Devcon SEA 2024
2024-11-12..2024-11-15
Bangkok, Thailand
as the organisers put it
Devcon 7 — Southeast Asia. The Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Bangkok, Thailand, Nov 12–15, 2024.
who it's for
ethereum developers, web3 founders, identity engineers, humanitarian program leads, crypto economists, community organisers
topics
account abstraction and SSI; zero-knowledge ID verification; stablecoins on Ethereum; layer 2 scaling and L2 tokens; decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN); prediction markets onchain; tokenized public goods funding; blockchain for humanitarian disbursements; bridging TradFi and DeFi; biometric proof of personhood
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Why DeFi matters on Ethereum | Kain Warwick, Loi Luu, Namik Muduroglu | 55m |
Argument: Ethereum L1 offers 60 billion liquidity and a long track record of consensus uptime so high-value settlement and deep price discovery stay on… | ||
| Secondhand Liberalism: A Story of Microdosing Internet Freedom | Afra Zhao Wang | 09m |
Claim: China experiences a 15-year window of real online debate from the early 2000s where forums and memes seed liberal ideas, then surveillance and the Great… | ||
| Pessimists Archive Presents: The Franklin Fallacy, Why We Misjudge New Technologies | Louis Anslow | 16m |
Names the explicit cognitive error as The Franklin Fallacy and argues that judging tech by infancy leads to bad calls, using concrete tests: Edison tries… | ||
| The Hunt for Impactful Use Cases from the Crypto For Good Fund: What 15 Blockchain P... | Timothy Asiimwe | 26m |
Mercy Corps Ventures runs the Crypto for Good Fund and reports 15+ pilots across 10 countries reaching 40,000 participants and deploying $2M deployed to test… | ||
| Bringing real-world identity on-chain | Yanis | 08m |
Claims that zero-knowledge proofs let signed government IDs be verified on-chain without revealing raw data, demonstrating selective disclosure of attributes… | ||
| Blockchain and the economy of online information | Guo Liu | 08m |
Argues that blockchains can recast the attention economy by turning ad inventory into tradable on‑chain assets, minting online billboards into NFTs and selling… | ||
| Giga: (UN)DePIN to connect every school in the world | christopher fabian | 19m |
Giga maps schools from satellite imagery with custom ML and on-site appliances, has mapped 2.1 million schools and in the last two years has connected 12,000… | ||
| Leveraging Ethereum for Sustainable Solutions in Southeast Asia | Gesa Schneider | 10m |
Rural Thai farmer Zzak faces crop loss, low prices and rising energy costs; the talk shows concrete Ethereum tools: parametric insurance with automatic payouts… | ||
| The Wellbeing Protocol - Scaling Localism | Mark Pascall | 10m |
New Zealand government–funded project creates a mobile app that spins up hyperlocal treasuries, combines fund streaming, conviction voting, quadratic voting… | ||
| Keynote: Making Sense of Stablecoins | Liam Horne | 29m |
Claims that Tether on Tron drives most on‑chain payments, with nearly $180 billion supply and a 400x growth in five years, backed by on‑ramps used for… | ||
| EVE Frontier - challenges, lessons and future of building an autonomous world on Eth... | Justin Glibert, Hilmar V. Petursson | 26m |
CCP Games is porting an EVE-style MMO onto Ethereum/EVM using a shared MUD deployment and Redstone chain, claiming a universe of over 20,000 star systems and… | ||
| Utilizing national IDs in the Ethereum ecosystem | Hiroyuki Tachibana, Michael Elliot | 56m |
Panel describes working systems that let users scan government IDs (e passports via NFC passport scan, India Aadhaar QR signatures, Japan’s minor card) and… | ||
| QuarkID: Bringing South America on-chain with SSI and account Abstraction | Diego Fernandez | 20m |
QuarkID is a live, open source SSI protocol launched October 2021 in Buenos Aires that anchors identifiers on Ethereum and runs on ZKsync Era, with credentials… | ||
| Ethereum in the Classroom | Teaching Solidity to High School Students in Buenos Aire... | Juan David Reyes, Romina Sejas | 08m |
A Buenos Aires Ministry pilot runs a 200-student kickoff and an ongoing lab with 24 students from seven schools using an Ethereum developer pack of five… | ||
