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ETHDenver 2021

date:2021-02-05..2021-02-12
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series:ETHDenver · one edition
tags:[web3, blockchain]
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Presentations and AwardsAuryn Macmillan, John Paller, Russell Casagnero03h 01m
Conference runs a live 2-hour finalist sprint plus awards and a quadratic funding round (Clearfund white‑label, $10k matching pool plus $5k open prizes)…
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The ColoradoJam IncubatorJohn Paller03m
Lays out the incubator logistics: an 8-team cohort with an application window and selection rubric, a three-month timeline that pairs teams with Ethereum…
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Closing Ceremony Pre Show Kick off and Announcements for 2021John Paller12m
Event reports 31,645 Twitch viewers and ~8,000 YouTube views, 2,994 accepted applicants from 94 countries, ~1,500 virtual castle visitors and 1.56M crypto…
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Digital Identity - Onramp to the Info SuperhighwayRussell Castagnaro22m
Colorado builds and deploys a real digital ID app called my colorado that launches October 2019, adds selective attribute sharing in November and stores…
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Identity LegosDanny Zuckerman, Jarrad Hope, Adam Stallard, Brian Flynn, Val Mack, Alanna Gombert32m
Panelists describe a composable identity stack that combines DIDs, VCs, Ceramic and IDX with apps like BrightID and Status to let users hold selective claims…
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The Evolution of IdentityMichael Sena30m
History of identity condenses into a practical stack: persistent DIDs (over 60+ DID implementations and an Ethereum EIP), mutable DID documents via 3id on…
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Decentralization is the New EncryptionDr.Steven Waterhouse18m
Claims that combining strong encryption with decentralization yields private, resilient communications and demonstrates it by shipping an overlay VPN network…
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The Thing with Privacy isCorey Petty, Justin Holmes, Barry White Hat, Dr.Steven Waterhouse, Ying Tong Lai37m
Panel argues privacy tools are advancing but messy: plonk eliminates trusted setups for zk proofs, NuCypher uses threshold proxy re‑encryption to separate…
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Proof of PersonhoodPetr Porobov13m
Upala offers an alternative digital identity that measures uniqueness in dollars rather than probabilities, calling it the price of forgery. It builds groups…
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Decentralized Identity and DeFiIsaac Patka19m
Explains how decentralized identity systems link into DeFi by using TransUnion on-device credit pull and verifiable credentials stored in identity wallets and…
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Why Regulation Will Decentralize DataShiv Malik17m
Claims that EU law (the Data Governance Act and the Digital Markets Act) gives legal standing to data unions and forces real-time API portability so third…
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The State of Crypto RegulationNeeraj Agrawal, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Jai Massari (Davis Polk), Preston Byrne30m
FinCEN’s rushed counterparty identification rule likely loses its name and physical address requirement, leaving only a new cash transaction report around a…
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Incognito Mode for EthereumAndriy Bugayevskyy, Aaron Ahmadi20m
Incognito offers transactional privacy for Ethereum by minting a privacy ethereum on an Incognito sidechain via a trustless bridge using shield/unshield…
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Token Engineering CommonsLivia Deschermayer15m
Token Engineering Commons builds an operational commons: ten working groups running code, legal and culture experiments, and outreach rather than vague theory…
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Resilience or Building on Quicksand: Decentralized InfrastructureEduardo Antuña14m
Argues that current Web3 frontends still rely on centralized cloud hosting and steals user value, and describes building Dappnode software to let homes run…
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The Evolving Investor in the Decentralized WorldThibaud (Fairmint.co), Etienne TRGC, Dan Elitzer, Tara Tan (IDEO), Min Teo26m
Claims crypto is in its third market cycle driven by institutional BTC buys and usable DeFi like Compound and Aave, not just white papers; tooling such as…
