TOKEN2049 London 2021
who it's for
web3 developers, decentralized finance engineers, blockchain founders and entrepreneurs, game developers and studios, institutional crypto teams, security and risk engineers, nft product managers
topics
nonfungible token design and marketplaces; decentralized oracle architectures; layer 2 scalability and agent networks; Polkadot parachains and Substrate chains; EVM compatibility and cross-chain precompiles; Solana throughput and low-fee tooling; onchain betting and tokenized wagers; real world asset tokenization; decentralized custody and corporate crypto rails; DeFi risk management and insurance; bridging and cross-chain interoperability; yield strategies and aggregation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Betting Disrupting a Massive Incumbent Industry On Chain | Rossen Yordanov | 16m |
Azuro builds a decentralized betting protocol that puts event creation and settlement on-chain via oracles, uses pooled liquidity so providers aren’t exposed… | ||
| The Ultimate NFT Focused Blockchain for Entertainment | Alexey Blagirev | 16m |
A Substrate/Polkadot chain called Vacara (Wakatta) targets entertainment NFTs with upgradable NFTs that support generative content, time-limited / “last owner”… | ||
| Chainlink and DeFi | Johann Eid | 19m |
Chainlink describes concrete infrastructure: price feeds powering ~700 feeds on nine chains that secure over $50 billion for ~300 users, paid by per-request… | ||
| Why Gaming will bring Millions to Blockchain | Bozena Rezab | 12m |
Gamee reports a 30 million-strong community, 80 launched titles and ~4.7 billion total gameplays, and opens Arcade — a mobile app where Arcade on Polygon… | ||
| The Interaction of Oracles and Real NFTs | Dominik Ernst | 09m |
Acria Network claims an oracle with no middlemen so data providers remain the data owners and smart contracts fetch verified API results; nodes gain… | ||
| Leveraging AI & Layer 2 Blockchain Solutions | Humayun Sheikh | 23m |
A platform-first pitch that claims agents run off-chain agent-based L2 work by opening peer-to-peer state channels, spinning up short-lived chains, and using… | ||
| Untapped Opportunity Unlocking the Possibilities of Corporate Crypto | Chris Harmse | 10m |
Claims that digital-asset lending grew 894% since 2019 and that less than 2% of Bitcoin sits with companies drive the argument: BVNK launches a single business… | ||
| DeFi Personal Agency and Institutional Adoption | Evgeny Gaevoy | 16m |
A market maker and active DeFi builder says Wintermute trades across centralized and decentralized exchanges and has been an early DeFi trader since 2019… | ||
| BitcoinPoint: A New Paradigm | Benoit Marzouk | 06m |
A mobile platform demonstrates instant on‑ramps and off‑ramps that buy bitcoin in seconds via open banking into a non‑custodial wallet, with a live demo… | ||
| Moonbeam: Boostrapping an Interoperable Ecosystem on Polkadot | Derek You | 23m |
Moonbeam builds a full EVM compatibility on Substrate and runs as a Polkadot parachain, launched Moonriver on Kusama with ~2.5M transactions, ~125k wallets and… | ||
| Solana Summer: Pit Vipers and Boomtown Vibes | George Harrap | 17m |
Solana reports TVL jumping from near zero to ~\$10B in months, transaction volume climbing, 1,000+ validators and ~2.5M accounts, hundreds of hackathon… | ||
| Managing Risks in DeFi | Hugh Karp | 21m |
Nexus Mutual presents crypto insurance for smart‑contract risk, offering protocol cover (protects liquidity losses from hacks, oracle failures, governance… | ||
| L2 & L1 Adoption and User Behavior Utilizing Onchain Data | Sid Shekhar | 18m |
Coinbase blockchain research measures adoption using on‑chain dashboards and TVL; it finds 190,000 addresses have ever used Ethereum bridges (implying ~100k… | ||
| An Introduction to Polkadot and Parachains | Dan Reecer | 27m |
Polkadot is a Layer‑0 relay chain that inherits security across heterogeneous parachains built with the Rust‑based Substrate framework; about 64% of DOT is… | ||
| Connecting Mainstream Gaming with Blockchain and NFTs | Duke Vu | 10m |
Claims a bridge between mainstream titles and web3 by reading live game data (play time kills wins) and issuing a token called Proof of Gaming to players of… | ||
| The Magic of Aggregation | Andra Nicolau | 12m |
Claims that an aggregator finds the best market rate by splitting swaps across 132 liquidity sources and routing multi-hop trades through an optimized… | ||
| Bridging Games to Web 3.0 Ecosystems | Nuno Fernandes | 19m |
Exeedme builds a decentralized competitive layer on top of AAA games, integrating CS:GO and Call of Duty Warzone and launching open beta May 2021, 3,500 peak… | ||
| Lightning Round: The Future of Crypto Asset Management | David Olsson, Edd Carlton, Jean-Marc Bonnefous | 19m |
Claims that crypto asset management is finally institutionalizing with concrete fixes: a new BlockFi prime product ships in May to reduce exchange settlement… | ||
