TOKEN2049 Hong Kong 2018
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Highlights | 04m | |
TOKEN2049 Hong Kong, 20-21 March 2018 @ Kerry Hotel
Tickets now available for 2019 at https://www.token2049.com/tickets | ||
| Fireside Chat | Brendan Blumer | 26m |
Block.one publishes EOS, a blockchain platform claiming millions of transactions per second and one second irreversibility by running 21 elected block… | ||
| The Token Economy In 2049 | Simon Dixon | 27m |
Simon Dixon (CEO and co-founder of BnkToTheFuture): The Token Economy In 2049 - Day 2, at TOKEN2049 in Hong Kong, 20-21 March 2018 | ||
| Opening Remarks And Welcome To | Brian Kelly | 08m |
Notes that Facebook and Cambridge Analytica spur a claim of peak centralization and argues blockchains can return value and control of personal data; lists… | ||
| The Institutionalization Of Crypto Assets | Jehan Chu, Robert Dykes, David Wills | 14m |
A joint venture builds a full front-to-back crypto trading and asset-management stack by bolting token trading onto an existing 14-year hedge‑fund platform… | ||
| Crypto Goldrush | Vinny Lingham | 22m |
Company runs a decentralized ID platform that stores personal data on users’ devices and publishes hashes on Bitcoin; its CVC utility token is required by… | ||
| Leveraging Blockchain For Social Change | Vanessa Grellet | 15m |
Gives concrete numbers — 2.7 billion under $2.50/day, 65 million displaced, 40 million trafficked, $1.5 trillion lost to corruption — and claims a crypto… | ||
| Banking The Unbanked vs CryptoKitties: Blockchain And Its Application Today | Max Kordek, Julian Zawistowski, Martin Köppelmann, Yuri Lobyntsev, Bradley Zastrow, Federico Ast, Jane Lippencott | 42m |
Panel lays out concrete outputs and gaps: a developer SDK for custom blockchains, a multi-sig wallet holding billions in smart contracts, a prediction market… | ||
| The Antifragility Of Bitcoin | Jimmy Song | 35m |
October 1 2013 Silk Road arrest sends price from about $120 down to $85 then sparks a sustained rally to ~$1,200 by December showing demand beyond illicit… | ||
| Crypto Hedge Funds: Who Has The Winning Formula? | Alex Sunnarborg, Ar Nazir, Jen Wieczner, Michael Bucella, Lewis Fellas | 33m |
Panelists argue crypto funds cap ICO exposure (often max 10% or lower) and prefer live blockchains because ICOs bring lockups, liquidity risk and legal… | ||
| Decentralised Exchanges: The Future Of Crypto Trading? | Ronald Bernstein, Loi Luu, Maxim Pertsovskiy, Michael Oved, Balazs Deme | 29m |
Five architectures are compared with concrete claims and timelines: a fully on-chain smart contracts model that removes order books and launched a public beta… | ||
| Crypto Exchanges: Keeping Up With Unparalleled Growth | Aurelien Menant, Mike Kayamori, David Johnston, Obi Nwosu, Konstantin Gladych | 26m |
Exchanges report concrete scaling moves: 30,000 new registrations a day forces automated KYC/AML, banks with APIs, and hiring spurts from ~30 to ~200 staff… | ||
| Liquidity Flood: Effects Of Traditional Capital Entering The Crypto Market | Bobby Cho, Robert Dykes, Wayne Trench, Will Peets, Brian Kelly | 34m |
Institutional money trickles in not floods: demand comes mainly from family offices today, not pension funds; funds launched last year number roughly 200 and… | ||
| Hashgraph: New Directions For Distributed Ledger Technology | Mance Harmon | 16m |
Hedera Hashgraph launches a public network built on its enterprise-grade hashgraph platform with a native cryptocurrency, distributed file storage and an… | ||
| Blockchain And Smart Contracts As Part Of Esports | Andrey Cherednychenko | 14m |
Claims a live platform called DreamTeam that combines automated smart-contract prize distribution with team management, recruitment, analytics and a payments… | ||
| How To Build Third Generation Blockchains | Charles [Music] hoskinson | 22m |
Third-generation blockchains aim to solve three concrete failures: scalability, interoperability and sustainability. Examples and numbers: BitTorrent scales… | ||
| The Future Of Retail: A Decentralized Economy Of Data | Eran Eyal | 19m |
Shopin builds a universal shopper profile that pulls three to five years of SKU-level purchase history into a user-controlled ledger, running a federated… | ||
| Decentralisation Of Financial Services Through Crypto And Blockchain | Juwan Lee | 14m |
