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[Music] hello everyone hello everyone very excited to introduce you to the tracks of Devcon and some of the people who have been instrumental in creating their content um and yeah to be frank I've never been that loud in a room so I can tell you I'm super excited um few numbers first um we had more than 3,000 applications to speak at Devcon this year more than double what we had in bota it's pretty amazing to see um yeah thank you thank you thank [Applause] you um and unfortunately we had room for around only 15% of them um so the content you'll see here is actually like the best of the best um you will see this content Crossing 10 different tracks um and there will be content there will be something for everyone so to share a bit more about them I'd like to invite key reviewers from each track who have been instrumental in creating the amazing content that you'll see at Devcon they will give a rapid pitch about why each track match matters what are some highlights and who is it for so without further Ado I would like to introduce Austin for the developer experience track thank [Applause] you so so many incredible talks here at Devcon uh but like Josh said it's all about developers uh so the developer experience track is extra important and I got to spend a lot of time working with a lot of tool Builders at the space to uh help evaluate all of these talks uh Georgio Rick moo a lot of other people that I will forget their names I'm very thankful for your help uh setting up this lineup but it's everything from App tooling smart contract tooling frames debugging ZK indexers optimizers autonomous worlds even Community Building uh we'll have a little bit of everything for developers um beginner starter kits like scaffold eth and remix to help you get you know that first hello world all the way to very very deep technical content uh huge range of old school to New School really cool to see you know like the creator of truffle giving a talk or the the Python and the Huffer guys uh the hard hat guys The Foundry guys uh open Zeppelin ethers whole whole array of wonderful folks uh will be speaking shout out to the weam wagm guys who who aren't here we we uh we miss them and they are a huge impact on the space so just to hit it real quick we're going deep and wide on tooling it'll be a side of autonomous worlds and optimizers and Community Building why because we're literally building the future who Builders dreamers creators Shepherds shippers optimizers debuggers and data Nerds come check out the developer experience uh track uh we'll have a whole Capture the Flag game on the 13th lots of great stuff uh I'm going to hand it off to Amy with usability thank you all right my name is Amy and I'm honored to be introducing the usability track the usability track is all about improving the user experience of ethereum we're focused on sharing patterns and design processes around user experience onboarding and accessibility as you'll see with this speaker variety of speaker backgrounds usability really requires an all handson deck approach designers developers Devils to product leads we all have to come together to solve our most pressing adoption challenges to me Devcon represents a snapshot of what's most important to our community as vitalic said this year we really want to focus on usability with themes like account abstraction cross-chain settlement intent pass Keys mobile ux um these all highlight key solutions to realizing ethereum's greater Vision so in our track alone we had over 300 applications so with six judges you guys are all the Nerds you can do the math on how long it took us to review and deliver it and so with that we're so excited for you to dig into this track we hope you leave these talks with fresh perspective and techniques for improving usability in your next build so so now I hand it off to Tim to introduce the next track hey everyone uh my name is Tim boo I work at the EF and I help put together the core protocol track uh for this year's Defcon so if you want to learn about what's happening about the to the ethereum protocol new network upgrade the future of proof of stake how the evm is going to evolve how we have tooling set up to monitor the network changes the issue and all of those things this is a track you should be following we'll be covering the future of the ethereum protocol starting from things that are sort of very concrete and about to ship and as we move through the week things will get more and more speculative and you'll get a big sense of like the overall research road map we do have content for everyone every level of like knowledge and depth and expertise um so if you're new to ethereum uh don't be intimidated by this show up go see some of the sessions um but if you're deep into this we hopefully have some technical workshops that you'll find stimulating too to highlight a few of these um I'll start with Christine's talk today she'll give an overview of pectra which is ethereum's next Network upgrade so if there's a single talk you want to go to this week to just understand what's changed in ethereum this would be it then if you really want to get your hands dirty and get into the weeds tomorrow the EF testing team is running a workshop about how they actually do testing how we keep the chain secure how we make sure it never goes down and last I want to highlight two of the community sessions we'll have this week um all day on Wednesday we have an EPF day EPF is uh the ef's ethereum protocol Fellowship oh well cheers for EPF yeah we could clap for them um yeah so the ethereum protocol Fellowship is effectively the ef's way of bringing in new core devs to help uh Steward ethereum so we have all of them here or at least a large majority that will be presenting the work that they've done if you've been wondering about how to get into court development this is a great place to be if you're a client team looking the higher core devs then you go go see their presentations and then last but not least all day on Friday we'll have an ethereum magician session to discuss all of the most important topic around around ethereum um we'll have a session covering ux one about the future of block construction issuance and the future of the ethereum