Korea Blockchain Week 2024
2024-09-01..2024-09-07
Seoul, South Korea
[Korea Blockchain Week 2023, Korea Blockchain Week 2024, Korea Blockchain Week 2025]
who it's for
protocol architects, layer one engineers, blockchain developers, token product managers, web3 marketers, institutional crypto investors, nft community managers, regulators and policy advisors
topics
fan tokens and tokenized assets; ChilizChain validator governance; EVM-compatible layer one design; fast finality rollups; cross-chain communication with Arbitrum; stablecoins and CBDC approaches; provenance for intellectual property; crypto wallets and payment rails; Telegram mini apps and TON integration; liquidity for tokenized real-world assets; Solana ecosystem and Backpack wallet; on-chain AI interactions and tooling
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| SportFi: Reshaping Sports Block-by-Block With PSG and Chiliz | Alexandre Dreyfus, Pär Helgosson, Young Shin | 21m |
Claims that fan tokens let global supporters vote on club decisions and win match tickets, backed by an EVM layer-one ChilizChain that certifies real-world… | ||
| Fireside With | Brad Garlinghouse | 22m |
Ripple wins a key legal ruling that XRP ruled not a security, cuts an initial $2 billion claim by ~94%, and spends about $150 million legal bill to fight the… | ||
| Fireside With | Hayden Adams | 19m |
A first-time meeting with Vitalik leads to an on-the-spot GitHub code review and a Foundation grant, and the project continuously replaces older designs (V2 →… | ||
| Keynote: Ethereum and AI: Synergies and Potential Applications | Vitalik Buterin | 21m |
Ethereum upgrades like EIP‑4844 enabling <1¢ transaction fees plus L2s make on‑chain AI interactions affordable, and prediction markets can operate at micro… | ||
| How the Hallyu Wave Is Going Web3 | Joseph Baek, Sungmin Kim, Paul Kim, Hyunji Lee | 19m |
Panel describes concrete pilots: Modhaus uses on‑chain voting (first unit vote grows from 10,000 to 1 million votes) to pick members and title tracks; XPLA… | ||
| Empowering the Future of Payments: Web3 Wallets, Stablecoins, & Cross-Border Connectivity | Mo Shaikh, Sehyeon Oh, Christie Lee | 19m |
Korea’s retail payments total about 650 trillion KRW, with mobile payments around 30% and carrier billing ~5%, so adoption hinges on UX that feels simpler than… | ||
| Web3 Ecosystem in Telegram | Jack Booth | 21m |
A Web3-on-Telegram stack claims to onboard mass users by embedding Telegram mini apps and a built-in TON wallet into chats, enabling one‑tap games, airdrops… | ||
| Scaling Wars: The Race to Speed Up On-Chain Infrastructure | Keone Hon, Sydney Huang, Smokey the Bera, Namik Mudurogl, Diana Biggs | 23m |
Panel lays out concrete claims and tradeoffs: Berachain runs an EVM-identical L1 using proof of liquidity and CometBFT with ~256 validators to bootstrap app… | ||
| AI & Humanity's Renaissance Moment | J.D. Seraphine, Nicholas Frontera | 18m |
Claims a running mainnet protocol that is a federated hybrid blockchain, not EVM, tracks and immutably proofs individual data contributions to AI training and… | ||
| How to Go From Building an NFT Community to Launching a Global Crypto Exchange | Armani Ferrante, Baek Kim | 19m |
Backpack builds a self-custodial Solana wallet, an NFT community called Mad Lads, and a compliant centralized exchange launched six months ago; the exchange… | ||
| How to Grab Attention in Web3 | Franklin Mongiove, Hilal Agil, Zack Nelson, Zach Burks | 20m |
Panel argues no single killer app will onboard a billion users; adoption needs seamless Web2–Web3 flows and cross‑chain interoperability between layer‑ones… | ||
| Fireside With | Yat Siu, Taha Ahmed | 22m |
Animoca Brands outlines a push for tokenized digital property and says its portfolio tops 540+ companies, cites gaming, TON onboarding for hundreds of millions… | ||
| Fireside With | Mark Karpeles | 20m |
Early Bitcoin miner builds an exchange and puts 200,000 BTC onto it, suffers a hack that leaves 80,000 BTC stolen, then endures a 10-year bankruptcy that is… | ||
| Fireside With | Greg Solano | 21m |
Returns to the CEO role and pushes Yuga to act like a fast-moving product studio, shortening ship cycles and iterating in public; launches Dooky Dash mobile… | ||
| World’s Smartest Turtle Present the Blockchain Project That Will Change the World | Naveen Jain | 12m |
