Web3 Summit 2018
2018-10-22..2018-10-24
Berlin, Germany
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What Exactly is Web3? | Juan Benet | 31m |
Web3 asserts that the web moves from read/write to read/write/Trust by baking verifiability into core protocols so services can be checked end to end. It links… | ||
| Substrate: A Rustic Vision for Polkadot | Gavin Wood | 01h 25m |
Claims a full blockchain can be coded and deployed in minutes, demonstrates a live coding demo that adds a WASM runtime module (a coin‑flip game), wires it… | ||
| Zero Knowledge Proofs and Their Future Applications | Elad Verbin | 28m |
Claims that secure multi-party computation and zero-knowledge proofs can compute any joint function f while keeping each party’s input secret (origins in the… | ||
| 5 Reasons Why Tezos Rocks | Arthur Breitman | 30m |
Claims a live test reaches 36,000 transactions per second, argues proof-of-stake cuts energy and yields non-dilutive inflation while preserving a furnace… | ||
| Discovering Decentralized Communication with Matrix.org | Matthew Hodgson | 32m |
Matrix is a decentralized, real-time communication network with a JSON/HTTP spec, a Python server Synapse nearing 1.0 and a horizontally scalable Go server… | ||
| Web3 Summit 2018 | 02m | |
Recap of Web3 Summit 2018 highlights claims that current keys controlled by Facebook and Google concentrate roughly a trillion dollars of market control and… | ||
| Post Maximalism | Amir Taaki, Ashley Tyson | 48m |
Claim: Bitcoin’s core is compact — 15,000 lines of code — and its early momentum outpaces most plans. Concrete projects built include the first UK Bitcoin… | ||
| Decentralized Oracles: Providing Access to Key Off-chain Data Sources | Sergey Nazarov | 43m |
Decentralized oracle network called Chainlink is live in prototype form with several Chainlink nodes and published chainlinks that fetch market prices and… | ||
| The Web3 Data Economy: Ocean Protocol | Trent McConaghy | 35m |
Ocean Protocol builds a tokenized data marketplace that lets data owners stake tokens on listings, uses bonding curves to mint reserve-backed dataset tokens… | ||
| investors panel | Olaf Carlson-Wee, Richard Muirhead, Vincent Zhou, Jutta Steiner | 01h 01m |
Panelists argue institutional capital is useful when projects need governance, staking and treasury management rather than just cash: firms run the largest… | ||
| Can Blockchains Solve Ten Years of Standardization Failure? | Harry Halpin | 29m |
Ten years of decentralization efforts produce a string of technical failures and specific takeaways: identity standards fragment (OpenID gives way to OAuth →… | ||
| Governance in Web2 vs. Governance in Web3 | Vlad Zamfir | 30m |
Claim: Web2 governance is already captured by a few corporations; Web3 remains uncaptured but vulnerable. Web3 advantages are decentralized… | ||
| STARK – Zero-Knowledge Proof Protocol | Eli Ben-Sasson, Avihu Levy | 01h 35m |
Starks implement a transparent, post‑quantum zero‑knowledge proof system that requires no trusted setup and turns a T‑step computation into a proof with… | ||
| Edgeware: A Wasm smart contract platform built on Substrate | Dillon Chen, Raymond Z. | 07m |
Edgeware is a Wasm smart contract chain built on Substrate that seeds governance experiments by giving away 90% of new tokens via a lockdrop that converts ETH… | ||
| Genesis to Exodus: The Journey to the First Crypto Phone | Phil Chen | 22m |
Announces the Exodus One phone as a working product that stores private keys in a hardware enclave using ARM TrustZone and a built‑in wallet called ion… | ||
| Web3: Decentralization in the Information Age | Aeron Buchanan | 25m |
A historical tour argues decentralized and centralized organization trade off efficiency for robustness and that no single model fits every project, so… | ||
| Building an On-Ramp to Web 3.0 in Brave Browser | Ben Livshits | 27m |
Claims that Brave is an on‑ramp to Web 3.0 by putting a built-in wallet and Basic Attention Token into the browser, running ad‑blocking and fingerprinting… | ||
| Libp2p: A Modular, P2P Networking Stack | Mike Goelzer | 31m |
