9:00AM – 9:10AM

Opening Address

Bob Summerwill

9:10AM – 9:35AM

A new open source deal for Web3

What does open source mean in 2019? Is it a legal innovation centered on licensing? Is it a way of working — collaborative peer production around the globe? How should blockchain and other Web3 technology building blocks be thinking about open source, and what is their relationship to the open source movement? Do open source supporters need to evolve the mission, and tackle topics such as data ownership and sovereign identity? Boris will cover these questions and more, as he examines open source past, present, and future, especially in the context of new Web3 building blocks.

Boris Mann

9:35AM – 10:00AM

Positive Sum Games Between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic

Virgil Griffith

10:00AM – 10:25AM

A Peripheral Observer and Fan’s View of Ethereum Classic

In this talk, Sunny Aggarwal will present a relatively unbiased outsider’s view of developments in the Ethereum Classic ecosystem over time, based on experiences from within the Ethereum Classic and Ethereum ecosystems.  He will then present a modest proposal for a conservative roadmap to ignite technical innovation towards opt-in Proof of Stake and sharding in a conservative and cautious way without breaking the base layer.

Sunny Aggarwal

10:25AM – 11:00AM

Morning Break

11:00AM – 11:20AM

Is Open Source Software Immortal?

This will be a talk about open source projects that have stood the test of time, and ones that didn’t. We will explore common themes for each. Finally, we will go over a framework for creating open source projects that will be able to live for a long time, possibly for ever.

Zachary Belford

11:20AM – 11:40AM

Merging Blockchains: A Technical Perspective

In this talk, we will explore, from a technical perspective, how we can merge two different blockchains together with completely unrelated history. We will discuss how using this techniques, together with account versioning, we can enable a safer feature upgrade path, and encourage dapps to use new EVM features. We will also briefly talk about the possibility of merging Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.

Wei Tang

11:40AM – 12:00PM

The EVM LLVM Project

The EVM LLVM project aims to bridge the LLVM compiler infrastructure community with the Ethereum blockchain family, enabling developers to utilize LLVM compiler infrastructure to build high quality, future-proof smart contracts.

Alan Li

12:00PM – 1:00PM

Lunch

1:00PM – 1:20PM

ECIP-1049: Why Ethereum Classic should adopt SHA3 Proof of Work

 In the wake of 51% attacks of early 2019, the Ethereum Classic community faced a difficult question – what can we do to defend ourselves as a minority chain on the Ethash algorithm? One active proposal, ECIP-1049, is to change ETC’s Proof of Work algorithm to SHA3. This talk explains the benefits of this change, outlines what steps need to be made before the proposal can be implemented. The talk also shares tangible progress on Astor, the SHA3 testnet launched in May 2019, and presents research on the topic from the mining community.

Alex Tsankov

1:20PM – 1:40PM

Building Trust As a Miner or Miner-Maker

The crypto sector has yet to earn TRUST

How Bitmain builds with the industry’s best interests in mind

Not a call for centralization, but for industry pioneers to lead by example

Bitmain’s 4 key efforts

Impact of policies implemented

Nishant Sharma

1:40PM – 2:00PM

Linzhi E1400 ETC ASIC

The proof-of-work algorithm of Ethereum is designed to be ASIC-resistant. This is achieved by requiring frequent access to a substantial amount of memory (several gigabytes) for the hash operations.

Our talk will follow up on last year’s introduction of the Linzhi E1400 ASIC miner and describe how our decentralized memory architecture enables the use of large memory without sacrificing ASIC benefits like high on-chip bandwidth and naturally massive parallelism.

Werner Almesberger

2:00PM – 2:20PM

Afternoon Break

2:20PM – 2:40PM

Mining Panel – Moderated by Bob Summerwill

Alex Tsankov, Nishant Sharma, Werner Almesberger, & Henry Quan

2:40PM – 3:00PM

Platform Panel – Moderated by Yaz Khoury

Afri Schoedon, Shane Jonas, Zachary Belford, Zachary Mitton, & Wei Tang

3:00PM – 3:20PM

Community Panel – Moderated by Bob Summerwill

Kevin Lord, Donald McIntyre Chelsea Palmer, Yaz Khoury & Terry Culver

3:20PM – 3:40PM

Afternoon Break

3:40PM – 4:00PM

Why community management is crucial for successful projects like ETC

Kevin Lord

4:00PM – 4:20PM

“Capture” Was Already Always Happening: The Complexity of Power in Blockchain Ecosystems

The past few years have seen sprawling online arguments about the threat of future capture of blockchain ecosystems and their governance, whether that capture is social, corporate, or driven by nation-states. I argue that our notions of “capture” are useless in their simplicity, and that it’s crucial to identify the always-existent threads of imbalanced influence presented by flows of funding, organizational structure, self-identified “expertise,” and of course plain old charm. 

The ETC community has survived and triumphed through multiple points of turbulence in this sense. Some recent struggles, like the 51% attack attempt, are “blockchain problems” that had never progressed beyond theoretical speculation for major chains before. 

I will reflect on what I think makes ETC’s ecosystem strong enough to push through such challenges, and propose a community stance of critical reflexivity which can greatly bolster the ecosystem’s existing antifragile qualities. Finally, I’ll warn against getting too comfortable with protocol immutability as conceptual armour against the inevitable challenges of community consensus.

Chelsea Palmer

4:20PM – 4:40PM

Redefining Governments Through Trusted Blockchain Applications

Equalising Access to Justice

Authenticating Legally Binding Proofs

e-Voting: Secret Voting on Public Blockchains

Empowering People to develop their Laws

Fighting against Fake-News, Harassment and Cyberbullying

Solving P2P frauds and man-in-the-middle by easy-to-use strong Cryptography

This lecture will present how real blockchain applications are transforming governments, empowering people by democratising access to Justice, and also eliminating frauds, corruption and bureaucracy.

Edilson Osorio Junior

4:40PM – 5:00PM

Closing Keynote

Charles Hoskinson

5:00PM – 5:10PM

Closing Statements

Bob Summerwill