Smart Contract Summit #0 2020
2020-08-28..2020-08-29
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https://chain.link/blog/announcing-the-smart-contract-virtual-summit-0-smartcon-powered-by-chainlink
[Smart Contract Summit #0 2020, Smart Contract Summit #1 2021]
as the organisers put it
SmartCon #0 gathers developers, dApps builders, node operators, researchers, enterprises, and the community on August 28th and 29th.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Creating Definitive Truth | Sergey Nazarov | 43m |
Chainlink claims to deliver Definitive Truth for off‑chain events, cites over $10 trillion in enabled transaction value, and announces the DECO acquisition to… | ||
| Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles for TLS | Ari Juels | 17m |
DECO lets a client and an oracle split a TLS session key in a three-party handshake so the client can produce zero-knowledge proofs that attest to web-hosted… | ||
| A DeFi Roundtable | Sergey Nazarov, Andre Cronje, Stani Kulechov, Kain Warwick | 58m |
Discussion claims DeFi’s current boom is driven by governance-token yield farming and "free" token distributions that create rapid coordination and speculative… | ||
| State of Smart Contracts in Decentralized Finance | Vance Spencer, Michael E Anderson | 17m |
Argues that DeFi becomes a global developer sandbox that removes bank gatekeepers, enabling rapid composability (examples: Uniswap, yams spun up in hours… | ||
| Welcome Address | Adelyn Zhou | 07m |
Chainlink opens the summit by laying out concrete scale and participation: a decentralized oracle network used by Google, Oracle, and SWIFT, integrations with… | ||
| Shaking Hands Early: How Enterprise is Adopting Smart Contracts | John Wolpert, Fernando Ribiero, Yorke Rhodes, Will Martino | 24m |
Kadena describes a hybrid public/private platform with the Pact smart‑contract language and a live sharded PoW mainnet that scales from 10 to 20 chains without… | ||
| How Blockchain Dev Culture Figured Out The Splinternet | William Foxley, Eden Dhaliwal, Mona Elisa, James Qu, Jun Li | 28m |
Panel argues blockchain teams are already routing around a fragmenting internet by shipping concrete pieces: a credit‑based e5 product built on decentralized… | ||
| John Wolpert / Baseline AMA at Smart Contract Summit 2020 | John Wolpert, Basel ine AMA | 44m |
Baseline Protocol frames a technique for using blockchain as ordering and hash management rather than a database, showing live integrations with Chainlink… | ||
| How to Win in China - What Dapps & Projects Need to Know | Harriet Cao, Yifan He, Daniel Lv, Hao CHI | 44m |
China treats blockchain as a national infrastructure since Xi’s October push, so projects must remove tokens for local deployments, set up China office, and… | ||
| China’s Blockchain Policy Shifts and Future Prospects | Fan Long | 20m |
Conflux presents a new layer‑one stack with a novel gas consensus and tree‑graph block structure that deterministically orders concurrent blocks; lab tests… | ||
| A Presentation and AMA – Sandeep Nailwal | Sandeep Nailwal | 33m |
Matic is an Ethereum layer‑2 hybrid of Plasma and PoS that claims 7200 tps on a decentralized sidechain with 110 validators on mainnet, supports full EVM… | ||
| Keynote: Gleb Dudka, Web3 Infrastructure PO at T-Systems (Deutsche Telekom) | Gleb Dudka | 25m |
Runs a Chainlink node on mainnet and currently supplies five price feeds of real‑world pricing data, earning LINK as infrastructure revenue while treating… | ||
| Fireside Chat: Spencer Dinwiddie and Zack Seward of CoinDesk | Spencer Dinwiddie, Zack Seward | 34m |
A pro basketball contract is tokenized so outside investors can buy pieces, with a pilot that secures roughly eight or nine backers who commit about $150k… | ||
| RCN Network Presentation | Manuel Gvirtz, Juan S. Charovsky, Nicolas M. Menendez | 31m |
RCN describes an open‑source Ethereum credit protocol (v4 “diaspora”) that runs a non‑custodial credit marketplace connecting lenders, retail borrowers and… | ||
| Legal Infrastructure for DeFi and DAOs | Aaron Wright | 25m |
Claims that billions of contracts will become smart over decades and cites roughly a trillion contracts created annually as the addressable market. Describes… | ||
| Token Listings Come To DeFi as Fundraising Mechanisms Evolve | Camila Russo, Matthew Finestone, Fernando Martinelli, Kyle Joseph Kistner | 35m |
Panelists compare concrete fundraising paths: legacy 120,000 ETH ICO era and Loopring returning ~70–80% to Chinese participants, Balancer’s shift to liquidity… | ||
| Keynote: Stani Kulechov, Founder of Aave | Stani Kulechov | 28m |
Aave claims rapid growth from January to roughly $1.5–1.7B TVL and explains concrete primitives: interest-bearing aTokens that auto-increase wallet balances… | ||
| Too Much Liquidity? The State of Automated Market-Makers in DeFi | Anton Bukov, Brandon Iles, Andrey Belyakov | 28m |
