Devcon 2
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome & Introduction Panel | Ming Chan, Martin Becze, Péter Szilágyi, Dr. Christian Reitwiessner, Alex Van de Sande, Viktor Trón, Vitalik Buterin | 18m |
Opening panel lists concrete engineering progress: a new Go client branch with a modular JIT and interpreter work, a browser light client landing, a C++… | ||
| Regulatory Considerations for Dapp Development | Ming Chan, Peter Van Valkenburgh | 23m |
Coin Center explains how US securities law applies to token sales using the Howey test and concrete legal history (orange grove case). Tokens avoid being… | ||
| Ethereum in 25 Minutes | Vitalik Buterin | 25m |
A concise technical tour of Ethereum’s design and history: launched conceptually in 2013 to move beyond Bitcoin’s single-purpose ledger to a general platform… | ||
| State Channels Systemic Security Considerations and Solutions | Joseph Poon | 15m |
Proposes concrete state channel primitives: require a single-enforcer rule so only one party can publish a given state, use fidelity bonds (refundable if… | ||
| The Mauve Revolution | Vitalik Buterin | 27m |
Casper implements proof of stake where validators deposit to a Casper contract, become active after ~12‑24 hours, can start withdrawal with a delay, and incur… | ||
| A Correct by Construction Asynchronous Casper Protocol | Vlad Zamfir | 21m |
Claims a correct-by-construction asynchronous Byzantine‑fault‑tolerant binary Casper that decides a single bit by proving when an estimate cannot be changed… | ||
| Ethereum On Ruby | Jan Xie | 15m |
A Ruby implementation of Ethereum used by Cryptape powers a test and deployment stack that compiles Solidity, runs bytecode on a Ruby VM no mining, instant VM… | ||
| Ethereum for Resource Limited Devices | Bob Summerwill | 19m |
Roadmap reports a working cross-compiled C++ client built with Docker and bash scripts, first successful cross-built binary in November and an ongoing… | ||
| Designs for the L4 Contract Programming Language Based on Deontic Modal Logic | Virgil Griffith, Vikram Verma | 19m |
Proposes L4, a DSL that encodes obligations, permissions and prohibitions via the deontic modal μ-calculus and compiles to automata for decidable trace… | ||
| Zcash + Ethereum = ❤ | Zuko Wilcox | 21m |
Zcash encrypts sender, receiver and amount on-chain and uses zk-SNARKs so validators can verify validity without seeing details, enabling selective disclosure… | ||
| A Lap Around Developing Cryptlets | Marley Gray | 23m |
Describes how Cryptlets (CRiET) run as off‑chain services that a smart contract references via a crypto delegate, using Intel SGX enclaves to produce three‑way… | ||
| Sikorka – Ethereum Meets the Outdoors | Lefteris Karapetsas | 12m |
Sikorka deploys Ethereum contracts tied to GPS coordinates and verifies users with a proof-of-presence workflow: integer lat/long in Solidity, a challenge… | ||
| Smart Contract Security | Christoph Jentzsch | 12m |
Covers the DAO reentrancy exploit that drained 3.5 million ether and lists concrete defenses: add invariant checks to assert totalSupply relations, design… | ||
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