TOKEN2049 Singapore 2023
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What's Happening On-Chain? Current Trends in On-Chain Data | Fredrik Haga | 15m |
friend.tech drives a recent on‑chain spike: 143,000 users and roughly $14 million in revenue its trading peaks hit over $15M daily but active engagement… | ||
| Solving the Liquid Staking Trilemma | Mohak Agarwal | 11m |
Claims a modular DVT architecture that runs each validator as a four-operator cluster for fault tolerance, plugging SSV and Obol to absorb multiple MEV boost… | ||
| Bringing Gaming and IP Into the Future | Sascha Mojtahedi | 14m |
Parallel describes a live trading card game built from ERC-1155 cards that acts as pre-production for 3D assets dropped into UE5, a custom Stable Diffusion… | ||
| The State of Filecoin | Juan Benet | 15m |
Filecoin presents concrete milestones: a storage network with 10 exabytes of capacity, partnerships with Seagate and AMD, and about 1,400 clients with ~23… | ||
| Unlocking 21 Million Bitcoin to Secure the Decentralised Economy | David Tse | 18m |
Claims a self-custodial Bitcoin-staking protocol that uses BTC as full slashable collateral for proof-of-stake security without bridges, relying on one-time… | ||
| The Next-Gen Search Engine for Web3: Kaito | Yu Hu | 16m |
Founded March 2022 with seed financing led by dragon fly sequ Jam Street, Kaito launches an institutional-facing terminal that already indexes research and… | ||
| Blockchains Are Not Computers | Nick Dodson | 14m |
Claims that blockchains need native asset semantics, not general‑purpose VMs, and offers Fuel as proof: an asset-centric rollup deployed to mainnet (Fuel v1)… | ||
| Real-World Assets Meet DEX: Exploring the Future of DeFi | Henry Zhang | 15m |
Claims a Singapore-licensed, regulated DEX for security tokens with two licenses that tokenizes real-world and crypto-native securities and runs on DeFi tech… | ||
| The Path to 100m Users | Jack O'Holleran | 14m |
Claims that the SKALE network scales from under a million transactions to 150 million on‑chain transactions and records almost $2 billion in gas fees saved… | ||
| Enterprise Adoption of Stablecoins | David Uhryniak | 14m |
Claims concrete adoption and scale: Tron reports account growth of ~63% to ~183M, ~$7B market cap, ~6.5B transactions and more daily active users than Bitcoin… | ||
| Innovation and Regulation. East vs West | Matthew Graham | 10m |
Argues that regulation is just the Innovator's Dilemma scaled to nation-states, with incumbents protecting a $3.59 trillion finance ecosystem that explains… | ||
| Fireside Chat – David Mercer | David Mercer | 17m |
Claims LMAX runs five exchanges and LMAX Digital has been live six years, positioning itself as the largest institutional crypto venue; it trades FX liquidity… | ||
| Fireside Chat – Vincent Chok | Vincent Chok | 15m |
FDUSD launches in June and already reaches market cap almost $400M with trading volume over $500M, claiming a top-10 slot. Hong Kong plans a stablecoin… | ||
| Driving Real Change Through Value Creation | John Cho | 17m |
Klaytn commits projects to share revenue to drive token sustainability by burning native clay rather than relying solely on protocol tweaks; current on‑chain… | ||
| The Pyth Effect: How the Oracle is Reshaping DeFi | Mike Cahill | 14m |
Pyth is an oracle network that claims to deliver low-latency trustworthy market data by ingesting first‑party feeds from 90 institutional publishers and… | ||
| Exploring the Future of DeFi with Tranchess | Danny Chong | 15m |
Tranchess defines itself as a structured liquid staking and asset‑tracking protocol running on Ethereum and BNB Chain and operating its own validator nodes… | ||
| Crypto Doesn’t Need Another CEX | Cindy Leow, David Lu | 09m |
A Solana-based perpetual DEX claims to be the largest on-chain derivatives venue, live for about two years with 90% market share on Solana and $10B notional in… | ||
| The Superpowers of the ZK Stack | Alex Gluchowski | 19m |
zk proofs enable running millions of transactions off-chain, recursively compressing millions of executions into a single on‑chain proof, and zkSync era code… | ||
| Transforming Telegram to Web3 with Toncoin | Steve Yun, John Hyman | 13m |
Telegram integrates the TON blockchain, Telegram mini apps, and a Ton Space wallet (a non‑self‑custody wallet now in the main menu rollout starting November… | ||
| Lifting the Lid on Liquidity | Ben Roth | 13m |
