Pragma Denver 2024
who it's for
founders, product managers, protocol engineers, blockchain researchers, security engineers, wallet engineers, developer relations
topics
onchain primitives and Packs; InterPlanetary Consensus architecture; Filecoin FVM subnets; restaking risk models (EigenLayer); zkEVM and EIP-4844 integration; aggregated ZK proof architectures; embedded wallets and gas sponsorship; L3 onchain integrated servers; privacy-preserving bridges with ingress screening; GPU networks for generative video
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Recap Video | c s | 04m |
420 attendees from 39 countries gather to recap a day of demos and debates, showing infrastructure investments are paying off and that 2024 is the moment to… | ||
| Welcome & Introduction | Kartik Talwar | 12m |
Pragma opens as a founders-only, single-track summit focused on high-level strategy rather than deep tech, with 420+ attendees from 39 countries and a tight… | ||
| Atoms, Institutions, Blockchains | Josh Stark | 29m |
Key claims: defines hardness as the shared property — from atoms (gold), institutions (courts, police), or blockchains — that makes specific future states… | ||
| InterPlanetary Consensus | Juan Benet | 27m |
InterPlanetary Consensus extends IPFS and Filecoin into a hierarchical tree of independent, partition tolerant subnets where every node is a full blockchain… | ||
| The Users are Here with Privy | Henry Stern | 23m |
Privy explains how it provisions self‑custodial keys behind email, social, or MetaMask flows so apps can onboard users without exposing keys, and how those… | ||
| Interview with | Sandy Peng | 21m |
Scroll reports a live zkEVM mainnet and claims continued cost and speed improvements aiming for another order of magnitude gain, with concrete work on EIP-4844… | ||
| Restaking Risks with | Sreeram Kannan, Kartik Talwar | 31m |
Explains concrete models and failure modes for EigenLayer: contrasts pooled vs attributable security (pooled smudges coverage across 100+ AVSs, attributable… | ||
| Global Onchain Economy With | Jesse Pollak | 33m |
Base frames itself as a developer-first, neutral economy aiming to increase economic freedom by anchoring identity and payments on L1/L2 while pushing scale… | ||
| Join Sandeep Nailwal, Rene Reinsberg, Alex Gluchowski & Steven Goldfeder I Pragma Denver 2024 | Sandeep Nailwal, RENE REINSBERG, Alex Gluchowski, Steven Goldfeder | 36m |
Panel lays out concrete architectures and trade-offs: a aggregated ZK proof model that publishes many rollup proofs into one, zkSync’s hyperchain plan to… | ||
| Miguel de Vega, Ravital Solomon, Remi Gai & Pascal Paillier I Pragma Denver 2024 | Miguel de Vega, Ravital Solomon, Remi Gai, Pascal Paillier | 41m |
Panel lays out concrete claims and measurements: compiler tuning produces a 100x performance gap between experts and nonexperts, and a demo workflow runs a… | ||
| Doug Petkanics, Illia Polosukhin, Niraj Pant & Joyce Yang I Pragma Denver 2024 | Doug Petkanics, Illia Polosukhin, Niraj Pant, Joyce Yang | 46m |
Panel describes concrete building blocks: using Livepeer's GPU network to run generative video workloads with 3 million minutes per week of video already on… | ||
| Why Crypto has No Privacy Layer | Elena Nadolinski | 23m |
Cryptocurrency still lacks a usable privacy layer for U.S. users because regulatory risk and implementation tradeoffs block the obvious fixes. A live example… | ||
| nothing matches | ||