TOKEN2049 Hong Kong 2019
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Blockchain for Social Impact | Nydia Zhang, Jehan Chu, Martin Wainstein | 32m |
Conference-backed initiative awards $150,000 grant to Yale Open Lab to prototype open-source blockchain tools for environmental accounting, focusing on carbon… | ||
| Spring is Coming: How to See Past the Crypto Winter | Charles Cascarilla | 25m |
Claims that the crypto winter is a healthy reset and the core logic remains intact: code commits and core devs on major protocols are rising, institutions… | ||
| Offshore Futures and the Democratisation of Trading | Mark Lamb | 13m |
13 March 2019
TOKEN2049 - Grand Ballroom 2
Mark Lamb - CEO - CoinFLEX Exchange | ||
| 10 Years In - The State of Decentralization | Alex Mashinsky | 20m |
Claims that banks get displaced by "money over IP" and shows a working product: a wallet that lends dollars at 9% against crypto collateral, gives 7% back to… | ||
| The Power of Decentralized AI | Ben Goertzel | 18m |
A decentralized marketplace for AI agents is live as a beta at beta.singularity.net, enabling disparate services to share data and outsource tasks to each… | ||
| Digital Assets Management: Keys to the Bearish Market | Yuri Lobyntsev | 15m |
Cindicator runs a 120,000 analysts crowd and weights contributors dynamically to produce predictive indicators used by 5,000 traders and consumed via mobile… | ||
| Opportunities in The Web3 Data Economy | Trent McConaghy | 21m |
Ocean Protocol claims a public, permissionless substrate that brings the compute to the data so private models stay behind firewalls and only predictions… | ||
| Building the Fabric for the Decentralised World | Paul Kittiwongsunthorn | 16m |
Claims blockchain reaches 10% of global GDP (~$8–10T) if growth keeps doubling yearly; cites >4,000 tokens and Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary. Describes concrete… | ||
| The Missing Middle in Blockchain Industry | Matthew Spoke | 16m |
Industry has poured about $25 billion into protocols but only about $5 billion from traditional VC and most dapps have <100 daily users. Developers hit… | ||
| According to CoinMarketCap | Carylyne Chan | 11m |
CoinMarketCap reports 3.6 billion page views and roughly 125 million active users last year, with geographic skews (Americas 36%, Vietnam and Turkey notable)… | ||
| Valuing Smart Contract Platforms | Martin Köppelmann | 19m |
Claims value is tied to discounted cash flow of transaction fees not to the need to pay miners, with $148M in 2018 vs 40M in 2017 as base revenue inputs. Uses… | ||
| Building User-Friendly Solutions for the Real World | Brian Norton | 21m |
MyEtherWallet launches in 2015 and evolves from a developer tool (v3) into a user-focused product (v5) that emphasizes educate the user, keep users safe, and… | ||
| Live from the Permaweb: Demos of the decentralised web | Sam Williams | 13m |
Arweave claims a live Permaweb that stores web apps permanently by using a blockweave proof of access (each new block includes the previous block hash plus a… | ||
| Boson Consensus: A Scalable Blockchain Sharding Consensus | Qi Zhou | 16m |
A two-layer sharding consensus called Poisson consensus uses a root chain that stores shard headers so a double-spend on any shard must also outpace the root… | ||
| Keynote | David Wachsman | 19m |
Media coverage evolves from promotional hobbyists to professional scrutiny with clear milestones: Ethereum at $7 turns into a 2016 rally, market cap jumps from… | ||
| Decentralising the IOT for Smarter Cities and Businesses | Vlad Trifa | 15m |
m-net is a decentralized backbone that ties IoT sensors and enterprise systems to a public blockchain while keeping bulky data off‑chain using a Hermus gateway… | ||
| Regtech for Security Tokens | Adam Vaziri | 19m |
Claims a market problem: ICOs raised about $7 billion a year but roughly 20% of funds were lost to hacks or exit scams. Presents Blockpass: a decentralized… | ||
| Bitwala: The Only Bank | Ben Jones | 13m |
Bitwala offers a world's first crypto bank account that issues a German IBAN/BIC and a Bitcoin wallet where users hold private keys; euros sit in a partner… | ||
| Crypto Under Attack | Aliza Knox | 10m |
CloudFlare claims it protects crypto infrastructure by crowdsourcing threat data across 14 million domains and running an anycast network with 165 points of… | ||
| Connecting Smart Contracts to Off-chain Data | Sergey Nazarov | 16m |
Chainlink presents a concrete solution to the oracle problem: deploy a decentralized oracle network that aggregates multiple data sources and payment rails… | ||
| Own Your Data | Matias Travizano | 16m |
Wibson builds an Ethereum-based personal data marketplace that stores users’ data encrypted on their phones, sends it off-chain to buyers, and pays sellers in… | ||
| World’s First Regulator Approved Crypto Withdrawal Solution | Michael Ou | 22m |
Claims a regulator-approved crypto-withdrawal system that links every address to a verified identity via a identity-linked KYC wallet, uses an EMV-certified… | ||
| P2PFinance and The True Use Cases of Bitcoin | Ray Youssef | 30m |
Argues that the real Bitcoin killer app is peer-to-peer finance using BTC as a universal clearing layer, not tokens or speculation, and claims about 60,000… | ||
| Opening up the Internet to All | Tegan Kline | 08m |
Argues that internet access is a basic right and that centralized platforms and censoring states break it and sell data while VPNs are compromised, cites 60%… | ||
| The New Era of Global Game Public Chain | Vincent Chen | 08m |
Baer Chain describes a game-focused public chain that claims to tokenise in-game assets, support high-frequency FPS and large PC titles, and move ERC-20 tokens… | ||
| Content and NFTs: Why Bill Gates was Right | Yat Siu | 16m |
Argument: NFTs restore true digital ownership and turn content into a discovery platform, which should raise conversion from current ~3% to perhaps 10–15%… | ||
| STOs and Security Tokens | Daniel Skowronski | 13m |
DX.Exchange claims to have tokenized Apple and Amazon and ETFs (QQQ, SPY), runs a NASDAQ-based matching engine and partners with Bloomberg, and offers 24/7… | ||
| Investing in Crypto Equity | Simon Dixon | 20m |
Platform claims $740M deployed across ~120 startups with six unicorns (Coinbase $8B, Kraken $4B, Circle $3B) and about ten failures, arguing equity investing… | ||
| Crypto Generation Z: Live Events, eSports and Gaming | Shiv Madan | 15m |
Claim that mass crypto adoption comes from experiences and Gen Z gaming culture, with a plan to monetize in-game rewards into spendable crypto. Built a… | ||
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