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Aligning Ecosystem Incentives for Sustainable OutcomesBryan (Sobol.io), Tom Trowbridge, pandu sastrowardoyo, Jesse Walden25m
Panel focuses on concrete governance and product moves: The Graph runs a ~10-person technical council preparing on-chain governance; Fluence promises a summer…
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DAOs Past, Present and FuturePriyanka Desai, Nichanan Kesonpat, Chris Furlong, Sam Cassatt29m
Panel traces concrete DAO work: toolkits use Aragon and Moloch-style contracts with Layer 2 urged to cut gas, and treasury sizes jump from ~$100M to nearly $1B…
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Exit to Your CommunityNathan Schneider18m
Argues for converting startups into community-owned entities using existing cooperative law plus crypto tools, with concrete examples: Opolis forms a Opolis…
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Digital Employment Cooperatives; THE Killer AppJohn Paller19m
A legal LCA cooperative called Opolis operates as a digital employment cooperative that gives independent contractors portable benefits, optional crypto pay…
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Anarchist Cookbook for Running an Open OrgJoseph Delong20m
Argues for a small core of vetted, highly motivated hires found via RFPs and code samples rather than resumes, and describes hiring workflow that used Twitter…
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The Invisible EconomyBea Ramos, Sparrow Read16m
Claim: replace visible market mechanics with an invisible token that quietly accounts for contributions while leaving intrinsic rewards as the public signal…
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New Standards for DAOsDavid Roon, James Young, NiMA (NEAR)30m
Discussion maps concrete patterns and pain points: token-permissioned chat via Collab.Land that auto-kicks addresses when tokens move, off-chain voting with…
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What is a Digital Nation?Jaye Harrill16m
Argues that digital nations are self‑organized, borderless communities that use blockchain primitives, social tools and token incentives to coordinate work and…
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DAO DeFi Now!Bill Warren15m
DAOs hold about $1B locked across DAOs (roughly $52M ETH, $34M DAI, $10M DUSD plus native tokens) and much of that capital sits idle; Pool Party auto-wraps…
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Safe Apps: Bringing multisig security to DeFiLukas Schor15m
Gnosis Safe introduces an embeddable wallet interface that turns smart-contract accounts into a host for DeFi integrations, claiming multi-signature security…
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Technical Introduction to the Safe Apps SDKRichard Meissner28m
Step‑by‑step conversion of a React dapp into a Gnosis Safe app with working demo: add a manifest.json, serve over HTTPS with CORS (react‑rewired), swap…
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Paving the Way for Adoption of NFTs to the MainstreamZach Burks21m
Argues NFTs reach mainstream by treating marketplaces like e‑commerce: improve discoverability, let creators stand out with rich metadata, and hide blockchain…
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Tour of the Multiverse Art GalleryAnnie Phillips18m
A CryptoVoxels gallery holds 142 NFT items (last year 46), previously showing stats on OpenSea like 23 owners and average sale price; the collection goes to a…
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NFTs for EveryoneChloe Lewis (she/her), Jake Brukhman31m
Panel covers concrete NFT moves and problems: Mintbase on NEAR building ERC‑721 style contracts and a split‑fee market so collaborators and creators get…
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NFTs: Trends in 2021John Crain18m
2021 predicts concrete shifts: metaverse galleries in Decentraland, Cryptovoxels and Somnium Space scale, standards like EIP-2615 enable rentals and composable…
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Web3 Creator EconomiesCooper Turley20m
Audius reports two million active users and experiments with giving artists 90% of streaming revenue instead of Spotify’s ~12%, while creators sell…
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Decentralized Art and Culture in the Virtual RealmJessica Angel, Gary Lachance, JJ | Ephimera31m
Panel describes concrete experiments: tokenized art shown via augmented reality, p-spawns as Doge-rooted NFTs using colored coins hacks, Kusama-native NFTs via…
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Bridging the Gap Between DeFi and NFTsAlex Salnikov25m
Variable reports 32 million lifetime volume and 31,000 protocol users and argues NFTs need DeFi plumbing now. Concrete proposals include fractionalized shared…
