Why we come collectively
Each two years, the Ethereum neighborhood comes collectively at Devcon to collaborate and construct towards a extra holistic, reliable, democratic, and decentralized future. Devcon isn’t about hype or hypothesis; it’s about making a extra free and open society the place expertise enhances human potential and aligns with our core values.
For 4 days, builders, neighborhood leaders, and changemakers step out of their silos and collect in a single place to share information, align on Ethereum’s future path, and study from one another. After Devcon, we scatter again into our decentralized lives, however the momentum we create energizes us to maintain constructing.
What to anticipate at Devcon
Devcon is one massive occasion happening in a single venue for 4 days in Bangkok, Thailand from November 12-15 2024. Devcon is completely different from Devconnect, the second occasion we’re organizing.
The Devcon Week calendar options academic occasions earlier than and after Devcon. We encourage organizers to plan round the primary Devcon schedule, as we is not going to be itemizing occasions that happen throughout Devcon days to maintain Devcon the primary schelling level.
Audio system
This yr, Devcon acquired almost 3,000 speaker functions, doubling the quantity from Devcon VI.
Some highlighted audio system embody:
- Vitalik Buterin (Co-founder of Ethereum): Exploring probably the most related subjects on the intersection of expertise and society.
- Aya Miyaguchi (Govt Director of the Ethereum Basis): Sharing her imaginative and prescient for Ethereum’s ecosystem progress and the Infinite Backyard.
- Roger Dingledine (Co-founder of The Tor Challenge): Sharing classes realized from the Tor neighborhood, privacy-by-design, and the cypherpunk ethos.
- Bruno Maçães (thinker, journalist, politician, and creator): Analyzing how expertise is reworking geopolitics, the place states and nice powers compete to create and management new world methods.
- Hart Montgomery (CTO of the Linux Basis): Providing insights into open-source challenge constructions and neighborhood constructing.
- Gubsheep (Co-founder of 0xPARC): Exploring programmable cryptography and its influence on dApps and the creation of totally new digital worlds.
Uncover extra audio system right here.
These mini-events inside Devcon foster interdisciplinary discussions on subjects that matter each to Ethereum and society by bringing collectively consultants from various fields. Some key classes are:
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d/acc Discovery Day: Led by Vitalik Buterin, Vincent Weisser and others, this session explores the d/acc (defensive accelerationism) imaginative and prescient and the way we must always concentrate on decentralization and defensive applied sciences to create a resilient future.
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MUD: Autonomous Worlds & Onchain Video games: Organized by 0xPARC, and Lattice, for these involved in autonomous worlds, onchain video games, and different complicated Ethereum functions.
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Creating on Ethereum: BuidlGuidl will provide hands-on classes for each newbie and superior builders to construct decentralized functions and write sensible contracts. You’ll develop sensible expertise, obtain mentorship, and community with different builders.
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Programmable Cryptography: 0xPARC and others will showcase how second-generation cryptographic primitives resembling zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and absolutely homomorphic encryption lay the muse for a extra excellent web.
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Formal Verification Hangout: Casual discussions on the safety and reliability of sensible contracts and software program methods, permitting researchers and builders to attach.
Should you’re trying to set up and lead discussions at Devcon, the Dialogue Corners are excellent for diving into subjects round Ethereum. Reservations for time in Dialogue Corners will open to everybody shortly earlier than Devcon.
Neighborhood Hubs are areas, organized by the neighborhood, for deep dives into particular Ethereum-related subjects and to fulfill folks working in particular Ethereum-related fields. Listed below are the featured Neighborhood Hubs:
- Account Abstraction Hub: Targeted on bettering person onboarding whereas staying true to decentralization. Focus on how one can advance the Account Abstraction ecosystem, from SDKs and wallets to protocol requirements like ERC-4337.
- Adoption Hub: An area for designers, researchers, and entrepreneurs to collaborate on web3 adoption methods, with a concentrate on bettering UX and belief.
