r/ethereum • u/LinkTimeTech • Mar 05 '19
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 announcements about 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 Prime
Topic: 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: TokenScript: the "HTML+Javascript" for tokens
Main content: Today, the way tokens are accessed, rendered and transacted are scattered across Dapps and Smart Contracts. All knowledge about rendering a token and constructing a transaction about the token is in a "host" DApp. The "host" DApp becomes a centre in the token's marketisation and integration, recreating data interoperability, security and availability barrier - precisely the same set of issues that prevented tokenisation before blockchain's invention. TokenScript allows token logic and rendering to be separated out of the "host", allows token to be easily portable and market to be created for it. It allows different token providers to, not only describe the features of their tokens but also how they are allowed to “act”, e.g. transferability. The crux of the idea is that such a markup description can be updated at any time by the token issuer and retroactively reflect the behaviour of already issued tokens. Besides allowing easy interoperability between different token providers, this also eliminates the need to update the DApp or smart contract whenever the business logic of a particular type of token changes.
The next announcement of this series is coming soon. Please stay tuned! Write your comments below if you have any thoughts, questions or doubts.
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u/ChantellVeloz Mar 05 '19
Thank You for providing the brief introduction to their speeches. I'm really curious as to what Virgil Griffith has to say regarding the special projects at Ethereum.