protocol where we'll have experts in all of these topics there to discuss and have the the room open for the community to come and ask questions and collabor thank you very much and I'll see you across all of these and S for real world ethereum hi everybody my name is SII I'm very very excited to introduce our awesome track uh this is a new track um that just got added into the Dacon this time because of the maturity of the ethereum that Josh and a and Bali was mentioning um so this track is focusing on the real world old use cases so you can woohoo finally finally we can actually see some applications that is actually based and people can use uh so it's very very exciting and because of that I think a lot of people were interested in showing their work so far that was hidden uh under the ground so we had a more than 530 Plus application just for this track and we had to add more judges to actually do that so L plge to the older judges including all of our track doing this amazing reviews uh but anyway so out of the 530 uh application we select uh 80 plus conversation so those conversation you can find a people who building uh a financial application in the you know for example Africa and alsoi uh rwa uh NGS and government building uh Identity or like donation tracking system supply chain there's just so many use cases that people are starting are using ethereum to build the solution so you can meet all of this conversation in our track um and who is for actually for everybody uh basically whoever curious about the real use case of um ethereum and how you can use it if you want to imagine what I can do with ethereum please come this uh track and this is a four kind of feature track out of 80 it was really hard to choose those four but I tried to choose what that is the most common uh and then have a more people so we have a one do you hear the music yeah one with a next billion fellow so you can hear people's story and then also there's other things from the global majority and the philosophy and all sorts of different story so please come join our track next is a goip hello Devcon I'm gub sheep and I'm incredibly excited to introduce the applied cryptography track at this year's conference this track covers how the ethereum community is pushing forwards and engaging with the frontiers of cryptography from research level Innovation to production grade global scale deployment the story of advanced cryptography in 2024 is deeply intertwined with the story of ethereum and this track is for both researchers developers and technologists but also for for anyone who is interested in how different Technologies can help us realize the future of digital infrastructure at Devcon this year you'll have the chance to interact Hands-On with programmable cryptography in many ways from speaker Q&A with zero knowledge proofs uh to zero knowledge approvable tickets on zoo pass that you can use to interact with various applications built by ethereum community members to interactive games at the cursive and frog crypto or Prague crypto boots and Community hubs downstairs we'll hear from dozens of speakers for this track covering topics from cryptography for digital identity to proof carrying data to program aisc and Beyond and you can tune into the Devcon passport app uh for more and be on the lookout for a certain green and amphibious friend throughout your Devcon experience and now Alicia from the coordination track thanks GB sheet hi I'm Alicia and I'm going to talk to you today about the coordination track so if you're there we go uh if you're wondering what coordination is actually sitting in this room or being part of Devcon whether you're sitting in this room or watching um now or in the future is an incredible example of the power of coordination and the impact that it can have on ethereum so other topics or topics that will be covered in the coordination track include Dows governance uh public goods incentives and tooling and mechanisms that can help us build resilient and decentralized ecosystems so when you think about why coordination is important we often kind of default to thinking about technical Concepts in ethereum and obviously that makes sense but when you think about it ultimately it comes down to the coordination of people involved in those projects um that's really what determines the success and growth and adoption um of Any Given project in the ethereum ecosystem so I think that you know the importance of coordination is the ability of humans to coordinate across across space and time whether it's you know different countries many different time zones that we manag to get on calls um across languages and different cultures and experiences um all coming together for a shared Vision so I think that I know everyone says this but I really do think that the coordination track can appeal to everyone whether you're new to the ethereum community or a seasoned veteran whether you're technical or non-technical and um this is just a selection of some of the highlights on the coordination track uh Dennison Tim aukee Griff green all incredible examples of values aligned ethereum and um really looking forward to seeing you um enjoy the coordination track and next up we have Ley thank you so much Alicia I'm very very happy that uh this year we have a cipher Punk track at Defcon and we can expose so many great people to the ideas and values of Cipher Punk uh because we are crafting a very very sharp tool here and we need to make sure that this tool is used uh to advance Humanity into a bright future and not Lo lock Us in in a dark dystopia um I want to highlight uh some sessions I was told to do four but uh I want to lead by example here to not obey Authority even though I respect Nathan uh so I did six and it was also really really hard to choose because we had so many great submissions and that's even only the submissions that are accepted uh and we had to reject so many great talks which was really really sad so a nice foundational talk can be the history and philosophy of Cipher Punk um that can introduce you to the concept so if you're new to that uh please watch this and then also like we need to go to the Next Generation we not only need the old generation we need the new generation so MF will give a talk about