Claims widespread bank interest with 91% of banks investing in blockchain but only 14% in production in 2017, major dev activity in San Francisco and London… | ||
| Building A Scalable Decentralized Database Network | Evgeny Ponomarev | 12m |
Fluence.ai proposes a decentralized database network that shards data into node clusters so storage scales without full replication, timestamps compact hash… | ||
| Social Impact - Beyond Profit In The Age Of Crypto | Nydia Zhang, Jehan Chu | 12m |
A non-for-profit grant-making foundation launches late 2017 to fund blockchain education and pilot apps that address real failures in social systems, citing a… | ||
| Tokenization on the Bitcoin Cash Chain | Craig Wright | 32m |
Claims Bitcoin Cash will host real tokenization tools: atomic swaps to trade ETH and BCH peer-to-peer, on-chain token issuance with untrusted oracles and… | ||
| How Decentralization Can Solve The World's Looming Data Problem | Pavel Bains | 19m |
Argues that central platforms cannot handle an explosion to ~4 billion connected people and cites Equifax’s ~200 million-record breach to justify a new model… | ||
| Decentralized Blockchain Applications, More Than Smart Contracts | James Duchenne | 13m |
Platform leverages spare CPU/storage on phones and laptops to form a decentralized cloud computer and ships a zero code software creation tool used by Fortune… | ||
| Stablecoins | Eiland Glover | 14m |
Kowala builds KUSD, a non–asset-backed algorithmic USD peg that mints when price > $1 via a decentralized oracle and issues block rewards, and burns via a… | ||
| ICO Success Stories - A Case Study | Daria Generalova | 11m |
A small advertising‑tech marketplace connecting influencers and advertisers runs an ICO under a sub-$20M hard cap and successfully finishes its sale in Feb–Mar… | ||
| Trust No One: Custodianship And The Importance Of Securing Digital Assets | Joseph Wang | 15m |
Exchanges hold private keys so counterparty risk leads to large losses and one early user lost seven BTC (~$60–70k) to a hack and then moves to offline keys. A… | ||
| The Decentralized Future Of AI | Ben Goertzel | 22m |
Claims a decentralized marketplace where many AI agents pay each other with an AGI token, share models and data, and form an emergent “economy of minds.”… | ||
| Interchain Redefined - Extended Decentralization | Henry Lee | 15m |
ICON builds interoperability into its smart-contract platform, shipping a score (smart contract environment) that supports EVM/JVM, a PBFT-derived 2.5-step… | ||
| Unlocking Liquidity With Tokenized Fund Of Funds | Ar Nazir, Christopher Keshian | 07m |
Apex launches a first tokenized crypto fund of funds that issues an ERC20 token representing ownership of a master fund which allocates across ten top crypto… | ||
| Post ICO: The Future Of Venture Capital | David Chang | 27m |
Panelists compare real steps VCs are taking after ICOs: creating token-focused vehicles like Blue Ball Capital (JV with Kobe partners), doing both equity and… | ||
| Japan: The Early Adopter Of Bitcoin | Mike Kayamori | 20m |
Japan formalizes crypto rules: exchanges must hold licenses, meet KYC/AML, customer asset segregation and third‑party audit and face a whitelist; regulators… | ||
| How Prediction Markets Reduce Uncertainty | Martin Köppelmann | 14m |
Explains how on-chain prediction markets turn private signals into market-implied probabilities by selling outcome tokens collateralized with dollars or crypto… | ||
| Building A Compliance Ready Blockchain | Da Hongfei | 24m |
Neo positions itself as a compliance‑ready public blockchain with dBFT consensus giving one‑block finality, identity modules for regulated flows, and NeoX… | ||
| The Big Picture | Gabriel Francesch | 16m |
64 ICOs raise $300M in 2016 and the market grows to about 1,600 tokens today, but projects fail often and prices swing ~±10% between agreement and receipt… | ||
| Cryptoasset Valuations: Past, Present and Future | Chris Burniske | 35m |
Argues concrete valuation methods: uses network value and calibrated ratios like the NVT ratio (daily NV / 90‑day tx value), shows Bitcoin NVT ≈80, and… | ||
| The Sleeping Dragon: China And Its Place In The Token Economy | Jack Lu | 20m |
Claims Wanchain is a fork of Ethereum that adds ring signatures and one‑time accounts for privacy, and uses secure multi‑party computation plus threshold key… | ||
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