Overview

What Is EDCON 2021 Online Edition？

EDCON (Community Ethereum Development Conference ) is a non-profit annual global Ethereum conference that happens once a year in different countries (EDCON 2017 in Paris, 2018 in Toronto, 2019 in Sydney), and it is mainly committed to serving the Ethereum ecosystem, boosting the communication and interaction of Ethereum communities worldwide.

This year, EDCON 2021 will be held on Aug 27-29, 2021, Online, Overseas. The conference will cover topics such as Ethereum technological progress, business use cases, on-chain governance, and community building, as well as other hot topics related to blockchain applications, such as Central Bank Digital Currency. Experts and research teams from different fields will also be invited to discuss the macro trends, applications, and policy & legal analysis of blockchain development.

What Is EDCON 2021
Online Edition？

EDCON (Community Ethereum Development Conference ) is a non-profit annual global Ethereum conference that happens once a year in different countries (EDCON 2017 in Paris, 2018 in Toronto, 2019 in Sydney), and it is mainly committed to serving the Ethereum ecosystem, boosting the communication and interaction of Ethereum communities worldwide.


This year, EDCON 2021 will be held on Aug 27-29, 2021, Online, Overseas. The conference will cover topics such as Ethereum technological progress, business use cases, on-chain governance, and community building, as well as other hot topics related to blockchain applications, such as Central Bank Digital Currency. Experts and research teams from different fields will also be invited to discuss the macro trends, applications, and policy & legal analysis of blockchain development.

speakers

WE WILL UPDATE MORE SPEAKERS SOON, PLEASE STAY TUNED!