uh the new Cipher Punk generation and then it's also important to burst Bubbles and not just to be in our web three bubble here um so break out a little bit so we invited uh heart mcon from the Lino foundation and Roger dingledine from tour to teach us lessons from um from their EOS systems basically that we don't have to repeat these mistakes and can make our own in the end and also very important I think is uh the battle for ethereum soul from LF terius uh so basically between financial nalism and the fos culture now hope we go more to the F culture side there and last but not least like Jared hope he will talk about corruption YC and the cost on compliance thank you very much and next up is Frederick who will talk about the security [Applause] track hi I'm Frederick I am from the protocol security team at the EF and I'm super happy to be here to present the security track so every day we hear about users developers projects and exchanges who are getting scammed d Ed or hacked this is obviously very sad and bad for the people that this happens to but I also believe that if we are to reach Mass adaptation then this is something that all of us must and can improve on so to help improve the security track are covering topics such as best practices through the security framework by the security Alliance um we have sessions about security tooling and we have workshops all of this by some of the best security people in the ecosystem I hope that you will leave some of these sessions with a desire to help existing initiatives or perhaps even get new ideas for initiatives and to help with that we have a new program called eth rangers.com where you can apply for a $25,000 funding uh for spending time doing public good security work in the ecosystem and those who are interested in applying the offensive security skills that you obtain in these sessions you can also join the CTF that we have on Thursday the 14th where anyone can apply to join and uh share a price pool of $50,000 we also have a big protocol um bug Bounty competition happening straight up after Devcon with a price pool of up to $1.5 million next up is barnab with crypto economics thank you Frederick hi everyone I'm bab from the robust incentives group at the etherum foundation uh here to present the cryptoeconomics track it's often said that ethereum is winging it uh sometimes we are but we rely on a large body of work uh that's from a new science called cryp cryptoeconomics it's you can think of it as a new field uh that blends cryptography economics mechanism design distributed systems consensus Theory and many more other disciplines and so what happens is eum doesn't have one research lab it has 100 different uh research Labs scattered throughout academic institutions and the industry these labs are busy cooking up the technology that powers our protocol and also the many applications that rely on it so if you want to hear about what these labs are up to uh make sure to check out the talks from our cryptoeconomics track every talk in the track will bring you to the frontier but here are four samples to give you an idea of what you can expect uh we're going to be talking about blobs blobs are a new resource that the etherum protocol is providing which Powers our rollups we'll have introductory sessions to give you a leg up in your journey towards uh crypto economics we'll have groundbreaking research such as Robin Hansen well known for his work on prediction markets among others and we'll also have talks giving you a vision of what is possible uh when the crypto economics are right so we hope to see you there and I'll now pass the mic to BK for the L2 [Applause] track layer twos last but not least so um in the last year layer TOS have been one of theot hottest topics in crypto probably not as hot as mem coins but certainly the hottest if you focus on serious crypto applications and right now we have uh over 100 l2s on mainnet with probably twice as many about to be launched and while curating this track uh we did not let marketing departments to get in I'm sorry we love you guys from marketing we really do uh but this session is actually prepared by researchers by Builders by enthusiasts and also you will hear from critics as well because we still have a lot of problems to solve and you will hear about potential Solutions you will get a chance to have a glimpse about the future of how ethereum is going to scale so um we have prepared uh 30 talks nine lightning talks two amazing panels and six workshops and just to wet your appetite uh I've uh taken the liberty of just choosing you know uh one from each category so if you do want to do a deep dive like jump into the rabbit hole and understand how ethereum is going to scale while uh remaining secure and decentralized uh please consider uh attending the session thank you thank you thank you thank you so much thanks to all of you uh thanks to you B um and with that we have covered all the tracks so again let's give a big thank you to these track reviewers as well as their nearly thank you thank you thank you um we also had about 100 community members who helped review and curate this amazing agenda um but there is much more than just program content at Devcon and to share more about all the other things you can do and see at Devcon um I will I will pass it back to you scy thank you awesome thank you naton thank you all the track reviewers track participants Community reviewers uh yeah as naton mentioned there is a lot more to Devcon than just the programming than just the content so I'm going to go through a quick thrival Gra thrival guide like what do you need to know to thrive at Devcon over the next 5 to 10 minutes uh I'll keep it quick but this stuff hopefully is going to be pretty important for you guys to to figure out how can you maximize your experience here at Devcon first thing you'll need is the Devcon passport app so this isa. devon. org it's a progressive web app so you can download it to your phone uh and use it throughout the conference here on this app you have everything you need you have this schedule you can personalize your agenda you you can even share your schedule with your friends or your followers if you want uh and there is a diva AI so if you have a question you can go and ask D.

