ETHDubai is the conference for passionate devs and contributors on anything related to Ethereum, DeFi, EVM and more with a focus on decentralization and community projects such as Yearn and its ecosystem. Expect great speakers, talks, workshops for both experts and beginners and tons of great social events you will not forget. Dubai is one of the easiest place on Earth to get to without a visa and without a vaccine passport (only PCR test) wherever you are from, with beautiful pristine sand beaches, great weather, affordable accommodation and endless entertainment for all.
Last but not least, if you are a frontend developer that wants to learn web3 but don't know where to start, we will have workshops with experts so that you can get started writing your first dapp with Solidity, Typescript and basic React knowledge. We will also provide more advanced workshops for people already familiar with web3 technologies. We will post more details soon so make sure to subscribe to our mailing list for more details.
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The hackathon starts with more than $50k in prize from @1inch, @graphprotocol , @SushiSwap , @0xPolygon , @Nexo , @MoralisWeb3 and @SpheronHQ ❤️
Here is the detailed list of bounties from our generous sponsors.
You need to register your team here by March 30th or as soon as possible so we can start reviewing early.
It is ok to participate as a team, prize will be split between each participant.
The hackathon starts remotely, you can participate remotely even if you do not have a ticket. However, without a combo ticket you will not be able to hack at the venue at all.
Winners will be able to present at the venue on the 31st at 7pm, if you don't have a ticket to the conference you can send us a 2 minute video presentation we will show. The hackathon ends on March 31st at 1pm UTC+4.
Prize will be deposited by sponsors in our permissionless hackathon vault here. Contract by @patcito and the amazing @financefeeder with contribs by the great @qdqd___(make sure to follow them!)
Join a workshop on 1inch's Aggregation API and Limit Order Protocol with the 1inch Network's Lead Blockchain Engineer Kirill Kuznetcov. Dive deeper into how the API and protocol work, explore their use cases, study the documentation and learn about bounties you could collect. Get your questions for Kirill ready!
Tenderly and Gnosis Chain workshop. Build a game with Tenderly on Gnosis Chain: step up your Smart Contract development!
Building dApps can be challenging, but it shouldn’t be.
In this session, we’ll create a simple game that we’ll be deploying to Gnosis Chain and use the Tenderly tooling to debug, monitor, and automate it.
You will learn how to use Blockscout for that – an invaluable open-source tool for exploring, confirming and inspecting transactions on any EVM blockchain.
By the end of this session, you’ll know how to:
- Deploy your Smart Contract to Gnosis Chain
- Verify your Smart Contract on Blockscout
- Import that Smart Contract into Tenderly
- Monitor and debug the game in Tenderly
- Use Web3 Actions to automate the interactions with the game
Yearn is the reference when it comes to yield generation, it offers easy to use saving accounts for regular users in order to earn interests on their currencies. In this workshop, you will learn how to write your own strategy and possibly make passive income thanks to the fees generated.
Code with Cartesi. Use your current programming/tech stack to build blockchain applications. Open to all expertise levels of developers.
You are a frontend developer and want to get started with Web3? You have found the right place as the MetaMask team itself will teach you how to level up your frontend skills to build powerful dapps using all the needed web3 tools.
BentoBox 🍱 is a revolutionary technology built by @Boring_Crypto. It is used by both Sushi and MIM Spell and Sarang is a core dev at Sushi working on it. "BentoBox is a token vault that can support a collection of Dapps."
In this workshop, you will learn how to design, build, deploy, and use a dapp on the Fuel network using the Fuel toolchain. You will write your smart contract using Fuel's Rust-inspired Sway language.
Writing your Smart Contract is only half the work, you also need a Web3 frontend and a way to query this contract easily. In this workshop, you will learn how to index your contract in order to query it easily in you Web3 app. This allows building powerful Web3 dapp with great UX.
Non-technical workshop for traders, VCs, product managers. We will review the most popular DeFi applications and learn basic usage patterns, such as withdrawing from CEX, taking a loan on AAVE, doing a swap on Uniswap, investing in Yearn, and so on. The workshop will cover six protocols: 1. AAVE: lending, 2. Yearn: staking, 3. Univ3: liquidity provision, 4. Sushiswap: trading, 5. Gearbox: leverage trading and farming, 6. Curve: stablecoin swaps.
