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Devcon 1

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Devcon 1

Only a few months after Ethereum came to life, DΞVCON 1 was held in London in November of 2015. Presenters remained hard at work on each piece of the original Ethereum roadmap, early dApp teams took the stage, and supporters teased the early industry adoption that was to arrive soon.

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Agreement Making in Solidity: A Legal Perspective preview
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Agreement Making in Solidity: A Legal Perspective

Bill Marino of Cornell Tech presents on Agreement Making in Solidity: A Legal Perspective.

Bill Marino

Backfeed preview
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Backfeed

Matan Field presents on Backfeed (http://backfeed.cc), which develops resilient technology and new economic models to support free, large-scale, systematic collaboration.

Matan Field

Balanc3: Triple Entry Accounting preview
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Balanc3: Triple Entry Accounting

Jeff Scott Ward and Christian Lundkvist of ConsenSys (https://consensys.net/) presents on Balanc3, a smart contract powered Triple-Entry Accounting system.

Jeff Scott Ward, Christian Lundkvist

Banking with Smart Contracts preview
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Banking with Smart Contracts

Lee Braine (Barclays), Ian Cusden (UBS), Rex Maudsley (Societe Generale), Andrew Keys and James Slazas (ConsenSys) discuss banking with Smart Contracts.

Lee Braine, Ian Cusden, Rex Maudsley, Andrew Keys, James Slazas

Augur preview
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Augur

Dr. Jack Peterson presents on Augur (http://www.augur.net/), an open-source, decentralized prediction market built on Ethereum.

Jack Peterson

BlockApps STRATO preview
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BlockApps STRATO

Victor Wong, Kieren James Lubin, Jim Hormuzdiar Present on BlockApps STRATO, a full-stack technology solution that allows users to build industry-specific Blockchain applications on the Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Victor Wong, Kieren James Lubin, Jim Hormuzdiar

Blockchain Model Canvas preview
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Blockchain Model Canvas

Blockchain Model Canvas

Adi Chikara

Building a DApp: What are DApps and why Meteor preview
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Building a DApp: What are DApps and why Meteor

Ethereum's Fabian Vogelstellar presents on DApps and why Meteor is awesome (https://www.meteor.com/).

Fabian Vogelsteller

Building a DApp: Design Principles for Dapp developers preview
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Building a DApp: Design Principles for Dapp developers

Ethereum's Alex Van de Sande presents on Design Principles for Dapp developers from a UX perspective

Alex Van de Sande

BTC Relay preview
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BTC Relay

Joseph Chow (Lead Developer) presents on BTC Relay (http://btcrelay.org/), a collection of smart contracts that allows Ethereum developers to interact with the Bitcoin blockchain and verify Bitcoin transactions.

Joseph Chow

Casper preview
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Casper

Ethereum's Vlad Zamfir presents on Casper, the PoS blockchain architecture for Serenity release.

Vlad Zamfir

Challenges in Public Economic Consensus preview
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Challenges in Public Economic Consensus

Vlad Zamfir discusses the challenges in finding public economic consensus with indirect relation to Casper PoS.

Vlad Zamfir

Communicating the Ethereum Narrative preview
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Communicating the Ethereum Narrative

William Mougayar (https://twitter.com/wmougayar) presenting on the best ways to ccommunicate the Ethereum Narrative.

William Mougayar

Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success preview
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Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success

Vinay Gupta presents on cypherpunk's history, it's failure and Ethereum's success. Vinay Gupta is a leading thinker on infrastructure theory, state failure solutions, and managing global system risks including poverty/development and the environmental crisis. He is inventor of the hexayurt. Vinay formerly served on Ethereum's communications and release management teams.

Vinay Gupta, Imogen Heap

DApp Design Patterns preview
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DApp Design Patterns

Joris Bontje presents on DApp Design Patterns - the best way to build you DApp.

Joris Bontje

Colony preview
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Colony

Colony (http://colony.io/) is a decentralized governance and community collaboration platform for contributing ideas, making decisions, doing work, giving feedback on the work of others and building reputation.

Jack du Rose

DApps Framework preview
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DApps Framework

Ethereum's Konstantin Kudryavtsev presents on Embark, a DApp Development Framework built by Iuri Mathias.

Konstantin Kudryavtsev

DappStore preview
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DappStore

Tim Coulter of ConsenSys (https://consensys.net/) presents on the DApp Store (http://dappstore.io), a platform for sharing Ethereum based DApps.

Tim Coulter

Decentralized Reddit preview
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Decentralized Reddit

Connor Keenan of ConsenSys (https://consensys.net/) presents on his decentralized version of Reddit built on Ethereum.

