Once a year, Devcon, the biggest conference for blockchain developers, rolls around. And distinctly, it’s unlike any other crypto conference. It’s really just a big family reunion.

Devcon attracts representatives from almost every project in the space building innovative technologies both within and without the nuclear family of Ethereum. It’s the watering hole where the weird cousins twice removed, the uncles you’ve never heard of, and the foster kid from the neighbors next door congregate to catch up and learn about the new things that the other guy is building. A big happy distributed family! And nobody seems to know how to spell “build”.

This year, the foster kid from next door showed up — and he brought a scaling solution to the potluck.

Ethermint

Cosmos gave a talk presenting its SDK for building Web3-compatible pegged sidechains, with an added bonus — interoperability. Ethermint is an Ethereum Layer 1 horizontal scaling solution which allows dApps to run dedicated EVM instances across multiple interoperable blockchains. The talk by Christopher Goes articulates the details of how Cosmos SDK provides the technology to do this:

Slideshare of Ethermint deck: Ethermint 2.0 — An Ethereum Scaling Solution

Turbo-Geth

Alexey Akhunov gave an exceptional talk detailing the optimizations he discovered for each of the Ethereum clients (Geth & Parity Technologies) and for how to reduce the uncle rate on the p2p layer.