Interchain Conversations II is the flagship annual Cosmos conference. This year, due to COVID, Interchain Conversations has gone fully virtual until travel restrictions lift. The conversations fostered during this conference will become fodder for future innovations coming out of Cosmos and its extended ecosystems.
Interchain Conversations II
Speakers
Tess Rinearson
Ethan Buchman
Billy Rennekamp
Zaki Manian
Sunny Aggarwal
Dean Tribble
Zarko Milosevic
CharlieNoyes
Grants
Co-Founder
VP of Engineering
CEO
Co-Founder of Cosmos
Researcher
Chief Scientist
Partner
Martin Worner
Peng Zhong
Stani Kulechov
Deborah Simpier
Rick Dudley
Gavin Birch
Mustafa Al-Bassam
Dave Hrycyszyn
COO & VP of Product
Co-Founder
CEO & Founder
CEO
CEO & Founder
CEO & Co-Founder
CTO & Co-Founder
Protocol Analyst
Klaus Kursawe
JP Thorbjornsen
Igor Konnov
FelixLutsch
Tomas Tauber
JoshLee
JeffreyHu
Henry de Valence
Contributor
BusinessDevelopment
Consensus Researcher
Lead Engineer & Researcher
Ecosystem Analyst
Principal Research Scientist
Research Director
Cryptographer
DoKwon
James Prestwich
DavidPark
Sean Braithwaite
Arianne Flemming
Julien Bouteloup
JoeAndrieu
BrentXu
CEO & Co-Founder
COO
CEO & Founder
President
CMO
Head of Strategy & Partnerships
CTO
Co-Founder
Aaron Craelius
Shruti Appiah
Joe Bowman
Dr. Shaun Conway
JuddKeppel
Hyung Yeon Lee
Kwun Yeung
DevOjha
CTO
Platform & Software Engineering
ResearchScientist
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
CEO
Co-Founder
Founder
Federico Kunze Küllmer
Ryan John King
MattBell
JazearBrooks
Deepanshu Tripathi
ChjangoUnchained
Pedro Gomes
ScottStuart
SoftwareEngineer
Co-Founder
Founder
EcosystemDeveloper
Co-Founder
Founder
Product
CTO
Guy Zyskind
Chris Goes
Andrey Kuprianov
Antoine Herzog
IBC LeadDev
Enigma's CEO speaking on behalf of the Secret Network
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Get an overview of activites across the Cosmos ecosystem on the path to IBC launch and beyond.
Tendermint Core 1.0
A preview of the roadmap on the way to Tendermint Core 1.0
The Road To A Cosmos SDK v1.0
Upcoming features and stability in the Cosmos SDK
Starport—A Million Blockchains
Peng Zhong, CEO at Tendermint, identifies key issues that prevent Cosmos from crossing the chasm to mainstream and formulates solutions to get us to the future of a million blockchains.
Regulated DeFi : Stifling Innovation Or Opportunity?
The rise and rise of DeFi will shape the future of finance through programmable financial instruments and peer to peer trading. The size of traditional markets of trillions in volume dwarf the nascent DeFi markets and the biggest barrier is the lack of regulatory frameworks in public chains for regulated institutions to take part. Tgrade, being developed by Confio, has the regulated markets as a focus and a clear path of how to embrace regulations.
Ethermint & IBC: Bringing the EVM to Cosmos
How and why an EVM module for the Cosmos SDK lets Ethereum Dapps deploy sovereign blockchains using their own gas and governance at little to no cost.
Time preference, IBC & the Era of Coordination
In this talk we’ll discuss the incentive modal for the IBC relayer by asking and proposing an answer to the motivation question: Who Pays the Relayer and what are they paying for?
Model-Based Quality Assurance of Tendermint & IBC Implementations In Rust and Go
We demonstrate how we integrate model-based testing into the development workflow, ensuring higher software quality, while simultaneously making deep testing accessible and more fun for developers
Model-Based Quality Assurance of Tendermint & IBC Implementations In Rust and Go
We demonstrate how we integrate model-based testing into the development workflow, ensuring higher software quality, while simultaneously making deep testing accessible and more fun for developers
From Operating to Investing: The Next Evolution of Company Management
Blockchain is changing the way startups operate businesses at the most practical level. What was once a simple startup ethos of "hire good people and don't run out of money" has now become far more intricate. The balance sheets of corporate entities building blockchain technology have expanded to include multiple cryptocurrencies, essentially turning these startups into mini-funds and significantly increasing treasury and liquidity management complexity.