| THIS CURSED MACHINE: Onchain Game Post-Mortem | ARB | 20m |
Fully onchain sci fi fulfillment simulator where players push tokens through a circuit to craft from a 100+ material map, built on Mud/Redstone and deployed as… | ||
| A practical introduction to prediction markets | Clément Lesaege | 01h 46m |
Hands-on workshop that runs live AMMs where participants mint complete sets for 100, buy single outcome tokens one-by-one and trade categorical, scalar and… | ||
| Decentralizing economic opportunity: Communities using crypto & decentralized protoc... | Anna Stone, Damaris Njambi Njoroge | 27m |
Project distributes a daily digital UBI and claims nearly a million onboarded; community protocol issues vouchers backed by pooled commitments and production… | ||
| Building Pop-up Villages that Accelerate Real World Crypto Adoption | DC Posch, Janine Leger, Nicole Sun, Timour Kosters | 01h 05m |
Pop-up villages duplicate historical incubators and today actually build tools and markets: a 200-person, two-month pilot in Montenegro proves the format can… | ||
| Can zero-knowledge and blockchains help humanity survive? | Lisa Akselrod | 07m |
Claim: zero-knowledge proofs plus a privacy-preserving programmable blockchain enable real-world coordination for space, agri, biotech and AI problems. Uses… | ||
| Keynote: World Politics, World Building | Bruno Macaes | 26m |
Argues geopolitics shifts from seizing land to building virtual worlds that others must inhabit, with superpowers acting as system administrators who can… | ||
| Bridging TradFi and DeFi through Ethereum and EVM: A Pathway to Innovation | Abhinav Goel, Bruno Batavia, Bruno Moniz, Camila Rioja, Daniel Marquez, Hart Montgomery, Italo Borssatto, Luca Cosivi, Qin En, Shukyee Ma | 02h 01m |
Workshop reports specific deployments and numbers: EVM appears in “90%” of CBDC pilots, Brazil’s Drex runs on Besu with ~16 node participants and hundreds of… | ||
| How crypto is used in Africa today? Hear from leading builders | Damaris Njambi Njoroge, David Nandwa, Yele Bademosi, Yoseph Ayele | 56m |
Africa records about $120B onchain last year and 10–20% adoption in some countries, and builders are turning that into real plumbing: onramps using… | ||
| Downtown Stimulus: Public Goods Funding for Main St | Kevin Owocki | 10m |
Demonstrates a real world fiat Quadratic Funding run that moves QF offchain and onto Main Street, using fiat quadratic funding tooling (SimpleGrants.xyz) and a… | ||
| DePIN: Pushing Decentralization Beyond Blockchain | Akshit Gupta | 08m |
Huddle01 builds a DePIN for real‑time communication and claims bandwidth costs far below cloud egress by moving relay/MCU work to incentive‑run nodes. Measured… | ||
| Scaling Crypto? There's an App for That. Onboarding Millions in Africa with MiniPay | Charles Hamel | 10m |
MiniPay is a self‑custodial ERC‑20 stablecoin wallet built into Opera Mini and launched under a year ago, claiming 3M+ activated accounts and over 1M P2P… | ||
| Rohingya Decentralized Identity and Community Building | Muhammad Noor | 11m |
Project builds a blockchain-backed platform serving ~3 million Rohingya with no documentation, combining R-ID decentralized identity (community-based… | ||
| eBay & web3 powered Digital Product Passports and what this could mean for the futur... | James Morgan | 09m |
eBay runs live pilots that link physical items to tokenized digital product passports on public blockchains, using connectors like NFC, RFID, QR and Machine… | ||
| Proof of personhood panel | Vitalik Buterin, Remco Bloeman, Martin K | 20m |
Panel debates concrete limits and fixes for proof of personhood: 16.8M verified users and account recovery by returning to an orb exist, and front‑camera… | ||
| Zupass, identity and credentials beyond proof of personhood | Rob Knight | 10m |
Zupass is a zero‑knowledge data manager actively used for event check‑ins, anonymous hackathon voting (EthBerlin prizes awarded), Devcon Q&A submissions… | ||
| Blockchain for humanitarian aid disbursements | Arun Maharajan, Rumee Singh | 09m |
Pilot reports use of the Rahat platform in Nepal to deliver SMS-based cash transfers to 1,900 households, integrating a permissioned private chain and smart… | ||
| Ethereum Real World Economy | DC Posch, Liam Horne, Tim Beiko | 55m |
