TOKEN2049 Dubai 2024
who it's for
web3 founders, blockchain engineers, institutional traders, crypto product managers, game developers, payments and fintech engineers
topics
tokenization of real world assets; sovereign layer 2 networks; local stablecoin issuance; human-labeled data marketplaces for AI; solana-derived high-throughput VMs for EVM; sequencer fee models and institutional L2s; zero-knowledge proofs advancements; real-time blockchains and rollup OS; account abstraction and smart wallets; decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Tokenization of Real World Assets: Latest from Japan | Phillip Gillespie | 14m |
Claims Japan is shifting from speculation to a utility phase where securitized STOs and RWA tokenization scale, with 70–80% of crypto trading in Japan cited as… | ||
| The Rise of the Sovereign L2 - Why Institutions Need Interoperability | Konstantin Richter | 14m |
Blockdaemon runs 185,000 nodes across 70 data centers and argues institutions are building proprietary L2s that batch transactions to achieve roughly 10x… | ||
| Next Wave of Mass Adoption via Local Stables | Markus Franke | 12m |
Mento is an open-source EVM platform that lets anyone mint and redeem local stablecoins with on-chain oracles, visible collateral and an integrated AMM to swap… | ||
| Sapien: Human Powered Axie Infinity For AI | Trevor Koverko | 14m |
A web3 platform that turns human labeling into a mobile game, letting companies drag‑and‑drop raw datasets and get back human‑labeled training data while… | ||
| From High Fees to High Speeds: Optimizing the SVM For Ethereum | Neel Somani | 12m |
Eclipse claims to deliver an ultra‑fast L2 by forking the Solana VM and changing it to produce verifiable execution that settles to Ethereum with fraud proofs… | ||
| Crypto: Waves, Institutions and Degens | Andrei Grachev | 29m |
A large trading firm reports deploying heavy capital to buy cheap assets and lists >10 memecoins in its portfolio, citing flocky overtook Layer Two in FDV as… | ||
| Backpack: Creating Culture & Community | Tristan Yver | 12m |
Begins as a mystery marketing test around X NFTs mystery meme campaign and channels engagement by awarding an invite-only Discord with a blue dodgeball gif… | ||
| Beyond HODL: Can You Trade with On-Chain Data | Rafael Schultze-Kraft | 11m |
Claim: on-chain data produces tradable signals. A tree-based model trained only on dozens of on-chain metrics runs a Bitcoin long-only strategy in… | ||
| Onboard One Billion People To Web3 & Crypto | Jonas Eric Werner | 13m |
C1 claims to have onboarded millions and targets 100 million users in 2024, reporting ~7 million new users in Q1 and 1.5 million recipients for an upcoming… | ||
| Road to the Bull Market | Bartosz Lipinski | 05m |
A hybrid exchange splits custody and settlement with a centralized MPC layer and its own uplink, settling native assets directly to Bitcoin, Ethereum and… | ||
| Trading Reimagined | Federico Variola | 11m |
Phemex claims operation since 2019 with 5 million users and $2 billion in daily trading volume, listing ~400–500 pairs. The team builds a social trading… | ||
| Core Chain: Unlocking $1T in Bitcoin Value | Rich Rines | 13m |
Core is an L1 fully EVM-compatible chain anchored to Bitcoin that claims to unlock trapped BTC liquidity by adding native yield, smart contracts and high… | ||
| The Importance of Community and Culture | Luca Schnetzler | 12m |
Argues that tech moats erode — 99% of your tech can be competed away and an AI assistant will outperform senior developers within three years — so the X factor… | ||
| Base is for Everyone, Especially Builders | Daryl Hok | 13m |
Seamless claims the largest Base-native lending and borrowing pool, once top in TVL, and reports 50,000 users; it combines tradable liquidity with automated… | ||
| DeFi For Normal People | Mike Silagadze | 12m |
A cautionary, concrete account of onboarding non‑crypto users: a friend hits opaque exchange fees and a clumsy on‑ramp, pays two transactions costing ~$15 each… | ||
| Why Email Ads Will Kick Social Media Ads' Ass in Web3 | Gerald Heydenreich | 13m |
EtherMail claims a million+ Web3 email users and 8–10k new signups per day, turns an email into a wallet (your wallet@ethermail) and tracks 30–40% open/click… | ||