This talk will discuss the changing operational landscape and how blockchain startups can manage their investments to benefit their company in a secure, flexible, and compliant way while ensuring they don’t run out of money!
From Operating to Investing: The Next Evolution of Company Management
Blockchain is changing the way startups operate businesses at the most practical level. What was once a simple startup ethos of "hire good people and don't run out of money" has now become far more intricate. The balance sheets of corporate entities building blockchain technology have expanded to include multiple cryptocurrencies, essentially turning these startups into mini-funds and significantly increasing treasury and liquidity management complexity.
This talk will discuss the changing operational landscape and how blockchain startups can manage their investments to benefit their company in a secure, flexible, and compliant way while ensuring they don’t run out of money!
Options for Achieving Interoperability
Understanding the different ways for achieving interoperability as well as their security tradeoffs.
Peggy: Bridges vs Interoperability
Understanding the different ways for achieving interoperability as well as their security tradeoffs.
It's 255:19AM. Do you know what your validation criteria are?
ZIP215 rules for Ed25519 + Zcash peg zone
Building a Celo Bridge to Cosmos
Discussion of jointly funded work by the ICF and Celo foundation in partnership with Chorus One to bridge Celo and the Cosmos Hub
Why Interchain Services Will Become the "HTTP" of Blockchains
Introduction of iService features on IRISnet/IRITA, how iService be combined with IBC and its use cases to help heterogeneous systems' interaction
Interchain accounts and Keplr wallet
The first IBC application standard beyond fungible tokens makes it so blockchains can control accounts on other blockchains. Paired with a forward looking wallet solution like Keplr, this could finally solve blockchain's user experience problem.
Secure Enclave Signing with the Tendermint KMS
Key management is an important aspect in validator operations, typically using HSMs. This talk will cover two potentially cost-effective options using Intel(R) SGX and AWS Nitro Enclaves.
Fireside Chat: The State of the Cosmos
Get an overview of activites across the Cosmos ecosystem on the path to IBC launch and beyond.
Pluggable Consensus & Data Availability Layer For Cosmos Zones & Rollups
LazyLedger is building a general-purpose, pluggable consensus and data availability layer for blockchains and decentralized apps, including for Cosmos zones. In addition, we're also exploring adding optimistic rollup support for Cosmos SDK. This will make it possible for developers to rapidly deploy blockchains using the Cosmos SDK, without the overhead of having to bootstrap their own consensus network.
WalletConnect 2.0: To Interchain and Beyond!
Sharing WalletConnect 2.0 Prototocol. How multi-chain support was introduced? New features and design improvements. Finally share a roadmap for 2.x development
Bitcoin on Cosmos
The founders of Nomic, Matt and Judd, will present an overview of the Nomic Bitcoin peg zone, which will connect Bitcoin to the Cosmos ecosystem via IBC.
How TLA+ and Apalache Helped Us to Design the Tendermint Light Client
Model-based quality assurance of Tendermint and IBC implementations in Rust and Go
How TLA+ and Apalache Helped Us to Design the Tendermint Light Client
As part of our effort on Verification-Driven Development at Informal, we have specified the Tendermint Light Client in English and TLA+. We show how TLA+ and Apalache helped us in understanding the protocol better. Importantly, the TLA+ specification and the model checking efforts enable model-based testing of the protocol implementations.
To Ethereum and Beyond: The Future of Interoperability Between the Cosmos Network and External Blockchains
Sifchain is set to deploy the first production instance of Peggy, the Cosmos <> Ethereum bridge, on mainnet. Jazear from Sifchain will discuss Peggy's architecture, including IBC support to bring Ethereum liquidity to all Cosmos SDK chains, alongside Sifchain's other features to bring DeFi to the Cosmos Network.
To Ethereum and Beyond: The Future of Interoperability Between the Cosmos Network and External Blockchains
Sifchain is set to deploy the first production instance of Peggy, the Cosmos <> Ethereum bridge, on mainnet. Jazear from Sifchain will discuss Peggy's architecture, including IBC support to bring Ethereum liquidity to all Cosmos SDK chains, alongside Sifchain's other features to bring DeFi to the Cosmos Network.
Our Non-Fungible World
Attendees will learn about why we need a stateful, graph-based Internet for sustainability and the role of Cosmos-based application chains in providing the infrastructure for such an Internet. This leads into some specific examples of how natural resources which we have historically considered to be fungible (such as clean water, energy, education, healthy oceans, biodiversity, carbon carrying capacity, etc) can no longer be considered fungible. So we need ways of recording these as non-fungible resources, with which we can build sustainable economy.
