If you couldn’t come… Doesn’t mean you can’t see the presentations! Find them all here and watch them at your convenience.
Alephium’s first builders meetup was held in Athens June 21–23 2024. It has been an incredible gathering where the builders of ecosystem’s projects were able to meet & mingle with core contributors in an insightful, joyous & studious atmosphere.
Who Attended?
In total, more than 60 participants turned up! Some came from as far as Vancouver, Michigan, Argentina or Canada to Athens for a 2 day summit! We are absolutely humbled & elated by this level of effort and dedication.
Most of the attendees were builders of a lot of the ecosystem’s biggest projects: Ayin, Pyreplay/Alph.land, Ulam, Invariant, Linx, Sezame, Alphbanx, Deadrare, Mobula, NTV, AlphPro, Alphaga, GoldcastleClub, Shin, Alephium Battle, HodlAlph & GigaCheng were all represented there.
11 of the core contributors were there & gave presentations on very diverse topics and made sure things ran as smoothly as possible! Some well-known community moderators & friends from Bity, Nym, & Ergo also showed up.
Some of our sponsors who made the meetup possible were able to attend. We were lucky enough to have Hearst, Antpool & Hodling with us. Banxa we missed you there! The Blockflow DAO was well represented with 3 of its members there. It has greatly supported that meetup with its travel grant helped many of the builders to attend who wouldn’t have been able to otherwise.
Show me the meetup!
In general, the aim of the meetup was to provide a time for cross-pollinating ideas, meeting long-known discord usernames IRL & learn from each other. The following presentations follow the schedule of the meetup (if you want more details on the schedule, find it here.).
We’ve worked hard at making them accessible in a simple way. If you can’t hear well enough, you can activate the subtitles. If for some reason you can’t read well enough on the presentations, we have included them as a link so you can download them:
Alephium: Journey from Zero to Infinity
By Cheng Wang, core-contributor, Alephium.
An overview of Alephium’s history, current developments and what’s on the roadmap. — Deck
Exploring Dapp Development Across Blockchain Ecosystems: Why Alephium Stands Out
By MGPai, Phoenix Finance (X profile, Website, Telegram)
Presentation covering a range of UTXO-based blockchains, highlighting the development experience on each of them & the strong points of Alephium. — Deck
Bridging Mining, DeFi & Sustainability
By Loïc Ricci of Hearst (X profile, Website)
Hearst’s overview, focusing on the solutions offering: An integrated experience of running mining equipments, leveraging DeFi protocols to increase returns and exploring sustainability in energy sources & how it interacts with Alephium & its ecosystem. — Deck
dApps, under the hood
By H0ngcha0, core-contributor, Alephium.
Presentation of the “Alephium Decoder”, a powerful tool that enables developers to investigate smart contracts and transaction scripts to verify their correctness + a description of all the steps of a transaction! — Deck
Leveraging Merkle Trees for Scalable and Secure Offchain Storage on Alephium
By Dimfred, dev @Pyreplay (Website, Discord)
Merkle trees are an efficient way to ensure that data is verifiable without needing to store it on-chain. Dimfred’s presentation shows their benefits, trade-offs, and possible applications. — Deck
An introduction to Ralph LSP
By Thomas, core-contributor, Alephium.
Thomas introduces the Ralph LSP tool, designed to make it easier for devs to code on Alephium. It has features like auto-completion and others, helping developers to check their code. He also provides a live demonstration of its main features. — Deck
Stablecoins: The Keystone of Crypto Stability and Trust
By Timothy of AlphBanx (Website, Discord, Telegram)
In this presentation, Timothy explains how Alphbanx works and all the protection layers built into the protocol to sustain its stablecoin peg. — Deck
On-chain NFTs
By Reed of Alph.pro, Alph Ducks & mintingti.me (Website, Discord)
Reed presents his latest creation, an NFT collection in which all data (including images) is on the chain. He shows how he leveraged SVG images to build the collection & evokes the flexibility of Alephium’s smart contract language. — Deck
How to work with Alephium blockchain data? Indexing & defi position tracking
by Mobula (Website, Discord, Telegram)
Mobula shows what it takes to index data on Alephium and what the requisites are to ensure the data collected is reliable! — Deck
How to structure a DEX
By IG Mosqueira
Ignacio Mosqueira lays the foundation for building a DEX that solves the issues of attracting liquidity, high-selling pressure of the DEX’s native token and how to protect liquidity providers against MEV, IL and LRV.
The challenge of bootstrapping a full node
By Benoit Perroud, core-contributor, Alephium.
Benoit shows 3 different ways of bootstrapping an Alephium full node and compares the benefits and drawbacks of each. — Deck
How to DAO? A Workshop
By Hux
Hux explains the origins of DAOs and shows that they are one natural way of organizing populations/companies/communities. To achieve this goal, the participants need to learn how to make coordinated decisions and align together.
UI/UX Workshop
By Mika, core-contributor, Alephium.
Mika explains the concepts behind Alephium’s UI/UX approach, and opens a Q&A session with the participants, brainstorming ideas and collecting feedback on the current versions of the wallets and explorer. — Deck
Twitter Marketing 101 Workshop
By Vlad, core-contributor, Alephium.
Vlad details the strategy behind Alephium’s Twitter presence, and how projects could manage their Twitter accounts by becoming real Medias. Participants are gathered in teams to analyze a few projects and work on target, tone & key messages.
Our Sponsors & Supporters
This event wouldn’t have been possible without our incredible sponsors and supporters. We extend our deepest gratitude to:
Gold Sponsor — Hearst
Leading the way with innovative Proof of Work mining, sustainable energy solutions, and advanced AI and DeFi integrations.
Bronze Sponsor — AntPool
Providing top-tier multi-currency mining services and commitment to security and compliance.
Bronze Sponsor — Hodling SA
Experts in secure self-custody solutions and long-time supporters of the Alephium ecosystem.
Bronze Sponsor — Banxa
Offering compliant fiat-to-crypto payment solutions with extensive global and local payment methods.
Special Supporter — The Blockflow Alliance
Alephium’s first community DAO, dedicated to expanding and nurturing the ecosystem.
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