Claim: lack of a clear liquidity strategy dooms tokens. Auros says liquidity wins or loses projects and backs that with concrete scale — $2 trillion notional… | ||
| Introducing the idOS - The Self-Sovereign Identity Layer of Web3 | Julian Leitloff | 14m |
A live idOS demo shows users logging with MetaMask, spinning up a validator node, querying a local SQL store and adding encrypted verifiable credentials that… | ||
| Astar 2.0 Supernova. Entering the New Chapter of Astar Network | Watanabe Sota | 13m |
Astar announces Astar 2.0 Supernova with an Astar ZK EVM powered by Polygon, a joint venture and $3.5M seed from Sony Network Communications, and a plan to… | ||
| Web3 for Institutions: Building Robust Infrastructure | Konstantin Richter | 14m |
Company claims operation of 150,000 nodes and custody-light wallet stacks that institutions can deploy in their own datacenters, backed by major banks and… | ||
| Journey of a DeFi Power User | Juan David Mendieta | 15m |
A market-making firm describes concrete DeFi experiments: liquidity on Uniswap V2 fat tails loses beyond ~30%, concentrated ranges on Uniswap V3 and multi-call… | ||
| Rebuilding Crypto Lending | Adam Reeds | 13m |
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| Fantom 2.0 | Michael Kong | 15m |
Fantom announces a new stack: Tosca VM (Solidity/Vyper compatible) plus a storage redesign that removes the MPT, and a peer‑to‑peer/consensus overhaul. Private… | ||
| Web3's Immutable Flywheel | Felix Sim | 15m |
Claims that after 500+ days and three bear cycles the decisive value is community not tech, summarized as three truths: product and go‑to‑market matter… | ||
| Global Investing With Securities-Backed Tokens | Chas Rampenthal | 13m |
Dinari issues tokens backed 1:1 by US securities (Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, Amazon and S&P ETFs) that non‑US users can buy with stablecoins accepted on‑ramps… | ||
| Proving Ethereum Full Nodes in ZK | Tiancheng Xie | 16m |
Claims a full-node consensus proof that verifies 20,000 validator signatures within a block time (12s) by using a Virgo (GKR) based prover that processes 3… | ||
| Retail NFT Market: The Destiny of the Next Bull Run | Alexei Falin | 11m |
Rarible shifts from a central marketplace to a white-label marketplace and API platform that powers 5,000+ community stores; current active users number in the… | ||
| Exploring Institutional Engagement with Crypto Assets | Usman Ahmad | 14m |
Company built a regulated trading and custody platform called Zodia Markets in partnership with Standard Chartered, registered with the UK FCA and targeting… | ||
| Living Beyond Borders: Investment Migration and Crypto | Dominic Volek | 13m |
Henley & Partners reports $12 billion raised advising high-net-worth crypto founders and investors on residency and citizenship-by-investment, and releases an… | ||
| #GoSustainability | Sunny Lu | 16m |
VeChain claims 6+ years zero downtime and 100% availability while supporting hundreds of enterprises, publishes a new white paper “web3 for better” with BCG… | ||
| The Future of Payments: Transparency & Proof of Reserves | Nabil Manji | 16m |
Worldpay converts fiat payouts into USDC using Circle and Fireblocks then validates each step with Axiom oracles on Hedera, producing USDC mint provenance and… | ||
| Tokenizing Humanity | Leslie Lamb | 13m |
Five months after launch a crypto derivatives and RWA exchange called OPNX goes live with tokenized FTX and Celsius claims trading on public order books… | ||
| Islamic Coin: Harnessing the Potentials in Islamic Finance | Mohammed AlKaff Alhashmi | 17m |
Claims a Sharia-compliant blockchain stack: a proof-of-stake hack chain with an Islamic Coin native token, a Sharia board certifying compliance, and concrete… | ||
| Achieving True Mainstream Adoption in Gaming Through Web3 | Joseph Young | 14m |
Claims that only ~1 million web3 native gamers exist, that typical web3 games peak in weeks while Star Trek Fleet Command — 7 years, billions in revenue keeps… | ||
| Navigating Crypto Cycles as a Builder | Tascha Punyaneramitdee | 14m |
Built leveraged DeFi products (Alpha, Stellaxyz) that hit 2 billion peak TVL across multiple EVM chains and funded by global investors, so the concrete… | ||
| DeFi Derivatives: Exotic Options on Smart Contracts | Arisa Toyosaki | 15m |
Claims deployment of the first exotic option smart contracts across Ethereum Solana and Arbitrum, with $300M notional traded and a peak TVL near $50M… | ||