| 3 Ways Crypto Will Change Banking and Investing Forever | Bill Barhydt | 14m |
Three concrete shifts: use tokenized real-world assets (including Bitcoin as “ultimate” collateral) to create standardized collateral for loans; use a DeFi… | ||
| The Future of DeFi Intents | Sergej Kunz | 14m |
Claims real numbers and features: 1inch Fusion already routes over $6 billion of volume across about 12 chains using a multi-market routing engine and offers… | ||
| Anoma: From VM to IM | Adrian Brink | 14m |
Anoma claims a first fully generalized universal intent machine with a published spec at specs.net that computes valid end-state transitions from batches of… | ||
| Decentralized Digital Chipset Network | Terrill Tsang | 16m |
Claims a working “Decentralized Digital Chipset Network” where chipset makers embed a cryptographic module to prove a chip’s authenticity and compute capacity… | ||
| Future of Payments | Deep Shah | 13m |
Claims a world's first on‑chain self‑custody checking account with debit card, bridging legacy rails and blockchain by speaking Visa ISO messages into an… | ||
| Real World Assets | Farkhad Shagulyamov | 12m |
An incubator launched this year provides end-to-end services and has already shipped a DEX called Wavelength and is building a blockchain, ZKsum, on ZK rollup… | ||
| The Privacy Paradox: Balancing Transparency and Security in Blockchain | Pranay Sharma | 12m |
Claims that Ethereum’s switch to proof‑of‑stake cuts energy use by 99.95%, cites hacks from MtGox to FTX and losses at 3AC, Voyager and Celsius as drivers for… | ||
| Decentralized Indexes/Markets | Joe Sticco | 10m |
Cryptex builds onchain index and perpetual products: TCAP V1 records $200M mints and burns and then migrates to Arbitrum to launch 12 perpetual markets with 13… | ||
| Is the Bull Market Over Before It Started? | Stephan Lutz | 13m |
Claims that the bull market is real but only halfway through, with price action starting March–April 2023 and typical crypto cycles ~2 years, so expect 3–6… | ||
| Building a Crypto Options Ecosystem | Luuk Strijers | 18m |
Company claims 85% market share in crypto options, with 142 billion turnover in March and two‑thirds of that from options; 80% of volume is institutional and… | ||
| Real-Time Blockchains: How Fuel's Rollup OS Supercharges Execution | Nick Dodson | 17m |
Claims that a Fuel rollup OS supports subsecond finality today (around 1 s) while targeting true «real‑time» regional execution under 100 ms by using regional… | ||
| Web3 - The Next Evolution in Gaming | Majd Hailat | 07m |
Claims that web3 enables interoperability across blockchains and that Altura already ships tooling for smart NFTs that evolve (example: a car NFT that upgrades… | ||
| Analyzing the Crypto Market: Impact of Regulations and CoinTR's Vision | Ali Eşelioğlu | 12m |
CoinTR outlines concrete bets: Turkey already has >8 million crypto users and global investor count near 40.4 million with 16% growth in two years, and… | ||
| The Value of Decentralizing AI | Hugo Philion | 13m |
Claims a concrete architecture called consensus learning where blockchain validators train and operate models off‑chain and independent learners submit and… | ||
| Onchain Steam PlanX: Elevating Game Potential and Economic Value | Yuki Yuan | 14m |
PlanX builds an onchain Steam — a gaming hub plus wallet that aggregates 500+ games and multiple token formats (BRC‑20, ARC2, inscriptions, EVM assets)… | ||
| Sweat Economy's Billion-User Blueprint for Scaling Consumer Crypto Apps | Chris Donovan, Oleg Fomenko | 15m |
A consumer crypto app with 164 million users explains why it moved onto NEAR: only a handful of chains handle mass scale, NEAR shows 100% uptime and ongoing… | ||
| Evolution in the Ring: The Knockout Impact of Web3 on Boxing's Future | Alan Duran | 13m |
Ready to Fight is a live app that tokenizes boxing with on‑chain wallets, NFTs, marketplace, an AI agent, ticketing and an iGaming “cyber ring,” claiming… | ||
| AI Meets DeFi | Tommy Jia | 07m |
Cava runs an EVM layer‑1 built on the Cosmos SDK and claims native USDT minting with about 160 million USDT on‑chain and a recent Bitgo integration for native… | ||
| Unlocking Next DeFi Growth through Leverage | Apoorv Anand | 11m |
Built Alpha Homora in 2020 and hit ~$2B TVL with composable looped yield farming, then pivoted to Stella which implements 0% cost to borrow and profit-sharing… | ||