Argues that first‑gen AMMs are inefficient: arbitrageurs capture most gains while LPs earn only fixed fees, so teams build AMMs that capture slippage revenue… | ||
| DeFi Composability: Designing Usable Money Legos With DAOs and Games | Alex Russman, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Corey Caplan, Priyanka Desai | 29m |
Panelists describe concrete builds and integrations: Enjin runs a platform used by 30 projects to manage wallets, NFTs and a marketplace; Axie runs an Ethereum… | ||
| Sharded Smart Contract Architecture for Smart Contract Developers | Anton Bukov | 28m |
Proposes replacing monolithic token contracts with per-account extension contracts that hold each user balance and authorize only family transfers, using… | ||
| How Cryptocurrencies Are Evolving The Privacy Market with Tornado Cash, Orchid, and Open Law | Dr.Steven Waterhouse, Roman Storm, Priyanka Desai | 21m |
Orchid describes a decentralized VPN network with iOS Android and macOS clients, partners running nodes, and a launched December system that uses a… | ||
| Evolving Virtual Worlds | Alex Russman | 38m |
Enjin unveils a layer for fast, cheap ERC-20 and ERC-1155 transfers that keep final settlement on Ethereum, with a test node hitting 650 TPS test node and… | ||
| The Once in a Generation Shift to Digital Business Networks | Antonio Senatore, Steve Cerveny, Sophia Lopez | 19m |
Claims that enterprises are undergoing a generational shift to digital business networks to unlock trapped value, with concrete choices: build platform-first… | ||
| Keynote: Ed Felten, Chief Scientist of Offchain Labs | Ed Felten | 19m |
Offchain Labs describes Arbitrum 2.0 as a rollup that moves computation and storage off-chain while keeping Ethereum-level security, with ArbOS executing… | ||
| RNG and Me: A Peek Behind The Random Number Generator Curtain | Oliver Birch, Savvas Lazopoulos, Justin Wu, Craig Russo | 19m |
Panelists describe shipping live proofs of randomness: a casino and esports stack uses Chainlink VRF for RNG and Chainlink oracles for live match data, a… | ||
| How Autonomous Organisations Use DeFi To Govern Real-World Assets | Scott Lewis, Gregory Keough, Rey Fernando Verboonen, Ryan Berkun, Melanie Mohr | 32m |
Panel shows working bridges: CurioInvest issues a regulator‑approved token tied to a 1.1 million dollar Ferrari and uses Chainlink price feeds for independent… | ||
| Decentralized Insurance: Quantifying Risk for The Immutable | Michael Kaplivov, Hugh Karp, Zubin Koticha, Christoph Mussenbrock, Yann Barbarroux | 27m |
Panelists describe working systems and pilots: a parametric flight-delay payouts product with claim automation, a crop pilot in Sri Lanka run with Oxfam and… | ||
| On-Chain Collateral for Stablecoins | Clayton Lowery, Noah Buxton, Rafael Cosman | 20m |
A live system proves fiat collateral for TrueUSD and other TrueCurrencies by connecting bank APIs to hosted blockchain nodes, generating continuous… | ||
| Day 1 Closing Remarks | Rory Piant | 01m |
Day 1 closes SmartCon #0 (Aug 28–29, 2020) after 70+ talks and roughly 8,000 attendees from 100+ countries, claiming a 10-hour program that showcases Chainlink… | ||
| Day 2 Kick-Off and Opening Remarks | Rory Piant | 03m |
Day two opens with a quick agenda: 10 hours of programming featuring named sessions from Sergey Nazarov, Erie Jules, Eamon Gunstire, Don Song, Justin Moses… | ||
| Chainlink Oracle Reputation | Patrick McNab | 15m |
Secure Data Link builds reputation.link, a Chainlink grant project that pulls full historical on‑chain feed data (beyond feeds.chain.link’s 24h) and visualizes… | ||
| Keynote: Jonny Huxtable & LinkPool | Jonny Huxtable | 14m |
Started in 2017 as the first third‑party Chainlink operator and now running a mature infra as code stack, LinkPool is serving reference data to over 35 apps… | ||
| DeFi Eats The World: The Projects Bringing DeFi To Global Users | Abel Tedros, David Lei, Jean Miao, Mounir Benchemled, Deniz Omer | 32m |
Panelists compare concrete projects and numbers: Force Protocol reports $30M TVL on a lending platform focused on Asia, MCDEX runs decentralized perpetuals… | ||
| A Presentation and AMA – Oussama El-Hilali | Oussama El-Hilali | 33m |
DeFiner presents a live peer-to-peer lending platform that aggregates user deposits into multiple loans and automatically parks unused fractions into a… | ||
| Chainlink Infrastructure Deep Dive: LinkPool, Secure Data Links, Fiews | Jonas Hals, Jonny Huxtable, Raymond Mogg | 28m |
Link node operators describe running feeds that today secure more than two billion dollars of on‑chain value, explain how monitoring and multiple API fallbacks… | ||
| How DeFi Is Building A New Tech Stack | Ryan Adams, Gilles Fedak, Asaf Shachaf, Hilmar Orth, Samyak Jain | 30m |