| Scaling to Infinity and Beyond | Eric Chen | 08m |
Injective describes a finance-focused blockchain with an on-chain limit order book, Oracle module, and bridges to Axelar and Wormhole; ecosystem projects like… | ||
| Moving Money at Internet Speed | Raagulan Pathy, Brooks Entwistle, Paul Kremsky | 17m |
Ripple claims a working cross‑border bridge using XRP across 70+ countries that cuts costs by roughly 7% spread and pairs with recent custody tech via Metaco… | ||
| Fusion: A New Standard for Decentralized Finance | Sergej Kunz | 15m |
1inch Fusion claims a new on-chain swap standard built on the open-source limit order protocol and a Dutch auction that starts at oracle spot and ticks down to… | ||
| Crypto Adoption Essentials: Familiarity, Reliability & Security | Khaleelulla Baig | 11m |
A crypto trading app called KoinBasket claims to turn web3 into a web2 shopping-like experience by letting users login with Binance/Coinbase (like Google… | ||
| Crypto Mass Adoption via Blockchain Payment Rails and Stablecoin | Tracy Li | 15m |
Argues that card networks, ACH and wire transfers are replaceable by blockchain rails using stablecoins and smart contracts for programmability, faster… | ||
| Web3 Security: The Epic Battle Against Evil | Richard Ma | 14m |
Quantstamp describes itself as a billion dollar web3 security company that reports $3 billion stolen in 2022 and runs a monthly hacks roundup. Work includes… | ||
| Bitcoin: Ownership and Custody | Bobby Lee | 14m |
Claims that 100% cold storage can be delivered on a non‑electronic physical card with zero setup and no firmware updates, built as a bearer asset for gifting… | ||
| Celo's L2 Proposal: Building The Perfect L2 for Mobile Payments | Marek Olszeski | 15m |
Proposal converts Celo from an L1 into an L2 called C2, aiming to keep gas under $0.01 by using EigenLayer/EigenDA for cheaper data availability, reuse… | ||
| Next-Generation Climate Finance | Andrew Bonneau | 13m |
Klimadao/Carbonmark tokenizes verified credits by bridging project NFTs and fractionalizing them into ERC‑20s where each token equals one ton, and reports 25… | ||
| Removing the Human Factor from DeFi Risk Management | Yaron Velner | 14m |
Claim: replace human risk vendors with a deployed smart contract that computes loan-to-value, caps and rates from on-chain DEX liquidity and volatility feeds… | ||
| The Exchange of Digital Assets is Universal | Jeff Feng | 15m |
Sei is an exchange-only layer one that sacrifices generality for an optimized trading stack, built open source and running a proof-of-stake network with a… | ||
| Start Building Your Own Stablecoin with Stablecoin Studio | Mance Harmon | 12m |
Stablecoin Studio is an open source Apache‑2 toolkit that configures and deploys a full stablecoin stack on Hedera in hours or days, combining the Hedera Token… | ||
| Managing Risk With Institutional Staking on Ethereum | Rok Kopp | 16m |
Ether.fi positions itself as a decentralized institutional liquid-staking protocol claiming users keep withdrawal key custody by generating their own… | ||
| Buidling a Better-Verse: Creating Vision, Value, Volume in the Metaverse | Loretta Chen | 15m |
Smobler outlines concrete builds on the Sandbox platform: a mobile‑first GameFi title Everest that captures 10,000 unique players in two weeks, integration of… | ||
| AI and Open Compute - How to Solve the World's Big Problems | Tom Trowbridge | 14m |
Argues that decentralized serverless compute (Fluence) runs cloud-like stacks off-chain with proof of compute verifiability, edge hosting and fiat payments for… | ||
| How Music Will Deliver the First Mainstream Consumer Success in Web3 | Jon Vlassopulos | 14m |
Claims that music is the on-ramp for mainstream Web3 adoption, backed by specifics: Napster holds the same rights as Spotify, had 85 million users in 1999, and… | ||
| Driving Mainstream Adoption through Media, Entertainment & Video Games | Brian D. Evans | 14m |
Argues that web3 gaming converts mainstream users by turning game items into real digital assets: character as an NFT, in‑game gold as transferable tokens, and… | ||
| Navigating the Paradox of DeFi and Credit | Jakob Kronbichler | 13m |
A DeFi credit marketplace that has originated over $400M in loans contrasts with overcollateralized lending and shows where risk concentrates: liquidity mining… | ||
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