In this workshop, you will learn how to design, code, deploy, and view a 10,000-piece generative NFT collection. We'll teach you how to write the smart contract for minting, as well as a website for your collectors to view their NFTs. All using the Alchemy developer platform!
In this workshop you will learn from the Chainlink team how to use Chainlink oracles feeds and keepers.
An exclusive yacht party to hack and network with bbq and dj animation in Dubai Marina sponsored by Syscoin and Uno Re.
Opening Bar Night GTON Capital Party on March 29th to socialize, meet and greet sponsored by GTON.
Non-technical workshop for traders, VCs, product managers. We will review the most popular DeFi applications and learn basic usage patterns, such as withdrawing from CEX, taking a loan on AAVE, doing a swap on Uniswap, investing in Yearn, and so on. The workshop will cover six protocols: 1. AAVE: lending, 2. Yearn: staking, 3. Univ3: liquidity provision, 4. Sushiswap: trading, 5. Gearbox: leverage trading and farming, 6. Curve: stablecoin swaps.
Yearn is the reference when it comes to yield generation, it offers easy to use saving accounts for regular users in order to earn interests on their currencies. In this workshop, you will learn how to write your own strategy and possibly make passive income thanks to the fees generated.
Facu is a core contributor and strategist at @iearnfinance.
Code with Cartesi. Use your current programming/tech stack to build blockchain applications. Open to all expertise levels of developers.
Milton has over 20 years of professional experience in project management and full-stack software development from low-level implementation to complex cloud-based information systems. He is passionate about developing algorithms and systems that generate valuable information to improve people’s lives.
Gabriel Barros is a Software Engineer focused on Blockchain since 2017. Gabriel specializes in the Ethereum network and dApp development, having previously worked at both Terminal (http://Fleek.co) and Consensys. He graduated from PUC Rio with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering. Gabriel is passionate about learning, he loves to read about all fields of science and study languages. At Cartesi, he has been working on blockchain development and has delivered our PoS pool staking system.
You are a frontend developer and want to get started with Web3? You have found the right place as the MetaMask team itself will teach you how to level up your frontend skills to build powerful dapps using all the needed web3 tools.
BentoBox 🍱 is a revolutionary technology built by @Boring_Crypto. It is used by both Sushi and MIM Spell and Sarang is a core dev at Sushi working on it. "BentoBox is a token vault that can support a collection of Dapps. Users can interact with these many Dapps in a gas-efficient manner, by leveraging the benefits of using a mutual token vault. On the other side of the coin, developers can even take advantage of the power of BentoBox, as it allows for the deployment of contracts at a lower cost, thanks to its gas efficient infrastructure, so developers can focus on what really matters, building.
In this workshop, you will learn how to design, build, deploy, and use a dapp on the Fuel network using the Fuel toolchain. You will write your smart contract using Fuel's Rust-inspired Sway language.
In this workshop, you will learn how to design, code, deploy, and view a 10,000-piece generative NFT collection. We'll teach you how to write the smart contract for minting, as well as a website for your collectors to view their NFTs. All using the Alchemy developer platform!
In this workshop you will learn from the Chainlink team how to use Chainlink oracles to automate trading on UNISwap v2 and more.
Join a workshop on 1inch's Aggregation API and Limit Order Protocol with the 1inch Network's Lead Blockchain Engineer Kirill Kuznetcov. Dive deeper into how the API and protocol work, explore their use cases, study the documentation and learn about bounties you could collect. Get your questions for Kirill ready!
Yearn is one of the largest projects in DeFi, a pioneer which set a standard in lending aggregation and yield generation. It provides users with multiple strategies for yield optimization, which can vary from simple ones to very complex that use advanced developer tools.
In this workshop, you will learn how to create strategies in Solidity language, and how to test and deploy them using Typescript and the HardHat framework.
We will cover theory and practical implementation of a simple “stake & hold” and the advanced “boost & leverage” strategies.
Writing your Smart Contract is only half the work, you also need a Web3 frontend and a way to query this contract easily. In this workshop, you will learn how to index your contract in order to query it easily in you Web3 app. This allows building powerful Web3 dapp with great UX.