Connor Keenan

DEVgrants preview
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DEVgrants

Ethereum's Wendell Davis takes the stage to announce the continuation of the Ethereum DEVgrants programme thanks to a generous donation from Omise (https://www.omise.co/).

Wendell Davis

devp2p preview
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devp2p

Ethereum's Alex Leverington presents on "devp2p", Ethereum's networking protocol.

Alex Leverington

Digital Identity preview
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Digital Identity

Christian Lundkvist of ConsenSys (https://consensys.net/) presents on digital identity.

Christian Lundkvist

ENS (Ethereal Namespace) preview
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ENS (Ethereal Namespace)

Ryan Casey of Maker DAO (https://makerdao.com/) presents on ENS (Ethereal Namespace), a contract system and set of conventions for unifying all simple (word-sized keys/values) registries into a single hierarchal namespace.

Ryan Casey

Ether.Camp preview
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Ether.Camp

Roman Mandeleil, the Lead Developer of the Ethereum Java client shows off Ether.Camp, a block explorer, IDE and Hackathon Manager on Microsoft's Azure Cloud. http://hack.ether.camp/ http://frontier.ether.camp/

Roman Mandeleil

Ethereum & WebAssembly preview
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Ethereum & WebAssembly

Ethereum's Martin Becze presents on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and WebAssembly

Martin Becze

Ethereum for Dummies preview
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Ethereum for Dummies

Ethereum's CTO Dr. Gavin Wood presents "Ethereum for Dummies" or "So, now we've built it, WTF is it?"

Gavin Wood

Ethereum in the Enterprise Environment preview
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Ethereum in the Enterprise Environment

Ethereum's Taylor Gerring presents on Ethereum in the Enterprise Environment.

Taylor Gerring

Ethereum The African Opportunity preview
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Ethereum The African Opportunity

Wayne Hennessy-Barrett of 4G Capital (http://4g-capital.com/) presents on "Ethereum: The African Opportunity (Nairobi)".

Wayne Hennessy-Barrett

Formal Semantics for Protocols preview
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Formal Semantics for Protocols

Peter McBurney presents on Formal Semantics for Protocols at Ethereum's DEVCON1.

Peter McBurney

Gaming on the Blockchain preview
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Gaming on the Blockchain

Panel focusing on gaming on the blockchain, chaired by Wendel Davis with Peter Borah, Julian Pittleman, Jim Berry and Tyler Smith

Wendel Davis, Peter Borah, Julian Pittleman, Jim Berry, Tyler Smith

FreeMyVunk: Join the movement preview
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FreeMyVunk: Join the movement

Tyler Smith presents on FreeMyVunk (http://www.freemyvunk.com/), a DApp dedicated to empowering people to fight for ownership rights over their virtual property, virtual junk or VUNK.

R. Tyler Smith

Gnosis preview
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Gnosis

Martin Koppelmann Presents on Gnosis (https://groupgnosis.com/). Gnosis enables you to make predictions on all kinds of events.

Martin Koppelmann

History of the Blockchain preview
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History of the Blockchain

Nick Szabo takes the stage to present on the history of blockchain technology and his work on the Ethereum tech stack.

Nick Szabo

How Blockchain Technology Can Help us Achieve Prosperity preview
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How Blockchain Technology Can Help us Achieve Prosperity

Don Tapscott takes the stage at DEVCON1 to discuss how blockchain technology can help us achieve prosperity.

Don Tapscott

IBM MTN Project preview
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IBM MTN Project

IBM's Henning Diedrich presents on the IoT MTN Project.

Henning Diedrich

Inflekt: Event & Community Management preview
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Inflekt: Event & Community Management

Ashley Taylor of Consensys (https://consensys.net/) presents on Inflekt, an open source tribal network and events management platform.

Ashley Taylor

Insurance on the blockchain preview
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Insurance on the blockchain

Elias Haase of B9 Lab presents on insurance on the blockchain.

Elias Haase

Introduction to Consensus preview
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Introduction to Consensus

Dominic Williams delivers a presentation on an "Introduction to Consensus".

Dominic Williams

IPFS preview
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IPFS

A look into using IPFS with Juan Batiz-Benet to distribute datastructures for various Ethereum use cases, from off-chain data, to the chain itself. IPFS A look into using IPFS to distribute datastructures for various Ethereum use cases, from off-chain data, to the chain itself. About Juan Batiz-Benet Juan Benet invented IPFS, and Filecoin. He is also the founder of Protocol Labs.

Juan Batiz-Benet

Keynote and Ethereum roadmap preview
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Keynote and Ethereum roadmap

In this first video from the ÐΞVCON ONE series, Vitalik Buterin, Jeffrey Wilcke, Alex van de Sande and Gavin Wood present the Ethereum roadmap.

