Day 1 DevCon4 (2018) , Prague
Time seems to go very fast because some months ago we requested the builder ticket, and today we are flying to prague, road to devcon4!!
Personally I am quite excited, because We are not only going to be at the most important ethereum development conference… we are going to meet all the ecosystem, including our partners jpmorgan quorum, pegasys pantheon, our brotherhood company southafrican jobmates of adhara, etc … and of course a lot of alumnis of the first ever ethereum developer course of consensys ,and hackaton mates at dubai. I am curious to know more about their projects, virtue poker, kauri, solutions, truffle, pegasys, limetech, and all the learnings since last year.
Day starts at 4 am, because our flights departs at 6 am. We arrive, uber and here we are, at the conference venue.
Strange but for the conference checkin, there was no queue on people who’s firstname starts with F. Other letters were quite full. A good start
At the entrance, we saw some stickers… a place where you can share your companies stickers, place stickers on your laptop, on your badge to share your mood.. nice! A funny photocall too.
Iobuilders has some nice stickers too!!
The first 3 hours apart from having lunch, we had the chance to share some time with https://adhara.io/ , https://virtue.poker/ (most of the people are spaniards), some Dubai Consensys Hackaton Mates, EEA members and some new people around.
A 13:00 we decided to start feeding our minds with news and information. We stayed almost all the time at the Prism room, this what we saw and our feelings, comments:
- EthereumJS — Our Roadmap for 2019. Quick summary about next comings. Our summary of higlights: Ewasm , lightnode, and
- Yul — Intermediate language for Ethereum. An introduction to Yul, a language that compiles to the different EVM versions. Interesting. https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/yul.html
- SWARM Team Update. One of the most interesting of the day. New release features, like Encryption, access control, Feeds to handle mutable data in Swarm, and PSS postal service. PSS and ACL is a very nice discovery, due some needs of our ongoing projects. https://swarm-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pss.html
- RICO — Making ICOs fair, by making them reversible. Fabian Vogelsteller as always, lightning the way. Awesome speaker skills. He is pushing forward, being somehow the ERC20 creator, a way to make fair ICO’s due the amount scams around, not commiting to the published roadmap. Basically is a way to be able to checkout/refund some tokens that you invested, if you are not confortable with project progress or achievements. https://www.bitcoinisle.com/2018/10/30/ethereums-token-standard-creator-wants-to-make-icos-reversible/ https://dri.network/rico/
- Universal Ethereum Logins. A quite important topic that we are following for some months, via https://metatx.io/. This is an equivalent approach, trying to make Ethereum usage easier to users that don’t care about blockchain. They want a good UX, and functionality. Metacartel is the alliance of various companies pushing this idea. SSI, proxy contract, etherless transactions, and counterfactual contract. https://medium.com/@avsa/universal-logins-update-first-code-release-6144cedbf924 https://medium.com/@avsa/universal-logins-first-demo-1dc8b17a8de7 https://blog.aragon.org/advanced-solidity-code-deployment-techniques-dc032665f434/
- Introducing Formality. A formal verificacion framework. Lets see when we can test it .https://medium.com/@maiavictor/updates-on-ethereums-moon-project-535f8c0497ef
- Getting started with Vyper. A good overview of VYPER, an alternative to solidity in python. Workshop was prepared but the WIFI wasn’t connecting in our laptops. https://github.com/jacqueswww/devcon4-workshop https://github.com/ethereum/vyper
1830, road to hotel, some emails, works tasks to to do, dinner , more work and sleeping. Prague`s nightlife will be discovered hopefully on Day 2 and 3 :).