- Collective Intelligence Governance Hub: Consultants from main DAOs focus on challenges and improvements in DAO governance design, delegation, accountability, and funding, utilizing collective intelligence to enhance DAO governance.
- Neighborhood Gardeners Hub: A gathering place for neighborhood builders to attach, share world Ethereum initiatives, and discover methods for efficient neighborhood progress.
- Onchain Creators Hub: An area to discover onchain creativity, financial fashions, and instruments for accelerating Ethereum’s mainstream adoption.
- Ethereum SEA Hub: Celebrates Southeast Asia’s Ethereum communities, showcasing native initiatives and fostering cross-collaboration.
- GM Hub: Highlights web3 improvements from underrepresented areas, with a concentrate on Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Interact in cross-cultural discussions on blockchain’s real-world influence.
- Grants & Influence Hub: A hub for grant applications, researchers, and builders centered on sustainable Ethereum initiatives, providing workshops on optimizing grant proposals and measuring influence.
- Hacktivism Hub: Discover Ethereum’s cypherpunk values and the way blockchain can handle privateness, censorship, and human rights, with hands-on discussions and workshops.
- House Operators Hub: A assist area for house node operators and validators and people who need to grow to be one, providing one-on-one troubleshooting and workshops on working nodes with lower than 32 ETH and decentralizing Ethereum additional.
- Regen Hub: A hub centered on regenerative initiatives and sustainability inside Ethereum, discussing native empowerment and world initiatives.
- Sustaining Open-Supply Growth Hub: An area to discover open-source enterprise fashions and uncover methods to maintain open-source public items inside the ecosystem.
- The World of DeSci Hub: Focuses on decentralized science and the way web3 applied sciences are reshaping the scientific panorama, turning science right into a public good.
- Girls in Web3 World (W3): An inclusive area for girls and allies to community, study, and focus on range and inclusion in Ethereum by workshops and hearth chats.
Hacker Cave
In search of a devoted area to check new tech and construct? The Hacker Cave is provided with cozy seating, neon cyberpunk lighting, and luxurious hanging crops. This area can have you in the appropriate mindset to hack on new concepts.
Music & Artwork Area
Take pleasure in reside music, visuals, and workshops in an immersive artwork area. Take part in jam classes, sound therapeutic, or just benefit from the ambiance. The Music area is an initiative by the Open-Supply Orchestra who wrote this DIP.
Are you an Ethereum musician your self? Be part of the jam by filling out this open name.
Video games of Seize and Escape
Be part of a reside escape recreation that mixes cryptography, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Work together with NPCs and unlock secret components of the venue whereas progressing by more and more difficult chapters. Dropped at you by Daedalus Industries by way of this DIP.
Coworking Space, Assembly Rooms & Decompression Room
For individuals who will probably be searching for a quiet spot for some deep work at Devcon, there will probably be a devoted space with Wi-Fi on website for quiet coworking.
You’ll additionally be capable of reserve assembly rooms, giant and small, to carry in-person conferences along with your normally distant workforce, have necessary one-on-one conversations, or different personal discussions.
Devcon can even function a decompression room, the right area to calm down, unwind, and let your thoughts roam. Geared up with hammocks, beds, and therapeutic massage remedy, it’s designed that will help you recharge and keep refreshed all through the occasion.
Don’t be concerned, there will probably be fewer folks in fits 😄
Get your Devcon ticket
The following ticket wave is OPEN NOW (Tuesday, 1st October) till it is offered out, and reductions for Ethereum and open-source builders, lecturers, SEA locals, and youth are all the time obtainable. Apply for these discounted tickets right here.
The whole programming schedule will probably be revealed quickly, and we already offered and distributed virtually 8,000 tickets. This will probably be a Devcon you don’t need to miss, and we’re excited so that you can be part of it.
We would see a few of you even earlier – a couple of month earlier than Devcon at one of many pop-up cities in Chiang Mai or at different occasions on the Street to Devcon. Then we’ll all journey collectively to Bangkok for Devcon, November 12–15, at QSNCC.
Keep impressed, and hold constructing.
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Devcon workforce
