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 data, align on Ethereum’s future course, and be taught 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 huge occasion going down 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 instructional occasions earlier than and after Devcon. We encourage organizers to plan round the primary Devcon schedule, as we won’t 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 matters 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 Mission): 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 remodeling geopolitics, the place states and nice powers compete to create and management new world techniques.
- Hart Montgomery (CTO of the Linux Basis): Providing insights into open-source undertaking buildings and neighborhood constructing.
- Gubsheep (Co-founder of 0xPARC): Exploring programmable cryptography and its affect on dApps and the creation of totally new digital worlds.
These mini-events inside Devcon foster interdisciplinary discussions on matters that matter each to Ethereum and society by bringing collectively consultants from numerous 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) vision and the way we should always give attention to 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 keen on 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 good 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 equivalent to zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and totally homomorphic encryption lay the muse for a extra good web.
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Formal Verification Hangout: Casual discussions on the safety and reliability of good contracts and software program techniques, permitting researchers and builders to attach.
Should you’re trying to set up and lead discussions at Devcon, the Dialogue Corners are good for diving into matters round Ethereum. Reservations for time in Dialogue Corners will open to everybody shortly earlier than Devcon.
Group Hubs are areas, organized by the neighborhood, for deep dives into particular Ethereum-related matters and to fulfill folks working in particular Ethereum-related fields. Listed here are the featured Group Hubs:
- Account Abstraction Hub: Centered on enhancing person onboarding whereas staying true to decentralization. Focus on methods to 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 give attention to enhancing UX and belief.
- Collective Intelligence Governance Hub: Consultants from main DAOs talk about challenges and improvements in DAO governance design, delegation, accountability, and funding, utilizing collective intelligence to enhance DAO governance.
- Community 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 give attention to Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Interact in cross-cultural discussions on blockchain’s real-world affect.
- Grants & Impact Hub: A hub for grant applications, researchers, and builders centered on sustainable Ethereum initiatives, providing workshops on optimizing grant proposals and measuring affect.
- Hacktivism Hub: Discover Ethereum’s cypherpunk values and the way blockchain can tackle privateness, censorship, and human rights, with hands-on discussions and workshops.
- Home Operators Hub: A help house for residence node operators and validators and those that 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-Source Development Hub: An area to discover open-source enterprise fashions and uncover methods to maintain open-source public items throughout 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.
- Women in Web3 World (W3): An inclusive house for girls and allies to community, be taught, and talk about variety and inclusion in Ethereum via workshops and fireplace chats.
Hacker Cave
In search of a devoted house to check new tech and construct? The Hacker Cave is supplied with cozy seating, neon cyberpunk lighting, and luxurious hanging vegetation. This house may have you in the fitting mindset to hack on new concepts.
Music & Artwork Area
Get pleasure from dwell music, visuals, and workshops in an immersive artwork house. Take part in jam classes, sound therapeutic, or just benefit from the environment. The Music house is an initiative by the Open-Source Orchestra who wrote this DIP.
Are you an Ethereum musician your self? Join the jam by filling out this open call.
Video games of Seize and Escape
Be part of a dwell escape sport that mixes cryptography, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Work together with NPCs and unlock secret components of the venue whereas progressing via more and more difficult chapters. Delivered to you by Daedalus Industries by way of this DIP.
Coworking Space, Assembly Rooms & Decompression Room
For individuals who shall be in search of a quiet spot for some deep work at Devcon, there shall be a devoted space with Wi-Fi on web site for quiet coworking.
You’ll additionally be capable of reserve assembly rooms, giant and small, to carry in-person conferences along with your often distant workforce, have vital one-on-one conversations, or different non-public discussions.
Devcon may also characteristic a decompression room, the right house to calm down, unwind, and let your thoughts roam. Outfitted with hammocks, beds, and therapeutic massage remedy, it’s designed that will help you recharge and keep refreshed all through the occasion.
Don’t fret, there shall be fewer folks in fits
Get your Devcon ticket
The next ticket wave is OPEN NOW (Tuesday, 1st October) until it’s sold out, and reductions for Ethereum and open-source builders, teachers, SEA locals, and youth are at all times out there. Apply for these discounted tickets here.
The whole programming schedule shall be printed quickly, and we already bought and distributed virtually 8,000 tickets. This shall be a Devcon you don’t need to miss, and we’re excited so that you can be part of it.
We’d see a few of you even earlier – a few month earlier than Devcon at one of many pop-up cities in Chiang Mai or at different events on the Road to Devcon. Then we’ll all journey collectively to Bangkok for Devcon, November 12–15, at QSNCC.
Keep impressed, and maintain constructing.
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Devcon workforce