Aya Miyaguchi

Executive Director of Ethereum Foundation

Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum Foundation

Danny Ryan

Core Researcher in Ethereum Foundation

Hsiao-Wei Wang

Core Researcher in Ethereum Foundation

Karl Floersch

CTO of Optimism

Kevin Owocki

Founder of Gitcoin

Jesus Cepeda Chuy

Co-founder & CEO of OS City, Fellow of Ethereum Foundation Fellowship Program

Benson Njuguna

Ethereum Foundation Fellow

Keith Chan

Director of Strategic Planning, Linux Foundation APAC

Eli Ben-Sasson

Co-Founder and President at StarkWare

Ke Chen

Partner of SNZ Holding

Pooja Ranjan

Herder-in-chief of Ethereum Cat Herders / EtherWorld.co

Elena Sinelnikova

Metis.io CEO

Sergey Nazarov

Co-founder of Chainlink

Tim Beiko

Ethereum Foundation

Henry Love

Managing Partner of Fundamental Labs

Edward Felten

Co-founder of Arbitrum

Alvin Lee

Chief Evangelist at DeGate DAO

Daniel Wang

Founder and CEO of Loopring

Althea Allen

Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program

Alex Stokes

Core Researcher in Ethereum Foundation

Shyam Sridhar

Robust Incentives Group

Riely Chen

Member of togETHer

John Adler

Fuel Labs

Loi Luu

CEO and Founder of Kyber Network

Huang Lin

Suterusu CTO

Suji Yan

Founder & CEO of Mask Network

Harsh Rajat

Founder at Ethereum Push Notification System

Tomasz K. Stańczak

Founder & CTO of Nethermind

Marco Vasapollo

Co-founder of EthOS

gubsheep

Dark Forest

Edrick Guan

VP Product & Infrastructure, Product Manager of Ethereum Studio

Rob Stupay

Ethereum Foundation

Chen Siming

Associate Professor of FDU-VIS

Michael Lewellen

Security Project Manager of OpenZeppelin

Alessandro Toschi

Co-founder of EthOS

Scott Sunarto

ETH University

Han Liu

Senior Research Scientist, TBTL

Shuyao

Director of ConsenSys, Columnist of Decrypt

Rajeev

Founder of Secureum

Laksman Sankar

Ethereum Foundation

Paul

Sigma Prime

Yao Xiang

Founder of Primitives Lane

Emre Tekisalp

CEO of O(1) Labs

Weiwu Zhang

CTO, Blockchain Architect, Co-Founder Alphawallet and AlchemyNFT project

Shane Hong

Head of Marketing at Kyber

Kai

Managing Partner，SNZ Capital

Zhixiong Pan

Director of Research, ChainNews

Spencer

CLR Fund

Jose He

EthPlanet Coordinator
Tencent Blockchain Founding Member

Brendan Chou

Engineering at dYdX

Chance Hudson

Scalability Engineer

Patrick McCorry

Senior System Engineer at ConsenSys

Louis Guthmann

Product Manager and Blockchain Researcher at StarkWare

Clemens Wan

Global Solution Architect, Consensys

Yat Siu

Co-founder & Chairman, Animoca Brands

Roham

CEO of Dapper Labs

Evan Rosenbaum

Genies Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer

Beryl Li

Co-founder of YGG

Herbie Fu

Partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto, Advisor at FBG Capita

Liraz

Retroactivists / Gas Stations Network

Agenda

The agenda is updating,
please stay tuned.

  • August 27
  • August 28
  • August 29
EDT, GMT-04:00 SPEAKERS TOPIC
9:00-9:40

Aya Miyaguchi
Executive Director of Ethereum Foundation

Jesus Cepeda Chuy
Co-founder & CEO of OS City,Fellow of Ethereum Foundation Fellowship Program

Ethereum for Next Billion - What's up in LatAm

(A Conversation with an EF Fellow Chuy)

9:45-10:15 Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum Foundation 		Single Slot Finality
10:20-10:30 Benson Njuguna
Ethereum Foundation Fellow 		Blockchain-Based Weather Index Insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa
10:35-10:45 Ke Chen
Partner of SNZ Holding 		SNZ - A Brief Intro
10:50-11:05 Rob Stupay
Ethereum Foundation 		Remix Interoperates
11:10-11:20 Clemens Wan
Global Solution Architect, Consensys 		Pitching Public Ethereum to Enterprises
11:25-11:35 Elena Sinelnikova
CEO of Metis.io  		Layer 2+DAO as a Way to Web3 Economy
11:40-11:50 Harsh Rajat
Founder at Ethereum Push Notification System 		Ethereum Push Notification Service: World's First Notification Protocol on Blockchain
11:55-12:05 Pooja Ranjan
Herder-in-chief of Ethereum Cat Herders / EtherWorld.co 		The Future of Ethereum with EIPs
12:10-12:40 Keith Chan
Director of Strategic Planning, Linux Foundation APAC 		Looking Inside of Opensource World
12:45-12:55 Tim Beiko
Ethereum Foundation 		An Overview of the Ethereum Roadmap
13:05-13:50 Moderator: Shuyao
Director of ConsenSys, Columnist of Decrypt

Tim Beiko
Ethereum Foundation

Yao Xiang
Founder of Primitives Lane 		Ethereum Development in China: Myths & Realities
14:00-14:10 Gubsheep
Dark Forest 		Lessons From Fully On-Chain Gaming: Dark Forest and More
14:15-14:25 Chance Hudson
Scalability Engineer 		Intro to Zkopru
EDT, GMT-04:00 SPEAKERS TOPIC
9:00-9:15 Laksman Sankar
Ethereum Foundation 		The Role of Staking Derivatives in Ethereum
9:20-9:35 Alex Stokes
Core Researcher in Ethereum Foundation 		Light Client Design in Eth2
9:40-9:50 Shyam Sridhar
Robust Incentives Group 		Employing a Reinforcement Learning Based Framework to Analyze Incentive Mechanism Attacks on the Ethereum Blockchain
9:55-10:05 Althea Allen
Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program 		ESP TL;DR: About the Ethereum Foundation's Ecosystem Support Program, with a Focus on Grants
10:10-10:20 Kevin Owocki
Founder of Gitcoin 		Decentralizing Gitcoin Grants
10:25-10:35 Weiwu Zhang
CTO, Blockchain Architect, Co-Founder Alphawallet and AlchemyNFT project 		Token Negotiation, Why Universal Login isn’t Working — This Might
10:40-10:50 John Adler
Fuel Labs 		Fuel: Bringing True Scalability to Ethereum
10:55-11:05 Huang Lin
Suterusu CTO 		A Brief Introduction to Suterusu Project
11:10-11:20 Edrick Yuhui Guan
VP Product & Infrastructure, Product Manager of Ethereum Studio 		Redefining Development Experience on Ethereum
11:25-11:35 Han Liu
Senior Research Scientist, TBTL 		Accountable NF-Tokenization with Transparency Centre
11:40-11:50 Alessandro Toschi
Co-founder of EthOS