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What if Crypto Ads Were Superduper?Matthew Iles, Dan Kinsley18m
A decentralized marketplace called SuperDuper connects creators and sponsors with each sponsorship sold as an ERC-721 listings NFT; pricing uses auctions or a…
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The Hybrid EraAndre's Reisinger18m
Argues that physical and digital design merge into a single hybrid era and demonstrates a concrete pipeline: a 3D model becomes the Hortensia chair, goes viral…
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Exploring Generative Art in EthereumSimon de la Rouviere16m
Chronological tour of generative art on Ethereum: the original 10,000 CryptoPunks store hashes off-chain; CryptoKitties adds breeding to combine trait strings…
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Community Currencies and the Need for More AltcoinsNicholas Fett23m
Claim: community currencies win when monetary policy is built into the token. Presents chorus protocol as a tool that mints semi‑stable coins backed by…
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Decentralization and Human RightsJonathan Dotan17m
A capture to verification pipeline for human rights testimony exists end to end using the Starling Framework, with a hardware root of trust in Snapdragon…
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Doing Good with NFTsManu Alzuru, Andrew Kline13m
Launches a help platform and an NFT marketplace that routes at least 5% of each sale to chosen social causes, backed by a live help board in 30+ languages that…
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Monetizing Open Source via the Decentralized Cloud StackTom Trowbridge24m
Fluence presents an open application platform that pairs a distributed compute protocol with a blockchain economic layer to track usage and auto-pay authors…
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The Commons StackGriff Green21m
Commons Stack builds open tooling and docs so communities can design and deploy micro-economies that fund public goods using Ostrom-derived rules; first…
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Web3API: The Universal Web3 Integration StandardJordan Ellis18m
Aims to replace brittle JavaScript SDKs by shipping a small language-specific client that downloads and runs protocol logic as WebAssembly modules (written in…
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Journey into DefiRafaella Barraldo16m
Pods builds a retail hedging product using on‑chain options and a custom options AMM that aims to cut impermanent loss; early work shipped an “oh my DAI”…
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How We Got Here: What is Ethereum Push Notification ServiceRicha Joshi12m
A decentralized notification layer for Ethereum that sends alerts to a wallet address rather than email or phone and already runs a working prototype plus…
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Building Decentralized Code Collaboration on EthereumAbbey Titcombe20m
Radical builds a decentralized code-collaboration network layered on git using a peer-to-peer gossip protocol and local-first replicas so issues, comments and…
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Welcome to the Quadratic LandsKevin Owocki20m
Argues web3 can restore the consent of the governed by replacing Matthew‑effect capture with practical tools: Gitcoin Grants runs quadratic funding live (eight…
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From Hackathons to Kernel, Starting a Web3 CompanyRachel Black15m
Good Ghosting turns routine saving into a gamified DApp: users join timed pools (example four months, 200 DAI monthly), deposits convert to aDAI via Aave and…
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Clearly, Funding Public Good Is GoodAuryn Mcmillan17m
Clr.fund implements a permissionless quadratic funding protocol on xDai, with an actual 8,000 xDai matching pool live and a demo that contributes 60 xDai. It…
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Standards of Encrypted and Mutable Data on IPFSJoel Thorstensson27m
DAG-JOSE standardizes signed and encrypted IPLD objects by combining DAG-JOSE with JOSE, IPLD and DIDs, enforcing that payloads are CIDs so links are…
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@Superphiz and @AustinGriffith Explore Blockchain GamesAustin Griffith, Michael - Skyweaver (Horizon)01h 21m
Three games show concrete tradeoffs: Axie runs ownership and breeding on Ethereum but moves play and items to a dedicated side chain ronin, which already…
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Coordination at Yearn: Notes From the FrontierTracheopteryx13m
