CoinDesk Report:
From July 8th to July 11th, the 7th ETHcc Conference will be held at Brussels Conference Center Square. The event gathers numerous industry experts. Here’s a guide to help you navigate the conference.
I. Keynote Speakers:
– Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin;
– Ethereum Classic Collaborator Bob Summerwill;
– Polygon Labs CFO Rebecca Rettig;
– Ethereum Core Developer Tanishq Jasoria;
– Pantera Investment Assistant Nihal Maunder;
– Fidelity Digital Assets CFA Ramine Bigdeliazari;
– Polygon Product Marketing Director Victor Estival;
– Starknet Development and Outreach Engineer Omar Espejel;
– Near Co-founder Illia Polosukhin;
– Chainlink Co-founder Sergey Nazarov;
– Elliptic Cryptocurrency and AI Product Manager Andrea Camacho Mattos;
– Lido’s Will Shannon;
– Klaytn Foundation Technical Director Neo Yiu;
– Trail of Bits Blockchain Security Engineer Anish Naik;
– Dusa Labs’ Leo Jouanny;
– Angle Protocol Core Contributor Pablo Veyrat;
– Connext’s Arjun Bhuptani.
II. Conference Agenda:
The conference spans four days.
July 8th:
– 10:00-10:20
Location: Gold Hall
Event: EthCC Opening Ceremony
Speaker: Ethereum France’s Jerome de Tychey
– 10:25-11:00
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: Power to the People
Speaker: Lens Protocol’s Stani Kulechov
– 10:50-11:10
Location: Warcraft Stage
Topic: Profiting from MEV: The Secret Advantage of Oracle-based AMMs
Speaker: Shigami
– 11:00-11:20
Location: Strauven Stage
Topic: What Stakeholders Need to Know About the Upcoming Ethereum Hard Fork
Speaker: Nethermind’s Marek Moraczyński
– 11:00-11:15
Location: EthVC Stage
Topic: Investing in Web3 – Decrypting Web3 VC Investment Framework
Speaker: Pantera Investment Assistant Nihal Maunder
– 11:05-11:40
Location: Hankar Stage
Topic: DeFi Options: The Final Frontier of DeFi
Speaker: Ben Wee
– 11:05-11:25
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: The Role of Oracles in the Tokenization Wave
Speaker: Chainlink Co-founder Sergey Nazarov
– 11:15-11:35
Location: Silver Hall
Topic: The Dark Side of Cryptocurrencies and My Optimistic Outlook on the Bright Future
Speaker: Elliptic Product Manager Andrea Camacho Mattos
– 11:40-11:55
Location: EthVC Stage
Topic: Shaping the Future of Web3: Trends, Opportunities, and Strategic Investments
Speaker: Digital Finance Group’s James Wo
– 13:00-13:20
Location: Warcraft Stage
Topic: Bitcoin-based L2 Season
Speaker: Trust Machines COO Rena Shah
– 13:25-13:45
Location: Copper Hall
Topic: Decentralizing Intentions: How to Decentralize
Speaker: Mounir Benchemled
– 14:05-14:25
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: Emergence of PayFi: Realizing the Vision for Cryptocurrency
Speaker: Solana Co-founder Lily Liu
– 14:20-14:40
Location: Strauven Stage
Topic: Ethereum Staking Kahoot Quiz
Speakers: Patricio Worthalter & Hudson Jameson from POAP, Polygon Labs
July 9th:
– 10:00-10:20
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: Are Crypto Points Meaningless? The Significance of Crypto Points
Speaker: Galaxy Researcher Christine Kim
– 10:25-10:45
Location: Warcraft Stage
Topic: Using Threshold Encryption and Key Elimination Seed Phrases
Speakers: Andronikos Nedos & Jan Camenisch from Dfinity, Dfinity Foundation
– 11:10-11:30
Location: Strauven Stage
Topic: LRT: Innovation or Risk?
