Bitcoin layer 2. Ethereum re-staking. Interoperability. love. Depin. Next generation encryption.
These are just some of the cutting-edge blockchain technology topics on CoinDesk's agenda. Consensus 2024 Conferencewill be held in Austin, Texas from Wednesday, May 29th to Friday, May 31st.
For blockchain developers, that's red meat. For others, the word may be unfamiliar. His three days are packed with opportunities for everyone, including everyone in between, to learn about the hottest crypto technologies on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, and the XRP Ledger from the world's top experts.
We skimmed through the agenda to identify stages and sessions that would be of interest to blockchain developers and those interested in blockchain technology.
Generally speaking, there are six broad categories of programming involved.
The overall consensus agenda is very diverse. When it comes to blockchain technology highlights, here are our picks:
1:45pm (main stage): Joe Rubin of ConsenSys discuss Consensus Chair Michael Casey and Ethereum.
2:45pm (Main Stage): Emin Gün Schiller, The CEO of Ava Labs, the main developer of Avalanche, said: panel What blockchain can do for AI and what AI can do for cryptocurrencies.
3pm (Town Square): brian bishopan early Bitcoin coder (and current editor of Bitcoin Improvement Suggestions), discuss In the early days, I participated in panel discussions with other crypto OGs.
12:45pm (main stage): david marcusformer head of Facebook/Meta Diem/Libra, talk About Lightspark, his digital payments startup based on Bitcoin's Lightning Network.
1:15pm (main stage): Sergei NazarovCo-Founder of Chainlink, talk In a panel discussion moderated by , he talked about his project work with global banking payment network Swift. Sam Kessler of CoinDesk.
4:15pm (Town Square): john adlerCo-founder and Chief Research Officer of Celestia Labs; austin federaHead of Strategy, Solana Foundation discuss Which is a better way to scale: modular or monolithic blockchains?
10am (Rethinking Money Stage): MakerDAO Co-Founder rune christensen discuss Where is DeFi headed?
10:40am (main stage): Raj Gokalco-founder and president of Solana Labs, discuss Learn about the future of networking and upcoming releases of Firedancer software designed to improve performance.
11am (Rethinking Money Stage): Helium CEO Abhay Kumar give a talk on a panel About the future of “distributed physical infrastructure networks,” or DePIN (formerly known as the Internet of Things, or IoT).
11:30am (main stage): casey roddermorethe developer who almost single-handedly created two of the most influential protocols introduced on top of Bitcoin in the past two years – Ordinals and Runes. talk What happens next and his vision for the oldest and largest blockchain.
12pm (Town Square): Amateur and casey roddermore
12:15pm (Startup Village): Eric Chen, co-founder of Injective discuss His vision for the future of finance.
3pm (Rethinking Money Stage): Tarun Chitra, co-founder of Gauntlet I'll talk at panel About DeFi, from preventing smart contract bugs and fraud to financial management strategies and audit response.
For blockchain developers and VC investors, this will likely end up costing them a lot of time.
1:30pm universe (“About Bitcoinization”)
11:30am Alchemy Engineering Lead Rohan Tomare talk about “Build the next killer Dapp” and “How Account Abstraction Simplifies the Web3 User Experience.”
1:30pm Marcin KazmirczakCo-founder of RedStone Oracles said: Short-term intensive course About “Pull Oracle vs. Push Oracle”.
On Thursday and Friday, Startup Village where is pitch fest Semi-finals and finals will be held. Winners will be announced Friday at 1:20 p.m.
There are sessions scheduled on Cryptocurrency VC on Wednesday and during PitchFest. Securing funds. How to win a pitch contest. Web3 and decentralized identity. And Web3 games.