Announces Tari Universe, a free, one-click miner that runs on regular Macs and PCs using an AS6-resistant CPU-optimized hashing algorithm and assigns users to… | ||
| Why the Move Ecosystem Is Onboarding Devs at Speed | Rushi Manche, Sam Blackshear, Elliscope Fang | 23m |
Move delivers concrete primitives: objects abstraction for coins, NFTs and assets, a programmable transaction blocks model that composes transactions… | ||
| Cross-Chain Communication: Arbitrum's Role in a Multi-Blockchain World | Alex Blania, Baek Kim | 20m |
Arbitrum Stylus goes live on Arbitrum One and upgrades Arbitrum One, Nova and Orbit to run native WebAssembly contracts interoperable with the EVM, using fraud… | ||
| Fireside With | Alex Blania | 16m |
Worldcoin (Tools for Humanity) argues AI forces a need for global, anonymous humanness checks and builds World ID plus an orb hardware verifier to meet that… | ||
| Provenance and Intellectual Property (IP) Rights in the Blockchain Ecosystem | MOD Nabyl Charania, Sean Ren, Yat Siu, Richard Ma | 23m |
Panel argues that blockchain can record who contributed data, compute and model recipes and enable revenue splits (examples include proposals like 5% GPU… | ||
| Putting the Decentralization in DeFi: Addressing the Critical Problem of Data in Crypto | Hugo Philion | 26m |
Claims Flare is an EVM layer‑1 that enshrines data protocols on‑chain rather than outsourcing oracles, running a time‑series oracle that updates every block… | ||
| Liquidity Solutions for Tokenized Real-World Asset | MOD Jose Rodrigo Safdiye, John Patrick Mullin, Julian Kwan, Stephen Richardson | 21m |
Panelists report an on‑chain surge of tokenized treasuries and money‑market funds and claim traction in real estate, private credit and IP, backed by a $500… | ||
| It's SOL Summer Again: Exploring the Solana Ecosystem | MOD Mert Mumtaz, Cindy Leow, Lynn Nguyen, CHRIS ZHU | 21m |
Atomic gaming chain Sonic SVM claims 1.8M active wallets in tests, targets 3M active wallet goal and mainnet next quarter, running an SVM environment… | ||
| Crypto's Future Depends on Interoperability | Bryan Pellegrino | 15m |
Claims that LayerZero is a permissionless interoperability layer with immutable endpoints on each chain, using a message-packet model and optional… | ||
| Blockchain After Finance: Programmable IP in the Age of AI | Jason Zhao | 21m |
Argues that blockchains can turn internet content into IP Legoland by registering assets on-chain with a programmable IP license that maps each legal term to… | ||
| Performance | tripleS | 16m |
Eight-member K-pop performance by tripleS delivers a roughly 15–20 minute stage set with tight choreography, synced dance breaks and multiple vocal leads; the… | ||
| Regulation in the Blockchain Space: Navigating the Global Landscape | Robert MacDonald | 12m |
Regulation in crypto is fragmented in practice: the US shows state-by-state divergence and high-profile SEC/CFPB actions, the EU pushes a unified EU MiCA… | ||
| Why We Decentralize Important Decisions as Kpop Idols | MOD Joseph Baek, MOD Simon Kim, ChaeYeon Kim, YooYeon Kim | 21m |
Company decentralizes idol creative decisions to fans using a blockchain voting platform and NFTs, claiming higher engagement and measurable growth… | ||
| Data as an Asset: Transforming Ownership in the Digital Age | Avidan Abitbol | 11m |
Data Ownership Protocol (DOP) claims to let individuals control, monetize and selectively hide on‑chain data using smart contracts, ZK proofs and dynamic… | ||
| The Pathway to Web3 Adoption: Key Challenges and Unlocking Potential | Sehyeon Oh | 22m |
SK Telecom chronicles concrete steps: launched a private mainnet and wallet, mobile driver's license with ~10 million users and an NFT marketplace, and treats… | ||
| How Central Banks and Commercial Banks Approach Stablecoins and CBDCs | MOD Jongsub Lee, Hakan Eroglu, Kaweewut (Tong) Temphuwapat, Anna Yim | 32m |
Comparisons between stablecoins and CBDCs focus on concrete pilots and platforms not theory: private stablecoins like USDT/USDC remain collateralized by bank… | ||
| Centralized vs. Decentralized Stablecoins: Who Wins? | MOD Matt Dobie, Nick van Eck, Chris Carapola, Guy Young | 21m |
Agora launches a USD stablecoin deployed on Ethereum, Avalanche and Sui, keeps reserves in overnight reverse repo and short‑dated Treasuries, avoids US retail… | ||
| Keynote: Boom Times | Arthur Hayes | 16m |