Panelists map a concrete DeFi stack: AMMs like Bancor with oracle-fed pricing, InstaDapp-style aggregators that stitch protocols, Gelato-style automation that… | ||
| Deep Dive Into LinkPool | Jonny Huxtable | 31m |
Live demo of a new LinkPool marketplace dashboard shows real-time per‑feed metrics, live updates and a dark theme, backed by Prometheus API queries that anyone… | ||
| Drilling for Data: Powering DeFi Applications | Ambre Soubiran, Maximillian Engelen, Shawn Douglas, Dawn Song, Patrick Collins | 29m |
Market and on‑chain providers says they deliver 35,000+ assets via APIs, ingesting feeds from ~20 exchanges, replaying real-time order book events and… | ||
| Building a Network for Private Scalable DeFi | Dawn Song | 40m |
Oasis Network claims a working privacy‑enabled, scalable blockchain that separates consensus from execution via a paraTime layer, using secure enclaves for… | ||
| Gaming, Art and Collectibles: NFTs for Business or Pleasure | Andrew Thurman, Jesse Johnson, Vlad Kartashov, JonJon Clark, Dan Gunsberg | 33m |
Projects tie NFTs to real economics: always-for-sale Wild Cards streams daily loyalty tokens and uses quadratic voting for donor-driven payouts; avagachi… | ||
| More Alpha: The Coming DeFi Derivatives Boom | Will Harborne, Aditya Palepu, Gabriel Kurman, Antonio Juliano, Ash Bennington | 28m |
DeFi derivatives are already shipping: live layer‑2 order books (Deversifi live on mainnet for two months), margin and perp platforms (dYdX, DerivaDex… | ||
| DECO Acquisition and Ari Juels Chief Scientist for Chainlink Labs | Sergey Nazarov, Ari Juels | 25m |
Announces that Chainlink Labs acquires and integrates DECO privacy-preserving oracle to prove origin of HTTPS/TLS web data cryptographically and feed it to… | ||
| NEAR Protocol & Chainlink Integration | Mike Purvis, Josh Ford, Anais Urlichs | 24m |
A live React demo shows a NEAR-Chainlink oracle flow: a client contract on testnet holds 50 fungible tokens and sends 10 tokens per request to an on-chain… | ||
| Keynote: Emin Gün Sirer, Founder of Ava Labs | Emin Gün Sirer | 18m |
Claims Avalanche cuts finality from Bitcoin’s ~1 hour and Ethereum’s ~30 minutes to one second finality and eventually millisecond finality while scaling from… | ||
| Getting Dev Love: How Chains Are Building Mindshare With Devs | Patrick Collins, Illia Polosukhin, Nick White, Kevin Davis, Diwaker Gupta | 32m |
Panel argues developer mindshare requires concrete wins: working bridges, live oracles, and predictable UX rather than abstract TPS promises. NEAR’s rainbow… | ||
| Chainlink and RSK Integration | Julian Rodriguez, Fernando Rubal | 30m |
Integration of Chainlink with RSK implements an RSK adapter and an initiator bridge so existing Chainlink nodes can serve RSK with minimal changes; demo runs… | ||
| Permissionless Participation in Global Decentralized Finance | Tegan Kline, Nodar Janashia, Mick de Graaf, Gabriel Kurman, Yenwen Feng | 31m |
Panelists claim DeFi is already lowering entry barriers (example: hedge-style allocations from $100), and report concrete builds: a live Chainlink on RSK… | ||
| Securing High Quality Data to Power DeFi Applications | Andrew Paulicek, Peter van Mourik, Peter Eulberg, Hendrik Hofstadt | 26m |
Chainlink node operators describe concrete practices: deploy redundant servers across data centers, maintain 24/7 on‑call rotations, and use Telegraph and… | ||
| Technical Demo: Antonio Juliano, Founder of dYdX | Antonio Juliano | 33m |
dYdX launches a LINK perpetual that uses USDC/USDT as collateral, trades on a central order book of cryptographically signed orders to avoid per-trade gas, and… | ||
| The Future of DeFi Panel | Cooper Turley, Mischa Tuffield, Loong Wang, Bradley Kam, Eric Chen | 33m |
Monolith ships a non-custodial Visa debit card that converts Ethereum assets into real‑world spendable balances while navigating AMLD5 and UK VASP/KYC rules… | ||
| Various Testing Methodologies for Fast Iteration on Ethereum | Justin Moses | 01h 12m |
History of the codebase shows concrete shifts: tests migrate from Python to JavaScript, a npm-based publish JSON becomes the canonical address/API source, and… | ||
| Keynote & AMA: Dean Tribble, Co Founder and CEO of Agoric | Dean Tribble | 48m |
Agoric builds a sovereign Layer 1 chain using Tendermint/Cosmos tech and a deterministic secure JavaScript runtime so contracts run with replayable… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Adelyn Zhou, Rory Piant | 03m |
Adelyn Zhou, Head of Marketing and Rory Piant, Director of Community at Chainlink conclude SmartCon 2020.
Chainlink’s Smart Contract Summit (#SmartCon)… | ||
| Recap | 02m | |
Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network that lets smart contracts securely access off-chain data feeds, web APIs, and traditional bank payments. The system… | ||
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