On April 7, the "Infrastructure: Layer1+Layer2" theme forum will be held at the main venue of the 2024 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival. The guests attending the Layer 1 session in the morning have been officially announced before, including (the following guests are listed in no particular order) Avery Ching, co-founder and CTO of Aptos Labs, Dato Fadzli Shah, co-founder of Zetrix, Lily Liu, president of Solana Foundation, and Scott, co-founder of Kava Stuart, Dragonfly Capital managing partner Haseeb Qureshi, Gunzilla Games head of growth Anthony Blackburn, MEET48 COO Kai Xu, NEAR Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin, NEAR early builder and MetaWeb Ventures founder Amos Zhang, Harbor Industrial Capital CEO and Managing partner Max Rebol and others will serve as forum guests and deliver keynote speeches focusing on issues of greatest concern to users and developers such as "Layer1 development trends," "sustainable ecological construction of public chains," and "phenomenal applications now and in the future."
As an important technological innovation direction of the blockchain, Layer2 effectively reduces costs and increases efficiency of blockchain network transaction processing capabilities by building a network layer on top of the Layer1 network. It not only lays a solid foundation for the large-scale application of blockchain, but also lays a solid foundation for Web3 The future development of the industry provides greater room for imagination.
On the afternoon of April 7, the "Infrastructure: Layer1+Layer2" theme forum will focus on Layer2, inviting world-renowned project leaders, investors and other senior figures to conduct in-depth discussions on the development trends, application scenarios and industry impact of Layer2 technology.
Eli Ben Sasson, CEO and co-founder of StarkWare, a star project in the field of blockchain scalability and privacy protection, will be the first to give a keynote speech at this Layer2 theme forum, analyzing the development of Layer2 based on the technological progress and results achieved by StarkWare in the past year. Trends and Opportunities. Klaytn Foundation representative director Sam Seo, Eigenlayer CEO Sreeram Kannan, and Berachain co-founder Smokey will also serve as keynote speakers to share technology.
In addition, this Layer 2 theme forum also set up round table discussions around Layer 2 ecological services and applications, Layer 2 new technology trends, BTC Layer 2 and other topics, inviting technical experts, investors, and business representatives to interpret hot topics on the Layer 2 track from multiple perspectives.
In the roundtable discussion on Layer2 ecological services and applications, Ross Zhang, managing partner of SNZ Capital, will serve as the moderator, co-founded by Metis CEO TomNgo, Taiko founder Terence, IntMax founder Leona, Cysic founder Leo Fan, AltLayer founder YQ and Zircuit Angel Xu combined their respective project practical experience to explore the application potential of Layer2 ecology.
In recent years, the growth momentum of new Layer 2 forces cannot be underestimated, injecting strong impetus into the development of this field. Keith Chen, managing partner of SNZ Capital, will discuss the technological development of Layer 2 with new Layer 2 forces such as Brevis co-founder Dong Mo, Nexus CEO Daniel Marin, Hinkal founder Georgi Koreli, PADO Labs co-founder Fubiao Xia and Mind Network CSO Dennis Song. new trend.
In the VC roundtable, representative investment institutions from Asia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East will bring a global perspective on Web3 investment trends. Ryan Chen, managing partner of HashKey Capital, Lasse Clausen, founding partner of 1kx, Alexander Pack, managing partner of HackVC, Vineek Budki, managing partner and CEO of Cypher Capital, and Gavin Wang, chief investment officer of SNZ Capital, will share the development characteristics of the Web3 industry in different regions and trends, discuss investment strategies.
Bitcoin Layer 2 has made significant progress in the past year, and the popularity of the inscription concept has also injected new vitality into the development of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Rena Shah, Vice President of Products at Stacks Ecosystem, Cipher, Co-Founder of Cell Studio, Eason, CEO of TerpLayer, Blue, Partner and CTO of Slowmist, and Jan Camenisch, CTO of DFINITY Foundation, will have an in-depth discussion on the development of Bitcoin Layer 2 and gain insights. Potential and opportunity.
Not only that, the "Web3 Infrastructure" themed forum that will be held at the 2024 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival Branch Venue 3 on the morning of April 7 will also gather a group of technical experts: (the following guests are listed in no particular order) Qtum co-founder Miguel Palencia will In the keynote speech, he will share how to provide developers with a more flexible and secure development environment to promote the innovation and development of Web3 applications; Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, will deeply discuss the role of Layer 2 technology in Web3 infrastructure, and How to optimize the performance and user experience of Web3 applications through its technology; Conflux co-founder and CTO Wu Ming will share Conflux’s latest achievements in technological innovation and ecological construction, and how to promote the implementation and popularization of Web3 applications through its platform; Founder of Neo Da Hongfei will stand at the beginning of this cycle to discuss the development and innovation trends of Layer 1 technology, and share his long-term experience and prospects in in-depth exploration of the public chain track; Rishi Ramchandani, head of Web3 of Google Cloud Asia Pacific, will share how Google Cloud provides Web3 applications provide stable and secure cloud services, and elaborate on the changes and rich application scenarios brought by generative AI to the Web3 industry; Kaspa core developer and GHOSTDAG co-author Shai Wyborski will discuss in depth Kaspa's consensus mechanism and how to solve Blockchain Trilemma problem, and how Kaspa can achieve throughput comparable to VISA after Rust is launched in the future; Avail co-founder Anurag Arjun will share Avail's new methods to solve Web3 fragmentation, Rollup expansion and interoperability issues.
In the roundtable discussion, Wu Xiao, founder of ChainIDE and executive committee member of Ethereum Riyadh, will serve as the moderator of the roundtable discussion, together with Sarah, head of business development of BNBChain Asia Pacific, Mingshi Song, head of strategy at Astar, Emi Yoshikawa, vice president of strategic initiatives at Ripple, and Manta Network Founder Kenny Li and other well-known project representatives deeply explored the contribution of the blockchain ecological platform to Web3 infrastructure and how to solve interoperability and scalability issues in Web3 applications through its powerful ecosystem and rich application scenarios. , Promote the innovation and development of Web3 applications.