Modular peer-to-peer networking stack offering reusable building blocks: transports (TCP, Tor, Bluetooth, WebRTC), stream multiplexing, crypto moving toward… | ||
| Implications of Interoperability | Robert Habermeier | 28m |
Argues that connecting specialized chains yields real gains: a relay chain unites message queues and consensus so attacking one chain must cost as much as… | ||
| Energy Market Transformation by Web3 Tools | Ewald Hesse | 30m |
Energy Web Foundation launches an open-source blockchain platform called Energy Web Chain that runs smart contracts and token-based certificates for grid… | ||
| The Cosmos Stack and the Velocity of Web3 | Zaki Manian | 28m |
Cosmos describes an opinionated stack: Tendermint (a BFT consensus engine with fast finality and hundreds of strangers running testnets), a modular Cosmos SDK… | ||
| Agora Trade: Cross-chain, Decentralized Exchange | Reto Trinkler | 09m |
Claims a noncustodial cross chain exchange using multisignatures, hash time-locked contracts and an optimized off-chain order flow; backend runs on IPFS and a… | ||
| The Duality of Smart Contracts and Electronic Rights | Dean Tribble | 38m |
Agoric describes a working stack: vats that run a secure subset of JavaScript, an issuer/mint model (purses and balances), and composable contracts that create… | ||
| Now That Capital is No Longer the Scarce Resource | Ryan Zurrer | 17m |
Capital is no longer the scarce resource, so institutions must supply scarce capabilities: deep domain expertise, active recruiting, validator/keeper… | ||
| Blink – Scalability with Sub-second Latency | Mihai Ciucu | 28m |
Blink claims a payments-optimized DLT that uses a mini-chain per account and requires each transaction to reference a past global state (two timed rounds) so… | ||
| Replace the System | Peter Czaban | 23m |
Web3 Foundation lays out a concrete tech stack and says the missing pieces, not the idea, block adoption: a browser front end, developer tools and APIs, layer… | ||
| Making Web3 Mobile | Rachel Hamlin | 19m |
Status.im is a mobile-first Web3 app that combines an ERC‑20 crypto wallet, a decentralized peer‑to‑peer messenger built on Whisper, and a Web3 browser… | ||
| Self-Sovereign Identity: How Will it Look in Practice? | E. Rusu, N. Wittenberg | 39m |
Hands-on demo of a working stack: an Android yellow comb smart wallet and a JavaScript library generate a DID (32 bytes entropy, DID = hash(pubkey)), derive… | ||
| Towards Decentralized Computing with Golem | Julian Zawistowski | 18m |
Decentralized marketplace that actually runs universal workloads and uses Ethereum for payments, live on mainnet since April 2018 and focused today on batch… | ||
| WebAssembly for Web 3.0 | Alex Beregszaszi, Peter Czaban, Sergei Shulepov, Lane Rettig | 01h 03m |
Panel argues WebAssembly is the chosen VM for Ewasm/Ethereum 2.0 and for Substrate/Polkadot runtimes, enabling runtime upgrades via WASM and compiling… | ||
| So, What about Politics? | Bernd R. Fix | 29m |
Argues that software and networks are political by design and that early hacker hope that technology alone would realize freedom fails because capitalism… | ||
| Searching for the Killer App | Steven Waterhouse | 22m |
Ten years into the space the claim is that decentralization solves control problems, not just payments: Bitcoin as store of value and Ethereum-funded projects… | ||
| Privacy Preserving Smart Contracts | Can Kisagun, Frederic Fortier | 01h 00m |
A privacy layer called Enigma runs secret contracts that execute on encrypted inputs inside Intel hardware enclaves (Intel SGX), posts a hash to Ethereum, and… | ||
| The Web We Want, The Web We Deserve | Wendy Hanamura | 31m |
Internet Archive frames universal access to all knowledge and says the web betrayed us by surfacing lies and erasing content; evidence includes the Wayback… | ||
| Recap | 10m | |
Argues that the web has re-centralized and that dominant platforms now control data and enable censorship, citing a real example when mesh nets in Catalonia… | ||
| DAOs and the Web3 Vision | Luis Cuende | 41m |
Aragon builds modular DAOs with apps as Lego bricks, a permissioned access control list tying voting, finance and app actions together, and front-ends served… | ||
