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!Stephan Tual, CCO
@stephantual
e t h e r e u m
THE WEB, WITHOUT SERVERS
WHY ETHEREUM?
• What happens when you use a centralised service?
• Where else does this apply to us as users? As developers?
• Centralised models are single point of failures that you have to put your trust into.
“The Web’s future relies on individuals owning their data” - Tim Berners-Lee
== THE WEB, WITHOUT THE SERVERS
WHAT IS ETHEREUM?
• An 100% open source platform to build and distribute decentralized applications !
• No middle men !
• Social sites, Financial systems, Voting mechanisms, Games, Reputation Systems !
• 100% peer to peer, censorship-proof !• All nodes validate the network at all times, coming into
consensus !
• Users stay in control of their funds and information at all times
• Consensus at scale a notoriously hard problem to solve
!• Ethereum makes it trivial to build
on top of such a platform !• Ethereum raised USD 18m and
plans to release in q1 of next year
HOW DO I BUILD ON ETHEREUM?
Blockchain technology where trust is achieved on a open network !
Contracts as your applications backends, maintained by the network !
Zero infrastructure and impervious to denial of service attacks
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Anything
USE CASES
• No more eBay outrageous fees • On a p2p system you have to bring true to
your users • Examples of Airlock the decentralised airbnb
and many more • Applicable to digital art, any smart property • IBM Adept IoT validation
BYE BYE MIDDLEMEN, YOU HAD YOUR FUN 1/2
Contracts the perfect ledger to issue tokens of value Kickstarter offers you T-shirts, such an app on Ethereum would give you shares
BYE BYE MIDDLEMEN, YOU HAD YOUR FUN 2/2
Mesh networks Distributed computing (BOINC, folding at home)
Measurement of clean energy production Rewards for actions in the physical world
NODE INCENTIVIZATION
BRINGING REPUTATION BACK IN FINANCE
!Could be machine-controled corporations
or simply autonomous coops
DAOS
MIST, THE ETHEREUM BROWSER
SCHELLING QUAKE DAPP
TRUSTLESS INSURANCE
MIST, THE ETHEREUM BROWSER
Reactive programming
Global pseudonymous single sign on
Community - 81 meetups group worldwide, 6k members - 100k uniques on our site/month - 10k followers on twitter
Software - Started November 2013 - 3 open source reference clients in C++, Go, Python
in proof of concept 7 stage - Many more community clients in the works:
node.js , java, clojure, objectiveC
THE STORY SO FAR
ACCELERATING INNOVATION
Anyone can bootstrap a business through a kickstarter on steroids Universal access to financial instruments
Reputation as a collateral New paradigm of autonomous app components you can leverage
which vertical will be disrupted first?
e t h e r e u m
!Forums: https://forum.ethereum.org
Web: https://ethereum.org Twitter: @ethereumproject IRC: #ethereum (freenode)
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