech | Founded 2024
Prague, Czech Republic
Joined November 2025
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And that's a wrap on 2025/26. From founding the lab to teaching our first course, competing at ETHGlobal and Colosseum, and building across two chains. This was just the beginning.
The next year is shaping up to be even bigger. New course, new deploys, new collabs. Let's go 🚀
📅 August 2026
Teamed up with Best for a week-long blockchain course. This time, our own lab members stepped into the teacher role, guiding around 20 students through everything from blockchain fundamentals to writing and securing smart contracts. 🎓
📅 2025/26
DEUSS. A project we've been building since the very start of the lab, together with universities from Czechia, Slovakia, and six international partners. An EU-backed platform letting SMEs issue long-term digital bonds, bridging blockchain with traditional finance. Launching next month 👀
🔗 deussblockchain.eu
📅 May 2026
Hosted a hardware security workshop with two incredible speakers: @tsusanka (CTO, Trezor) and Jan Zapeca (Head of Engineering, Tropic Square).
📅 March-May 2026
Teamed up with @SolanaCZE to launch our first joint event: "From Hero to Zero" 🤝 A 4-week series, one workshop every two weeks, covering the Solana ecosystem. Around 250 people joined across these sessions.
📅 Spring 2026
A few months after starting on Solana, we applied to Colosseum for funding. Result: Landed in the top 10% again, with great feedback from the judges. Since then, we've been heads down on getting Cushion ready for a Solana mainnet deploy. 🔨
📅 Spring/Summer 2026
Kept working on Cushion and focused on feedback from the judges. Cushion in a nutshell: a DeFi protocol that acts as insurance for Aave lending positions, protecting users from liquidation risk. Built on Aave V3 and Uniswap V3.
Big milestone: the EVM version reached 1.0 🎉 Solana is next.
📅 February 2026
Started expanding Cushion beyond EVM. Began building smart contracts on Solana, taking our first steps into a whole new ecosystem.
📅 Spring 2026
Attended ETH Prague, one of the biggest Ethereum events in the region great talks, great people, great reminder of why we do this.
📅 October 2025
Took our project Cushion, an insurence for DeFi lending protocols, to ETHGlobal. Result: top 10% of teams worldwide. 🏆ethglobal.com/showcase/cushi…
📅 11-12 September 2025
Represented CTU at the TUM Blockchain Conference in Munich, connecting with Europe's top student blockchain communities and bringing ideas back home.
📅 Early 2025
CTU Blockchain Lab was founded. A small group with a big goal: bring blockchain into the spotlight at CTU and beyond.
📅 July 2025
Our first students joined the lab, growing the core team from a handful of founders to a group ready to build, teach, and compete.
🧵 A year in the life of CTU Blockchain Lab
New academic year starts in a few weeks so before that, here's everything we built, shipped, and learned over the past 12 months 👇
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Another room full of future @solana builders 🇨🇿
Together with @XJustmichael from @Trezor, we just wrapped a lecture + workshop at @CVUTPraha.
We introduced students to Solana, built together and hopefully found a few new faces for our Build Station & upcoming events.
gm 🎓
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Big news! 🚀
We are incredibly excited to announce that @superteam will support our next Build Station in the Czech Republic 🇨🇿
After the success of our first Zero to Hero program and Build Station this spring, it is time for the next chapter.
The exact format is still coming together, but the vision is clear:
🛠️ Zero to Hero 2.0
🎓 Workshops across the Czech Republic (and potentially Slovakia)
🏗️ A bigger Build Station during the next @colosseum hackathon
🤝 Top mentors from the @solana ecosystem
🏆 A chance for new builders to launch their first Solana project
Over the coming weeks, we will be looking for:
• 📍 A great venue
• 🤝 Sponsors for side tracks and prizes
• 🧠 Mentors
• 🎓 University partners across CZ (and potentially Slovakia)
If you or your company would like to get involved or if you have contacts at universities that should be part of this, send us a message.
More details soon :)
From Zero to Hero🚀
Solana Event Series with CTU Prague @ChainLabCTU
A 4-part workshop series preparing students for the official @colosseum Hackathon.
In collaboration with:
@Rockaway_X
@MarinadeFinance
@MitonC_
@AckeeBlockchain
@CODESPECT
@cleevio
@wattprotocol
We’re looking forward to the last part of the workshop series, which will take place on April 15 at FelCafé in Dejvice.📷
A big thank you to @Trezor for providing hardware wallets, and to @repetny from @MarinadeFinance for sharing insights from his own hands-on experience.
During the workshop, we went through the entire process of building product-market fit. From understanding what PMF actually means to presenting your idea to investors.We also discussed the importance of adapting your product direction and responding to changes in the market. The session included practical tips and frameworks that participants can take away and apply to their own projects.
On March 24, the second of four workshops from the From Hero To Zero series took place, this week focused on Product Market Fit in Web3.
Lets recap a little bit before our last workshop of the series!
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🚀 We finally have the aftermovie from Workshop 2 with @MarinadeFinance and @Trezor
Almost 50 attendees and a really strong session on Product & Market Fit.
Great energy, great discussions, great builders.
Curious to see what happens at Workshop 3 👀
Video credits to @alpersonnn
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This is exactly why I love conferences, especially Ethereum ones. They create such a great space for people to share ideas and it’s amazing to see those ideas actually come to life.
I’m really glad I could play even a small part in it.
As a university, we aim to be actively involved in developing and sharing knowledge about cutting-edge technologies. We also like to bring them into real-world use. Being part of the @TACEO_IO node operators is an honor for us and gives us the opportunity to contribute to advancing this technology while tackling complex challenges along the way!