| Unveiling the Future of Zero-Knowledge Proofs | Weikeng Chen | 13m |
Polyhedra partners with Google Cloud to run ZK proof generation for a ZK bridge, spending about $100K/month to serve roughly 1,000 recent bridge proofs and… | ||
| Bringing RWAs to the Cosmos & Beyond | John Patrick Mullin | 13m |
Mantra launches a Cosmos app chain for real‑world asset tokenization with a permissioned trading stack: a CLOB over AMM, a token service for issuing… | ||
| Bridging TradFi into DeFi | Ruca Sousa Marques | 14m |
karpatkey manages $1.7B+ on-chain for DAOs with no hacks reported and maps four institutional entry routes (VCs, liquid funds, direct custody, tokenization)… | ||
| Do We Live in a Simulation? | Vlad Balaban | 15m |
Claims reality is a guiding system and that asking for aligned signs produced a plate reading 1155 as verification; applies that mindset to product and… | ||
| DePin and Web3: The New Internet Is Here | Tadeas Kmenta | 10m |
Flux claims to be a DePin Web3 compute and storage network with 13,000 nodes across 70+ countries, roughly 100,000 CPU cores and 6,000 GPUs available, serving… | ||
| Ben Goertzel, SingularityNET Foundation - TOKEN2049 Dubai 2024 | Ben Goertzel | 17m |
Built a decentralized AI network since 2017 and now proposes a token merger combining SingularityNET, Fetch.ai and Ocean into a single ASI token to pool market… | ||
| DePIN Devices in the Age of Generative Art Experiences | Elio D'Anna | 13m |
A physical IoT node called Emotion streams curated generative art, captures non‑audio sensor data (motion, temperature) and issues on‑chain rewards via an… | ||
| Trading Insights from On-Chain Data | Ki Young Ju | 12m |
Claims that blockchains reveal supply and demand every 15 seconds and that a 2.7 MVRV implies average wallet is ~170% unrealized profit, so market isn’t at… | ||
| Uncharted Territory Ahead: Why Restaking Needs Modularity | Mohak Agarwal | 13m |
Argues that restaking must be built as an immutable core with upgradeable modules, citing concrete components and pain points: DVT for distributed validators… | ||
| Building the First Real-Time Blockchain | Shuyao Kong | 11m |
MegaETH claims a real-time blockchain with 100,000 TPS and sub-1 ms latency by decoupling execution from consensus via node specialization (small set of… | ||
| Tokenising the Billion Dollar Influencer Industry | Pal Vinciano | 14m |
A platform issues per-celebrity experience tokens on Binance Smart Chain that unlock governance, staking, gated access and micro-experiences—fans vote on… | ||
| Bitcoin: Ownership and Custody | Bobby Lee | 14m |
Argues that true Bitcoin ownership requires self custody, not exchange accounts, citing exchange hacks, account takeovers and insolvencies as real risks and… | ||
| Bitcoin and Truth: Certainty in an Age of AI & Propaganda | Bruce Fenton | 14m |
Remembers running the first Dubai Bitcoin meetup—about 70 people, later feeding ~150 with 8 BTC for 100 pizzas—and argues Bitcoin’s core is political: a tool… | ||
| AI and Humanity’s Renaissance Moment | J.D. Seraphine | 16m |
Claims a protocol that quantifies each person’s contribution to AI by signing on-chain behavior and feeding dynamic reputations into AI‑aware smart contracts… | ||
| Decentralized ZettaFlop Uber GPU/XPU Network for Al and Spatial Computing | Raja Koduri | 13m |
Announces Axelflops, a decentralized network that aims to aggregate deployed teraflop and petaflop GPUs into a ZettaFlop = 10^21 flops fabric, claiming gamers’… | ||
| Swift Wallet Powered by Account Abstraction | Eowyn Chen, Nate Zhou | 15m |
Trust Wallet reports 100 million downloads and unveils Swift Wallet using Account Abstraction for one-tap passkey wallet creation (passkeys stored in… | ||
| Beginning of Open Architecture Entertainment | Joseph Baek | 08m |
Modhaus builds a K-pop platform that mints collectibles as utilitarian NFTs sold at a fixed $3 digital / $4 physical price and distributes them in convenience… | ||
| Crypto Entrepreneurship: Builders and Believers | Vugar Usi Zade | 14m |
Bitget describes concrete wins: inventing copy trading (took two years), landing a multi‑year partnership with Lionel Messi, and growing to ~25 million users… | ||
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