BCC 2018

ABSTRACT
For years, the blockchain community is divided into those who believe in the “blockchain technology” and those who trades cryptocurrencies for profit. The two polar extremes do not speak to each other. On one hand, we have “enterprise blockchains” that attempt to remove cryptocurrency support; and on the other hand, tradable tokens that are issued from central databases. However, fast forward to today, it becomes clear that the conventional wisdoms are probably wrong. Cryptocurrencies and cryptoeconomics designs are in fact crucial for solving hard blockchain technological problems such as performance, scalability, and security.

In this talk, we will discuss today and tomorrow’s “killer apps” for blockchain networks, the technological challenges we have to overcome to turn those use cases into reality, and how cryptoeconomics work hand in hand with software engineering innovations to address those challenges.

Technical topics will include DPoS consensus mechanism, horizontal scalability (sharding) through automated token exchanges, enterprise-level Smart Contracts and oracles, on-chain and off-chain coordination, and zero knowledge algorithms.