ETHDenver goes beyond cringe to utility, culture and beyond

2 years ago

As ETHDenver draws to a close, builders crossed Web3 permission with caller ideas, developments and utilities led by a unsocial and multi-hyphenated civilization and assemblage funny successful everything from wallets to services, privacy, dank sharding, people music, video games and art.

ETHDenver draws heavy connected its unsocial culture

Cringe aside, radical coming unneurotic irl is cool. To each the haters:

The cringe opus is present the astir costly Song A Day to merchantability successful auction.

5.5 eth, with conscionable nether a time to go.

Thanks to @CupOJoseph for the elephantine swing! And let's spot if @k06a comes backmost swinging! pic.twitter.com/1DlzwTKMuf

— jonathan @ EthDenver (@songadaymann) March 5, 2023

Privacy pools and zero-knowledge roll-ups predominate tech-side

On the sidelines of ETHDenver, Ameen Soleiman revealed the motorboat of Privacy Pools, a follow-up to the banned mixer Tornado Cash, which has been sanctioned by the US authorities and its laminitis imprisoned successful Holland owed to its relation with North Korean hacking groups. Soleiman, who goes by @ameensol connected Twitter, claims that Privacy Pools volition alteration users to behaviour backstage and mostly untraceable transactions portion besides discouraging unlawful activities specified arsenic wealth laundering.

13/ Our demo is unrecorded – https://t.co/Nt4b2Tgx1D

Now, users person the enactment to assistance regulators isolate illicit funds, without revealing their full transaction history.

Let's ticker a little video of it successful action: pic.twitter.com/An9lWx6jfr

— ameen.eth (@ameensol) March 4, 2023

Zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) rollups besides dominated respective ETHDenver meetups. Polygon showcased their latest zkEVM rollup and adjacent gave retired immoderate escaped Polygon swag. On what to expect from Polygon’s zk rollup, spot CryptoSlate’s summary of Jordi Baylina‘s caller engineering and method explanation.

Come and accidental hullo and drawback immoderate chill swag @EthereumDenver #ETHDenver #zkDeFi #zkEVM @0xPolygonZK @0xPolygonDeFi pic.twitter.com/Hmr2DF9rav

— 0VIX (@0vixProtocol) March 3, 2023

ERC-4337: Ethereum Foundation to denote caller modular for relationship abstraction astatine ETHDenver

The Ethereum blockchain has deployed a caller diagnostic called “account abstraction” that could marque it easier for users to retrieve their crypto if they suffer their backstage keys. This caller standard, called ERC-4337, was deployed via a astute declaration called EntryPoint and has already undergone a information audit. Launched during Walletcon successful the week preceding ETHDenver, the caller relationship abstractions modular is simply a immense betterment connected the bid of magnitude problem.

The rumors are true… ERC-4337 has been deployed connected mainnet

Security audit by @OpenZeppelin
Bundlers and paymasters by @stackup_fi, @AlchemyPlatform, @biconomy , @etherspot, @candidewallet, @blocknative & more
$300K successful grants by @ethereum pic.twitter.com/WOjMvaZe6M

— erc4337 (@erc4337) March 2, 2023

LensProtocol doubles down connected Web3

“I would emotion to spot entrepreneurs gathering tiny usage cases and iterating. Many ideas volition neglect but the constituent is to physique fast, support iterating and learning. Lens makes it easier and little risky to experiment,” said Stani Kulechov, laminitis of Lens Protocol, a decentralized societal media endeavor aimed astatine connecting users with their “digital roots.”

ETHDenver saw the emergence of DeFi approaches to each sorts of Web2 problems, societal media ownership and individuality being lone one.

Interest successful L1s and DeFi protocols continue

“Filecoin is the world’s largest decentralized retention network! Amassing that quantity of hardware astir the satellite is nary tiny task,” said FileCoin Founder Colin Evran during a presumption astatine ETHDenver.

In Feb., FileCoin’s FIL token accrued by much than 30%, led by involvement successful EVM’s and interoperability layer-1 protocols. Filecoin’s summation of a virtual instrumentality volition alteration the web into a fully-fledged furniture 1 blockchain. In September, the web unveiled the FVM motorboat astatine the FIL Singapore conference, promising that the bundle level would enactment a scope of user-programmable applications specified arsenic perpetual storage, retention replication, repair automation, and liquid staking done artifact rewards. Additionally, FVM has the imaginable to alteration the instauration of data-centric decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), which would alteration pay-per-view transactions and the improvement of Web3 games, among different usage cases.