Speakers: Marc Zeller & Mike Silagadze & Nick Stoev from ACI, ether.fi, Mellow Protocol
– 11:40-12:35
Location: Hankar Stage
Topic: Enterprise & Users: 3 Concept Products Encouraged by Law
Speakers: Vittoria Diotallevi & Matteo Tambussi & Luigi Cantisani & Amedeo Perna from Legal Hackers Torino, Stake Capital, SpaghettETH, Futura Law Firm
– 11:55-12:30
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: Building an Internet Financial System
Speaker: Circle Co-founder Jeremy Allaire
– 13:30-13:50
Location: Copper Hall
Topic: Unlocking Institutional Staking: Technology & Upgrades
Speakers: Mischa Tuffield & Ramine Bigdeliazari from Alluvial, Fidelity Digital Assets
– 14:20-14:40
Location: Copper Hall
Topic: The Reality of 2024
Speaker: Messari Technical Analyst Mihai Grigore
– 14:20-14:40
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: Conceptual Framework for Combating Illegal Finance in DeFi
Speaker: Polygon Labs CFO Rebecca Rettig
– 16:30-16:50
Location: Strauven Stage
Topic: Cryptocurrencies in Emerging Markets: Meme or Mission?
Speakers: Marc Zeller & Paul Brody & Marek Olszewski from ACI, Ernst & Young, Celo
– 17:10-17:30
Location: Strauven Stage
Topic: Scaling with Fraud Proofs and ZK Proofs
Speakers: btchip & Louis Guthmann from Smoo.th, Starkware
July 10th:
– 10:00-10:35
Location: Hankar Stage
Topic: Building ZK Games for EVM
Speaker: 1kx’s Billy Rennekamp
– 10:00-10:35
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: Universal Sync Composability
Speaker: Ethereum Foundation’s Justin Drake
– 11:05-11:25
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: Chain Data across Thousands of L2 Worlds
Speaker: Dune Co-founder Fredrik Haga
– 11:15-11:35
Location: Strauven Stage
Topic: Token Incentive Models for Key Management Networks
Speaker: 1kx Researcher Robert Koschig
– 11:20-11:55
Location: Hankar Stage
Topic: Dynamic NFTs Beyond Blockchain Limits
Speaker: Chainlink Labs Developer Solange Gueiros
– 12:50-13:25
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: TBD
Speaker: Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin
– 14:05-14:25
Location: Copper Hall
Topic: Decentralizing Rollups: Now and Future
Speaker: Scroll’s Toghrul Maharramov
– 14:55-15:15
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: Transforming the Anime Industry with Web3
Speaker: Azuki’s Liz Yang
– 15:20-15:40
Location: Silver Hall
Topic: ENS in a Multi-Chain 2024 World
Speaker: ENS’s Makoto Inoue
– 16:35-16:55
Location: Horta Stage
Topic: Extending Ethereum: The Power of UTXO
Speaker: Fuel Labs’ David Mihal
July 11th:
– 10:00-10:20
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: Rise of Athena
Speaker: Spacemesh’s Lane Rettig
– 10:50-11:10
Location: Silver Hall
Topic: Elliptic Curves and ZK Proofs
Speaker: Ethereum Foundation’s Özgür Armanc Yiğit
– 11:15-11:50
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: Is Ethereum’s Issuance Policy Sustainable?
Speakers: Ethereum Foundation’s Caspar Schwarz-Schilling & Ansgar Dietrichs
– 11:15-11:35
Location: Silver Hall
Topic: Enhancing Openness of EVM Chains through Validator Reputation
Speaker: Klaytn Foundation’s Joseph & Neo Yiu
– 11:40-12:00
Location: Warcraft Stage
Topic: Decentralized AI as a Tool for Blockchain Applications
Speaker: aleph.im CEO Moshe Malawach
– 12:50-13:10
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: The Future of Digital Identity
Speaker: Worldcoin Foundation’s dcbuilder.eth
– 14:30-14:50
Location: Gold Hall
Topic: Blockchain Security of Generalized Distributed Protocols
Speaker: Eigenlayer Foundation’s Robert Drost
– 15:55-16:50
Location: Hankar Stage
Topic: Optimizing zkEVM Throughput
Speakers: Carlos Matallana & Ignasi Ramos from Polygon zkEVM
– 16:40-17:00
Location: Gold Hall
Event: EthCC[7] Closing Ceremony
Speaker: Ethereum France’s Jerome de Tychey
III. Side Events:
– PSE Hacker House: July 1st-7th, 10:00 AM – 08:00 PM
– Fleek Hacker House – EthCC: July 3rd-8th, 11:00 AM, Brussels
– Arbitrum
