devcon 6 / how latam cities are thinking about blockchain solutions
Duration: 00:52:44
Speaker: Alfredo Bateman, Diego Fernandez, Irais Reyes, Jaime Pumarejo, Mauricio Tovar
Type: Panel
Expertise: Beginner
Event: Devcon
Date: Oct 2022
Categories
Self-Sovereign Digital Identity
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Ethereum in 30 minutes
An introduction on some of the fundamentals, how Ethereum works and what it tries to accomplish.
QuarkID: Bringing South America on-chain with SSI and account Abstraction
QuarkID is a Self-Sovereign Identity protocol bringing millions of South American citizens on-chain. Citizens in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monterrey, and Nuevo Leon, Mexico, are using government SSI deployed on ZKsync Era through the QuarkID protocol. Driver's licenses, birth certificates, and over 50 different credentials are secured by Ethereum technology in the world’s first case of governments using Ethereum’s permissionless blockchain to meet their identity needs.
Executing with subtraction in the Infinite Garden
Devcon 6 Opening Ceremonies
Publisher’s Denial of Digital Ownership vs Decentralization
Brewster is a Digital Librarian @ the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library offering millions of free books, movies, & audio files.
Keynote: Ethereum in 30 minutes
Vitalik Buterin, Founder of Ethereum, opens Devcon with a comprehensive overview of Ethereum’s evolution as a decentralized “world computer,” explaining its layer 1 trust machine and layer 2 scaling solutions for security and scalability, emphasizing improvements in decentralization and client diversity, and encouraging developers to build innovative applications that leverage Ethereum’s robust and evolving ecosystem.
The Value of Cryptocurrencies in Supporting Human Rights
Privacy and Free Expression
Keynote: World Politics, World Building
World politics has changed. Geopolitics is no longer simply a contest to control territory: in this age of advanced technology, it has become a contest to create the territory. Great powers seek to build a world for other states to inhabit, while keeping the ability to change the rules or the state of the world when necessary. At a moment when the old concepts no longer work, this book aims to introduce a radically new theory of world politics and technology. The end goal: god mode
Keynote: ⿻ Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
This talk explores the evolving relationship between freedom, wisdom, and technology, centered on ⿻ Plurality—a philosophy that promotes collaborative diversity. Drawing on experiences from Taiwan and beyond, we’ll examine how decentralized governance can scale to bridge divides, empower autonomy, and co-create innovative solutions for the challenges of the 21st century.
Keynote: Making Sense of Stablecoins
Everyone is talking about stablecoins now! In this talk I'll share what I learned about Tether on Tron in addition to stablecoins more broadly. Why are so many USDT transactions on Tron? Why did Bridge get acquired for $1.1B? What do L2s have to do with stablecoins? Are stablecoins a threat to Ethereum or an accelerant?