Yearn recounts rapid, messy scaling: about 100 chat groups spawn a multiheaded project whose v1 vaults get forked and vampire attacked by ~20 projects, then v2…
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Internet Renaissance: The Emerging Creative Economy in Web3Scott Moore, Priyanka Desai, blake kathryn50m
Seed Club runs a six-week incubator with 11 projects building social tokens; Flamingo DAO pools funds and even buys a CryptoPunk alien to experiment with…
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Exploring DeFi OptionsAlexis Gauba21m
Describes how decentralized options are implemented on Ethereum with a recently launched Open v2 that mints ERC‑20 oTokens, moves from physical settlement in…
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Game Theory in DeFiHarsh Rajat21m
Claims a working decentralized middleware notifications protocol that lets smart contracts, dApps or traditional services deliver messages to wallet addresses…
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DeFi Finance's New FrontierKristen Stone, Andre Cronje33m
Discusses converting BPF bytecode to native execution and a plan to run it on GPUs for 20x more compute, measures current network packet intake at 1–20 Gbps…
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The Upside Case for DeFiSam Bankman-Fried06m
Claims DeFi can scale to a billion people and route tens of trillions of dollars by exploiting composability instead of brittle centralized integrations…
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Crypto-Native Rails for Recurring PaymentsFrancesco George Renzi19m
Superfluid demonstrates per-second money streaming on Ethereum by wrapping ERC‑20s and streaming testnet tokens via app.superfluid.finance and…
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The Centralized Risk of DeFiGuillaume Felley21m
Argues that on‑chain governance remains a live attack vector (flash‑loan MKR vote) and suffers low participation often under 10%, creating centralizing…
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Rekt: 2021 ForecastJulien Bouteloup08m
A three to four month-old investigative project documents about 40 stories—mostly DeFi exploits and arbitrage—using an opsec team of auditors who trace…
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Building the future of Smart ContractsSergev Nazarov21m
Argues that value shifts from paper guarantees to cryptographic guarantees and that Chainlink overlaps blockchains with real-world services by providing oracle…
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War and Peace: The Multi-Chain RealityRyan Selkis, Peter Mauric, Anatoly Ressin, Alex Skidanov [NEAR]27m
Panel debates concrete interoperability tradeoffs: IBC hub-and-spoke vs sharded relay chains, live examples like Moonbeam and parachains, and tooling choices…
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Exploring a New Nexus: Cosmos & EthereumKent Barton14m
Claims that IBC-enabled Cosmos zones plus cross-chain bridges act as a trust-minimized scalability layer for Ethereum, demonstrated by a Cosmos deployment…
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Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain Decentralization & TransparencyDaniel Hwang15m
Claims that the Beacon Chain is more decentralized than it appears collide with the fact that 21,000 32‑ETH validators can represent far fewer independent…
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Scaling Ethereum Applications on HarmonyStephen Tse25m
Harmony launches open staking with thousand validators in production, achieves two-second finality, and ships BLS aggregated signatures plus view-change logic…
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DeFi: 2021 & BeyondDavid Wachsman, Stani from Aave, Brandon from Ampleforth, Aparna : Opyn, Sergej (1inch), Robert Leshner, Fulvia Ox Project32m
Compound grows from a $10M product in 2018 to $10M → $7.5B today, OneInch routes a $500M one swap, and AAVE v2 introduces composable primitives that enable…
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The Future of Finance is DecentralizedStanislav Kulechov22m
Aave v2 is a liquidity-pool lending protocol with flash loans that can borrow an entire reserve in one transaction, plus on-chain credit delegation that lets…
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How to Advance The Ethereum Ecosystem as a Non-DeveloperJustin Leroux22m
Volunteer-organizing ETHBoston and working on a Grid+ hardware wallet show non-dev paths that actually move Ethereum forward: deployed Uniswap v1 for the GRID…
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Countdown to CasperMedha Parlikar14m
