DI Labs at Ethereum Community Developer Conference in Sydney

One of the biggest Blockchain events EDCON took place last week in Sydney, Australia

EDCON was a six-day long event including three days of Hackathon. The initial three days were devoted to the Hackathon where participants worked on Ethereum Layer one and layer two challenges. Primary focus was on transaction scalability. Our colleague Jawwad Firdousi participated in Hackathon with the Sydney-based Crypto Start up that is building an online multiplayer augmented reality game. Jawwad and the team worked on the idea of maintaining the state of players moves using Ethereum State Channels (State Channels are Layer two scalability solution for Ethereum Blockchain). This would allow the players toupdate states in real-time with cryptographic signatures, while still having full confidence that they can revert back to the Ethereum main-chain if necessary. The team spent two days in turning merely an idea into a cryptographically-secured and tamper-proof solution. And guess what? Jawwad's team got the 2^nd prize (Silver Champions) at the Hackathon.

Hackathon was then followed by a three days Conference. Where many Ethereum coredevelopers presented the ideas and progress about scaling the Blockchain transactions. Ethereum creator, Vitalik Buterin’s opening talk on Eth 2.0 progress and its gradual transition from PoW to PoS was the biggest highlight of the conference. A panel discussion was also held regarding the socio-economic issues that Blockchains can potentially solve forthe common good.

Digital Impact Labs’ presence at the EDCON 2019 was a pleasant and fruitful experience. It will surely help us in implementing advance use cases for decentralized computing with cutting-edge Blockchain technology.