What to expect from EDCON2019 — a preview on the topics of EDCON speeches #1

What attending events in the crypto space means to most of us is that, it is a perfect chance to get the most up-to-date info. about leading and emerging projects, be it their technology progress or their business and community development roadmaps.

So EDCON team would like to make a series of brief introduction to the main contents of the speech of our speakers, which might be the biggest concern to most of our attendees.

#1

Speaker: Aditya Asgaonkar @Ethereum Foundation

Topic: Towards a Practical CBC Casper

Main content: Aditya will begin by introducing the basic Casper CBC protocol, and describe one of the blockchain fork-choice examples. Then, he will discuss the complexities involved in the implementation of the protocol for that particular blockchain case. The talk will be quite technical, concerning efficient algorithms to detect which block is safe etc. At the end, he will discuss some points from the Casper CBC roadmap, and how community members can get involved and contribute.

#2

Speaker: Alex Gluchowski @Ethereum Foundation

Topic: Scaling with Zero Knowledge Proofs

Main content: Alex would like to talk about their zkSNARK-based Plasma implementation: https://medium.com/plasma-ignis/presenting-ignis-plasma-of-fire-502fab5a6f17

#3

Speaker: Virgil Griffith @Ethereum Foundation

Topic: Special Projects at Ethereum Foundation

Main content: Virgil would like to give a short talk on Special Projects from Ethereum Foundation. Probably 20min with 10min Q&A.

#4

Speaker: Georgios Konstantopoulos @Loom Network

Topic: The year in Plasma

Main content: Georgios will provide a progress update on Plasma over last year, what works and what doesn’t etc.

#5

Speaker: Adrian Li @Truffle / Consensys

Topic: Interacting with Smart Contracts in Streams

Main content: The decentralization of the blockchain makes it difficult to reason about interacting with smart contracts. The team has created a library based on streams to allow developers to easily subscribe to events happening on the blockchain. Brought to you by the same team that built Truffle, the popular development tool.

#6

Speaker: Wei Tang @Parity

Topic: Debugging the Consensus

Main content: Wei will be focusing on reflections and lessons learned for the past two Constantinople delays and how we handled consensus bugs.

#7

Speaker: Paul Hauner & Adrian Manning @ Sigma PrimeTopic:

Lighthouse: Towards Ethereum 2.0

Main content: They would like to give a talk about some of the more technical aspects of the client / design architecture, or alternatively some aspects of the current security space in Ethereum.

#8

Speaker: Adrian Eidelman @Rootstock

Topic: What is RSK (Rootstock) and how it’s contributing to the Ethereum community

Main content: Adrian will give a brief introduction to RSK and how they are collaborating in different projects in the Ethereum Ecosystem. He’d also like to present their Grants program for developers.

#9

Speaker: Sergey Nazarov @Chainlink

Topic: Decentralized Oracles: Reliably Triggering Smart Contracts using Decentralized Computation and Trusted Execution Environments

Main content: In this talk, he’ll define and examine what makes a secure oracle mechanism reliable enough to be used by smart contracts for external data delivery, access to web APIs and off-chain payments. He will also review the security risks and failure scenarios to avoid when using oracles and share how developers should set up methods to maximize success. He’ll look at how a decentralized oracle network can make oracle mechanisms more secure. Finally, he will present an in-depth approach that applies additional layers of security through the use of Trusted Execution Environments and cutting edge approaches such as TownCrier.

#10

Speaker: Wuwei Zhang @AlphaWallet

Topic: Token Behaviour Markup Language(TBML): the “HTML+Javascript” for tokens

Main content: Currently, DApp can’t accept a lot of tokens in one go and tokens have to gain support by convincing each DApp to explicitly support it. We need a layer for tokens to be used on various websites. Dapp developers can benefit from a uniformed, comprehensive interface for manipulating tokens, while token developers get to abstract their token behaviour code so they can interact with more DApps. This keynote will focus on tokenisation and introduce a standardisation effort known as TBML (Token Behaviour Markup Language) which will make the blockchain technical stack complete, providing utility for the economy and the internet. By virtue of TBML being a solution layer rather than base-layer technologies like Ethereum and Plasma, they choose to introduce the technology by example and provide rich business-context based discussion for a broader spectrum of audience.

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