Pragma Taipei 2025
2025-04-03
Taipei, Taiwan
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Recap Video | 03m | |
Pragma Taipei runs at POPOP Taipei in April 2025 as part of a curated series launched in Tokyo in 2023 and centers on Ethereum-focused projects and builders… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Vitalik Buterin, Kartik Talwar | 53m |
Tooling now shortens MVP timelines with web3.js and Foundry but tutorials and ZK tooling (Circom verification, Solidity-to-ZK libs) lag; proposal-level… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Hsiao Wei Wang, Kartik Talwar | 26m |
Ethereum Foundation announces a new P2P networking team and shifts resources to the application layer, plans Petra-era upgrades that aim to raise blob count to… | ||
| The Future of ENS What Namechain Unlocks | Jeff Lau | 20m |
ENS moves from names to portable identity with Namechain is a ZK-rollup L2 that runs ENS v2, batching transactions with zero-knowledge proofs to make… | ||
| May the Fork Be With You Why Celo is the ETH L2 You're Looking For | MAREK OLSZEWSKI | 21m |
Celo completes a live migration from an EVM L1 to an OP Stack and EigenDA-based L2, executing a risky “hard hard fork” that requires client swaps at a block… | ||
| Funding Continuous Impact, Not Instant Hype | Denisse Halm | 18m |
Claims that $2B in grants yields only ~5–10% active adopters, and that off‑chain grants distract builders, lead to a concrete alternative: a Divvy on-chain… | ||
| Proteus and ZK Email How Advanced Cryptography Derisks AI Harms | Aayush Gupta | 21m |
Proteus is a system that combines DINO Hash perceptual hashing, digital signatures and privacy tech to verify image provenance; claims include… | ||
| High Performance Apps with State Channels | Louis Bellet | 23m |
Claims that state channels enable instant, fee-less off‑chain transactions while preserving on‑chain security, with Nitro and a simplified Nitrolite… | ||
| Building an Open Financial System with High Standards | Loi Luu | 21m |
Claims that Kyber still handles 150–200M daily volume, that OptimX is a non-custodial Bitcoin↔Ethereum bridge, and a goal to unlock $1.6 trillion TVL on… | ||
| Open Standards' Critical Role in Protecting Ethereum Interoperability | Nam Chu Hoai | 19m |
Argues that ERC-4337 succeeded by creating a social Schelling point for account abstraction, while bridge standards suffer vendor lock‑in and little uptake… | ||
| EIP 7702 on Ethereum and Rollups What to Build and How | Martin Derka | 21m |
EIP-7702 adds a new type 4 transaction that embeds an authorization list and a set code pointer so EOAs can temporarily delegate their account logic to… | ||
| The Pioneer of the Web3 Maritime Era | Francis Li | 13m |
Argues that Web3 must pair decentralization with real-world compliance to scale, offering compliance-as-a-service so institutions handle KYC and custody while… | ||
| Show Me the Proof! ZK Identity with Self Protocol | Eric Nakagawa | 20m |
Self Protocol proves identities by reading biometric passport NFC chips and generating zero‑knowledge statements (age, nationality, OFAC status) without… | ||
| Beyond Nodes How Ontology Powers Blockchain in the AI Era | Kihoon Nam | 20m |
Claims a reproducible pipeline: ontology turns raw on‑chain traces into a structured knowledge graph (accounts as nodes, transactions as edges) used with GNNs… | ||
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