Overheard at EthCC — Is Crypto Back, Boosted by Artificial Intelligence?
The intersection of AI and crypto has everyone riled up, but there is little agreement on what is its best iteration. Source
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Reddit engineer shares strategy behind NFT onboarding at EthCC
Mirela Spasova, a Reddit senior engineer on the Collectible Avatars project, took to the master stage at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) event in Paris to shed light on Reddit’s strategy for onboarding millions of users to its blockchain-backed digital collectibles.In her presentation, Spasova said that the primary motivation behind running Collectible
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Andreessen Horowitz exec sees ‘promising paths’ for Web3 social platforms — EthCC
An executive from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) believes that Web3 has the solutions to the headaches and problems found on Web2-based social media platforms. During a keynote speech at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC), a16z partner Sriram Krishnan shared a presentation explaining how Web3 can fix social media and
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Crypto VCs share lessons on startup success at EthCC
When bringing a new crypto to market, the fastest way to do so is arguably with the help of venture capital (VC) financing. But such a high-risk, high-reward operation in a rapidly evolving field can carry a large degree of uncertainty. At the EthCC event in Paris, several prominent VCs
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Vitalik Buterin shares account abstraction challenges in Ethereum: EthCC
While account abstraction in Ethereum is perceived to be a catalyst that could onboard a billion users, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared some challenges in implementing the new feature on the blockchain. Buterin, speaking on July 18 at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) event in Paris, explained some of the key
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EthCC and Crypto's Latent Biases
A major Ethereum conference set for Paris is not drawing the same criticisms and concerns around last year's DevCon in Bogota, Colombia. If the industry wants to grow, it must take a truly global perspective. Source
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A marquee ZK conference amid EthCC
Zero-knowledge (ZK) projects continue to spread worldwide, and a new go-to ZK event is coming to Paris, hosted by Manta Network, a ZK layer-1 blockchain; investment firm Polychain Capital and Cryptox. The ZK community conference — zkDay Paris — kicks off during EthCC Paris on July 19, from 11:00 am to
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What are the long-terms goals for the Ethereum blockchain? Vitalik Buterin explains live at EthCC
On Thursday, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, shared his long-term vision for the namesake blockchain live at the annual Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, in Paris. As told by Buterin, Ethereum is currently at an inflection point, or period of rapid change, before the ecosystem's capability will eventually settle down. Currently,
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Vitalik Buterin Discusses Ethereum’s Upcoming ‘Merge’ and ‘Surge’ at EthCC in Paris
At the developer-focused conference, Buterin spoke about the upcoming "Merge" in which Ethereum will make a full transition from proof of work to proof of stake. Discussing the Merge's long term and short term outcomes , Buterin said ”after the merge you will be able to build an ethereum client
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EthCC Paris Attendees Urged to Get Tested After Seventh COVID-19 Case
The number of attendees of the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) conference in Paris to contract coronavirus has now increased to seven — highlighting the urgent need for attendees to get tested for COVID-19.The EthCC conference took place from March 3 until March 5 — just a few days prior
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