TOKEN2049 London 2022
who it's for
web3 founders, decentralized finance engineers, crypto investors and traders, product managers in crypto, exchange operators and custodians, payments and fintech engineers, nft and metaverse creators
topics
cross-chain tokenization platforms; interest rate swaps in DeFi; liquid staking for institutions; STARKs for scaling; interoperable multi-chain architectures; privacy on public blockchains; CBDC and stablecoin interplay; autonomous on-chain smart contracts; NFTs and DAO film projects; metaverse AR map-to-earn systems; DeFi market data and analytics; liquidity book automated market makers
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How To Profit in Crypto | Carmen Tan | 14m |
CoinW outlines a referral-driven profit model that pays lifetime rebate settled daily to whoever brings traders in, claiming 8 billion dollars daily volume and… | ||
| Win & Profit In The Bear Market | Calvin Ng | 14m |
Candy Club builds a web3 social casino platform that uses third‑party tokens rather than issuing a native coin, claiming no token no NFT, and routing about 50%… | ||
| The Paradox of Growing Web3 to Web2 Scale | Tal Kol | 17m |
Web3 already solves scale and user-base issues—sharded chains like TON run a production mainnet and claim TON mainnet since May 2021, telegram-scale throughput… | ||
| Cross-Chain Technology | Toby Gilbert | 15m |
Coinweb describes a layer‑2 cross‑computation platform that ships a cross‑chain tokenization platform this week, letting issuers choose which L1 to write… | ||
| Interest Rate Swaps: Unlocking DeFi’s True Potential | Simon Jones | 14m |
Voltz Labs launches a smart‑contract marketplace that brings interest rate swaps to DeFi, turning a market that was zero on chain into one growing ~30% weekly… | ||
| How We've Built the Biggest Crypto News Wire in the Market | Elad Mor | 13m |
A PR agency builds Chainwire, a SaaS newswire that syndicates press releases to almost 70 publishers including CoinTelegraph, Bitcoin.com, CryptoBriefing… | ||
| Digital Infrastructure as a Board Game | Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie | 29m |
Frames digital infrastructure as a board game mapping web1 (HTTP/HTML on TCP/IP), web2 (centralized social platforms where followers as currency drive… | ||
| Building Bridges Between Traditional Financial Systems and Crypto | Nicole Pabello | 14m |
Current crypto–fiat flows force users through wallets, payment aggregators, CEXs and back into DeFi and NFTs, creating extra fees, slow conversions and scarce… | ||
| The Growth in Crypto Options | Chantal Bradford | 15m |
Deribit claims a 94% options open interest share, lists only BTC ETH SOL with futures, perpetuals and options plus 16 USDC‑linked perpetuals, and records about… | ||
| Massa: On-Chain Web3 & Autonomous Smart Contracts | Vincent Kersuzan | 17m |
Massa presents a blockchain that parallelizes consensus into 32 threads to produce one block every 0.5 seconds and targets 10000 TPS while keeping cheap node… | ||
| Web3D: Multidimensional Marketing | Ross Anderson, Stuart Ross | 14m |
Claims that immersive 3D websites — labeled web3D multi-dimensional marketing — raise dwell time, boost call-to-action rates and lower cost-per-click… | ||
| Empowering BUIDLers to Redefine the Internet | Jeff Hasselman | 14m |
AWS claims practical Web3 support: Activate credit program to spin up infra, solution architects embedded with startups, and partnerships to push products into… | ||
| Crypto Powered Payments | Chris Harmse | 14m |
bvnk describes a working stack: a cross‑border payment rail, a crypto payment gateway for merchants and a bvnk business account that routes value via… | ||
| Liquid Staking and Institutional Participation | Ben Spiegelman, Curtis Oh | 16m |
Liquid Collective is a liquid-staking protocol spun out by Figment with validators including Kraken, Coinbase, Kiln, Bison Trails and Staked, targeting… | ||
| Build Your Business with BNB Chain | Zoe Wei | 15m |
BNB Chain states it already hosts 1 million daily active users and over 2 million active wallet addresses, with 1,000+ apps and 1,300 projects listed… | ||
| Web 2.5: Bridging the Gap | Adi Ben-Ari | 14m |