Specializing in Crypto, Ethereum, Web3, React, React Native and cross-platform application development. @graphprotocol | fwbtweets @developer_dao | 2x author | prev @awscloud
Non-technical workshop for traders, VCs, product managers. We will review the most popular DeFi applications and learn basic usage patterns, such as withdrawing from CEX, taking a loan on AAVE, doing a swap on Uniswap, investing in Yearn, and so on. The workshop will cover six protocols: 1. AAVE: lending, 2. Yearn: staking, 3. Univ3: liquidity provision, 4. Sushiswap: trading, 5. Gearbox: leverage trading and farming, 6. Curve: stablecoin swaps.
It will take place the conference venue Le Meridien Conference Center Hotel at the "Beer Garden"/
It will take place the conference venue Le Meridien Conference Center Hotel at the "The Warehouse". Only for people with conference or workshop ticket.
Ethereum L1 is getting more modular and scalable, one upgrade at a time. This talk will look at the first bit of modular design with the Merge, the primary scaling bottleneck of L2s, EIP-4844 blob transactions, and further scaling with danksharding and L2 rollup modularity.
protolambda is a researcher at Optimism.io, works on Ethereum 2, sharding and more.
The presentation is an attempt to conceptualize the features of communication in the context of digital transformation mediated by distributed ledger technologies, blockchain, and non-fungible tokens in particular. The main hypothesis is that communication now takes place directly, without the mediation of third parties. Furthermore, the presentation assesses the current landscape of the non-fungible tokens technology in creative industries by comparing existing projects.
With Ethereum committed to a rollup-centric scaling roadmap, more and more user activity will over time migrate from the base chain to layer 2 protocols. The talk will look at the implications this shift will have for the role of the EVM, using the proposed EIP-3074 as a case study.
EIP-3074 is a proposed feature addition to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). It extends the capabilities of externally owned accounts (EOAs), bringing them closer in features to smart contract wallets. The EIP was first introduced in early 2021 by the Quilt team, and is currently considered for inclusion into the Shanghai hard fork scheduled for the second half of 2022.
Luis will be explaining how developers can use the Gelato Network and its new suite of tools to outsource their transaction flow to a network of bots executing them reliably. Developers will understand how they can build new types of automated dapps that are not constrained by the limitations and complexities around getting users' transactions sent and mined reliably.
Smart contract wallets are becoming ever more popular across Ethereum, however, they are still second-class citizens at the protocol level. Account Abstraction aims to solve this by allowing smart contracts to initiate transactions.
EIP-4337, a novel proposal, provides an elegant and forward-compatible way of achieving this without requiring any consensus-level changes. Kristof Gazso will present why we need Account Abstraction and how EIP-4337 will help us get there.
Kristof is a product manager and researcher at @nethermindeth and an ethereum core dev (protocol research, flashbots, account abstraction, the merge).
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Specializing in Crypto, Ethereum, Web3, React, React Native and cross-platform application development. @graphprotocol | fwbtweets @developer_dao | 2x author | prev @awscloud
When interacting with Ethereum today, you're stuck making some hard decisions on whether you want to run your own trusted Ethereum node, or trusting a centralized provider to work on your behalf. Luckily, you can still run your own trusted node with a simple desktop computer or on something as small as a Raspberry Pi 4, but realistically it is not something every Ethereum user will do, especially those that seek to interact with Ethereum on lower-end devices such as mobile phones. So how do provide that trust at scale? How do you verify the data you're getting is true without verifying everything yourself? Light clients are only at its infancy and these problems are actively being solved so we can stop relying on centralized providers for data which may or may not be correct. We must consider the needs of all devices if we wish to be inclusive and have Ethereum be useful to our everyday needs, not just for DeFi trading and NFT collecting.
Talal Tabbaa is the CEO and Co-Founder of CoinMENA, a regulated crypto-currency exchange under the Central Bank of Bahrain. He also serves on the Board of Middle East Payment Services (MEPS) in Amman, Jordan and on the advisory board of the Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy .He also co-founded Jibrel Network, a blockchain development company based in Zug, Switzerland. Prior to crypto,Talal worked in financial and supply chain consulting services at PwC as well as managing a private investment fund in Saudi Arabia. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial Engineering (Economics Minor) from Purdue University, IN, USA.