Marco Vasapollo
Co-founder of EthOS 		An Operating System For Ethereum
11:55-12:05 Liraz
Retroactivists / Gas Stations Network 		Retroactive Grants: Planting a Thriving Ecosystem
12:10-12:55 Moderator: Kai
Managing Partner, SNZ Capital

Roham
CEO of Dapper Labs

Yat Siu
Co-founder & Chairman, Animoca Brands

Evan Rosenbaum
Genies Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer

Herbie Fu
Partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto, Advisor at FBG Capital

Beryl Li
Co-founder of YGG 		Crypto / NFT in Metaverse: Present and Future
13:00-13:10 Scott Sunarto
ETH University 		Growing an Ecosystem of Ethereum's Future Builders
13:15-13:25 Rajeev
Founder, Secureum 		Scaling Security @ Secureum
13:30-13:40 Paul
Sigma Prime 		Monitoring Validators
13:45-13:55 Spencer
CLR Fund 		Clr.fund for Everyone: A Quadratic Funder for Every Wonder
EDT, GMT-04:00 SPEAKERS TOPIC
9:00-9:15 Hsiao-Wei Wang
Core Researcher in Ethereum Foundation 		Beacon Chain Validator FAQs
9:20-9:35 Danny Ryan
Core Researcher in Ethereum Foundation 		Ethereum isn’t Done
9:40-9:50 Karl Floersch
CTO of Optimism 		Retroactive Public Goods Funding
9:55-10:05 Alvin Lee
Chief Evangelist at DeGate DAO 		Beyond Layer 2, to Layer 3
10:10-10:20 Shane Hong
Head of Marketing at Kyber 		Kyber Dynamic Market Maker: Bringing Amplified Liquidity and Capital Efficiency to DeFi
10:25-10:35 Daniel Wang
Founder and CEO of Loopring 		Counterfactual Wallet and Loopring NFT Support
10:40-10:50 Henry Love
Managing Partner of Fundamental Labs 		Fundamental Labs - A Brief Intro
11:00-11:45 Moderator: Zhixiong Pan
Director of Research, ChainNews

Loi Luu
CEO and Founder of Kyber Network

Yuan Su
CTO of Metis.io

John Adler
Fuel Labs

Louis Guthmann
Product Manager and Blockchain Researcher at StarkWare 		LAYER 2 Panel
11:50-12:00 Sergey Nazarov
Co-founder of Chainlink 		Build a World Powered by Truth
12:05-12:15 Suji Yan
Founder & CEO of Mask Network 		Use Mask Network to Bridge Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
12:20-12:35

Patrick McCorry

Senior System Engineer at ConsenSys

What’s L2s Anyways?
12:40-12:50 Eli Ben-Sasson
Co-Founder and President at StarkWare  		STARKs: Facts, not Fiction
12:55-13:05 Chen siming
Associate Professor of FDU-VIS 		Visual Analytics for ETH2
13:10-13:20 Riely Chen
Member of togETHer 		How to Gather People Around Ethereum？
13:25-13:35 Jose He
EthPlanet Coordinator
Tencent Blockchain Founding Member 		Introduce FreeDona: a Loss-Free Donation Protocol
13:40-13:50 Michael Lewellen
Security Project Manager of OpenZeppelin 		Best Practices on Secure Smart Contracts
13:55-14:05 Emre Tekisalp
CEO of O(1) Labs 		Snapps: DeFi’s (Private) Key to Mass Adoption
14:10-14:20 Tomasz Kajetan Stanczak
Founder & CTO of Nethermind 		MEV in xDAI with Flashbots and Nethermind - Testing PoS MEV Ahead of Eth2
14:25-14:35 Brendan Chou
Engineering at dYdX 		dYdX Layer 2 Architecture
14:40-14:50 Edward Felten
Co-founder of Arbitrum 		Solve Scaling Without Compromise