Applied Blockchain presents two concrete products and field tests: Silent Data pulls private web2 data, processes it in Intel secure enclaves and emits… | ||
| Incentivizing Climate Action Via Regenerative Cryptoeconomics | Andrew Bonneau | 16m |
KlimaDAO brings voluntary carbon credits on Polygon by minting registry NFTs, fractionalizing them into ERC‑20 tonnes and pooling them (examples: mCO2, BCT)… | ||
| Trust in The Trustless System: The Hurdles to Trustless Innovation | Marcus Eng | 17m |
Cryptocurrency suffers repeated centralised collapses — Mt. Gox, Bitconnect, 3AC and recent C5-style failures — while DeFi audits repeatedly prove insufficient… | ||
| Crypto Regulations: Scallop’s Role in Reaching Mass Adoption | Raj Bagadi | 14m |
Claims a fully regulated blockchain (Tendermint/Cosmos + EVM) with KYC/AML/PEP/sanctions/KYT enforced in consensus so minted tokens only move between regulated… | ||
| Building in Web3 | Eowyn Chen | 16m |
Claims 60 million downloads and about 10 million monthly active devices, a mobile self‑custody wallet that holds up to 8.5 million tokens across 70… | ||
| Solving the DeFi Onboarding Crisis | Dennis Jarvis | 13m |
Claims that DeFi adoption exploded then flatlined in April and that only 1–2% of the addressable market is onboarded, backed by concrete numbers: 35 million… | ||
| Scaling with STARKs | Uri Kolodny | 16m |
StarkX runs as a scaling SaaS that settles just over three quarters of a trillion dollars and about 250 million transactions to date while holding ~$0.5… | ||
| The Future of Centralised Exchanges | Salama Belghali, Balthazar Giraux | 08m |
Exchange claims operation since 2014 with never hacked status, segregated accounts, keys in cold multisig reserves and on‑chain proof of reserves; positions… | ||
| The Future of Cinema - NFT’s, Web3 and DAO’s | Stacy Spikes | 15m |
MoviePass transitions from Web2 to Web3, issuing a token per member so subscribers trade or exchange tickets, swap services via tasking, and earn digital… | ||
| CeDeFi - An Emerging Opportunity | Thomas Eichenberger | 16m |
Sygnum outlines a pathway for institutional DeFi by combining regulated banking services with proven DeFi rails: regulated custody, staking, spot and… | ||
| ATM DeFi | Lottfi Zaouini | 15m |
Claims a working bridge between DeFi and CeFi that uses BUSD connections where two users can lock $10,000 each as a consensus contract (duration +… | ||
| One-Stop Solution in the Metaverse | Zero Chung | 13m |
PANGU says it builds and operates metaverse land in The Sandbox, buying or renting parcels, deploying pay-to-earn mechanics and NFT utilities that link online… | ||
| Crypto, Just Another Asset Class? | Duncan Trenholme | 17m |
TP ICAP enters crypto via CME Bitcoin Futures in 2019 and treats digital assets as tradable products while stressing concrete differences: 27-country… | ||
| Achieving DeFi Edge as an Institution | Kiril Nikolov | 15m |
Argues that institutions gain real DeFi edge by building small autonomous teams, concrete infrastructure and strict treasury rules rather than vague strategy… | ||
| Connecting Blockchain to Our Daily Life | Daniel Antcliff | 15m |
Gate IO claims a proprietary high-performance trading engine, a cryptographic 100% Merkle-tree proof of reserves with patents filed, and Armanino audits (May… | ||
| Silent Protocol: Privacy on Public Blockchains | İsa Sertkaya | 14m |
Silent Protocol is an application-layer middleware that provides a multi-asset shielded pool for ETH, ERC20, ERC721 and ERC1155, uses zk-SNARK proofs for… | ||
| The First Real World Computer: The Internet Computer Blockchain | Dominic Williams | 15m |
Claims that the Internet Computer can serve HTTP from smart contracts and store the conference deck on-chain for about $0.04/year, while the same file would… | ||
| Map2Earn, The Gateway to the Open AR Metaverse | Diego Di Tommaso | 15m |
OVR builds a location-owned AR layer called OVR mapping that turns smartphone photos into 3D point clouds and neural radiance fields for precise relocalization… | ||
| What is Web3 Good For? | Szymon Sypniewicz | 15m |