Stablecoins drive steady five‑year growth in on‑chain payments, with most real‑world flows happening as Tether on Tron dominance rather than on Ethereum… | ||
| Argentina’s Opportunity & the Case for a Special Economic Zone | Maria Milagros Santamaria | 09m |
Argentina plans a Special Economic Zone to keep local web3 and AI startups by changing legal scaffolding: drafting a layer zero law to permit SEZs and a first… | ||
| Keynote: The next 10 years of Web3 in Africa | Yoseph Ayele | 26m |
Claims rapid growth: Chainalysis-level estimate of $125 billion in crypto transactions last year and 600 million Africans under 14 as context. Describes… | ||
| Wen p2p Electronic Cash System? | Konrad Urban | 26m |
Bitcoin is mainly a digital gold not a cash rail, and mass crypto payments require actual interoperability rather than reinventing a token or chain; the talk… | ||
| How Web3 and RWAs Unlock Exponential Wealth via a Computable Economy. | Jason Potts, Justin Banon | 24m |
Claims that Web3 creates a new computable economy where smart contracts provide deterministic transfers of value and unlock exponential growth in economic… | ||
| Decentralized Outcome Funding for Investigative Reporters | Devansh Mehta | 22m |
Decentralizes social impact bonds by minting hypercerts on Optimism from newsroom impact reports so each outcome can be sold only once; demo ports a private… | ||
| Ethereum and Robots | Tomasz Kajetan Stanczak | 26m |
Ethereum becomes the coordination and verification layer for consumer robots and autonomous machines, with agents running first in TEEs then using cryptography… | ||
| Ethereum a Force of Good | Stani Kulechov | 26m |
Built a major DeFi protocol from a university hobby into a battle‑tested system over seven years, proving onchain finance can work at scale. Claims: Ethereum… | ||
| What DeFi Founders Can Learn From Web2 | Mike Silagadze | 09m |
Claims applying SaaS metrics to DeFi produce sustainable products: a protocol reached #4 DeFi by TVL (~$8B) and runs $30M revenue after copying unit economics… | ||
| Anatomy of a web3 startup (Chapter 1) | Patricio Worthalter | 27m |
POAP begins as a 2018 project and launched 2019 as NFTs for event collectibles, self‑funded through millions of personal spend before any VC; financing… | ||
| Biometric proof of personhood verification in Worldcoin | Remco Bloemen | 25m |
Biometric proof of personhood claims unique-but-private human identities by combining iris-based World ID ORB hardware, a ZK NFC passport tier and a device… | ||
| Keynote: ⿻ Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations | Audrey Tang | 32m |
Claims that decentralized, pro-social systems can rebuild trust with concrete tools: a citizen occupation turns into a live assembly and within six years… | ||
| Bringing an Open Music Protocol into The Real World: Onboarding Millions | Ray Jacobson | 07m |
Audius runs millions of artists and fans and handles hundreds of millions of API requests while growing a decentralized music protocol; onboarding focuses on… | ||
| This year in Ethereum | Josh Stark | 24m |
Ethereum in 2024 is a platform of working products and measurable scale: the ecosystem hosts 55% of all stable coins, stablecoin volume equals about 86% of… | ||
| From Concept to Reality: The Triumph of Blockchain in Vaccine Distribution | Arun Maharajan, David Casey | 16m |
Country-wide blockchain supply tracking that creates a digital twin for every vial, deployed in Costa Rica and Bangladesh, tracked one million COVID doses and… | ||
| The Trustless Trade Supply Chain | Markus | 08m |
Claims that the current trade supply chain concentrates power across intent auctions, builders, solvers and market makers and proposes concrete tooling: a… | ||
| Reimagining Layer 0: New Worlds and Ancient Philosophies | Dev Lewis | 26m |
Argues that Layer 0 means the human values undergirding protocols and claims ancient Asian philosophies (Buddhism, Daoist Cosmo-Technics) offer concrete… | ||
| Crypto is the Real World: Understanding the Cryptonative Economy | Josef Je | 17m |
Claims on measurable scale: the Cryptonative reports count L1 L2 and protocol fees (excluding CEX revenue, mining/staking and services) and estimate onchain… | ||
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