Vitalik Buterin, Jeffrey Wilcke, Alex van de Sande, Gavin Wood

Lightning Talk: Learning Ethereum & How to navigate the community preview
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Lightning Talk: Learning Ethereum & How to navigate the community

Hudson Jameson presents on the best way to navigate the Ethereum community and the tools they use to communicate.

Hudson Jameson

Lightning Talk: Metamask.io preview
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Lightning Talk: Metamask.io

Aeron Davis presents on Metamask, a bridge that connects the web of today with the web of tomorrow.

Aeron Davis

Lightning Talk: HitFin preview
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Lightning Talk: HitFin

Patrick Salami presents on HitFin (http://www.hitfin.com/), a bilateral trading and settlement platform for over-the-counter derivatives.

Patrick Salami

Lightning Talk: Provably Honest Oracle Service preview
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Lightning Talk: Provably Honest Oracle Service

Thomas Bertani presents on Oraclize (http://www.oraclize.it/), a set of tools and APIs aiming to enhance the power of smart contracts by pushing external data to the blockchain.

Thomas Bertani

Lightning Talk: Reality Keys preview
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Lightning Talk: Reality Keys

Edmund Edgar presents on Reality Keys (https://www.realitykeys.com/). The Reality Keys™ service provides automated and human-verified data designed to enable a new generation of automated, trust-free information services.

Edmund Edgar

Liquidity on Blockchains preview
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Liquidity on Blockchains

Casey Detrio presents on Liquidity on Blockchains with Batch Auctions and Smart Markets.

Casey Detrio

Maker preview
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Maker

Nikolai Mushegian presents on Maker (https://makerdao.com/), a contract system which creates and maintains the Dai Stablecoin.

Nikolai Mushegian

Microsoft Announcing Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (ETH BaaS) on Azure Cloud preview
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Microsoft Announcing Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (ETH BaaS) on Azure Cloud

Microsoft's Marley Gray takes the stage to present on Eth Baas, the Ethereum blockchain-as-a-service on the Microsoft Azure Cloud, created in partnership with ConsenSys spokes BlockApps and Ether.Camp.

Marley Gray

Middleware & on-chain Services preview
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Middleware & on-chain Services

Ethereum's George Hallam moderates a panel on Ethereum Middleware and On-Chain Services

Roman Mandeleil, Piper Merriam, Christian Lundkvist, Joseph Chow, Nikolai Mushegian, George Hallam

Mix preview
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Mix

An introduction to Ethereum's IDE Mix.

Arkadiy Paronyan

Monadic Design Patterns for the Blockchain preview
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Monadic Design Patterns for the Blockchain

Lucius Greg Meredith gives an update on "SpecialK" - the formal verification software being used with Casper + an overview of monadic design patters.

Lucius Greg Meredith

Myths and Facts of Reputation Systems preview
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Myths and Facts of Reputation Systems

Andres Junge of Yaykuy (https://www.yaykuy.cl/) presents on the myths and facts of reputation systems.

Andres Junge

Nano-payments on Ethereum preview
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Nano-payments on Ethereum

Piotr Janiu of Golem (http://golemproject.net/) presents on Nano-payments on the Ethereum blockchain

Piotr Janiuk

Prediction Markets Panel preview
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Prediction Markets Panel

Panel: Prediction Markets Edmund Edgar (Reality Keys), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum), Jack Peterson (Augur), Martin Koppelmann (Gnosis), Moderator: Stefano Bertolo

Edmund Edgar, Vitalik Buterin, Jack Peterson, Martin Koppelmann, Stefano Bertolo

Provenance preview
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Provenance

Provenance

Jessi Baker

Progressing toward the Ethereum Light Client preview
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Progressing toward the Ethereum Light Client

Ethereum's Zsolt Felfoldi presents on the progress made towards the Ethereum Light Client.

Zsolt Felfoldi

Raiden: Scaling Out With Offchain State Networks preview
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Raiden: Scaling Out With Offchain State Networks

Ethereum's Heiko Hees presents on Raiden, the Bitcoin Lightning-Network inspired extension to Ethereum which scales-out asset transfer capacity.

Heiko Hees

Rebuilding Enterprise Processes with Blockchains and Smart Contracts preview
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Rebuilding Enterprise Processes with Blockchains and Smart Contracts

Mathew Spoke of Deloitte presents on rebuilding the enterprise process with blockchains and smart contracts.

Mathew Spoke

Registries preview
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Registries

Niran Babalola of ConsenSys (https://consensys.net/) presents on Regis, a platform for building and deploying registries into the Ethereum network.

Niran Babalola

Layer 2s preview
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Layer 2s

Ethereum's Dr. Gavin Wood moderates a panel with Vitalik Buterin, Martin Becze, Dominic Williams and Vlad Zamfir on scalability with Ethereum.

