Pragma San Francisco 2024
2024-10-16..2024-10-17
San Francisco, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Pragma San Francisco 2024 Recap | 03m | |
Pragma San Francisco 2024 on October 16–17 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is a tightly curated, single-track conference where 30–40 minute talks deliver… | ||
| Welcome & Introduction | Kartik Talwar | 12m |
Two-day summit presents 25 talks and 5 interviews to a 380-person audience from 34 countries, curated as single-track, no parallel sessions so every session is… | ||
| Using AI to Secure Dapps and Users | Jan Gorzny | 20m |
Zircuit builds an OP Stack-based L2 that embeds an AI detection engine into the sequencer to quarantine suspicious transactions at block-build time, aiming to… | ||
| Why RWAs Are Going To Zero | Chris Yin | 21m |
Argument that RWAs as a category are dying as meaningful branding, backed by numbers: RWAs ≈ $13B versus stablecoins as RWA at $180B, and the stablecoin path… | ||
| The Future of Consumer is Crypto | Roham Gharegozlou | 20m |
Argues that crypto is the substrate for future consumer experiences and shows what already works: a new cross-chain CryptoKitties on Telegram onboarding tens… | ||
| Cross Chain Privacy Pool for EVM Chains | Elena Nadolinski | 12m |
Iron Fish runs a live layer‑1 PoW chain (mainnet launched April last year) that implements a multi-asset shielded pool using ZK proofs so amounts, senders and… | ||
| Unifying Ethereum via Real Time Proofs | Orest Tarasiuk | 24m |
T1 proposes using Trusted Execution Environments plus layered cryptoeconomic security to post L2 state to Ethereum within an L1 block (≈12s) so users get… | ||
| Blockchain On Wheels: Enabling Programmable Transportation | Yevgeny Khessin | 15m |
DIMO claims an open, verifiable vehicle data stack that already connects 115,000 cars and uses a smart contract registry on Polygon plus off‑chain nodes for… | ||
| What’s Stopping DeFi from Competing with TradFi | Jayant Krishnamurthy | 21m |
DeFi today loses to TradFi on speed, cost and trust: typical on‑chain interactions take seconds to minutes with gas and slippage costs, while TradFi trades… | ||
| The Search for Sustainable Yield | Andrew Redden | 19m |
Claims that crypto yield is a $92B market that naturally compresses toward zero, with liquid staking tokens and stablecoins driving most current rates… | ||
| DEX Aggregation Is Harder Than You Think | Amir Bandeali | 21m |
Argon routing engine and the new 0x API V2 claim to cut false-positive quotes and handle crazy multi-hop routes like a $50k MATIC, $400k PEPE and $1.8M trade… | ||
| Survival of the Fittest: Rootstock & Bitcoin L2s | Daniel Fogg | 20m |
Rootstock claims to be the first Bitcoin L2, live since 2018 and merge-mined into Bitcoin so every Rootstock block is hashed on-chain; the network reports… | ||
| Web3 From Niche to Norm | Denisse Halm | 20m |
Global smartphone penetration hits 7.1 billion users with ~200 million new phones a year, while only ~6 million people hold crypto and just 5–10% actively use… | ||
| Making Wallets Programmable | Alokik Bhasin | 18m |
Circle launches a programmable wallet service that ships a beta launched June 30 and targets enterprise scale by combining MPC back‑keys (developer‑ or… | ||
| Should You Build Your Own Rollup? | Hilmar Orth | 21m |
Gelato offers rollup-as-a-service that lets projects spin up an L2 with one-click deploy on common stacks (op stack, AUM orbit stack) and bundles native… | ||
| Augmenting EVMs with FHE to Enable New Use Cases | Remi Gai | 20m |
Augments EVMs with FHE using custom opcodes so contracts store symbolic on-chain handles while Inco Network performs deterministic FHE compute off-chain… | ||
| General Purpose vs App Specific Systems | Kautuk Kundan | 18m |
Argues that neither pure general-purpose chains nor fully bespoke app chains win universally and that domain-specific chains hit the middle ground by reusing… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Rushi Manche, Kartik Talwar | 19m |
Movement Labs describes a Move-based runtime deployed as a Move VM on Ethereum that aims for concurrent execution via BlockSTM, promising thousands of TPS… | ||
| Introducing the Onchain EDC | Markus Haas | 09m |
A customized Android fork puts Ethereum into the system layer to simplify mobile transactions; the team moves from DIY flashes to selling pre-flashed Pixel 7A… | ||
| Next Generation ZK Applications with SP1 | Uma Roy | 21m |
SP1 is a ZK virtual machine that compiles Rust to a RISC‑V ISA and generates proofs; the team claims it is the fastest ZKVM by an order of magnitude using a… | ||
| Signing with Confidence: YOLO to Clear Signing | Laurent Castillo | 20m |
Claims that blind "YOLO" signing causes billions in losses and that clear signing prevents wallet-draining phishing attacks; proposes a data-driven… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Furqan Rydhan, Kartik Talwar | 22m |
Built from 2019 hacking cycles into a full‑stack platform with front-end SDKs, back-end Engine (HTTP API + hosted wallet) and on‑chain modules, Thirdweb claims… | ||
| FHE Rollups and Co-Processor in Action | Guy Itzhaki | 17m |
Fhenix claims Fully Homomorphic Encryption makes confidential smart contracts practical by letting sequencers execute encrypted inputs on an L2 rollup and… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Matthias Broner, Kartik Talwar | 20m |
ZKsync describes a ZK-based Ethereum Layer 2 that hits very high TPS and reports over 500,000 active wallets while prioritizing “quality” builders over TVL… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Nikhil Chandhok, Kartik Talwar | 25m |
Circle explains how USDC runs on 17 blockchains today and adds more next year, details a developer platform and web3 services including a cross-chain transfer… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Dieter Shirley, Kartik Talwar | 26m |
Flow launches the Crescendo upgrade about a month ago and ships EVM compatibility by running the Ethereum VM as a pre‑compile EVM inside Cadence, not… | ||
| Onchain IP in the Age of AI | Jason Zhao | 21m |
Story Protocol proposes putting creator rights and royalties onchain with smart contracts that map one-to-one to real legal contracts, enabling creators to opt… | ||
| Decentralized Secrets for Identities Networks & Platforms | David Sneider | 16m |
Lit Protocol claims a live programmable secrets network (mainnet beta since February) that has handled 20 million requests using threshold cryptography and… | ||
| Gnosis: Chain and Vision | Philippe Schommers | 18m |
Gnosis Chain runs Ethereum clients with ~300,000 validators, 5‑second blocks and 2.44× faster block times than Ethereum, and adds plugins like Shutter to… | ||
| Diving into Onchain UX, MPC Account Abstraction | Nitya Subramanian | 19m |
Capsule uses MPC-derived session keys plus account abstraction to let one wallet sign on multiple chains without ever reconstructing a private key, eliminating… | ||
| Crypto Needs Interop That Cares | Simon Baksys | 16m |
Argues that interoperability must preserve permissionless access, censorship resistance, and immutability rather than trade them for speed or profit, citing… | ||
| From RWA to Crypto Native | Niklas Kunkel | 22m |
MakerDAO moves from opaque, slow T‑bill setups that deliver about 3.5% yield (not the hoped 5%) and take weeks to redeem, to second‑gen tokenized shares that… | ||
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