| Redefining the User Experience for Web 3 | Antoine Najjarin | 26m |
Speckle OS builds a user-interface layer on Polkadot that aims for persistent identity across Polkadot and unified asset and governance flows, not just wallet… | ||
| Product Driven R&D Strategy and Report | Arthur Falls | 23m |
Claims an always-on random beacon where a committee runs DKG and uses threshold cryptography to produce unpredictable randomness that signs the value that… | ||
| Future of the Enterprise & Blockchain | Chris Danusiar, Niraj Pant, Jenn Hirsch | 41m |
Argues enterprise pilots are mostly experiments, not finished products: supply‑chain proofs show data and settlement gaps, private ledgers act like better… | ||
| Oscoin: A P2P Alternative for OSS Collaboration | Eleftherios Diakomichalis | 28m |
Claims a concrete system: a Radical peer-to-peer stack (a language to program arbitrary state machines, a gossip layer, and the Garden CLI for commits/issues)… | ||
| OMG: Why We Started | David Knott | 31m |
Argues for a fully on‑chain DEX built on plasma layer‑2s to enable frictionless fiat–crypto flow, not just off‑chain order matching; shows concrete plasma… | ||
| Clovyr: Making Web3 More Usable | Patrick Nielsen | 23m |
Clovyr builds higher-level developer and user tools to make Web3 practical: easy, one-binary installs for Polkadot, Ethereum and IPFS nodes; automatic… | ||
| Paying for Privacy Preserving Messaging | Robert Kiel, Jeff Burdges | 28m |
Claims a workable design that pays relays to protect metadata by embedding payments in messages, using mix nets for sender unlinkability, VRF secret-shopper… | ||
| Scaling games on Ethereum Sidedchains | Igor Barinov | 30m |
Game logic and economy move from Ethereum to a POA sidechain to stop unpredictable gas spikes and make actions cheap and fast: 5 second blocks, player move… | ||
| Implement a Payment Channel with Libp2p | Lucas Vogelsang | 01h 17m |
Shows a working proof‑of‑concept: a Solidity channel manager contract plus JavaScript libp2p nodes that exchange signed state updates and settle on chain. Uses… | ||
| Decentralized Randomness Protocols | Aparna Krishnan | 01h 00m |
Explains concrete tradeoffs and fixes: which randomness schemes reveal the seed early, which let adversaries bias outcomes, and what actually scales to… | ||
| Parity Aura to Minimum Viable Proof-of-Stake Sidechain | Jannik Luhn | 31m |
A minimal proof‑of‑stake sidechain runs on Parity using Aura consensus and on‑chain manager contracts that auction validator slots, maintain a whitelist and… | ||
| Upgradeability with ZeppelinOS: How Fix Bugs on Deployed smart contracts | S. Palladino, M. Triay | 01h 22m |
ZeppelinOS (OpenZeppelin SDK) provides an upgradeability workflow that uses the proxy pattern so a deployed proxy address keeps storage while the logic… | ||
| web3.js 1.0 | Fabian Vogelsteller | 56m |
Web3.js 1.0 refactor delivers concrete APIs: a websocket-backed subscription layer for block, pending tx and event push; a prom-event transaction object that… | ||
| CryptoKitties: Predicting the Unpredictable – What We Would Have Done Differently | Caty Tedman | 24m |
Argues for a staged maturity rollout instead of immediate decentralization, showing how enabling users to call the give birth function themselves would have… | ||
| Deterministic Wasm for Web3 | Alex Beregszaszi | 27m |
Proposal to run deterministic WebAssembly as the chain VM with static verification and metering: bytecode stays standard Wasm (no changes) but contracts that… | ||
| DAppNode: How to Create the Infrastructure for the Decentralized Web | Abel Boldú, Alex Casas, Eduardo Antuña, Jordi Baylina, DApp Lion, Yalor Tackson | 01h 52m |
Open-source DAppNode installs on a home device to run full nodes and provide a DNS resolver, VPN profile and local IPFS gateway so websites and dApps serve… | ||
| Beyond Dapps and Code? | Owen Barnes | 26m |
Argues for building a new computing platform that treats data as first-class, not just replacing cloud with blockchains; proposes personal Solid pods to own… | ||