Argument: a crypto bull market is likely but delayed by liquidity plumbing—reverse repo balances rose ~$120B starting Aug 23 as t‑bill yields fell below Fed… | ||
| Fireside with – Dan Alberts | Dan Alberts | 21m |
Solana Foundation describes concrete moves: launching 15 super teams worldwide and actively hiring for Super Team Korea, running a Radar hackathon with… | ||
| Liquid Funds vs. VC: How Crypto Investing Is Evolving | MOD Laura Vidiella, Kelvin Koh, Paola Origel, Jack Platts | 21m |
A new multi‑manager fund raises $130M Atlas, pooling five portfolio managers and adding a chief risk officer plus real‑time risk controls to enforce drawdown… | ||
| Decentralized Space Infrastructure: Building the Future of Global Connectivity | MOD Scott Hasbrouck, Michael Nayak, Sidney Gutierrez, Wesley Clark, TAE OH | 21m |
Panel lays out a concrete stack: build small, right‑sized launchers using a Vex hybrid engine (six patented innovations, ~1,000 fewer moving parts) to orbit… | ||
| Engage-to-Earn, SocialFi, and the Dream of Mass Adoption | MOD Itai Elizur, Caitlin Cook, Oleg Fomenko, Wilson Wei, Naveen Jain | 24m |
Panelists describe concrete deployments: Moonwalk runs step-based competitions on Solana, Sweat Economy converts steps into tokens and reports 16 million token… | ||
| Accelerating Ethereum: Fast Finality Rollups and the Movement Ecosystem | Rushi Manche | 19m |
Movement Labs ships the Move VM to Ethereum via a Layer 2 that targets seconds finality using a new post confirmations design (validators stake a native token… | ||
| Navigating the Future of Crypto Regulation in the United States | MOD Jin Kang, Mark T. Uyeda | 21m |
Discussion explains that U S securities jurisdiction turns on the Howey investment-contract test, cites a 4,900‑person SEC staff and five‑member commission… | ||
| Fireside With | Stani Kulechov | 23m |
Aara builds a shared, resilient social stack: Lens Network uses zkSync Validium to keep transaction costs extremely low while V3 puts social actions as smart… | ||
| The Future of Crypto Wallets: Trends and Innovations | Daria Bystrova | 18m |
Claims a seedless three-card backup that generates and stores a private key in secure elements (never exposed) and keeps three encrypted copies; demos show… | ||
| From Web1 to Web3: The Evolution of Trust, Security, and Digital Finance | MOD Youngro Lee, Mike Belshe, Sehyeon Oh, Jae Uk (Alex) Jeong | 22m |
Claims concrete: web1 trust starts with SSL/PKI origin (incl. 402 "Payment Required") enabling e‑commerce, web2 centralizes trust in a few platforms, and web3… | ||
| Fireside With | Stani Kulechov, Rune Christensen | 22m |
Two major DeFi protocols announce a governance-driven integration called Sky A Force that proposes minting Sky’s new stablecoin USDS into Aave markets… | ||
| Coexistence of Two Worlds | Simon Kim | 18m |
Argues that two overlapping realms — states controlling the physical and blockchains shaping the digital — are converging as real assets, identity and… | ||
| Welcome to KBW 2024 | Seonik Jeon | 19m |
Factblock launches Fablo, a quest-to-earn mobile app (iOS and Android) that claims to convert Korea’s mass crypto users into onchain participants by teaching… | ||
| Fireside with – Richard Teng | Richard Teng | 20m |
Three commitments: a user‑first platform that adds features like copy trading, margin, Binance Earn and a web3 wallet while claiming 220 million users and… | ||
| More Than Swaps: What DEXs Must Build to Flippen CEXs | MOD Vladimir Velmeshev, Joseph Poon, JP Thor, Almir Salimov | 21m |
Claims that UX and missing onchain liquidity keep DEXs at ~12–20% of CEX volume lead to concrete prescriptions: move a million BTC into onchain pools via… | ||
| Fireside With | Luca Netz | 21m |
Bought two and a half years ago for $25 million, Pudgy Penguins pivots from NFT collectible to consumer brand by selling 1.5 million toys in under 12 months… | ||
| Aptos Ascend: Tokenized Real-World Financial Assets Ecosystem and Solutions | MOD Alexandre Tang, Mo Shaikh, Sean Park, Eiji Kobayashi | 20m |
Aptos Ascend lays out a working stack for institutional tokenization: a permissioned public blockchain with on-chain controls, wallets, custody and compliance… | ||
| SUI Play Keynote | Adeniyi Abiodun | 17m |
Mysten Labs positions Sui as a realtime blockchain with 400 ms finality and no downtime, reporting ~297,000 TPS on mainnet and ~600,000 TPS with doubled nodes… | ||
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