Argues that web3 solves custody and access problems with concrete examples and a product: a copy‑paste SDK that embeds fiat onramps, offramps and KYC/AML so… | ||
| The Hidden Potential of DeFi | Ox Bid | 12m |
Bolide Finance claims an automated DeFi yield aggregator on BNB Chain with no lockup period, highest APY for BTC on BNB Chain, and strategies that open up to… | ||
| CBDC or Stablecoins... Is That Even the Question? | Varun Paul | 13m |
A colleague quickly minted a CBDC on an EVM private chain and then created a GBP stablecoin tied to that reserve, using it to buy yeast, convert to USDC, send… | ||
| Alien Worlds - How a Game Set the Stage for DAO Innovation | Sarojini McKenna | 14m |
Alien Worlds is a Dacoco game running entirely on-chain across three blockchains (including WAX) and it compounds real metrics: about 240,000 daily active… | ||
| Global Obstacles of Bridging Web 2.0 and Web 3.0: Lessons from the Past | Vicky Kapuka | 11m |
Swiss crypto firm claims it is building a single platform that merges Web2 and Web3 services and plans a Web3 bank rollout in Q1–Q2, but licensing efforts in… | ||
| illumiShare SRG: An Innovative Trust Token, Backed by 3 Uncorrelated Assets | Ben Sharon | 12m |
Claims a token backed by three uncorrelated assets: physical gold stored at Abu Dhabi central bank, a cash Recovery Fund built from margins on refinery prices… | ||
| Why Artists Should Care About Web3 | Jon Vlassopulos | 21m |
Napster pivots to Web3 with a clear roadmap: a token launch next year, token-gated collectibles and metaverse shows, and a Robux-style economy to drive… | ||
| How to Get Exposure to DeFi Compliantly and Securely | Mona El Isa | 12m |
Explains step-by-step how to boost passive ETH yield: stake ETH on Lido to get ~5.4%, provide liquidity on Curve to add ~3% via CRV and LDO incentives, and use… | ||
| Building a Benchmark Rate and Interest Rate Derivatives in DeFi | Darren Camas | 14m |
An on-chain benchmark rate samples lending protocols (initially Aave and Compound) and publishes a mid-market index block-over-block publication used as a… | ||
| Building Customer Confidence with Insurance to Weather a “Crypto Winter" | Helen Ye | 18m |
OneInfinity by OneDegree claims to be the only Asia Pacific insurer focused on crypto, receiving hundreds of inquiries worldwide and partnered with muniri to… | ||
| The Power of DeFi Market Data | Philippe Redaelli | 30m |
Kaiko positions itself as an institutional on‑chain market data provider connected to 150+ venues and claims DeFi trading represents 30–40% market share of… | ||
| Financial Engineering in DeFi | Jeremy Obadia | 08m |
Explains how DeFi adapts two traded TradFi tricks—down-and-in puts and the worst-of feature—to boost yield while multiplying tail and correlation risk, and why… | ||
| The Interoperable Multi-Chain Future of Web3 | Max Kordek | 15m |
Argues that early-stage apps use smart-contract chains for fast MVPs but scale by migrating to app-specific layer ones; claims app-specific chains reach 1… | ||
| The Next Payments Frontier | Ben Hall | 15m |
Contis frames payments history to argue the next leap is the payments universe not the currency: stablecoins give instant settlement 24/7 and remove… | ||
| Liquidity Book and the Future of AMMs | Davide Fi | 14m |
Trader Joe launches Liquidity Book next week, a discretized liquidity AMM with bin architecture that implements concentrated liquidity as adjacent constant-sum… | ||
| Examining Bridging Behavior Using On-Chain Analytics | Sid Shekhar | 15m |
On-chain analysis shows actual bridge behavior not just theory: $4B flows through major bridges in a month, $1.2B stolen via bridge exploits in 2022, and… | ||
| How We Launched the First-Ever Government Backed NFT | Zack Bentata | 13m |
Launches the first-ever government-backed NFT for Ukraine using Fair.xyz, built a code-free creator platform and an anti-bot algorithm, enlisted Ukrainian… | ||
| SuperEx: Changing Cryptocurrency Investment Uncertainty | Carole Addyson | 11m |
SuperEx claims a decentralized exchange with 10 million registered users across 216 countries, private keys stored on users’ devices, and no KYC—so users… | ||
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