Gavin Wood, Vitalik Buterin, Martin Becze, Dominic Williams, Vlad Zamfir

Scalable Blockchains & Asynchronous Programming preview
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Scalable Blockchains & Asynchronous Programming

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin presents on scalability and asynchronous programming.

Vitalik Buterin

Securing Ethereum preview
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Securing Ethereum

Ethereum's Dr. Jutta Steiner and Gustav Simonsson present on the work undertaken to secure Ethereum.

Jutta Steiner, Gustav Simonsson

Shh! Whisper preview
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Shh! Whisper

Ethereum's Co-Creator Dr. Gavin Wood presents on Whisper (https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/blob...), the 'pitch black' P2P messaging protocol. Apologies for the poor video framing, individual slides can be found here - http://www.slideshare.net/gavofyork/w...

Gavin Wood

Slock.it preview
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Slock.it

Ethereum's Christoph Jentzsch presents on Slock.it (http://slock.it/), an IoT/Blockchain company that allows users rent, sell or share anything!

Christoph Jentzsch

Smart Bonds preview
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Smart Bonds

Stephan Karpischek and Ian Cusden of UBS (https://www.ubs.com/global/en.html) present on their Smart Bonds Platform built using the Ethereum software stack.

Stephan Karpischek, Ian Cusden

Standardization preview
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Standardization

Vitalik Buterin, Dr. Gavin Wood, Fabian Vogelsteller, Nikolai Mushegian and Christian Lundkvist discuss standardisation in the Ethereum space.

Vitalik Buterin, Dr. Gavin Wood, Fabian Vogelsteller, Nikolai Mushegian, Christian Lundkvist

Swarm preview
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Swarm

Ethereum's Dr. Daniel Nagy and Viktor Tron present on Swarm, the decentralised, incentivised file storage system.

Daniel Nagy, Viktor Tron

Synthetic Assets preview
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Synthetic Assets

Dominic Williams presents on Synthetic Assets at Ethereum's DEVCON1.

Dominic Williams

The Pathway to Ethereum Adoption preview
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The Pathway to Ethereum Adoption

A panel focusing on "The Pathway to Ethereum Adoption" with Vinay Gupta (https://twitter.com/leashless), Gavin Wood (https://twitter.com/gavofyork), Joseph Lubin (https://twitter.com/ethereumJoseph) and William Mougayar (https://twitter.com/wmougayar).

Vinay Gupta, Gavin Wood, Joseph Lubin, William Mougayar

Tokens preview
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Tokens

Simon de la Rouviere of ConsenSys presents on tokens and standards on the Ethereum blockchain.

Simon de la Rouviere

Towards a Dynamic Economic, Social and Political Mesh preview
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Towards a Dynamic Economic, Social and Political Mesh

Joseph Lubin of ConsenSys (https://consensys.net/) presents on "Towards a Dynamic Economic, Social and Political Mesh".

Joseph Lubin

Towards safer languages for smart contracts preview
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Towards safer languages for smart contracts

Jack Pettersson and Robert Edström present Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden present on a dependantly typed functional language for smart contracts.

Jack Pettersson, Robert Edström

Transactive Grid: A Decentralized Energy Management Solution preview
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Transactive Grid: A Decentralized Energy Management Solution

Transactive Grid, decentralized energy managment solution An Ethereum-enabled Community Energy Market Sharing Economy for Microgrids is a joint venture uniting LO3 Energy (http://lo3energy.com/) and ConsenSys (https://consensys.net/).

Lawrence Orisini

Towards Imandra Contracts: Formal verification for Ethereum preview
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Towards Imandra Contracts: Formal verification for Ethereum

Grant Passmore of Aesthetic Integration (http://aestheticintegration.com/) presents on Imandra, the breakthrough artificial intelligence technology for ensuring financial algorithms are designed and implemented safely and fairly using formal verification.

Grant Passmore

Ujo Music preview
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Ujo Music

ConsenSys's Phil Barry presents on Ujo (http://ujomusic.com/), the recent revolution in digital music consumption – and streaming in particular!

Phil Barry

Understanding the Ethereum Blockchain Protocol preview
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Understanding the Ethereum Blockchain Protocol

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin presents on the intricacies of the Ethereum Blockchain Protocol.

Vitalik Buterin

Universal Hash Time preview
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Universal Hash Time

Jeff Coleman of Ledger Labs (http://ledgerlabs.io/) presents on the Universal Hash Time + State Channels.

Jeff Coleman

Weifund & Boardroom preview
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Weifund & Boardroom

Nick Dodson of ConsenSys (https://consensys.net/) presents on Weifund (http://weifund.io/), the decentralised crowdfunding platform and Boardroom (http://boardroom.to/), a blockchain governance DApp.

Nick Dodson