Casper describes a CBC‑Casper-derived protocol called Highway with a formal math paper, Trail of Bits audit, and a production implementation that finalizes…
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Ethereum Hard ForksDanno Ferrin23m
Explains how upgrades are EIPs that change consensus, networking, node interfaces or token standards and gives concrete examples: EIP-1559 debated for months…
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The Future of Ethereum 1.0 in 2021Tim Beiko, Pooja Ranjan, James Hancock20m
Overview of how Ethereum 1.0 governance actually runs: core dev calls move every other Friday at 14:00 UTC, the ethereum-pm repo records meeting notes back to…
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Gaming with Gov & Montecristo on TwitchErik “DoA” Lonnquist, Christopher “Montecristo” Mykles01h 25m
Casual interview plus celebrity showmatch pairs Colorado policy talk with real gameplay: Governor Jared Polis plays Anivia top, discusses broadband and tax…
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AMA w/Tung Chan, Colorado Securities Commissioner; From Ethereum to ColoradoTung Chan36m
Colorado has a statutory carve‑out (CRS 11‑51‑308.7) for utility tokens that remain in‑state, requires a notice filing with the Division, and depends on…
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Colorado State Greenfield Lightning PitchesJohn Paller, Will Toor, CO Energy Office, Carrie Paykoc- OeHl01h 21m
Quick, specific rundowns of a dozen Colorado pilots and tools: Gitcoin shows $11M delivered via quadratic funding and Grants Round 8 nets 25,000 contributions…
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Colorado Blockchain FTW: Project EditionThaddeus Batt - OIT, Jon ShapeShift, Adam Dill, Angie Gallagher, Dani Osorio | NEAR Protocol, Paul Quigley47m
Colorado projects report concrete moves: a self‑custodial wallet pivots to DEX integration launched in January and incorporates Portis, Opolis runs crypto…
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Digital Citizenry: Identity, Metadata, Credentialing & ReputationThaddeus Batt - OIT, Russell Castagnaro, Andrew Bondi, Clayton Hollingshead41m
Colorado deploys a mobile driver license and MyColorado identity anchor that updates records in real time (format swap in May) and lets users present filtered…
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MyColorado ID and Reimagining IdentityRussell Castagnaro, Cassie Simpson, Clayton Hollingshead32m
State launches MyColorado in October 2019 and makes Colorado Digital ID legally acceptable; law enforcement rollout hits ~500 troopers by the governor’s Nov 30…
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Learning & Employment Data: Self-Sovereign InfrastrutureSharon Leu, Michael Vente, Michael Torrence30m
States experiment with interoperable learning and employment records using blockchain wallets and standards work such as CLR and Open Badges to let people…
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ColoradoJam and the Next Frontier of StatehoodJohn Paller, Lu Cordova, Russell Castagnaro29m
Colorado launches myColorado in October 2019 as the first state‑sponsored digital ID that can contactlessly share verified attributes with law enforcement…
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Onboarding Diversity: Exploring community challenges and unique solutionsHsin-Ju, Chloe Lewis (she/her), Jaye Harrill she/her29m
Community builders report concrete moves: a VR museum that hosts 20–30 artists and successfully auctioned around “three eighths” worth of NFTs, a guild…
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In Search of the Mythical dApp UserZach Herring17m
Monthly active dapp users peak around 430k and recently drop toward 340k, and only about 30 ERC‑20 contracts have more than 50 daily active addresses, so…
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Designing for DeFiRichard Burton18m
Design work for FEI centers on an undercollateralized stablecoin and a two-token model (FEI USD + TRIBE), with Figma prototypes, sketches and community-sourced…
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State of Oracles in the SpaceBrenda Loya21m
Overview of concrete oracle designs and tradeoffs: lists include centralized providers (Provable/Oraclize), multi-signer feeds, relayered aggregation…
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Broke AF: Crypto UX is Bad but Getting BetterZach (@zherring), Georgia Rakusen, Yalda (@stellarmagnet), Jill Carlson (@jillruthcarlson)31m
Argues concrete fixes rather than platitudes: gasless meta-transactions to hide fees, social account recovery to avoid seed-phrase loss, and streamlined fiat…
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Make it Mobile or ElseBarbara Liau25m