| Beyond DEX Aggregation | Mounir Benchemled | 10m |
Paraswap describes executing multi-million-dollar orders split across 10–20 venues in a single transaction using smart contracts, blending on-chain OTC… | ||
| DeFi Regulation and DEXs - Opportunity or Threat? | Ingo Rübe | 19m |
KILT offers a working flow where users create decentralized identifiers in a Boron wallet, get verifiable credentials from regulated KYC providers, and sign… | ||
| Staking: The Foundation of Web 3 | Lorien Gabel | 14m |
Claims staking is the foundation of Web3 because token holders can run nodes, govern protocols and capture ongoing value instead of being pure speculators… | ||
| Unleash the Power of Blockchain | Michael J. I. Jackson | 27m |
Concordium launches a mainnet (May last year) that embeds identity at the protocol layer and uses global ID plus off-chain identity objects verified by… | ||
| The Unstoppable Rise of Tokenization Era | Oleg Kurchenko | 20m |
Claims that tokenization is "unstoppable" and shows a working stack: a live digital exchange plus a blockchain depository, a payment system and trading robots… | ||
| Blockchain Gaming: Crypto's Key to Mass Adoption | Robbie Cochrane | 19m |
Argues that blockchain gaming is the fastest route to crypto adoption by concrete examples: Decentraland and Sandbox as native browser metaverses, Axie… | ||
| 100Bn USD in crypto "lost", can it be recovered? | Robert Rhodin | 15m |
Claims about 100Bn USD of lost crypto rest on Chainalysis’ 20% estimate; KeychainX says recoverable cases include forgotten seeds, buggy Bitcoin Core builds… | ||
| Disrupting Financial Markets | Simon Barnby | 18m |
Argues that tokenization can cut post-trade complexity by putting ownership on ledgers so trades clear and settle instantly if participants run nodes, citing… | ||
| The Road to a Billion Users | Simon Yu | 18m |
StormX claims 4 million users across 170 countries and says it has rewarded $4.5M by shipping a microtask + crypto-cashback app (Android, iOS, Chrome) and a… | ||
| Upgrading DeFi from Dial-up to Broadband | William Harborne | 19m |
Built on StarkWare ZK-rollups to batch thousands of actions into one validity proof, the system targets 100 tps goal and currently settles with full Ethereum… | ||
| What do Institutions Look for in the Crypto Industry? | Kalin Metodiev, Brian Rose | 25m |
Nexo is rolling out a prime brokerage at month end that aggregates order books from about 20 exchanges, offers smart order routing, institutional custody with… | ||
| Bitcoin’s Current Adoption and Unstoppable Future | Zachary Friedman | 13m |
Claims rapid institutional adoption backed by concrete numbers: 7 in 10 institutions preparing to invest, 82% planning increased exposure, and surveys showing… | ||
| Decentralizing Blackrock | Mike Taormina | 19m |
Compares BlackRock’s $9 trillion scale to an on‑chain alternative that already has about DPI $400M TVL and multiple thematic funds built on Set Protocol… | ||
| Making Blockchain Applications Available to Mainstream Users | Sami Start | 08m |
Claims that a tiny embedded widget lets users create accounts with an email OTP, connect a bank or card, and buy crypto without leaving the app; this in-app… | ||
| Perishable Proof of Transactions - New Consensus for Day to Day dApps | David Wu | 23m |
A new consensus abandons immutable history by forgetting blocks older than six months and uses recent transaction activity as the stake weight, so addresses… | ||
| Real World Assets: Stealing TradFi's lunch | Lucas Vogelsang | 16m |
Claims a literal trillion‑dollar opportunity by tokenizing small, illiquid loans into on‑chain credit funds and hooking them into existing DeFi legos; builds… | ||
| The Future of Crypto Innovation, Investing, and NFTs | Anthony Georgiades, David Wachsman | 24m |
Fund launched digital-assets book in 2016 and reports crypto market cap around $2T and year-to-date institutional inflows jumping from ~$2B to ~$20B (Q2 ≈… | ||
| Securing The Future of Money | John Connolly | 13m |
Elliptic presents concrete advice: use ledger intelligence and AML compliance tools early to flag transactions as naughty or nice so regulators see responsible… | ||
| Information Embargos in an Open Ledger Based Society | Jason Meyers | 21m |
A protocol recruits accountants run nodes to apply blockchain-style validation to corporate financial statements using a standardized ontology across 50… | ||
| The Future of Tokenomics | Ross Bates | 11m |
Argues token value comes from enforced use rather than discounts and proposes a hodlium-based model where service access requires holding tokens (example: one… | ||
| 3 DeFi Yield Hacks for Best APY% | Cyrus Fazel | 33m |
Three concrete yield paths and the actual plumbing to use them: how to convert USDT on BSC to UST via PancakeSwap and Terra Bridge and earn terra + anchor… | ||
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