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DeFi Discussions

Constructing DeFiZap: Learnings On Designing For Extreme Composability

Trends In Bitcoin Development: A Quick Overview With A BTC Dev

Poking Around The ETH Playground: Let's Prototype DeFi Apps!

The How and Why of Prize Linked Savings on Ethereum

Constant Function Market Makers: Pushing Uniswap & Friends To Do More Things w/ Lower Fees

IDEX 2.0: A Case Study On Pragmatic Decentralization

Workshop: How To Use Wyre's API For Compliance & Payments

Workshop: Generalizing Flash Loans

Exploring Layer-2 Scalability For Dapps: Interchain Messaging, BLS Rollups, and More

zkSync: scalability for turbulent times.

Crypto was made for crises: Covid-19’s potential to spark new wave of adoption

How To Build Synthetic Tokens Without An On-Chain Price Feed

Using UMA and Balancer Pools to Create Perpetual Synthetic Tokens

Now Is The Time For The Digital Dollar: Thoughts Of A Former Central Banker

How To Use Contract Based Accounts To Create Your Own DeFi Protocol (Without Having To Write A Smart Contract)

Optimistic Virtual Machine: Layer 2 for Money Legos

On-Chain Governance With Tokenless Voting

How To Measure And Incentivize Liquidity

Oracle Landscape Snapshot: How Decentralized Are These Feeds? (And Why DeFi Users Should Care)

Operating LocalBitcoins: Learnings From Providing Peer-To-Peer Access In 150+ Countries

Why Bitcoin's Decentralized Financial System Is Important For Human Rights

Comparing Privacy Protocols For Linkability: Taproot and Beyond

Kickoff

TD Ameritrade: Leaning Into Digital Assets, Guided By The Voice Of The Client

How Bitcoin Moves Value In & Out Of Closed Economies (Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela)

Using Money Legos: DeFi Composability With A Focus On Safety

Governance Panel with MolachDao, Compound, and MakerDao

What the Fi is DeFi: Terminology & Concepts

VC Panel #1: Startup #2

VeeDo: STARK-Powered VDFs for Randomness, Timelocks and More

Red Flags to Watch For in DeFi and Emergence of Community Standards

Security Success Stories in DeFi (with the CEO of Trail Of Bits)

ETH 2.0 Update with Prysmatic Labs

Aggregation Theory In DeFi: Sharpening DeFi's FAANGs

Who is Supporting the Future of the Decentralized Workforce?

Under The Hood Of A Coin Mixer: Technical Tradeoffs & Design Decisions

Decentralized Sprints: Building DeFi with the Truffle Suite

Mastering the Mempool: How Understanding the Inner Workings of In-Flight Transactions Unlocks New Vistas for Front-End & Back-End Devs Alike

Startup Pitch #1

Abstracting Away Crypto: Learnings From Building Dharma's New Social Payments Application

Using A DAO To Launch & Manage Financial Assets On Multiple Chains

Tales From The Field - Building A Decentralized ISP in Abuja, Nigeria

People's Potential & Protocol Politics

Black Swans and Roundabouts: Navigating Resources In Restless Times

VC Panel #1: Startup #3 Advice

Compliant & Accounting-Ready Bookkeeping System for Decentralized Finance

VC Panel #2: Startup #3 Advice

Startup Pitch #3

7 reasons DeFi is broken, #5 will blow your mind

Checklist on Legal Considerations for DeFi Projects

DAOs as social layer of DeFi protocol

Liquidation & Chaos: How zKRollup DEXs Can Save the ETH Network From Clogging

Framework On How To Think Through A Technical Audit (Before You Even Write A Line Of Code)

VC Panel 2: Startup #2 Advice

The Future Of Mining

Building a Trading Bot on Melon

A Data-Driven Look At BTC Liquidity Around The World with The CEO of Wyre

Staking For Dummies: Everything You Need To Know On The Basics Of Staking

Workshop: How To Set Up A Node For Routing On The Lightning Network

How To File Your Crypto Taxes (And Maximize Savings)

Freedom from Fiat

Crypto Insurance: Learnings From The bZx Flash Event & Black Thurs w/ Nexus Mutual

The Key Management Landscape: Innovations

Leveraging User Insights Across The Stack

Theoretical Use Of Flash Loans & Attacks With Interoperability

Exploring Requirements: What Is Needed For A DEX To Thrive On A Layer-1

UNICEF on Building for Impact: Blockchain in Emerging Markets

BTC Halving 101 with Ryan Sekis

How Important Is Open Source & Decentralization At Different Stages Of Your DeFi Product Lifecycle

Trustlessness is Overrated: Undercollateralized Lending through Web of Trusts

How To Streamline Collaboration Between BTC Core Devs & The BTC Mining Community

Panel: Investing In Impact In Emerging Markets

Fact Versus Myth: The Realities Of BTC Mining With The Former Head of PR at BITMAIN

Market-Making Observations: From The Goldman Trading Floor To DeFi

Startup Pitch #2

Tackling The Liquidity Crisis In India

Workshop: How Blockchains Can Mitigate Against Front Running For On-Chain Order Book DApps

How BTC Miners Can Make Use Of Derivatives For Risk Management

Workshop: Pushing Web3 Into Mobile

VC Panel: Startup #1 Advice

Parachain Economics

Panel: How DeFi & CeFi Are Innovating To Attract Market Makers (With Faster Settlement)

Session: Settlement Prices, Finality, & Fallbacks: Best Practices For Using Price Feed Oracles In Your Smart Contract

Fundraising In Crypto During A Recessions: Leverage Future Revenue To Raise Funds

Whale Hunting: How To Use On-Chain Data & APIs To Track & Understand Whale Behavior

Set Protocol: Deep Dive Into Strategies Employed By Set Social Traders

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce To Speak On Crypto Regulation & Policy

VC Panel 1: Startup #2 Advice

VC Panel 2: Startup #1 Advice

Deep Dive on Proof of Transfer

An Introduction to Polkadot for DeFi

How To Use IPFS To Build Applications That Are Resistant to Central Faults & Control

The Grasshopper and the Antminer: What We Can Learn From Bitcoin's Nonce Distribution

DEX Universe for Dummies by 1inch.exchange

Exploring DeFi Options with Zubin, CEO of Opyn

Attack Matrix & Security: Thinking Through Oracle Construction

Simulating The Risk Of Stablecoins

The Internet of Finance by DeFi Pulse

DeFi's hyperbitcoinization: Bringing Bitcoin to Ethereum with Cross-Chain Bridges

Panel: Marrying Real World Assets To Blockchain