cello argues mobile first is mandatory, not optional, and demonstrates a working stack: Solidity contracts + Truffle and a Ganache fork, ContractKit for RPC…
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Bridging Web2 – Web3: IPFS x Opera integrationSusie Batt, Igor Mandrigo, Bradley Kam26m
Opera ships IPFS by default across Android, iOS (v2.55) and preview desktop builds, letting single‑page dapps be deployed with ipfs add, served from a local…
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How a Graphic Novel Is Sharing Blockchain with the WorldAnnie Connelly10m
A free, mobile-first graphic novel and short motion-comic prototype teaches blockchain by using a Kenyan wahanga necklace analogy tied to decentralized…
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Global Adoption Where are we nowErica Kang, Chloe Lewis (she/her), Juan David, Awosika Ayodeji (Web3Bridge), Luke Stokes, FIO Protocol32m
Panel reports that adoption is driven by local pain points and practical fixes: remittances and inflation push Argentina/Venezuela users to crypto, Nigeria…
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Evolution of CommunityManu Alzuru, Elena, Electric Coin Co, Lindsay Howard, Foundation, Simona Pop, Amy Jung, Vanessa Slavich28m
Communities start and evolve through concrete actions: Zcash emerges from seven founding scientists and a Boulder launch house, MakerDAO traces to a 2015…
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Programmable Zero KnowledgeHoward Wu31m
Aleo builds a system called zero knowledge executions with a one‑time universal MPC setup that produces proving and verification keys, off‑chain provers that…
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Building on The Compound ProtocolAdam Bavosa31m
Demo builds a browser app that supplies and redeems assets on Compound using compound.js and a local ganache fork of mainnet; it shows live APYs (0.13% for…
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The State of Blockchain DomainsBradley Kam28m
Unstoppable Domains builds user‑custodied blockchain domains as ERC‑721 NFTs on Ethereum and reports market growth from hundreds of thousands in 2019 to about…
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A Scalable Blockchain PlatformDan Forbes27m
Polkadot presents a meta-protocol that scales by running custom blockchains (parachains) attached to a central relay chain that supplies shared security and…
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Manage dApp Secrets: Create Private Data SharingDavid Nuñez28m
A running secret-management network implements Umbral threshold proxy re‑encryption so data producers encrypt once and policies on Ethereum grant dynamic…
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Building Polkadot Ready Blockchains withDan Shields30m
Builds a blockchain using Substrate (Rust) and Frame pallets, showing a working node template binary, libp2p networking, Prometheus telemetry and the SCALE…
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WtFi is DeFi-Designing for the Next Million UsersGalen Danzinger27m
Argues that onboarding, not tech, limits growth: seed phrases and lost wallets lead to irrecoverable funds, Metamask setup sometimes fails, and transactions…
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Empowering Smart Contracts with Decentralized DataPatrick Collins31m
Demonstrates using Chainlink oracles to pull real‑world data into smart contracts: deploys a PriceConsumer on Kovan to read price feeds (example returns show…
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Cross-Chain Applications on Ethereum and HarmonyGanesha Upadhyaya29m
Ports an ERC-721 lending dApp from Ethereum to Harmony, deploying contracts with Truffle and harmony.js and connecting via MetaMask to Harmony mainnet. Uses…
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Live Coding SessionEmilio Frangella33m
Live coding walks through Aave v2 flash loans with a live transaction trace (a 25,760 USDC flash loan), shows the flow: lendingPool.flashLoan → receiver…
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Smart Contract Code Challenges?Dan Nolan29m
Live, browser-based coding using the ChainShot web IDE walks through four progressive stages that implement averages then move to mapping lookups and an ether…
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Dive into the 1Inch APIKirill Kuznetsov, Petr Kololev27m
Covers how to call the oneinch API’s quote and swap methods and what the responses actually contain: token paths, expected amounts and the full transaction…
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DeFi Safety and TransparencyRex Hygate19m
A review platform publishes 60 protocol reviews with color‑coded scores across code, team, documentation, testing and audits, using a fixed process and…
