![]() ![]() They are automatically executed based on pre-defined rules. Smart contracts are immutable programs on the blockchain. Topics in this talk range from exploring the relationship between Ethereum protocol design and ideologies, the dangers of techno-utopianism, techno-colonial solutionism, and general recommendations for how Ethereum builders can adopt more socially-minded frameworks in their work to create a more ethical and accessible Ethereum ecosystem. It is thus important to critically reflect on the kinds of narratives and values we prescribe to blockchain and how in turn, actors within the blockchain community and beyond are influenced by them. The famous media theorist, Marshall McLuhan, once stated that technologies are extensions of the human this means that blockchain as a technology, reflects our values, beliefs, and biases. Despite popular claims that depict blockchain as a “neutral technology”, it is important to critically examine how blockchain expresses itself in different social, economic and political contexts. Technology and society mutually constitute one another. This talk offers insights on the Ethereum community from an anthropological perspective. We'll discuss the implementation of PISA, the open-source project, and how other projects can use our simple API to sign up to the accountable watching service.Īn Anthropological Perspective on Ethereum Our goal is to help improve the UX for most smart contracts as users can simply go off-line and PISA can finish the task in a financially accountable manner. In this talk, we'll discuss the substantial changes to PISA such that it can be generically used for most smart contracts. Thanks to an Ethereum Foundation grant, the team has taken the idea of an 'accountable watching service' further to help alleviate the online requirement for other off-chain protocols such as Plasma and in general most smart contracts. What do we mean that PISA is usable by most smart contracts? Ideally, if we consider a smart contract where the user has to be online and watching for an on-chain event, then PISA can be hired to protect them (and perform the final step). Learnings from 3 months of Proof of Stake on Cosmos - Why we NEED delegation *in-protocol* - Why sharding doesn't solve social scalability.Īt Devcon IV, we presented PISA, a solution to help alleviate the online requirements for state channels. Why requiring a 1-way peg burn of ETH to stake is scary. We should test Proof of Stake on shards before using it on the beacon chain. We should use Ethereum 1.x as the beacon chain instead of launching a new beacon chain. Some of the topics covered will include: - Radical vs Conservative technological upgrade paths. In this talk, I will present an alternative, more conservative view of how to approach the Ethereum 2.0 roadmap. However, as an active observer of the Ethereum 2.0 roadmap development over the past 2 years, I am concerned with some of the choices in roadmap strategy, particularly its approach to radically transforming a network with over $30B of value and hundreds of applications depending on it. ![]() The current Ethereum 2.0 roadmap is doing a lot of great work on many fronts such as research on VDFs, data availability proofs, and multi-execution environments. In this presentation, I will show a high-level architectural overview of the mixer, dive into its underlying zero-knowledge circuits, and discuss other applications of zero-knowledge signalling.Ī Conservative Approach to a Radical Roadmap Additionally, it employs a burn relay registry which incentivises third parties to pay gas fees on behalf of mixer users. It builds upon Semaphore, a zero-knowledge signalling system by Barry WhiteHat and Kobi Gurkan. To solve this, we present a trustless mixer for Ether and ERC20 tokens. The Ethereum ecosystem needs a noncustodial mixer which works through strong cryptography, rather than blind trust. Some workarounds, like using a centralised exchange wallet or a custodial mixing service, however, introduce a high degree of counterparty risk. ![]() This state of affairs deprives users of privacy beyond mere pseudonymity. Since Ethereum transactions are fully visible on-chain, it is possible to trace value transfers and surveil users' financial activity. A trustless Ethereum mixer using zero-knowledge signalling ![]()
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