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[Panel] The Staking Economy: From Monolith to Modularity

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[Panel] The Staking Economy: From Monolith to Modularity

Duration: 00:51:27

Speaker: Collin Myers, Sreeram Kannan, Viktor Bunin | Coinbase Cloud, Stephane Gosselin

Type: Panel

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Event: Devcon 6

Date: Oct 2022

The staking industry is on the verge of a new and exciting innovation cycle. The modularization of the staking tech stack, led by advances in middleware solutions such as Obol Network (Distributed Validator Technology), Flashbots (MEV Boost), Liquid Collective (liquid staking), and EigenLayer will create a new playing field for existing operators, product builders and solo stakers. This panel seeks to discuss these important developments and the new benefits and risks they bring to Ethereum.
About the speakers

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Collin Myers

Collin is the co-founder & CEO of Obol Labs, a R&D-focused team developing a protocol for trust-minimized staking. Before Obol, Collin led global product strategy at ConsenSys and was the global head of BD at Token Foundry.

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Sreeram Kannan

Sreeram Kannan is Founder of EigenLayer and an associate professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he leads the UW Blockchain Lab. He was a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Berkeley and a visiting postdoc at Stanford between 2012-2014 before which he received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and M.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

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Stephane Gosselin

MEV boost architect !

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Viktor Bunin | Coinbase Cloud

Viktor Bunin leads the Protocol Operations team at Coinbase Cloud. He is the industry’s first Protocol Specialist, a role he created as an early employee of Bison Trails that has now become an industry staple at orgs like a16z, Blockdaemon, and Figment. Viktor leads Coinbase Cloud to define Cloud’s protocol roadmap, initiate strategic initiatives, and support crypto-native Coinbase products. He's also an active angel investor, specializing in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

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