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Human Readable Ethereum TransactionsAlex Miller32m
A new hardware wallet with a large screen decodes Ethereum call data on-device using the ABI so transactions display function names and parameter values…
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Workshop, Payroll Mining & $WORK RewardsVoith Mascarenhas, Patrick Gallagher33m
Demonstration shows Superfluid-wrapped ERC20s enabling real-time money streaming to an ERC-721 "holy grail" NFT on xDai: a 1,000 DAIx/month flow updates…
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WHERE ARE MY KEYS? Onboarding the MassesMatt Lockyer34m
Shows a working NFT marketplace prototype on NEAR that uses a Node.js backend to issue guest access keys scoped to a contract method with a scoped gas…
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The Terra Ecosystem -- Wielding Synthetic Assets, Payments, and Savings With StablecoinsDo Kwan29m
Terra runs algorithmic stablecoins and launches Mirror, a synthetics protocol minting 14 synthetic US equity tokens (mApple, mTesla, etc.) that trade on Terra…
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DAOs and the Future of WorkAdam Kerpelman, Spengrah30m
Raid Guild runs as a membership DAO with ~100 members, ~50 weekly meetings, and ~$200k paid out in year one, taking 10% tribute from client revenue and paying…
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The Developer’s Guide to Hedera HashgraphCooper Kunz27m
Step-by-step demo of building on Hedera: register at portal.hedera.com testnet auto-funds 10,000 HBAR; create a Node.js project, npm install @hashgraph/sdk >=2…
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Why Should Miners Embrace EIP-1559?Chun Wang19m
Argues miners should back EIP-1559 because it adds a base fee in block header that makes gas pricing predictable and includes fee burning to curb ETH…
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Rusty NFTs on NEARNate Geier27m
Mintbase migrates NFT storefronts off Ethereum because store deployment costs hundreds to over $1,000 to deploy and single mints hit $78 on mainnet; on NEAR…
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Build a DApp on Polkadot using Acala EVM with On-chain Automatic SchedulerBryan Chen30m
Acala EVM lets Solidity projects use Polkadot tooling and the demo uses Waffle and Remix to deploy a scheduler-enabled contract; the Acala EVM exposes native…
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Infura Transaction Relays for Better UXPatrick McCorry28m
Infura’s ITX is a transaction relay that claims to eliminate stuck transactions by republish periodically, ordering queued txns by fee and using a bidding…
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Aave 101 Intro for DevsHadrien Charlanes30m
Protocol overview with concrete primitives and numbers: a lendingPool contract manages deposits that mint interest‑bearing aTokens that accrue per second and…
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Extending Web3 Provider for Better UXTom Teman28m
Portis extends the standard Web3 provider with concrete UX features: cloud‑encrypted private keys (no custodial key access), a lightweight SDK3 that loads only…
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Spawn Camping Old-School GamingEric Schiermeyer, Jason Brink31m
Gala Games argues that true player ownership is coming and backs it with tech choices: NFTs built on ERC-1155, experiments with layer‑2s like Matic and…
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Simplifying Blockchain Transactions for Superior UXChirag Titiya24m
Biconomy demonstrates a transaction stack that turns wallet gas steps into a backend service: apps register once on a dashboard, inherit a forwarder contract…
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Practical Example of How to Integrate ENS into Your dAppMakoto Inoue32m
Concrete steps to add ENS name resolution and content hosting: use ethers/web3 or ensjs to call the registry and public resolver, set up reverse lookup…
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Buidl Democratized And Composable Ethereum Off-Chain Services WithDmitry Kurinskiy30m
Fluence presents a network for running off‑chain computations as composable WebAssembly services accessed via a client-side composition language called echo…
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Simple and Open Identity Management with IDXJoel Thorstensson30m
Protocol-level identity index (IDX) lets apps store user records on Ceramic without a central DB, using developer-published JSON schemas and aliases to enforce…
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The Graph Protocol: A Deep DiveBrandon Ramirez33m
