【Featured】Ethereum Online Summit with Industry Leaders! Don't Miss These Key Talks

The Ethereal Virtual Summit, an Ethereum virtual summit, will be held online today and tomorrow. Participation in the virtual summit is free of charge and registration is currently open. This event is set to be one of the most significant blockchain/cryptocurrency summits in the first half of 2020, featuring carefully selected keynote sessions on the first day that will offer insights into the future of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Ethereal Virtual Summit: The First Edition

Due to the pandemic, this year's Ethereum summit is being held online. As the first virtual summit, it is one of the most representative blockchain/cryptocurrency summits in the first half of 2020. The guest list includes leaders from developers, artists, startups, entrepreneurs, and investors, such as Ethereum's founder Vitalik Buterin, Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov, Binance exchange founder Changpeng Zhao, ConsenSys CEO Joseph Lubin, and Galaxy Digital's Mike Novogratz, among more than a hundred heavyweight figures.

The summit has compiled several noteworthy speeches, arranged according to Taiwan time, allowing participants to watch topics of interest in their leisure time.

May 7th

• 7:15 PM: Fireside Chat with Changpeng Zhao (CZ) and Laura Shin

Changpeng Zhao, founder of Binance, and renowned cryptocurrency/blockchain journalist Laura Shin

• 8:15 PM: Fireside Chat with Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, and Camila Russo, founder of decentralized finance media outlet The Defiant

• 9:25 PM: The Future of Decentralized Liquidity in DeFi

Loi Luu, co-founder of Kyber Network

• 10:00 PM: Advocating for Open Finance

Matteo Leibowitz, researcher at The Block

• 11:05 PM: CBDC Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Peter Munnings Adhara, Shailee Adinolfi ConsenSys, and Michael del Castillo Forbes

• 11:45 PM: Simplifying Expansion - Building Ethereum Apps from a Consumer Perspective

Flori Marquez, BlockFi

May 8th

• 12:05 AM: Institutional Use Cases for Digital Currency: Liquidity, Automation, and Transparency in the Next Decade

Omri Ross (eToro)

• 1:00 AM~2:00 AM: How the World Economic Forum Utilizes Permissionless Ethereum Blockchain

Ashley Lannquist World Economic Forum, Sebastian Banescu, Quantstamp, Angel Rendon Columbia University, Rachel Davidson-Raycraft, University of Virginia, Vanessa Grellet ConsenSys

• 1:30 AM: Operational and Scaling Challenges for DeFi Platforms

Felix Feng, Set Protocol, Antonio Juliano dYdX, Kyle Kistner bZx, Varun Deshpande Nuo, Moderated by Jordan Lyall Consensys Codefi

• 2:30 AM: The Current State of Ethereum in Gaming

Peter Kieltyka, Horizon Games, Marguerite DeCourcelle, Neon District, Jeffrey Zirlin, Axie Infinity, Cecily Mak, ConsenSys

• 3:20 AM: The Evolving Landscape of Cryptocurrencies

Joseph Lubin, ConsenSys, Mike Novogratz, Galaxy Digital, Angie Lau, Forkast News

• 5:35 AM: Uniswap V2 and Beyond

Hayden Adams, Uniswap

• 6:55 AM: Key Strategies for Building Scalable dApps to Quickly Attract Thousands of Users

Christine Perry, SKALE

• 7:35 AM: Unstoppable Synthetix: How Synthetix Resists Censorship

Kain Warwick, Synthetix

Above are selected lectures from the first day of the Ethereum Virtual Summit. For more topics or lectures, please visit the official website for the full event schedule.

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