Lunch time! Socialize while eating at our delicious buffet.
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protolambda is a researcher at Optimism.io, works on Ethereum 2, sharding and more.
Jag Sidhu is the Chief Technology Officer at Blockchain Foundry and a co-founder of the Syscoin project, a decentralized cryptocurrency, as well as its current lead developer. Jag is a 20-year veteran software developer and an expert in blockchain technology. He also specializes in machine learning, artificial intelligence, client/server development and distributed systems. Jag holds a Bachelor of Technology & Computer Science from the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada.
I am Felipe Argento, Cartesi's lead blockchain engineer. I started working at the space in the last year of my college life at a research and development company I created with two friends.
We were doing research related to clean energy, carbon credit and energy futures in a partnership with our university and one of the biggest Brazilian energy companies. A while after graduating in computer engineering, I was approached by Erick (our CEO) to join Cartesi.
Initially I was reluctant, since the company I had started was going well. However, after meeting Augusto and Diego at one the best mathematical institutes in the world (IMPA), where they teach and after understanding the power of Cartesi's idea I was deeply convinced. Since then I dived headfirst into Cartesi and have been loving it every moment of it.
Shutter Network is an open-source project that aims to prevent front running and malicious MEV on Ethereum by using a threshold cryptography-based distributed key generation (DKG) protocol. It's first instantiation is a smart contract system that's ready today to be implemented by any dapp to protect it from front running.
Lean how to leverage the leading web3 development platform to streamline your decentralized application development.
Description: Web3 has introduced a new auth primitive to the frontend scene (web wallets). With this, new patterns are emerging (specifically React Hooks-based) that are a minefield for new projects. Since DeFi summer, we’ve embraced the idea of “move fast and break things” and now finding our frontend apps, well... broken. This talk is about some of the frontend architecture pitfalls we’ve encountered and ways we see projects can do it better.
An introduction to the Sway programming language and ecosystem -- a Rust-inspired, developer-experience forward ecosystem by Fuel Labs. I will walk through the language and contrast it to Solidity. Then, I will walk through the process of developing a smart contract for Fuel running on Ethereum.
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Facu is a core contributor and strategist at @iearnfinance.
After the release of Proof of Donation for Hermez 1.0, we will explain the new consensus mechanism that the Polygon Hermez team is developing to support permissionless participants and support censorship resistance in the new zkEVM scalability solution that the team is developing.
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SES is a Core Unit of MakerDAO with the mission to scale MakerDAO by:
Permanent team: 12 FTE. Incubation teams: ~30 FTE. Grants: 5+ (hopefully way more by the time of ETHDubai)
By running this Core Unit there are several challenges we have overcome and lessons learnt on the way.
We will explore how Tornado Cash Nova works under the hood and how it achieves shielded transaction and arbitrary amounts functionality.
Interacting with decentralised protocols and applications is still far from ideal. It's a hostile environment with hackers or scammers around every corner, clunky and complicated UX and missing safety nets. Any technology is only unleashing its potential if it is accessible, easy and safe to use. This talk will shed some light on some shortcomings of self-custodial solutions and how we might address them. And maybe some news on Gnosis Safe as well. ;)
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will discuss griefing factors, a notion introduced by Vitalik Buterin related to sabotage that considers attackers that are willing to "grief", namely lose money themselves in order to harm others. A griefing factor measures the amount of harm that such a grief accomplished compared to its cost. I will analyze examples of griefs in prominent cryptoeconomic systems and present mathematical properties of griefing factors with a focus on the degree to which design choices can be made to reduce the risks of griefs.
More info to be announced soon
Kristof is a product manager and researcher at @nethermindeth and an ethereum core dev (protocol research, flashbots, account abstraction, the merge).
Talal Tabbaa is the CEO and Co-Founder of CoinMENA, a regulated crypto-currency exchange under the Central Bank of Bahrain. He also serves on the Board of Middle East Payment Services (MEPS) in Amman, Jordan and on the advisory board of the Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy .He also co-founded Jibrel Network, a blockchain development company based in Zug, Switzerland. Prior to crypto,Talal worked in financial and supply chain consulting services at PwC as well as managing a private investment fund in Saudi Arabia. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial Engineering (Economics Minor) from Purdue University, IN, USA.