| Digital Asset Exchanges and Financial Infrastructure of Web3 | R. Li, W. Piquard, R. Muirhead | 49m |
Claims that Bitcoin shows CoinMarketCap 2–3.5B daily BTC volume but real tradable liquidity is about half, decentralized exchanges suffer from very low… | ||
| DHT, BFT, OMG: Know Your Building Blocks for Decentralized Applications | Kirill Pimenov | 30m |
Practical survey of concrete primitives and tradeoffs: recommends ChaCha20-Poly1305 as the fast cipher choice; explains Kademlia DHT logarithmic lookups for… | ||
| On-chain Governance: the Future is Futarchy | Alex Stokes | 01h 33m |
Argues that governance should be decided by measurable outcomes rather than rhetoric, testing proposals with prediction markets and conditional bets, funded by… | ||
| Three Practical Steps to Growing Healthy Melons | Mona El Isa | 28m |
Mainnet deploy targets February 2019 with the founding company winding down and protocol governance handed to a Melon Council split into Technical Council and… | ||
| Privacy Preserving Data Manipulation in Decentralized Systems | A. Hassard, M. Egorov | 01h 00m |
Claim: a decentralized network performs access control by holding re-encryption keys so ciphertext stays encrypted end-to-end. Implementation uses threshold… | ||
| IoT & Ethereum Integration | Juuso Takalainen | 01h 59m |
An end-to-end demo shows a real-time IoT-to-blockchain pipeline: sensors (Ruby Tag on Raspberry Pi) push JSON to streamer canvas, an averaging accumulator… | ||
| Building DApps based on Token Curated Registries | G. Dhameja | 01h 26m |
Shows a practical Token Curated Registry: a stripped-down Solidity TCR with an ERC‑20 token, apply/challenge/vote flow, and a React UI demo. Explains parameter… | ||
| Summary & Outlook | Aeron Buchanan | 16m |
Conference wraps by listing concrete outcomes and tensions: a consumer crypto phone announced that integrates current stacks, peyote substrate promises… | ||
| DutchX: #BUIDL on the First Fully Decentralized Exchange | Angel R., Christiane E. | 01h 20m |
A permissionless on‑chain exchange uses Dutch auction batches that start at twice the prior close and reach the prior price after six hours, runs one A/B… | ||
| Expanding the Web 3.0 to Low-level Devices: Scaling Access | Christoph Jentzsch | 25m |
Proposes a concrete system called inCubed: a stateless client that verifies Merkle proofs from remote full nodes which post signed block hashes and stake… | ||
| The Goals of Governance | Matthew Di Ferrante | 22m |
Governance aims to qualify legitimate decision‑making, enable recovery from mistakes, and resist co‑option rather than just chase appealing outcomes. Calls to… | ||
| Self-publish Your First Article on Web3 with Pheme | Baris Gumustas, L Daniel Swakman | 01h 41m |
Pheme is a live prototype that stores article blobs on IPFS and keeps a mutable index as an Ethereum pointer chain so a single on‑chain handle points to the… | ||
| OnDaChain or OffDaChain? Design Considerations for User’s Data | Nas Munawar, Gendry Morales | 01h 51m |
Workshop runs hands-on audits of real DApps (Civic, Fizzy, Bun, InZipped, Camerton) using role-play, worksheets and blockchain tools to prove where data… | ||
| Attracting Great Developers to Web 3.0. | Aron van Ammers | 53m |
Advice: focus on what lets a developer start and ship. Ship a live, clickable demo and GitHub repo (example: a working to‑do app), provide hello world in 3–10… | ||
| Growing Open Networks in Web 3 | Vivek Singh, Scott Moore | 27m |
Argues that Web3 goes beyond buzzwords with concrete experiments: Gitcoin grants and token incentives are funding open-source maintenance, IPFS and Ethereum… | ||
| A Query Layer for Dapps | Evgeny Ponomarev, Dmitry Kurinskiy | 48m |
Fluence builds a hybrid query layer that returns real-time, plausibly-correct query results and later verifies them by replaying history from a Swarm store… | ||
| Agora Imagewallet: Trustless, Multichain Custodian Solution | Mark Greenslade | 14m |
Claiming a scalable, trustless multichain custodian, the system embeds an encrypted random seed and metadata into a PNG file with a QR overlay so users unlock… | ||
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