The Permissionless Revolution: Decentralized Bridging with tBTC v2 with Matt Luongo
After the crypto world was rocked with crisis after crisis in 2022, the need for truly decentralized infrastructure has never been more clear. Foremost among these, is a robust, decentralized, permissionless bridge for the premier crypto collateral: BTC. With the sudden emergency shutdown of renBTC due to control by Alameda, there is no permissionless way to use BTC in DeFi and billions of dollars are currently stranded. This is the story of how we built a solution, while never budging an inch on our commitment to self-sovereignty.
Jordi Baylina will explain how is possible to bridge assets and messages between chains in a few seconds. I will talk about the composability of the chains. On the technical side, I will highlight the importance of zk-proof recursivity to aggregate the proof of many blocks of different chains and consolidate them in a single proof in the Ethereum mainnet.
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Offload expensive computations from smart contract to zk coprocessor, off-chain zk-proving service that allows verifiable computation. zkcoprocessor computes code off-chain, generates zkproof (SNARK), and sends it back to the smart contract for on-chain verification.
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Announcing the Web3 SDLC: Secure Development Life Cycle by Philip Gillett
There is a general lack of security experience in Web3. Currently, the only common security safeguard of Web3 companies are audits, but audits only encompass one small portion of security and at a single point in time. Because auditors are typically the only resource of security knowledge, Web3 companies rely on that knowledge for all of their security needs. While audits are a critical element in securing a protocol, they are a single line of defense, and an expensive one at that.
In this talk, we will present the Web3 SDLC, or Secure Development Life Cycle, a comprehensive security plan that Web3 companies can use to guide every step of their project. We will discuss the four phases of a project (Design, Develop, Deploy, and Defend), providing metrics that can be used to assess the security posture of a project at each phase. This does not obviate the need for an audit, but with security considered and incorporated at each phase of a project's creation, the audit can be targeted at the most technically complex features. Ultimately, incorporating security practices throughout the development process will make protocols more robust and reliable, inspiring more confidence in the protocol and its users, all at a net lower cost overall.
Philip Gillett
Web3 Software Engineer
Arbitrary Execution Inc.
Philip Gillett has experience in blockchain and decentralized technologies, security research, software development, signal processing, and acoustics research. He conducted wind tunnel, water tunnel, and scale model hydroacoustic research for the US Navy for six years before transitioning to computer security research in 2016. He worked as a principal investigator on using commercial-off-the-shelf devices to perform geolocation of wireless transmitters and as a technical lead developing software to live-update wireless firmwares on commercially prevalent devices. Philip has experience with the scientific computing languages MATLAB and LabView, with the general-purpose programming languages Python, JavaScript, Golang, C, ARM assembly, and with the smart contract language Solidity. Philip has a BS and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
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The next bull market will be on-chain. Counter-party risks and the strict regulatory environment have made CeFi unappealing and, in some cases, inaccessible for retail.
Institutional clients have been unable to participate on-chain as the prices in CeFi are cheaper, with the liquidity on-chain being highly fragmented
As such, we've wound up with the popular phrase "LP last" as aggregators are more competitive than DEX prices
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2022 was a momentous year for Ethereum’s Layer 1 and the Merge. But there was another reason to celebrate. In Waikiki, internet friends met for decentralized vacation on Layer 0 at HodlerCon.
Members from Reddit’s r/ethfinance, r/ethstaker, r/ethtrader and the Rocketpool discord have built a community and relationships online for years across different time zones and walks of life. We huddled together through the crypto winter of 2018-2020 and promised each other if ETH hit it’s all time high by June 2021. We’d celebrate in real life, by basking on the beaches of Hawaii together.
It happened! ETH hit a new all time high, and the ETHfam followed through with Hodlercon. We packed our bags gathered our families, friends, and partners to meet our internet friends. The people who had reminded us to hold, or to build or to appreciate what matters most in life through the dark times. During HodlerCon, we had a blast singing karaoke, riding ATVs, eating Ramen, exchanging POAPs, swimming on the beach and nerding out with people who understood us.
We’re doing it again in 2024 and are using Hodlercon-issued BeachBums nfts to vote on the potential destinations from Goblintown Creek, VA, Puerto Rico or Fiji. The final destination to be determination made by ETH’s price on June 15, 2023.
Our panel will describe how a ragtag group pulled together a 10-day decentralized vacation, incorporated a DAO, handled participants privacy and anonymity, issued NFTs, hired and fired event planners, got people excited without being shilly. We have kept momentum up for the next event. We hope the audience will first enjoy the discussion and second consider helping us build the next Hodlercon for 2024. After all, isn’t it really about the friends we make along the way?
Doubt Stars
HodlerCon Program Director and Community Manager
Luau DAO / HodlerCon Planning Team
DobutStars contributes to the /r/ethfinance community and is a a founding member of Luau DAO. Over the summer, she planned a Layer Zero Ethereum Conference called HodlerCon in Hawaii. She believes DeFi is the next educational frontier. She's a Learning and Development expert and trained Instructional Designer with a decade of experience in Web2 Learning Development. As such, she is working with Bankless DAO academy team and EVMavericks DAO on Web3 Education initiatives. Also, one of her soapboxes is getting more women involved and informed about DeFi/Crypto. She participated SheFi cohort 7 and is a member of Boys Club DAO. She co-founded tokenomicsexplained.com.
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We will talk about the nascent yet revolutionary product field of flatcoins and we will also compare and contrast existing stablecoin and flatcoin solutions. We will touch upon the problems related to building flatcoins and our approach towards alleviating some of them.
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