A AI it has all of the track information in there all of the agenda information uh and should know a lot about uh uh about Devcon uh when it hallucinates you can then go ask a volunteer so keep that in mind uh but yeah this app is going to be your probably your your go-to resource for understanding what's going on at Devcon uh also the app has live streams so all all talks and workshops are being live streamed and are being recorded and the recording should be available immediately after each talk is finished uh and they should all be available in the app in addition there are translations so all talks uh or all mainstage talks on this stage are being translated uh by human translators like an army of human translators sitting behind this stage right now in Thai Mandarin Vietnamese and Malay uh all other tracks all other stages are being translated by AI translations uh into Thai Mandarin Hindi bangali Vietnamese Malay Indonesian Burmese KR Filipino uh and Filipino so yeah if you need that use those translations uh also all talks will have Q&A you can see here on the bottom uh and as a part of ask speaker questions so we want Devcon to be more interactive we want you to be able to participate with the speaker uh and so through this you can ask questions to the speakers and they'll be able to answer the questions at the end of the talk uh and hopefully this allows all of us to participate participate a little bit more in the sessions that we're seeing uh much of what Devcon will be is an entry point an entry point into for beginners maybe discovery of new topics for experts to expand their boundaries one form of content that I'd like to highlight is lightning talks so these lightning talks will last five minutes with a two-minute Q&A they're a really concise way to communicate a point and they're usually going to be grouped in similar topics similar themes so if you want to get a really bang a good bang for your buck in terms of time and and and knowledge absorption I I would suggest checking out the lightning talks most of them will be on stage four which is the other side of the venue uh but they'll be sprinkled in many stages throughout I also want to mention uh the gift of giving so all of you have received or probably selected swag uh I think this swag is maybe some of the coolest designed swag we've ever had for Devcon so if you haven't seen it yet go check it out uh but what I think the coolest swag is you probably don't even know about yet uh we are giving the Devcon team is giving you all the gift of giving uh so we are allocating $250,000 from the Devcon supporter program to support public good informational ethereum dashboards there is a list of 20 dashboards and you all can help decide which ones deserve more support we are using quadratic voting along with a technology called Macy uh for anti- collusion and uh and we're verifying attendance and verifying all of this using zup pass so go vote at vote. devon. org prove your ticket with zup pass and vote for your favorite dashboard uh or your your your many favorite dashboards uh each attendee gets 100 voting power H and you can learn more at that website or you can find the Macy team at one of the impact booths here in the impact Forum tip number four don't just consume contribute so at Devcon we have much more than just like normal content where we speak to you uh this year we have 14 Community hubs these are non-commercial areas for communities to meet to discuss to collaborate uh around domains and themes that are important within the ethereum ecosystem uh I'm not going to list them off but you can see them around the venue as you walk around and you can see more at this QR that I might be blocking uh and each of them has their own programming it's run by its own community and they would love for you to stop by and participate so check it out devon. org experiences we also have discussion corners and meeting rooms available for book B booking by anyone so if you would like to organize your own discussion we have four discussion Corners around the venue they fit up to 40 people and they can be booked at reserve. devon.

org uh and uh meeting rooms as well uh number five we have community-led sessions Community Le sessions are basically uh are are are types of content where we allow the community to curate their content uh so we have like their full day sessions where they're Focus around some specific topic two that might be interesting are uh one is daac Discovery day on Thursday where we discuss uh um uh how ethereum fits into the broader context of technological innovation AI debates uh defensive technology uh and other things uh then there's also mud day on uh on Thursday as well uh so some people here might argue that ethereum's greatest impact is creating Unstoppable Virtual Worlds if you're one of those Maybe you can check this out or if you want to just create really uh efficient and Powerful onchain applications mud is a great framework uh and there's a few others that you heard the track Representatives uh talk about earlier so you can check those out on the app and lastly the Devcon Improvement proposals so every year we allow the community to get involved in Devcon and propose Integrations or ways in which we can we can extend Devcon the first one is with zpass so you are all using Z two pass to manage your tickets uh all of your tickets are cryptographic attestations in this form of a pod H and all of these pods are compatible with this second generation cryptography of zero knowledge proofs a and other things and if you want to learn more about this you can check out the Frog crypto Community Hub uh on the first on the ground floor maybe get yourself a frog hat H and there's also a a CLS a community lead session on Friday all around this technology uh we also have a music stage on the ground floor where we have the ethereum open source orchestra playing from different members of the ethereum community if you play you can go maybe join them and lastly I will mention that we have a treasure hunt from a team from the community uh I won't say much more about this other than this is your first clue so I'll leave that there for a second uh and if you want more you can go to this website or ask Diva AI and the best tip of all is that this is a Choose Your Own Adventure event right you don't need to sign up to talks ahead of time you should go do what you are most interested in doing uh what you are most interested in seeing so in 30 minutes there are talk starting in other rooms but right now we have someone very special to to come talk uh with this I would like to formally close the opening ceremony part and welcome to the stage a renowned expert in technology and Innovation someone who has been instrumental in shaping taiwan's digital landscape and promoting open governance to the world let's see