With over 20 years experience leading UX projects for Sony, Nintendo, Philips, and Pokémon, Peter realized that he’s done with big brands and the budgets that came with them. He had enough with designing websites, apps, games, newsletters and advertising campaigns for multinational corporations. So last year he quit his job as UX Director for an e-brokerage website to pursue his passion for crypto at Blockchain Foundry, a Canadian startup. In his first year he directed the design of a wallet, a compliance app, a defi product, and a multi-chain NFT marketplace, LastKnown.com. Check out our next drop, MutantMorphans.com.
Anish, is Co-founder , chief scientist and CTO of Panther protocol, has 20+ years of experience in security and cryptography. He has spend half his career researching cryptographic algorithms and protocols at three different research groups including Microsoft Research. Anish was an early advisor to Ripple and Ocean protocol, he was an early member of Ethereum swarm team and was Ethereum orange paper reviewer. He was also the principle architect for Boson protocol.
DeFi Wallets face multiple challenges that they need to solve, so they can enable and help the mass adoption of the Crypto Industry. We will go over some of those challenges and see what makes an DeFi wallet tick. This way we will see areas of improvements and possible solutions that can enable easier adoption. Some of the challenges:
Nikolay Angelov is currently Head of Blockchain @ Nexo. As a self-taught coder and enthusiast for all newly brewing tech, Nikolay, nicknamed Niki, began programming in 2007 when he wrote his first mIRC script. He has lectured and led workshops at various blockchain conferences, reaching thousands of attendees each year, in addition to teaching blockchain courses in Singapore and the Philippines.
Presearch is a decentralized search engine with over 6 million daily searches and 3.3 million registered users. How we've leveraged web2.0 distribution to grow Presearch.
Basic presentation on how any project can add Ledger to their project to add security and more users on top of their platform
How can DeFi protocols and DAOs power up their business, relying on undercollateralized loans to cover their exploitation expenses through trustless smart contract integration.
Alexis Masseron is the Co-Founder and CEO of Atlendis Labs, the organization that contributes to Atlendis, a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocol that enables uncollateralized crypto loans. Alexis started his career in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) and after discovering Ethereum, he joined ConsenSys as a software engineer and worked on multiple products including a financial derivative protocol and a blockchain powered trade finance platform. Alexis is passionate about blockchain technology and its application to DeFi and identity.
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Anett is long time Ethereum community member working with Ethereum Core Devs since beginning of her career in Ethereum ecosystem. She's leading NFT Standards Working Group, focusing herself on research and development in the ERC ecoosystem. She is coordinating Ethereum Magicians forum and is active Ethereum community member.
A brief overview of how MetaMask Snaps will revolutionise Web3 development
Gas pricing on Ethereum networks is an extremely important and complex area. As a crypto wallet, it is challenging for MetaMask to represent Gas in way which presents least confusion for the users whilst being optimal. The talk touches on details of the Ethereum Gas mechanism and how the MetaMask UI is simplifying Gas Usage for users.
Meet the founders for a Q&A with Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal and Anurag Arjun then socialize and party afterwards.
Want to get involved and help support ETHDubai? We'd love to hear from you.
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GTON - March 29th Opening Bar Night GTON Capital Party
Syscoin - March 29th Yacht Party co-host
Uno Re - March 29th Yacht Party co-host
Ezil - March 30th Conference Pre-Party co-host
OctoBridge - March 30th Conference Pre-Party co-host
Polygon - March 31st Party
LBANK Meetup on April 1st at 7pmYou need to RSVP here!
Certik Party at Warehouse @ Le Meridien Conference Center Hotel 8pm-12am on March 30th You need a conference or workshop ticket to attend!
Ezil and OctoBridge Party at Beer Garden @ Le Meridien Conference Center Hotel, 6pm-11pm on March 30th You need a conference or workshop ticket to attend!
Opening Bar Night sponsored by GTON, Comdex, Brú.Finance, and HODL.nl Register here (only if you have a Combo ticket with GTON Open Bar Party) - Opening Bar Night GTON Capital Party (7pm-11:30pm)
1inch Party 5.0 // Dubai Edition 1inch
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