The Graph is live as a decentralized query marketplace with epochs ~24 hours, allocations up to 28-day allocations and a 16:1 delegation capacity; delegated…
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Interoperability via the Rainbow BridgeChad Ostrowski37m
Demo shows an unreleased Rainbow Bridge client library running on Ropsten that uses an eth-on-near light client smart contract plus external relays, provers…
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Into the Wormhole: Bridging Ethereum and SolanaAnatoly Yakovenko, Bartosz Lipinski23m
Live demo shows an ERC‑20 moving from Ethereum to Solana where a bridge mints an SPL token and the user receives one 0x on Solana, using deterministic deposit…
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Web3 Now: Skynet and Decentralized Applications for a Web2 WorldDaniel Helm26m
SkyNet presents a layer that turns the Sia-style storage network into web-hosting: upload directories to public or private portals and get a 46-character…
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Mempool Primitives: A New Class of Money LegosMatt Cutler30m
Demo shows a system that turns mempool chaos into actionable primitives using Blocknative’s mempool explorer, global nodes (mainnet and Rinkeby), APIs and…
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Buckets of Data: Strategies for Leveraging Off-chain Data StorageCarsen Farmer25m
Textile Hub offers remote IPFS and Filecoin nodes, a buckets API for object/blob storage, a demoable flow that syncs team assets and issues live IPNS links…
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Scaffold-ETH - The Ethereum Hackathon StackAustin Griffith32m
Scaffold-ETH is a ready-made hackathon stack that wires ethers, hardhat, react together and boots a local chain so a developer can go from clone to deployed…
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ETHDenver 2021 Opening Ceremonies: Joseph LubinJoseph Lubin18m
Argues that the economy shifts from local zero-sum scarcity to a digital positive-sum driven by automation and protocols, cites Ethereum 2 as foundational…
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You Had Me At Celo / Toss a CELO To Your Prestwicher:MAREK OLSZEWSKI, James Prestwich46m
Celo runs a mobile‑first EVM‑compatible chain with a built‑in stablecoin framework and phone‑based identity, powering Impact Market’s UBI that reaches about…
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ETHDenver 2021 Opening Ceremonies: Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum FoundationVitalik Buterin23m
Argues that membership needs concrete primitives and compares three concrete systems: coin holdings (used in nonbinding coin votes like the 2016 DAO fork and…
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PARSIQ Smart Triggers: Client-Side Blockchain Co-RoutinesAnatoly Ressin38m
Parsiq monitors blockchains in real time, ships an instrumentation layer and API that can query any gas-point state in a block, and exposes a small LINQ-like…
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IPFS: A Global CIDMatt Ober15m
Ethereum apps avoid on-chain bloat by storing images and documents on IPFS where content is addressed by CIDs that change if one byte changes, letting clients…
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ETHDenver 2021 Opening Ceremonies: State of Colorado and ColoradoJamRussell Castagnaro05m
Colorado announces a legal Colorado Digital ID accepted by state troopers and piloting contactless sharing of license, insurance and registration so…
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ETHDenver 2021 Opening Ceremonies: Colorado Governor Jared PolisJared Polis06m
Colorado announces a concrete push to become the national hub for blockchain innovation, citing a hired blockchain solution architect to audit state services…
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Apply Today for ETHDenver & ColoradoJam Innovation Festival & #BUIDLathon 202102m
Applications open today for ETHDenver & ColoradoJam Innovation Festival & BUIDLathon 2021 running February 5–12 and attendance is free but requires approval…
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ETHDenver & ColoradoJam 2021, Virtual Castle Trailer01m
A brief tour trailer of the Virtual Sports Castle shows the venue visuals and music and teases the interactive layout without detailing mechanics; it…
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ETHDenver 2021 Opening Ceremonies IntroductionJohn & Kent - Stewards17m
Virtual ETHDenver opens as a free, distributed weeklong event with 5,000 attendees and 400 projects from 75 countries, promising education, community and…
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